Axtklinge:
Welcome everyone!
:hat off
Introduction
It’s been a couple years since I’ve first came into this forum, no doubt lured by quite a few amazing conversions and paint jobs.
I used to play WFB (from 5th to 7th Ed.), and despite not having followed the CD way (the reduced availability of models may have had a part on it), the chaos children (as in “Chaos” army, undivided at the time) immediately appealed to me, quickly becoming my first army and entering gateway into the warhammer universe.
Nowadays, due to reduced hobby time and much more complex time schedules, the only game I manage to play somehow regularly, is Blood Bowl, and this more or less is the “setting” where this “blog” begins.
So what’s this all about?
A couple of weeks ago, while using my google-fu looking after something hobby related, I found a tutorial for CD conversions (bits, green stuff, etc…), which I found it so cool that I absolutely had to give it a try.
Not sure why I needed to convert CD ( Hashut seems to work in mysterious ways…), I decided it was for the fun of it, and since I have a CD GW BB team, if something “usable” came out of my kitbash+greenstuff job, it could always be used as apothecary or staff for the team.
The birth of Zharkhan!
So here it is what I came up with…
While looking in my bitz boxes I found an “armature” (kind of), that had done for some other project, with the following bits all attached together: Arms and legs where from the GW plastic goblin sprue, the head was from a plastic ungor, the body was just a chunk of plastic sprue (with the other parts pinned to it).
To that I added a section of a “club” to make the hat (from an “hero quest” ogre I believe), some plasticard to build the shape of shoulder pads, and plenty of green stuff to make the hair, beard, and other details.
[Oh, I’m sorry for the awful pic quality (was taken at night with not enough light), but I suppose it suffices to see the wip.]
Not perfect, but interesting enough to turn into a problem…
Why, you ask?
Well, because instead of a “one time thing, just for fun”, I had so much fun and enjoyed the result so much, that I decided he should be the first player of my next CD BB team!
That’s why!
So now, aside from having to switch him into a round base (better suited to BB, IHMO), I’m thinking about changing the right hand (that already had a hole to fit some sort of tool), into something else (possibly a mutation, or even better a mechanical implant).
Anyway, feel free to jump in with some tips or suggestions, about anything, including the mechanical “mutations” (both for this and the other 5 CD I’ll eventually build for the team).
As for the two Bull Centaurs the roster of the team allows, I already started the “kitbashing” process, and will hopefully have something to show you over the next few days!
Hope you enjoy it.
Cheers,
Axt.
Edit: Most of you guys will already know this link, but for the other 2%, here’s a great way to name your characters →
Chaos Dwarf Name Generator
It’s a lovely old fashion dice rolling name generator, similar to the ones in the Realm of Chaos books. Worth checking.
Edit 2: Updates to the title and date.
[align=center]2017 Image Salvage
[/align]
