The General's taking shape. Those arms are loosely inserted with pins for now, and the second set... well gravity wouldn't let them stay in for this shot. Just to see if I could, I made a second bonesword out of green stuff. As it turns out, I hate the hell out of it, so as soon as those clear rods I ordered come in I'll be making some hybrid-looking lightsabers for him. He will, of course, be bone white with metal parts. I almost fashioned him a long, trailing loincloth to hide the 'Nid tail nub before saying "to hell with it" and hacksawing it off. On the one hand, the Necrons are rather ceremonial and pseudo-ancient egypt, but a long loincloth covered in glyphs would get in the way of Grievous hack 'n' slash style. He was never the ceremonial type anyway.
Because I find chicks with guns a huge turn on (also, I have no models with melta guns) , I ginned up some melta girls for my AdMech army. I went against my own open-arm-carry pose rule as it pertains to female figures, however. The model simply didn't allow for it, and those melta guns are rather large and heavy. If I make another set, maybe I'll mount the guns on servo arms with some kind of look-and-fire rig.
These Dark Age Banes were originally holding up their panzerfaust/maces like protest signs, so I clipped and remounted the arms, hiding the shorn edges with those Astartes shoulder pads. Later on they'll be adorned, of course, with the cog motifs and livery of the Mechanicus in general and my Skitarii regiment in particular. Speaking of which, that ancient AT-AT toy in the garage is staring at me, longing to be turned into a Reaver or Warlord. Dammit, where would I store the bloody thing, and when would I use it? Must resist and dive into Tyracron project again...
5 comments:
Awesome stuff! I love the look of the melta gunners, I may have to try something similar for my own AM. The Tyracron project always inspires as well, I look forward to seeing more of them - Keep up the great work!
Excelent work i must say, the boneswords are most definately a better option than light sabres.
I agree, a gun toating girl is a beautiful thing (ref to inside cover of resident evil 1 movie soundtrack), and the model you have converted looks like it will look great as well as suit your army perfectly.
<3 Grievous
Grievous was immediately recognizable. My first thought on loading the page was "Where's his other two arms?" and then I read the actual text. :-p
Doing swords out of greenstuff is an exercise in frustration, though I had to learn that the hard way too. I've switched to carving them out of plasticard like I've seen on many sites and have been MUCH more happy with the results. It's pretty easy to go back with GS and add details too.
Cheers for another inspiring post. Makes me want to get cracking on some conversions.
Grievous is looking mean, looking forward to seeing him with his full complement of limbs.
The Meltagirls are rather cool, AdMech's relative lack of models seems to make using other companies minis fit in alot more than in, say, a Space Marine army.
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