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I buy bits from ebay sellers rather than kits usually. I've seen people do great things with the crypt ghoul kit but I've never used it myself. I really love the Wych kit for all the bare arms but those are best on smaller models. The Gor kit is great for big models - big arms and chests especially. Flagellants are a good kit but they are used quite a lot. Often I just hunt out the most unusual bits I can find, using something no-one else has thought of is half the fun, I was very happy to discover that Forgeworld Ork I used for my servitor for example.

I get the feeling that the finecast Techmarine with servitors would be a great kit for various unusual heads and bionic bits, the sort of things that can add a lot of character to a model.

Remember the good old Mail Order Catalogue? That was the best thing ever for conversions, so much fodder without having to buy full kits that you didn't want to get a few bits. I spent so much money through that, I could have had a whole other army!

Yep I remember those, and when you phoned up they used to have random offers like an Empire war altar and a war wagon for £5 each. And sales in store (5 epic Eldar titans at £2 each). I used to have all sorts of random models.

But the plastic kits really changed everything and ebaying for bits is not so bad. So many conversions would just not have been possible in lead even if the parts were around, I would never have bothered pinning each leg to my spider chair guy for example.

But yeah, I do have like 97% of a savage orc boar boy boxed set I am probably never going to need. Damn those pig heads for never showing up on ebay! I've been trying to find a lion head from the elf chariot for months as well.

Yeh plastic has made a huge difference to the possibilities. Especially with size, guys like Guita and Dark_Gear can testify to the scales you can play with with plastic kits. There's no way metal would ever have held up structures like those, even with extensive pinning they'd be frail.

The Swap Shop is pretty handy too sometimes although it's easier to sell what you have than buy what you need.

Thanks for the head up mate!

 Bruticus wrote:
I think it is possible that it was female once, but the mechanicus are barely human at the best of times, and as a Dark Mechanicus surgeon obsessed with experimenting with genetics, concepts like gender probably seem quaint and old fashioned to him/her. Who knows what it looks like under those bandages and that hood? Who knows if any humanity remains, or if it has all be replaced by implants and grafts?

So now the obvious quistion is: ...

IS IT A HYPSTER? , really, after reading: "concepts like gender probably seem quaint and old fashioned to him/her." I couldn´t avoid imaginig it taking fotos of it´s coffe at starbucks

Anyway, thanks for all the info in your recent posts, you´re really helpfull

 buhonero13 wrote:

 Bruticus wrote:
I think it is possible that it was female once, but the mechanicus are barely human at the best of times, and as a Dark Mechanicus surgeon obsessed with experimenting with genetics, concepts like gender probably seem quaint and old fashioned to him/her. Who knows what it looks like under those bandages and that hood? Who knows if any humanity remains, or if it has all be replaced by implants and grafts?

So now the obvious quistion is: ...

IS IT A HYPSTER? , really, after reading: "concepts like gender probably seem quaint and old fashioned to him/her." I couldn´t avoid imaginig it taking fotos of it´s coffe at starbucks

I...just...couldn't resist:




EDIT: Acccording to the little flag next to my avarar, I'm Russian now? Huh, go figure...

I may have a lion head....will check in my bits box

Hey Krauty just think what someone could knock together with a picture of you and chaos lord zhufor! I see you used your glasses on the hipster!

 PDH wrote:
Hey Krauty just think what someone could knock together with a picture of you and chaos lord zhufor! I see you used your glasses on the hipster!

Dude, step away from the Photoshop! Remember Spiderman: "with great power comes great responsibility", and all that


Not my glasses, btw. Mine aren't hipster glasses. I bought them before it was cool

...

...damn, done it again

 KrautScientist wrote:

 PDH wrote:
Hey Krauty just think what someone could knock together with a picture of you and chaos lord zhufor! I see you used your glasses on the hipster!

Dude, step away from the Photoshop! Remember Spiderman: "with great power comes great responsibility", and all that


Not my glasses, btw. Mine aren't hipster glasses. I bought them before it was cool

...

...damn, done it again

Hey maybe you made them cool

A while ago I discovered that PDH spies on me in order to steal my ideas. The amount of similar projects and 'coincidences' can't really be explained otherwise. Perhaps the greatest 'coincidence' was when it was turned out we were both working on a Slaanesh daemonhost based on the same model - the Dark Elf Supreme Sorceress.

Here's the version I am working on. I've had her blutacked together for a while but tonight I got to gluing. To be honest I was a bit worried that our models would be so similar that I wouldn't want to work on her any more. However I think it's going to be OK:



It wasn't very likely that we were going to use the same combination of bits I suppose, after all mine has this head:



Which is probably the first time anyone has done that. Spot the bit?

Also, what the feth at the Hipster Mechanicus. I'm going to have to paint them with little iPods now.

It's even sadder that I've also had a daemonhost based off that model in the works for a while now.

Can we get a clearer image of the head? Otherwise I'll hesitate a guess as steed of slaanesh?

Lovely start. Where are the wings from?

At this stage I have no idea where the head is from although it makes me think of Tyranid carapace so I'd guess that it's part of a limb from wherever the wings came from.

The wings are from a Nurgle fly thing. The head I will keep to myself for now because I really don't think anyone can guess it. Sorry the photo is a bit lame, I might post a better one tomorrow in the light.

Ghosty - work on your model as well then, Slaanesh loves a daemonic ménage à trois.

 Bruticus wrote:
The wings are from a Nurgle fly thing.

You, man, are glorious no, really, it´s the first time i see someone using nurgle bits for slaanesh miniature

PD: the head looks like one of alien (from the scary movies), so i supose it´s some kind of tiranyd? or perhaps from chaos daemons? i dont knooowwwwww!

Awesome!! Should turn out beautifully. I had doubts initially about the wings, but the more I look at her, the more I think they'll be fine

And I think I can name the head.....



Yes?

I think you've got it!

Yeah spot on. Didn't think anyone would get that. 7p, that's cheap, I could make loads.

Fantastic use of bits!

And for 7p each, you really should make loads

 Bruticus wrote:
Yeah spot on. Didn't think anyone would get that. 7p, that's cheap, I could make loads.

so: you actually made a head out of a meatloaf??!?!?!



got no words for that

I gotta say the terrain is breathtaking. Very modular too, can easily be used as a 40K battlefield.

I haven't really posted much of my 6mm stuff on these forums but I have recently been collecting a lot of Epic 40k. I thought I would just mention this crowdfunding source of models as it is about to end and I think it is good value: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/6mm-scale-armies

Oh yeah, 6mm are good to represent the bigger champaign , thought they´re hard to convert , anyway, I wish you luck with the funding , and i´m not giving money because untill next month I just can´t (the hobby is hard to maintain )

Actually it's similar to doing the fine detail on a 28mm figure if you can convert that you can bodge up 6mm stuff easily. Any idiot can do it.

 Llamahead wrote:
Actually it's similar to doing the fine detail on a 28mm figure if you can convert that you can bodge up 6mm stuff easily. Any idiot can do it.

well yeah, but you´ll have to admit that converting with almost no pieces is hard as s..t, I mean, the range is very little and there are almost no "spare parts", so most conversions are made of greenstuff in the end, and making details with GS isn´t preciselly easy...

Actually while you've got to apply more perversity to part use if your willing to be open minded with your bitz box anything can be useful. I've used very little putty on my 6mm stuff and instead use plasticard, sprue, bobbins (rawl plugs are amazing) and components and find it a satisfying challenge.

 Llamahead wrote:
I've used very little putty on my 6mm stuff and instead use plasticard, sprue, bobbins (rawl plugs are amazing)

interesting idea ... I think I´ll test that myself, it´s incredible how, no matter how much I learn about the hobby, there are allways people like you to make me realise there´s still a great amount of new things to be discovered, really, thanks a lot.

Cheers buhenero13 for more 6mm converting try Tactical Command http://taccmd.tacticalwargames.net/viewforum.php?f=119&sid=a762a0ad06635c9cf56d44255c6fe1ae or even my own meagre offerings. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/356363.page

To be honest, the possibilities for converting at 6mm are pretty limited unless you play Orks or Chaos. My armies currently have basically no conversions except to use some 3rd party bits from Shapeways and the like. I do intend to make 6mm versions of my various inquisitor characters though. But for me, 28mm is where I do the conversions and 6mm is some sort of zen collecting and painting thing where I can just make row after row of neat and tiny little soldiers.

I've actually got a load of half built/half painted models to show soon, but for now here is a sneak peak at one of the Dark Mechanicus Fallen Cherubim.

Brilliant stuff , what a great idea.