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Throwing up some pics of a couple robo-bots I kitbashed from bits.

This one's based around a Dark Eldar Talos Pain Engine torso, which has a convenient pelvis and hip section for legs despite being a floaty tentacle monster. I used third party ball socket connectors and some green stuff but the parts fit together pretty great on their own. The primary arms are Kastelan legs with guns on the end, the legs are similarly legs, and the secondary arms are from the Kataphron kit. The top gun is from an ork kit. As an aside, Kastelan Robot legs are excellent for any conversion involving mechanical stuff. They're fully poseable once you cut out some small tabs, and bits sites will sell both sets from the kit together.





Next one took a little more work. It's the torso of the new BaC Contemptor, with the front armor section taken off to give it a sleeker less armored look. The helmet and weapon are from the Talos kit, arms/legs are the dependable Kastelan bits, and the megaman arm is a Contemptor power fist with a Knight heavy stubber shield and some hoses. There's a Bastion spotlight on top to plug up a big hole.





Adding it all up the kits and bits were probably more than just buying another box of vanilla Kastelans, but I liked the way these guys came out. A different posture of torso made almost completely different looking models. Here's a shot of them with their handlers in a Robot Maniple formation. The original Kastelans are hiding in the back, ashamed of how chrome they are.



Questions/Critiques welcome!

Nice conversion and th eprice is right

Cool stuff, I especially like the first one, he seems a nice link in the Knight-Titan family.

Do you have any close ups of the dome head tech priest on the left? He looks interesting.

These are really nice. Love em. Expensive to make methinks, but worth the effort.

Awesome job. Is Chromehammer a thing?

Timothyd4y, I used some super shiny chrome airbrush colors on those back guys and on a sunny day they've almost gotten me in a car wreck shooting reflected sunbeams into my poor eyes from the passenger seat next to me.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Cool stuff, I especially like the first one, he seems a nice link in the Knight-Titan family.

Do you have any close ups of the dome head tech priest on the left? He looks interesting.

Yeah the tech priest was originally going to be something else but after I put him together it was pretty clear I'd just made a tech priest.

Nice, where's that cool head from?

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Nice, where's that cool head from?

The head is a leg socket from a heldrake, which fits perfectly on a marine torso, the weapon is a kataphron torsion cannon, the other arm is a do dominus gun, and everything else is assorted mechanicus bits and a sharp knife.

Thanks for posting these are good inspiration for the rest of us.

Now get to painting!!