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Having just finished magentizing my first kit, (A Cryx Hell Jack) I've been oggling the forthcoming releases at PP, specifically the Character Conversion packs for Malice and Triumph (a) because I play Cygnar and Cryx and (b) because they both seem to be based on "classic" jack chassis...

http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/gallery/cygnar/warjacks/triumph

http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/gallery/cryx/warjacks/malice

If you havent seen them, Malice and Triumph will apparenly be sold as $10 conversion packs for their respective plastijack kits... the extra bits apparenly consisting of a head, souls and extra blades for Malice, and a Head, Shield, gunsight, and muzzle brake for triumph...

all that being said, I can't see effectivly wasting the rest of the bits in a plastijack kit, just to build these beauties, so I'm thinking of assembling them, bits upward from metal, and tooling them out a bit as I do so.. (giving malice extra spikey shoulder and chain wrapped fists from a seether... )

So, am I nutz?

The Aforementioned magnetized Helljack,



Should be starting Malice within a week, ordered the bitz,and picked up the upgrade kit (3 souls, harpoon blades, new head) Seether chassis, with A Reaper Cowl, for about the same cost as a plastic Helljack kit..

Metal Malice, made with a Seether Claw and Legs and Chassis, Reaper Cowl and Harpoon, and Reaper/Slayer Shoulders with Nightmare's blades... conversion was minimal, needed just a lil putty work to fill the shoulder gaps where the regular shoulder blades go, and the head needed to be shaved and notched to fit in the cowl.

Is that a funky steampunk carnifex? Never seen a helljack like that :L

Good stuff with the all metal Malice. I'm also planning to make my Malice from a metal Slayer (with reaper harpoon). Are there any difficulties with this project that I should look out for?

"Malice" is the new Cryx Warjack Upgrade kit, it's a character warjack, sold as a metal blister of bitz to add onto a plastic helljack kit, I decided to be stubborn and do it in metal..


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George Spiggott wrote:Good stuff with the all metal Malice. I'm also planning to make my Malice from a metal Slayer (with reaper harpoon). Are there any difficulties with this project that I should look out for?

The afore-mentioned issue with the head, and the souls were a little finicky to get a solid bond on..

Malice done...



*eyerolls* Erebus next... then Gallant (prob on a hammersmith Chassis)

Nah, Gallant needs a Centurion chassis.

Well, continued on, did Erebus and Gallant off of a Slayer and Ironclad off of my FLGS's discount rack.. both went together fairly easily, as expected the back of the heads needed to be razor sawed down to change it from the knob, to a flat plate.

Erebus was a fairly simple job, the spikes fit to the old metal shoulderpads nicely, thought the loincloth was a little ill fitting...

Gallant proved to be more work, the curves of the plastic ironclad and the metal ones are just not the same, so the collar has a bit of a gap, as well as the book, but that's a fiddling little thing, obviously one hand needed to be razor sawed off, and replaced with the sword, again, small issue. the one unexpected issue was getting the shield to fit propely, the fix was to remove the end of a bolt on the elbow joint that prevented it from layign flush with the arm.

Finished all 3... skipping Triumph, he doesn't quite fit my needs..

On to the next, Roicante..

This one was the first of the all metal upgrades that gave me trouble, I had worried about the hand on the cannon, but in the end it turned out to be the chains that were my big problem



Over all not too bad, the shield on the sword arm had to be scored down the middle of the backside so it could be bent wider to fit the metal nomad arm and it's size keep you from posing the sword more vertically, unlike all the other character jacks I've done, the head needed no modification, as it was allready a ball and socket joint, the cannon glued on easily. but the chains ended up being to short, and going in the wrong direction to be usable, I ended up snippingg the lengh of chain off, and drilling out the shackles, to put in small brass jump rings, and then stringing chain from earlier dreadnaughts, to replace the chain.

Finished up Rocinante