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10k views Delighted this is proving a useful thread, and have mightily enjoyed seeing other's work. Got some fresh ideas from some of those posts. Please keep sending the good stuff in folks!

I know terminators are able to wield big guns one handed and not break a sweat, but they actually look pretty great cradling a rifle 2-handed. I'm attempting this conversion myself on an ac termie, so I asked the guys in Warhead Studios how they went about getting those stubby termie arms into such a dynamic pose.

"The arms on the models are a combination of Terminator shoulders and regular Tactical Marine arms. This conversion gives the arms some length as well as the palms for actually holding the bolters, as the basic Terminator hands would be too cumbersome. The shoulders are not glued flat on the torso either, but angled a bit with the help of green stuff to make the pose more natural."

Love the overall sense of movement with these models, the leg stances are superb, especially the running one.


http://www.gowarhead.com/p/liberators-space-marines.html

Heavily customised Dreadknight. Imo enclosing the pilot is a major improvement over the original, often rightly compared to a frontal baby carrier...

Creator's blog http://tinywarriors.blogspot.ie/2012/04/nemesis-dreadknight-conversion.html

And an excellent chaos variation on that same model, this is the "dreadlord" (Work in Progress)

Creator's Gallery http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-33159-18674_Dreadlord%20Wip.html

I don't have any pictures to go along with my idea but I thought an army converted so all the units are in a state of mid-death
e.g: people on their knees, falling over after being shot, tanks on fire or mid explosion, aircraft with smoke streaming out of it and bullet holes in the canopy with blood painted on the inside...

An interesting if novel concept and would probably be fun to make

iirc, i think someone already did that so to say... he made almost all of his army t be exchangeable with dead versions....so in essence a living and dead army all in one...i´ll see if i can find some pics of these...


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This hit the front page today so apologies if you've already seen it -I felt compelled to include it as it ties in with some similar themed conversions on the thread, specifically giving poor turret-deprived tanks their missing part. It usually suits them well. One mean looking vindicator. Conversion parts included a tau rail gun, gun drone sponsons and turret from a Russian T72 tank kit.

Creator's gallery: www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-search.jsp?p=1&u=4904&g=285&ll=3&auction=0&unapproved=0&coolnesslow=0&coolnesshigh=10&paintjoblow=0&paintjobhigh=10&sort1=7&sort2=0&skip=30&en=&st=&utype=&start=150

The plastic ork deffkopta is an excellent model, particularly for a 5 part clip together kit. It took me about 5 seconds to realise the main chassis would be perfect for a bike conversion -the arch for the tail rotor forming the rear wheel arch, and the frontal plate forming a mudguard for a front wheel. It seems a lot of others came to the same conclusion...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/333581.page

http://www.the-waaagh.com/forums/?showtopic=39944

The Tau Devilfish is one of my favourite GW vehicle designs, so I'm not surprised that some equally beautiful conversions have been produced from it... I am however impressed.

Unfortunately I don't have links to the modelling blogs for these, so I have no instructions on how to go about making then, they featured on 2 conversion threads, links below:

http://advancedtautactica.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=15159&start=20&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=cf59906c057af689e2fea9cd43511bdc&view=print

http://z11.invisionfree.com/Work_In_Progress/ar/t3511.htm" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> http://z11.invisionfree.com/Work_In_Progress/ar/t3511.htm

Who wants a drake when you can have a hellturtle?! This cracked me up!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-73166-49098_Working%20On%20A%20Helturtle.html

Valkyrie + Hind-D = >Superb

More pics here: http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?14209-The-Imperial-Guard-Tread-head-thread/page682

What do you get when you cross a piranha and a hammerhead? This. Stealth suit torso used for the head, ion cannon fuel cells for knees. I'm pressed with like the aesthetics of the stormsurge and other new Tau suits, but this conversion takes the prize.

Featured on warhammer-tau.com http://www.warhammer-tau.com/2012/01/top-5-tau-battlesuit-conversions.html No link to a tutorial, unfortunately.

Zombified space marines and guardsmen: There is no true "Undead" faction in 40k, so I was thinking of making an army along those lines. Anyway while searching I came across these on a "Necromancy Cult blog." Pretty straightforward conversion concept -kitbash marines, guardsmen or whatever other race you choose with zombie, skeleton and ghoul parts. Or for the barer looking / uniniformed undead, it's even easier, just give it a lasgun, helmet or other recognisable piece of kit, and you're set. Within the parameters of official 40k, the pictured models would also look just fine as Nurgle plague marines and plague zombies respectively.

http://painted40k.blogspot.ie/search?q=necromancy+cult

Seeing the sloped turret mount on this Hellhound conversion has given me a few notions of sloping the top plates of my own tanks. It looks good and adds a bit of aggression to the model too.

On the subject of the Chimera chassis -it has to be one of the ugliest produced by GW, it has all the boxiness of the Russ chassis without any of the cool, so anything which gives it a face lift is very welcome in my eyes.

Creators Gallery http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-67022-37744_Imperial%20Tanks.html

My latest this was a 1/48 scale m26 Pershing tank from Tamiya.

CSM Obliterators. Another great conversion I stumbled across on the Bolter and Chainsword. From what I read, these don't actually use a single part from the (horrible looking) Obliterators kit: These use a Centurion as the base. Hellbrute head, neck / collar and weapons.Chest weapons replaced with Forge World noise marine sonic weapon. Iconography is sculpted.

Lovely model, and provides a modelling use for those (horrible looking) centurions too.


http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/318666-great-obliterators/

Its not painted but thought i would share, mase this standing nid from the snapfit models you get, just to show snapfit does not mean boring.

I'd like to offer up my own two NDK for this thread. Although not that impressive compared to some (most) of these other conversions, I'm quite happy with them!

Another good alteration of the baby carrier, this one purely using greenstuff and plasticard I believe.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/688897.page

The first super-heavy tank I saw was the Mammoth in Command and Conquer. I thought it was awesome, with its seperate track units and double gun turret. I like that someone has made a 41st Millenium version. I found this on pinterest so have no info on it's making, but from what I can deduce, the(modified) track units and hull front are converted taken from a baneblade, and the core of the turret is from a Macharius.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d2/0a/f8/d20af8f0c6b0bb053f34866d54794df7.jpg

Another nice makeover of the Taurox, courtesy of Spikeybits. Swapping those ill-suited mini-track units for wheels does the model a major favour. Extensive stowage, and chopping the roof off evidently looks better too.

More pics here: http://www.spikeybits.com/2015/12/real-life-meets-the-grim-dark-conversion-corner.html

That makes the Taurox actually worth buying !

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My latest this was a 1/48 scale m26 Pershing tank from Tamiya.

That is incredible! I like that you've added the details from the concept art. I bet that thing would make short work of any fortifications,

I'll add one of my own conversions that I did.

I LOVE the backward Russ look, I'll have to come back to that with an upcoming project concept that I have ticking along.

Anyways, here's my own Vanquisher conversion. I fell in love with Blood and Skulls' Kingslayer gun, and wanted to put it on a Russ. I got it, and felt the gun was way too big for the turret, so I hull mounted it and used a substitute turret for the lascannon. That, and I used Land Raider tracks. They fit like a charm, once I cut off the teeth for the track guides on the hull pieces.

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The most outside-the-box conversion I made would be this one.

Sentinel converted to UMP (Universal Mobile Platform) as I call it and it's played as a Armoured Sentinel with Autocannon.

(Don't mind the physics on the paper)

one WIP shot


It's inspired by AMPs used in Avatar™ movie. (big image)



There are also two theing I can't tace credit for, but I found them really cool.

The top one makes me think of a Churchill, while the lower ones scream Wehrmacht.. the SdKFZ 250/251 and the Tiger..

These are my Piranha conversions. It really bugged me how the pilots heads were just sticking out in the open for anything to target them.



just a little plasticard and repositioning of the wings.

20k views. I'm pleased this is proving useful to folks. I'll continue to upload any novel and stand-out conversion ideas as I find them. Please keep your own ones coming, it's great to see them all in one place. As the Emperor once said "Knowledge is power. Combined knowledge is supreme power"

No I know, he never said that, I just made it up