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I have taken on the gargantuan task of doing a heavy conversion on my Lord of Skulls. Combined with the fact that I'm a really slow painted and work full time, this has been ongoing for about two months. I am, however, making steady progress, and I am a patient, stubborn person, so I will get this finished, even if it takes me years (in a couple months I will be going traveling around the world for at least a year, and I'm not taking the project with me).

Anyway, here's the pictures so far.



Front view, excuse the poor image quality. You can see a certain amount of my conversion work from here, but the majority (so far) has been done to the back. One the front, I will be wrapping chains around the weapon arm (bolted down), which will then be connected to the collars of three Juggernauts, who I have made bridles for, as can be seen below...







Two close up shots of the mechanical grabbing arm. It is the legs of a Sentinel, attached together at the hip joint, using the part from the Chaos Bike kit. I'm not sure what the correct word is, but it's the part that you don't use because spikes look better sticking out of the wheels than these little things. It required some trimming, but it fits the bill and the aesthetic perfectly. The grabbing end is the normal Sentinel foot with some green stuff and a Juggernaut gargoyle head applied.

In the second photo, you can also see the maw at the back. The front still needs some detail work as you can see, and the maw itself goes down almost two centimetres into the model, the interior being detailed with lumpy green stuff, and doused liberally in Blood for the Blood God Technical Paint.



Side view of the bottom of the maw.



Other side view. I think the sunlight may have been too bright here, the colours look quite burned out, and are in reality similar to the colours of the previous picture.



So here is where the problem lies. I glued the bases for the blood tanks on before I realised what exactly I was going to do with the back of the model. Foolish, I know, but what's done is done. On the other side I have mounted the mechanical grabbing arm, but I'm not sure what to do with this one. Possible ideas include:
Another arm posed differently. I'm not really a fan of this idea, as it makes it too symmetrical.
A blood tank raised up, using bone structure (similar to the supporting pillars of the maw) to cradle it, perhaps further butchering the Sentinel model to cap the piece.

Do you have any other ideas? I'd like to put a blood tank on the model, but I'm not really sure how, perhaps horizontally and slinged onto the side, like a piece of luggage?

I can't quite see the middle altar-like thing on the very back of the Lord, but what if you did another arm dropping some sort of sacrifice into the opening of the altar?

Here's an idea. Get a section of clear plastic tube, like a test tube, and make your blood tank from that. Then fill it with some sort of blood effect that is translucent and place dead bodies, like guardsmen, floating inside it. Shouldn't be to hard to do and would look awesome.

Combine Cadian Guard with arms, legs and heads from the Fanasy Zombie kit to make them look dead and like they had been in the tank for some time.

Something like this, cap each end with the ends of the tanks that come with the model and fill with dead bodies, then pour in blood effect.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Qty-1-5-x-8-75-L-Clear-Plastic-Packing-Storage-or-Shipping-Tube-W-Caps-/400672229398?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d49ed0816

I want to spend as little money on this as possible, I've already spent a lot.