Abaddon
Putty pusher
Bringer of Chaos
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Post by Abaddon on Jan 29, 2005 11:55:47 GMT 12
this is a topic where ya just describe ya bigest or current conversion, or ta give or take advice on how ta go about certain conversions,
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jan 29, 2005 12:26:24 GMT 12
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Abaddon
Putty pusher
Bringer of Chaos
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Post by Abaddon on Jan 29, 2005 12:39:20 GMT 12
wow cool as, im converting a daemon prince from a chaos terminator, lego wings, mutation sprue and ive just finished making his head from a gaunt head that now looks like an awesome skull, when its finished ill try get some pictures on the net
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Fatrix
Ambitious Upstart
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Post by Fatrix on Jan 29, 2005 14:43:26 GMT 12
PitYak how did u make the camo netting for the gilly suit? it looks really good.
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jan 29, 2005 15:00:56 GMT 12
(you're the first person who knew what a gilly suit is)
It was made from thin strips of bandage soaked in liquid poly, and draped over the figure.
I had planned this out and figured it would be easy to make and easy to paint; just spray black and drybrush greens and earthtones ove the top.
...or so i thought. It was the most frustrating thing to paint ever! It was impossible to spray, beacuse the layers of bandage formed a shell around the figure, which stopped even aersosol getting through. I ended up with a figure with faint balck spots over a stark white ground. Then I tried brush painting, which was even worse. I ended up dunking the whole thing in a jar of inke and hoping for the best.
The rifle is a 1/32 Lee Enfield from an old Airfix kit I picked up at a junk shop, and the scope is a telescope form a 1/35 Tamiya German observation group.
Beneath it all is a plastic catachan, and he's mounted on a solid lead base.
He is one of a team of 5 catachan specialists I am working on; sniper, heavy weapons, ECM/comms, close protection and combat engineer. The others are still WIP.
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Abaddon
Putty pusher
Bringer of Chaos
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Post by Abaddon on Jan 29, 2005 15:01:45 GMT 12
its effective
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Fatrix
Ambitious Upstart
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Post by Fatrix on Jan 29, 2005 15:05:21 GMT 12
i always thought it would be cool to be a sniper up until a while ago so i know quite alot about it (they make whit and grey ones for lying on the tops of buildings). How long did he take to assemble and paint?
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jan 29, 2005 15:15:52 GMT 12
It was actually very easy to make.
Knowing what i was going to do, I didn't have to worry about cleaning the figure or gap filling, just the hands, face and boots were going to be visible. The ghillie suit took maybe hlaf an hour at most to make, but cleaning all the individual ghillie suits off my fingers took several days.
Once i managed to get a solid black undercoat on the figure, the rest was failry straightforward, although the face was hard since it's mostly obscured by the suit. If I was to do something like this again i would probably paint the face first.
(the suit is deceptive - it is surrounded by a halo of bandage fibres that are almost invisible, but rock solid due to all the liquid poly, forming a pretty effective paint brush barrier around the figure)
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Fatrix
Ambitious Upstart
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Post by Fatrix on Jan 29, 2005 15:21:08 GMT 12
By bandages do u mean thin gauze strips. What is liquid poly?  |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jan 29, 2005 15:36:05 GMT 12
If I remember rightly, it was a "finger bandage", a roll of very fine gauze.
Liquid poly is polystyrene cement - plastic glue that comes in little bottles.
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Fatrix
Ambitious Upstart
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Post by Fatrix on Jan 29, 2005 15:37:48 GMT 12
oh that stuff.  ok cool. approximately how wide were your strips? and did the bandages soak up a load of glue? |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jan 29, 2005 15:40:59 GMT 12
I used strips about 5mm, and they did soak up a lot of glue, it was a very messy process.
(An idea might be tint the gauze beforehand, or maybe tint the glue).
I also sprinkled a few tea leaves on the finished piece before painting.
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Fatrix
Ambitious Upstart
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Post by Fatrix on Jan 29, 2005 15:43:55 GMT 12
I wouldn't have thought of tea laves and herbs. They would make good details on other models if you sealed them with varnish.
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jan 29, 2005 15:48:03 GMT 12
I use them quite a bit, coated in varnish or PVA they usually stay put.
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Pirate Wench
Scalpel supremo
my favourite finger paint is strawberry flavour
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Post by Pirate Wench on Jan 29, 2005 17:50:04 GMT 12
I'm going to be brave and mention my current conversion project here *gulp* I'm turning an average garden variety barbie doll into a mermaid, will post pictures to a site and add links here sometime. But so far I have amputated her at the knees, earning her the knickname of sharkbite barbie from my boys, I then used a coathanger (good old no8 fencing wire in it's full glory again) to shape into the basic tail form then sellotaped that between her thighs. this part is not for the squeamish. I used selleys kneadit, an epoxy putty from the hardware store, to form her tail. It sets real quick so I worked on it in sections, and shaped it with wet hands to get as smooth as possible. Tail completed I left her for a day to thouroughly cure before filing and sanding. Kneadit sets hard, real hard, the stuff is like stone!. Expensive and not that easy to work with but was the only thing I could think of for bulking out the form. After sanding I filled any smalle dimples with greenstuff and shaped stage 1 of her tail fin. this was a pain because I had to sit holding her at the right angle to get just the right tail droop until I could figue out a way to support the doll that it would droop at theright angle without falling over, or crushing the uncured greenstuff. Today I've been scaling the tail with greenstuff. This involves pulling out small bits from my ball of working putty and stretching them out til they're thin enough. quite easy to do and you get a nice round scale shape still attached to the ball I place it on the tail and cut it off with my fingernail. After I've done a few I smooth to tops of them down into the tail form so the next row of scales will sit well. This could work well for larger dragons or snakes too! well if you are interested in my conversion I can update you all here. if not I understand  |
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ok cool. approximately how wide were your strips? and did the bandages soak up a load of glue?