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Hello there!

I'm Tim, am 19 years of age and firtsly, English is not my native language. And even though I try to maintain a certain degree of grammatical correctness forgive me in advance for any slip-ups.
To further my introduction, I am a biomedical sciences student at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, which takes up most of my time. Whenever I have some spare time, though, I try to pursue my hobby.
Aside from my interest in all things wargaming I especialy like Warhammer 40k, Horus Heresy but also Star Trek and Star Wars. So far my short introduction, on to the models!

This is just a showcase of me modelling a necron based General Grievous model.
The character is a well known person in the Star Wars universe, making his appearances in both the primary films and in the animated series The Clone Wars.
Those unfamiliar with his name may remember him from having 4 arms each wielding a lightsaber taken from a killed Jedi Knight.

I chose to base my adaptation on a necron model as both necrons and General Grievous and his droids share the same slender robotic look. I took the Triarch Preatorian / Lychguard set as a base, because I preferred the more straight legs in this set as opposed to the more squating legs in the warriors kit. Aside from the legs this set also contains a lot of arms in varios poses which I liked as it offered me the possibility to try out various arm-poses (he gets four).
As soon as I have something to show you I'll post it here! I hope you will enjoy.


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So I'm screwing around trying to get some pics up of the model so far.
I hope this will work, bear with me!


So this first photo shows the original necron legs, and a smal cut at where I intend to make the first incision, in the thighs.
I figured Grievous to be a rather tall guy and thusly wil extend his legs and spinal column to make him taller and more menacing.


This picture shows how I extended his legs. I cut both thighs at about the same position, for continuity, and drilled
into both the cutting planes. I used a staple, which I folded flat, and inserted it, glueing it in place with superglue.


In this picture I made visible the extension in the spinalcollumn, which is a quite simple procedure.
Just drill into the thorax at the point where the spinal column from the legs would be glued in.
Next, dril into the top part of the leg-spinalcolumn and insert a folded staple. It doesn't have to be precise,
as the staple offers the possibility to bend it somewhat, as opposed to using en clipped paperclip, which are quite stiff.


I assessed the extended look and the shins didn't look quite right,
so I opted to extend them as well in order to maintain a form of posture.
Also glued in place using folded staples.
The thorax is put in place, but not yet glued as I intend to model the thorax some more,
and it is easier to do this with the option to take the legs off.


This is the back, showing the staples used on the shins very well. They are not embedded inside the lower part of the shin,
but glued collaterally to the shin 'pistons' I'd like to say.
This way they still offer support and buff out the lower legs making the model as a whole not look too slender.

And lastly


This is what I have to use for the head for now. It's not definite, as I'm not too sure about the look yet.
Imput is greatly appreciated

Yyeeeeeessss. This interests me, more please.

There's a guy who does Tyranid-crons and he has a Grevious.



He's a counts-as Swarmlord, I think.

http://musingsofametalmind.blogspot.com/search/label/Tyracrons

 pretre wrote:
There's a guy who does Tyranid-crons and he has a Grevious.



He's a counts-as Swarmlord, I think.

http://musingsofametalmind.blogspot.com/search/label/Tyracrons

I've seen that one actually! It's quite amazing, although I don't like the fact that it seems a bit messy if you know what I mean.
Aside from that it's a great conversion! But I must contain myself to a more mansized version.

So I made some progress with the little angry cyborg that is General Grievous.
I used the arms form the same kit I took the parts to make the body.
My only problem was that the shoulderjoints of two arms wouldn't fit nicely into the socket in the thorax.
So I simply cut off the balljoints of two arms, so that each socket would hold one balljoint.
The jointless arm was then glued onto the balljoint of the other arm, after some precision shaping of course.

Here is a sketch I made of what I envisoined the model to look like ultimately.



As you can see I'm not the best artist out there but it does the trick.
The red shows where the lightsabers will go, but they won't be painted red of course.

So here are two pictures of the model so far, showing the front and back.





As you can see the arms are positioned in different angles and rotations.
Adding the hands in a later stage will be tricky as a plan to use paperclip-rods as lightsabers and the face on which the hands will be glued is quite small.
I have some ideas as to how I plan to make that joint stronger.

Also, I filled up the gap in the shins with green stuff.
I'm not the best sculptor so I stuck with a more simplistic approach and tried not to make too many details.
I am fairly pleased with how it turned out and I might scrape some of the surface to flat it out with a hobby knife.

Can't wait to see more.