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 Apollinaire wrote:
Ah, I'd forgotten this thread. Found this poor decapitated assassin in a job lot of old metal Necromunda figs. This pic is after his first dettol bath, he's currently having round 2, god knows what he was painted with! Looking forward to getting started on the rebuild.

I did an arm replace on an Eversor. I used an Eldar Guardian arm:

You know that's just typical Necromunda for you. I have a couple of such Franken-minis languishing out in the garage. Funnily enough one is a Vindicare Assisin with a Van Saar head and a couple of weapon swaps. The other is a harlequin with Jakara spyrer parts. Young me was a little knife-happy.

Always a pleasure to follow this thread.

This was probably my biggest repair. Free landraider from some guy who trashed it

Shows all the missing parts


Warped hull construction


Side of a plastic bin to make doors, extra vehicle parts to fill the other gaps


Had to pin a smaller rhino door to fill the larder LR door hole



Cracked the entire LR apart to reassemble the gaps and warped floor to get to this


Fast dirty paint job

Excellent work!

Awesome rehab raider! Great work

Just a few more for the year end. Not overly in love with these, but I needed to fill a few gaps in the army.





Into:

I have lots of restored models as most of my armies are built from cast off's or figures that no long hold a players attention/imagination any longer.

Some Tau Fire Warriors:



Painted:



And a Devilfish:







The long painting war continues...

CB

Another eBay recovery of an Imperial Guard Basilisk that became an Ork looted vehicle.



Here is the Looted Vehicle I made from the Basilisk:





The long painting war continues...

CB

Well done, that man!

This thread is fething awesome.

I especially like the Terminator 'comic strip' at the top. Whoever did that layout did a great job.

I haven't rescued anything recently...it's making me want to go "find" something on eBay to rescue.

Some more recoveries:

Here was a Mad Doc Grotsnik who was covered with extra superglue and paint.

Original model:


Cleaned, stripped and painted:



He wore the Red Pants!

The long painting war continues...

CB

I acquired a couple of used Leman Russ and using various bits including older Rogue Trader metal i started my Imperial Guard Tank Company; before and after:

Hah, the Canada Hive World?

 Elbows wrote:
Hah, the Canada Hive World?

Yessir! A world mostly uninhabitable, covered in ice and snow and a desolate wasteland that produces much of the Imperium's "THC sticks", an alternative to "LHO sticks"

Here is my Vendetta Gunship eBay Recovery in the P&M Blogs: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/749735.page

Before:



After:

That first one hurts my eyebones...

 Elbows wrote:
That first one hurts my eyebones...

True story

Got this manticore in an ebay lot a while back:



The paint was... ok.. but streaky and blotchy in many areas with plenty of missed spots, and the missiles were unpainted and held on with blutack.

And now for the after pic, turned out pretty well, and I magnetised the missiles.

 Elbows wrote:
That first one hurts my eyebones...

 ShadowCaptainMathius wrote:

 Elbows wrote:
That first one hurts my eyebones...

True story

Hand priming by brush painting it purple ...

Come check it out!!! ---> https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/749735.page

Here is another recovery, a Storm Boyz Nob.

The Nobz who was built from some damaged and missing parts like the Power Claw ends...which have been replaced by some old Vehicle sprue Dozerblade parts.




Cheers.

CB

So Tread Heads I started updating the vehicles with a severely damaged Chimera I received in trade that was going to be a static terrain piece as the turret was glued to the body and lots of parts were missing. I started adding some parts, but then broke the frame and that let me even the tracks and make the model level and stable and it no longer looked like a warped Chimera so I decided to save the tank and refurbish it.






If you look carefully you will see bubbled areas of the hull and joins from excessive plastic cement, but after painting it looks like a older and rather rusted transport.

Cheers,

CB

This is a really awesome thread - can’t believe I hadn’t seen this sooner.

After tackling and nearly completing my Chaos army I'm back to trying to finish up some Eldar.



The Dire Avenger Exarch (bottom, left) is reborn as an Autarch of the Yderis Craftworld.

This is an original Forgeworld resin Vulture (so very heavy solid resin and no flying stand).

After striping, sanding, repair, and painting it can now use the GF Plastic Flying Base.



The long painting and converting war continues,

CB

Lovely work. Real shame the plastic GW version never matched the looks of that thing.

Fantastic work everyone! I love when people save old models... would love to see someone save some of those ugly arse 2nd Ed Tyranids and make them look less terrible lol

Nice vulture. I'd love to get my hands on one of those.

The 2nd ed Nids? There's little hope for those. LoL Those warriors... That screamer killer was great though.

Rescuing old misused models is probably the second largest part of the hobby for me. Nothing more satisfying. I just dropped some vibrant yellow thickly painted bloodletters into the stripper. Its going to be a two-parter. Some had to go back in for another day or so.

In 2nd ed. you had the Carnifex/Screamer Killer which was okay --- I bet with a modern paintjob someone could make it really shine. I actually prefer the 2nd ed. Tyrant the best of the ones they've done (far less ALIENS looking).

The Genestealers were more or less the same, despite being older. The Hormagaunts looked cool but were absolutely miserable to base/game with. Termagants more or less looked the same. The warriors were hold overs from the initial models and were quite bad.

They were followed by the...nice(?) intermediat ones. I bet with a few arm swaps, head swaps and some nice painting even the worst Tyranids models could be made worthwhile.

Mate, have to seen this?

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/743240.page;jsessionid=E1559105F35DB99C4FD1A749690A0AA7

Its a 2nd ed. Nid-pocalypse! Brings a tear to me old eyes... Beautiful.

Some Mark I Rhinos off eBay.


Striped and repaired/upgraded.


Like new.






The long painting war continues...

CB