[Archive] Taekada's Great Tarus Conversion

Taekada:

Hey all,

I’m not a super converter, but I always come up with some neat ideas.

Here is my Great Taurus so far.

Thoughts ?

Made from a wood elf stag and Balrog Wings.

Lord will go on back via Magnet under the little platform.

Thanks in advance,

Greg Paradis

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Sojourn:

whistles those are some mighty big wings.

looks good, seems like your conversion is good. you gotta start somewhere, right?

Loki:

Some good conversion work Taekada, the wings are huge but look great :slight_smile: looking forward to seeing more of you work soon

tjub:

Looks cool, might need a bit more armour so it wont look like it has a helmet. But nice work there!

Hazkar:

nice conversion,looks pretty cool on that fly base

but like tjub said it needs more armor,cause the body looks a little bit small for the wings

will be a nice mini if its done :cheers

apocalypstia:

Massive wing’age, soaring above the molten ziggarauts - np for this beast. Conversion is shaping up quite nicely. Looking forward to the final gem.

Taekada:

Thanks for all the comments !

Yep, More Armor is the plan. As one of the Few Flying Beasts/ Large Monsters with an armor save I have no worries about adding more armor to this beast.

Also helps justify the massive wings… lol…

Gonna add some armor to the “shins” and the chest. That way it has an armored front … the better to crash into the ranks of opposing infantry !

The Flying base turned out allright. The Taurus rests on the flying stand… not even glued into the bottom base yet ! Yaaaaah Balance ! :cheers

I have 30 Blunderbusses done, and some bull centaurs, but they are primed black and the camera I have picks up ZERO detail… so gonna have to wait till they get some color on them.

More updates soon.

~G~

Kera foehunter:

love the model and the big wings

Da Crusha:

looks pretty good Im going to use those same wings to put on my great taurus, but Im using the classical one. where does the body come from?

Taekada:

Body is a straight Wood Elf Stag.

Horns are from an Ogre Banner.

Helmet is scratch Built from Plasticard and Green stuff underneath.

Wings are from a LOTR Balrog.

At first I thought they were too big. But when I got thinking of how much a great Taurus would weigh … fantasy aside or not, had to get them in there. Also as it is a large target, means the huge wings help fill it out.

I’ll be adding on the rest of the armor tonight. Front leg armor and some chest armor. I want the armor to show this beast is designed to crash into infantry units and shrug off their puny spears and swords !

Will also be showing how the Dwarf lord Magnets to the top.

Cheers !

looks pretty good Im going to use those same wings to put on my great taurus, but Im using the classical one. where does the body come from?

Da Crusha

Da Crusha:

Wings are from a LOTR Balrog.

At first I thought they were too big. But when I got thinking of how much a great Taurus would weigh ... fantasy aside or not, had to get them in there. Also as it **is** a large target, means the huge wings help fill it out.

Taekada
yeah thats funny that you say that because a friend of mine would always pick up my great taurus and say " how the hell does this thing fly" then he makes a fluttering sound and moves it around like a humming bird. after that I had to get some bigger wings.

WarplockMonkey:

Looking good! Im not quite sold on the wings yet…i think ill haveto see painted pictures to convince me :wink:

And YOU STOLE ME AVATAR! D:

- Warplock

Kera foehunter:

lol now you have to have a figure contest to get it back !!!Warplock

slev:

Very nice.

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