Your best conversion model (Seven awesome years of conversions)

Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you:

No adverts like this in the forums anymore.
Times and dates in your local timezone.
Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance.
Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely.
Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net.

If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

**Tristan228**

Although i've posted my Dreadnaught before i have some more:

My Chaplain (Finecast without bubbles!)

My Epistolary, not a big conversion but since i used him i've NEVER failed a psy test!
Well the last game i failed it somehow but i got a

on the perils of the warp table, thus i'll call this a 2nd degree success

and at last a Scout sergeant with a power Macuahuitl (my Crimson fists have a slight Aztec theme)

he has a ork teeth necklace too

**Peter Wiggin**

Not my "best", but its the last one I did without a pin vise or razor saw. I'm particularly proud of the tail, truth the told.

**angelofvengeance**

Probably this- I have a 5 man squad of these guys

**CaptainStabby**

Dunno if this guy is my best, but he's a recent favorite.

**Deeber**

Da orkafex WIP shot

**chaosobscuros**

My first conversion (with a more recent weapon swap). Probably early 90s

**Desubot**

Suddenly

DOOOOOOOOOMRIIDDDEEERRR!!!!!!!!

il need a take a better picture once its done

**Argive**

WOW... I am just lost for words. This thread is just pure full throttled awesome... Took me 3 days to look through ALL of it and it has not been time wasted.
Someone needs to make this a sticky!!

Just spent £30 on modeling tools, green stuff and bitz..

Thanks guys

lol
I have 3 projects in mind already... I hope to be able to contribute soon!

Got a couple questions, please drop me a pm if you can help out as I don't want to clutter this thread:

Spoiler:

**Anvildude**

The white plastic stuff isn't sculpted or printed. It's PolyStyrene (basically styrofoam without the foam) plastic, usually either in sheet or rod or tube form. It can be cut and bent and otherwise molded around for modeling, and is super cheap.

**Peter Wiggin**

Recent project.

**karlosovic**

Argive wrote:
1. The white plastic stuff on some of the models was that 3d printed or sculpted ?
2. Good greenstuff/sculpting tutorials?
3. How was the smoke effect done on those deff koptas ?

1. Plasticard, as Anvildude said. You local hobby store should have some (or you can source it on the net)
2. There are heaps, go to youtube and search, you'll find plenty.
2a. If I had one piece of advice - use a THIN amount of vaseline on your tools... spit doesn't quite do it
2b. Start small. As primarily a space wolf player, I started by doing little wolf pelts draped over shoulders, or hanging off belts.... hair/beards, etc....
2c. Filling gaps is also a good way to get a feel for how to handle green stuff
3. I'm not sure about those defkoptas, but billowing smoke is often done with cotton or steel wool

I'm not sure where you're up to in your modelling skills, but most people start by doing weapon swaps
Then I'd say a bit of posing.... can't find an arm holding a weapon in just the right place for the stance you want? cut up 2-3 arms and join them together

I think the most important (but subtle) step for me though, was learning to use a pin vice. Really adds some strength to your conversions, and can also be used for keeping things straight
My finecast Arjac Rockfist model had a badly bent Thunder Hammer that simply refused to be straightened up. So I cut the hammer off at the hand (cutting very carefully WITH the weave of the handle wrapping), drilled right up the shaft and down into his hand with a 1mm drill bit, inserted some 1mm brass rod and then joined it back up. Now it's nice and straight - doesn't droop in the heat, and (rather amazingly) you can't even see the join

I've also used the same technique for converting company/regiment banners (these will never stay together with glue alone)

**angelofvengeance**

@Argive: Loving those Deff-Koptas. Rollin' coal there lol

**karlosovic**

Conversion of old metal Bjorn the Fell-Handed - updated with panels from 7th Ed Space Wolf Dreadnought kit

Spoiler:

Banner Conversions

Spoiler:

Greenstuff Wolf Skins

Spoiler:

**vipoid**

Hardly amazing by the standards of this thread, but I was quite pleased with how this chap turned out:

He was an attempt at a Mandrake Haemonculus (but using sorcery rather than science).

**RagsXII**

Heres my DreadPriest first chaplain

**Desubot**

Cool steam punk marines. i like that leg touch on the bottom one.

**jeremyj1234**

I've posted once before on this thread, but I completed 2 Khorne Lord projects and I just felt they needed to be shared. (Sorry for crappy photo quality) BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

**Vallhemn**

Here's an Ork Battlewagon I recently finished (For sale Here)

I went for a Mad Max style looted truck for my boyz to zip around in... then realised I had no room for it!

**Dax415**

RagsXII wrote:
Heres my DreadPriest first chaplain

Are the cables from guitar strings?

**Peter Wiggin**

This guy has been a fun attempt at using some old "failed projects" to create something interesting.

**Jollydevil**

Peter Wiggin wrote:
This guy has been a fun attempt at using some old "failed projects" to create something interesting.

I kinda like him! He looks pretty nurgly, but I can even see him as a noise marine.

**zombiekila707**

Guy on the close left was my own personal warboss.

**Peter Wiggin**

Jollydevil wrote:
Peter Wiggin wrote:
This guy has been a fun attempt at using some old "failed projects" to create something interesting.

I kinda like him! He looks pretty nurgly, but I can even see him as a noise marine.

Haha, thanks man! Most of my conversions could easily pass for Nurgle, but I don't go in for the bloated fatboy look.

I wanted a model that retained a Spess Muhreen silhoutte but looked twisted & corrupt. Sort of like the Peter Jackson visual take on Orcs in the LOTR movies...IE elves twisted by Morgoth's dark magic. Anyway, the head got damaged pretty bad so I tried to rough out the helmet with plasticard & GS. Close up shot shows how crappy the work really is, but at a distance of a foot back it looks fine. I think it works nicely because the model is sort of hunched forward like there's a big weight on its back anyway.

**tomcat31**

Does an entire army count as a conversion? There isnt a single standard infantry model in this lot, and the tanks are due an overhaul. Beastman, skaven, marauders, they're all here.
Sorry for the poor images, its night time here.

**AnFéasógMór**

Wolf Priest. I didn't feel like paying $16 for a single finecast model. So I shaved down a terminator cape, filled in with some green stuff, and made a crozius out of the handle of a frost axe and the backs of two thunder hammers.

**SQRT(-2)**

The hard part is, what makes a conversion 'best'? The most outlandish over the top, or the one that could be mistaken for a miniature from the line? The best executed or the most imaginative? It is a hard decision to make. I can say my current favorite is my Sister Technicus. A mini that I can only use as a counts as cannoness.

I think I posted her before in a WIP thread

**jreilly89**

Probably my best conversion model. Doesn't look like a lot, but filing down the Dreadnought arms was a pain. Dreadnought with TL Autocannons

**gasdg**

My own pleasure! Learn about an admirable job on that product... both conceptually and in execution.

**mars2024**

I have been running a jump pack Autarch for a while now and so I thought I should have something a little more WYSIWYG. He's pretty much a mishmash of a whole bunch of the Eldar Aspect Exarchs: torso and head from the Shining Spear Exarch, with added DA helmet crest; arm from Fire Dragon Exarch, arm from DA Exarch with Striking Scorpion Chainsword; legs from Howling Banshee; warp jump pack is scratchbuilt; standing on the hand from an old Wraithlord.

**boredbeard**

I have many, many conversions. I feel privileged that I collect Orks, because they allow a lot

This is the one of my latest. Mek on the really flashy hoverbike with KFF and Fixin' Hammer.

Pics are big. Sorry.

Spoiler: