Your best conversion model (Seven awesome years of conversions)

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**Galmakh the moonkiller**

jah-joshua wrote:
this guy is still one of my favorite conversions...
sorry for the poor 6 year old photos

the mix of space marine, catachan, and necromunda parts really worked well for a battered urban fighter...

this guy is my all-time favorite conversion, 'cause he looks like a stock model...
he is 22 different parts, from sources such as the inquisitor tech-priest, the iron warriors, space wolves, plastic dread, and necron destroyer...
he was built way back in '01, so the only source for the pointing powerfist was the chaos marines...
the star and the exhaust pipes were carved off, and the spot where the star was scrapped off got covered with a crux terminatus from the dread...
the chest is from the iron warriors bitz...
the shoulder pads are from the land raider sprue...
the head is a sergeant from the regular marine box, as well as the legs...
the scroll and skull on his shin are carved from a dread sarchophagus...
the bolter is from a special edition captain...
the icon on his belt if from the inquisitor tech-priest...
the big purity seal on his chest is from the dread...
the knife is from the space wolves(with the little wolf skull carved off, then the knife was flipped around, and a new skull added)...
the backpack is from the black library limited edition leonatus...
and finally, the necron is a destroyer head and spine...

thanks for lookin'...

cheers
jah

Lovely work very neatly done and well painted and posed

**Anvildude**

Ah, gotta love the huge "PHOTOBUCKET WON'T LET PEOPLE SEE THIS 'CAUSE IT'S A JERKWAD" images.

People, don't host on Photobucket. It's terrible. If they're wargaming photos, host here on Dakka. If they're general, use Deviantart or Imgur or something.

**Grimtuff**

Anvildude wrote:
Ah, gotta love the huge "PHOTOBUCKET WON'T LET PEOPLE SEE THIS 'CAUSE IT'S A JERKWAD" images.

People, don't host on Photobucket. It's terrible. If they're wargaming photos, host here on Dakka. If they're general, use Deviantart or Imgur or something.

Jah
Has not posted...
In over a...
Year

There, it's like he never left.

**prpetros**

A project i was working on before Age of Sigmar arrived. It was a clan skyre Hellpit which would pull my army to battle. All aboard the Skaven Train.........CHOO CHOO!!!!!!!

Direct link to my Gallery:https://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-user.jsp?u=34311

**Tim 121RVC**

That's a very cool locomotive, Prpetros!

**Araablane**

My first conversion, quite easy but effective.
Big pictures!

Spoiler:

**Flinty**

Great combination of GSC and goliath kits and the paint job is superb as well.. thanks for sharing.

**Camkierhi**

Those are absolutely brilliant Araablane.

**BaronIveagh**

**lipsdapips**

I have a couple picks for mine. Most i'm proud of because, like jah-joshua, they look like they could be store-bought the way they are or made in monopose.

If anyone's curious about the conversion materials used, i'm happy to explain

LDP

**Mr Nobody**

Behold, my C'tan shard. Made just in time to find out that the C'tan shard is not in the new codex. Now he is a transcendent C'tan I guess.

Spoiler:

**monkeytroll**

The flesh-vat servitors have been hard at work splicing.....

**cuda1179**

Leviathan.

I also like my WWI LandRaider

**myszopek**

That's my conversion of destroyed, bad assembled and terribly painted SM rhino which I bought very cheap.

**jerry polemica**

Here my Leman russ vanquisher nearly finished, missing only the tracks, ouch!!!!

**Nicky J**

got an incomplete knight armiger for cheap(ish) from ebay (it had no weapons).
managed to fill the missing parts from my bitz box, and pretty happy with how it turned out:

i'm not sure about the practicality of having a big pennant hanging off your crotch when your main armament is twin heavy flamers, but it looks nice!

and yes, the head has a stubber barrel for a 'tongue'

**MarcoSkoll**

Kasrkin Corporal Calleigh Fielder of the Tryphosan 87th. She's a more complex conversion than she might initially appear, as she's been disassembled into a multi-part model, had her torso/shoulders narrowed, and the head has been made entirely from scratch.

**Zid**

monkeytroll wrote:
The flesh-vat servitors have been hard at work splicing.....

Fantastic work!

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Heres my contribution to this thread: The Lord of Flies and Mother of Maggots (more in my P&M blog in my sig)

**Inso**

MarcoSkoll wrote:
Kasrkin Corporal Calleigh Fielder of the Tryphosan 87th. She's a more complex conversion than she might initially appear, as she's been disassembled into a multi-part model, had her torso/shoulders narrowed, and the head has been made entirely from scratch.

Excellent work on this one

**Dr H**

Been a while since I've done something that could be considered "just" a conversion (too much scratch-building).

But I'm very pleased with this one so certainly qualifies for my "best" conversion model... for now.

Starting with the SDE wolfrider miniature, I converted it to a model of San from the anime Princess Mononoke (where the inspiration obviously came from).

Much carving, gap-filling, sculpting with putty, and a scratch-build display base.

Separate from the base:

Spoiler:

Keep up the good work everyone.

**Inso**

A pair of Dreadnoughts, converted for my Squat army out of Kastellan robots

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Before primer:

**Anvildude**

I like. Very clean work, good concept, good execution.

**cainex1**

I always meant to post in this thread so I'll post one of my first real conversions that's worth mentioning.
I think he was a Catachan Sgt, genericized him by removing all the Imperial symbols (belt and canteen). I don't think he had a gun when I got him so I pinned up that one (got magnets to go in the pinholes now so any gun or blade can work) and chopped the chainblade for a power machete.. or more like falchion here. And of course shaved down the dome to give him some stylish headgear.

And my most recent conversion, a Goliath or perhaps bounty hunter. The hands needed just slight tweaks to get the fingers sitting on triggers. Those Goliath heads are quite lacking when you don't have any extra necks, I had to build most of that, then made the chinstrap/neck guard thing like it appears in the book. Also added strap holsters and some gubbins after smoothing some of the shackles and removing any Khorne symbols.
For the guy on the right, he isn't done but I went ahead and sculpted/carved a the back of the skull and neck and cleaned off the Khorne scarring.

**Niiru**

Subscribed. Lot of inspiring work on here

**Singleton Mosby**

What a wonderful and inspirational thread this is.

I tend to convert/change most of the models I use. Recently I finished a couple of units for my Guard army. Using victory highlander miniatures I couldn't be without kilted Ratlings and a kilted Marbo.

Currently working on orks. And hope to finally finish some of the massive ork conversions I've made. The one I like best is "Da Megabeast" a massive ork bomber. Has yet to be finished, but here are some shots.

**Excommunicatus**

Zarakynel/The Violet Heart

**Mr Nobody**

Built this one from a stormtalon and some F18 parts.

**sockwithaticket**

Excommunicatus wrote:
Zarakynel/The Violet Heart

Excellent augmentation of that model.

**Excommunicatus**

sockwithaticket wrote:

Excellent augmentation of that model.

Thanks. Zarakynel is rather plain as far as thirty-foot tall six-boobed monstrous sex-daemons go, it's kinda crazy how much more She 'pops' with the addition of probably less than $2 worth of chain and a working knowledge of shibari.

I didn't know whether She would even qualify as a conversion when I posted her here, so I'm glad She seems to be being somewhat well-received.

**TheInkerman**

lipsdapips wrote:
I have a couple picks for mine. Most i'm proud of because, like jah-joshua, they look like they could be store-bought the way they are or made in monopose.

If anyone's curious about the conversion materials used, i'm happy to explain

LDP

How did you adjust the limbs on these guys? Cut them at the joints and reconfigure with wire, then fill in the gaps with greenstuff? I'm about to attempt my first repose, so I'm looking for tips, and these are fantastic.