Before and after quick conversion of the Black Powder Rebels Iron Rain Hill Giant, a miniature I’ve owned since my childhood days of collecting Mage Knights (direct precursor to my Warhammer obsession). I tried to leave some of the details like the tattoos intact to preserve my nostalgia. Added a few symbols transferred using green stuff in blue stuff moulds and abused my green stuff roller for beardination. Also alongside this project I’ve been messing around with creating army symbols to transfer to other models with blue stuff. At some point I’d like to post a step by step process of making these bases, next time I remember to take pictures at intermediate stages. Side note: an upside down 1x1 LEGO cone makes a quick tall hat. I’ll also never tire of using watch movements and toothed lock washers for detailing.
Simply awesome! This project has an almost transcendent quality to it - I could never play these guys in a match for sheer unwillingness to attack something this cool!
Love the paint job and colour scheme
You�?Tre scratch work is awesome too
Can�?Tt wait to see how you made the bases - really good stuff here
Will Liam
Simply awesome! This project has an almost transcendent quality to it - I could never play these guys in a match for sheer unwillingness to attack something this cool!
Hashoooot
High praise from both of you! I hope to live up to it :cheers
Work in progress photos of my Golden Hat XXXII entry
Spent many enjoyable hours converting and kitbashing each model in the unit. The idea started off as just a couple of naval repair dwarfs for my daemonsmith’s retinue. When the contest theme was announced I was inspired to try and scratch together a unit. First of all, I’ve always liked the Bioshock aesthetic so top priority was to sneak in a Big Daddy. The angler fish helmet concept spiraled into various other aquatic creature style helmets. Even though they’re not big hats the helmets were my main attempt to depart from the AoS Kharadron look, that and generally adding more steampunk cogs and pointy dark elf bits. Really had to scavenge my bits box to cobble together enough backpacks but overall I think the variation is a plus, hard to pick a favorite.
Some beautiful and cleverly done conversions. Makes for some stunning models. Love the wire cage on the helmet, and the bellows. Legos make for an excellent source of bits. I suspect I’m going to use the hat idea in the future! Stunning work!
Thanks all for the amazing feedback! Glad to hear that other folks like WIP pictures as much as I do. It often helps me to move forward covering all of that hard work up with paint if I’ve documented the conversion. Anyway, here are a few images of just the bases and troop filler. The concept here was the deck or internals of an ironclad with a few open vats that would lead to broadside magma cannons or steam boilers (also to tie in the basing of other units in my army). The troop filler pieces are supposed to be a weighted personnel platform to lower divers into the water, a capstan, and a torpedo repair bench.
For materials I used MDF, watch movements, clock gears, wire mesh, various wires, and a Saran Wrap metal tear strip for spiky trim. I also used baking soda sprinkled over superglue to provide a little ashen texture in spots, particularly to break up the larger areas of MDF or cover unsightly gaps. Tossed on a few rivets to finish them off. These were a fun salvage project and well worth the effort (easy to paint too).
Ahhhh, love the WIPs! These were so great, seeing them come together is much appreciated.
You know you need one of the ships now, do you? :yar
Jasko
No doubt! I hope to get there some day. I'm working on some concept sketches for just that purpose.
Some beautiful and cleverly done conversions. Makes for some stunning models. Love the wire cage on the helmet, and the bellows. Legos make for an excellent source of bits. I suspect I'm going to use the hat idea in the future! Stunning work!
Jackswift
I'd be interested to see what other great LEGO uses you come across. :idea
Stunning bases. Such commitment deserves the results you got.
Good luck with the ship. There are also some naval ogre figures out there now (obviously I am too rubbish to remember where but others will) that might fit well as slave ogres or chaos ogor allies in AoS.
Stunning bases. Such commitment deserves the results you got.
Good luck with the ship. There are also some naval ogre figures out there now (obviously I am too rubbish to remember where but others will) that might fit well as slave ogres or chaos ogor allies in AoS.
Painted unit of Bleak Water Divers (Chaos Dwarf Warriors)
Simple but fun paint scheme using mostly Vallejo metals and a little bit of lore to accompany the unit. Tried to keep the scheme from becoming too bright despite the heavy use of metals. Not sure if I’ll bash any more Kharadron models since I used so many of my favorite bits in that range; I certainly enjoyed these ones but I exhausted a lot of the tricks up my sleeve. (I may have to pick up some bits from the airships in the future for big projects though…)
I really appreciate all of the feedback and kind words from everyone, I am happy to be a part of such an inspiring community to share my work.
Superb work, love that unit! Screams of Zharr Vyxa to me. :hat off Love the doodling as well, gives a lot of character to the project! Makes me think of Natilus from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic…
