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Hi guys.

My friend has recently started Necrons and is looking to build an army with a bit of a spider theme. He's got a Triarch Stalker on the way, and already has a tomb Spider and set of Wraiths (the new ones are kinda spiderery anyways, so they are good for now)

however he is wanting to also get some destroyers, but neither of us like the disembodied Necron glued to a hoverboard look, so as an alternative we're wanting to give them some suitable horrifying giant mechanical spider legs.

My question is does anyone have any kits they can recommend for this conversion? Or better yet, separate conversion parts hat they know of for something similar?

Thanks!

EDIT - Once we've got the parts as well I'll maybe look at doing a step by step assembly for anyone else wanting to do the same or similar

Could kit bash them with canoptek spyders or wraiths if you wanted bigger models.
Or buy a bunch of illuminor szeras models from Chinese recasters and use the spidery legs he has.

Puppets War has insect bodies for Cyber droids:

http://puppetswar.eu/category.php?n=45&id_category=230

Spikey Bits has a tutorial on how to make Scorpions out of the Wraiths, maybe you can use those as Destroyer stand-ins?

The old (metal) Tomb Spyder legs were perfect for this... It had the same body as the Destroyer, with the flight vents replaced with legs. So adding legs to the Destroyer was as simple as cutting off the flight vents, and adding the spyder legs in their place.

You could possibly do something similar with the legs of the current Canoptek Spyder, but I'm not sure how they actually match up size wise...

http://shop.ramshacklegames.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=436

Have a look at these. Not very economical but it could work.

Sorry for the slow reply guys, I've been offline a while sorting various issues with our accursed landlord...

Naaris wrote:Could kit bash them with canoptek spyders or wraiths if you wanted bigger models.
Or buy a bunch of illuminor szeras models from Chinese recasters and use the spidery legs he has.

The Illuminor model is actually the one that gave us the inspiration funnily enough, however we're trying to do it for a cheap as possible, and tacking on another 15 pound or so to every Destroyer is going to add up quickly...

No idea about how to get in contact with Chinese re-casters though, have you had any experience with them, or have any tips? are they considerably cheaper?

Cryptek of Awesome wrote:Puppets War has insect bodies for Cyber droids:

http://puppetswar.eu/category.php?n=45&id_category=230

I do quite like the looks of these guys, but again, looks like they'd be quite costly...

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:Spikey Bits has a tutorial on how to make Scorpions out of the Wraiths, maybe you can use those as Destroyer stand-ins?

This sounds great, do you have a link?can't seem to find it! :(

insaniak wrote:The old (metal) Tomb Spyder legs were perfect for this... It had the same body as the Destroyer, with the flight vents replaced with legs. So adding legs to the Destroyer was as simple as cutting off the flight vents, and adding the spyder legs in their place.

You could possibly do something similar with the legs of the current Canoptek Spyder, but I'm not sure how they actually match up size wise...

That's not a bad idea actually, the fore-limbs from the Spiders and Wraith might actually be pretty good, I'll have a scour of some bitz sites, see if I can pick any up individually!

Demantiae wrote:http://shop.ramshacklegames.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=436

Have a look at these. Not very economical but it could work.

I don't think these one's really fit in with the newer Necron aesthetic, but those are definitely something I'll be looking at for my Imperial guard!


Thanks all! does anyone know/can recommend any cheap bitz stores that supply Necron parts regularly?

http://www.spikeybits.com/2014/06/canoptek-scorpion-conversion.html

It requires a Talos Tail but if you don't have access to that, I think you can make due with the normal Wraith Tails and some clever cutting.