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^^ Ditto.

Just brilliant.

Subbed! Love this

Nice work on the underside, hk. Looks perfect.

God I wish I could swear on this forum, there are so many expletives for how fething awesome these conversions are.

Consider me subbed and eagerly awaiting your next post!

Smashing wee feet on that bad boy!

Awesome to see this come together..

How in the world did you remove those leeches so cleanly?

 MasterSlowPoke wrote:
How in the world did you remove those leeches so cleanly?

With a C'tan phase blade.

MasterSlowPoke wrote:How in the world did you remove those leeches so cleanly?

Slowly..... very slowly. It was actually quite tricky, that plastics a lot thicker than it looks .

xXWeaponPrimeXx wrote:

 MasterSlowPoke wrote:
How in the world did you remove those leeches so cleanly?

With a C'tan phase blade.

lol, If only I could work out how to make it miss my fingers .

Just a quick update to show off the finished Canoptek Leech's.

I've made 7 crawling leech's, and 1 sleeping leech,
the sleeping one will be attached somewhere on the Tesseract Vault, in some kind on stasis or self repair mode.
While the the others scurry about repairing and maintaining the vault itself.

Very, very cool! Love to see the brave willing to chop apart an expensive, good looking model to turn it into something even greater.

What?! I... You can't just.... This is too..... THERE IS TOO MUCH AWESOME HERE!!!!!!!

Clearly there is some sort of Daemon pact going on here!

Great job hk. They look excellent, even the "dead" one.

Looks like they're breeding as there's an extra one from when you counted.

looks absolutely brilliant! Well worth the care and attention to detail.... and obvious to see!!

Thank you everyone for your comments, they really do help motivate me to get this project finished .

Now the Canoptek leech's are finished I'm now moving on to the Tesseract Vault itself,
and after a conversation with one of my brother's, who pointed out that the pyramid like vault looked way to bulky,
and didn't really go with the detailed work I'd done so far, and maybe a more fluid and open design would work better,
I straight away realized he was right, and got to work redesigning the vault.

So what I've done is dramatically cut down the size of the four vault corners to create this open centered platform,
which will eventually hold my Canoptek Guardian and Nightbringer.

This is only the basic shape right now, and still needs a lot of work and detail.
But as you'll see from the pics I have made a start.

Just for comparisons the first pic is what the vault originally looked like,
followed by my version below.

I. WANT. MOAR!
fraking amazing, man.

Oh, that is chopped down quite a bit. Interested to see where it goes from here and where all the crawly things will go...

I never did really like the very obvious open/closed vault being two different units. This makes the vault look much different, and it seems like the c'tan will be more of a focal point. Bravo!

Very cool mate!

I like how you are turning one overly large block of plastic into quite a cool looking small army.

I wonder how much else you can make using the rest of the bits!

Amazing.. all coming together.. can't wait.

I love how the sleeping leech looks like a dead bug. Also, your gigantic vault looks awesome.

Progress On this project might slow down a little now, as I start designing and building the platform section of the Vault.

I've already made a start by referencing pieces from other large Necron models,
this helps me work out the shape of each piece, so it fits with the aesthetic of other models in the range.

I have the first four platform pieces done, although at the moment their just basic shapes and need detailing.
Eventually their will be a second set of smaller pieces, which will form the center of the platform.

I've also started detailing the interior of one of the Vault corner sections,
Featuring the remains of damaged or deactivated Necrons.

That is so awesome, love having the broken Necrons stuffed into the corners, really adds a ton of detail that I felt the larger model overall lacked.

Oh, you gotta add some of the little scarabs crawling over them!

 Kepora wrote:
Oh, you gotta add some of the little scarabs crawling over them!

OSL in the eyes will add an extra creepy effect to them too.

This is getting even more awesome.

Knightley wrote:That is so awesome, love having the broken Necrons stuffed into the corners, really adds a ton of detail that I felt the larger model overall lacked.

Your right, even though they tried to add some interior detail with the original model, it just ended up looking at bit flat and feeling like a missed opportunity.

Kepora wrote:Oh, you gotta add some of the little scarabs crawling over them!

That's the plan Scarabs everywhere.

xXWeaponPrimeXx wrote:

 Kepora wrote:
Oh, you gotta add some of the little scarabs crawling over them!

OSL in the eyes will add an extra creepy effect to them too.

I've never tried OSL, but from seeing examples I know that it can be tricky to get right, and easy to make a mess of.
But it's something that I do want to try, as your right, it will make a big difference to the finished model.

Every time I come back to this thread, it gets better than I imagined it could.

The broken down 'crons are a touch of genius. Well done sir!

hk1x1 wrote:

xXWeaponPrimeXx wrote:

 Kepora wrote:
Oh, you gotta add some of the little scarabs crawling over them!

OSL in the eyes will add an extra creepy effect to them too.

I've never tried OSL, but from seeing examples I know that it can be tricky to get right, and easy to make a mess of.
But it's something that I do want to try, as your right, it will make a big difference to the finished model.

Ask Meade for some tips maybe? I think most of his stuff has OSL done to them.

I really like the wrecked necrons stashed in the corners.