OD the tyrant dread is looking sweet great mega battle damage. Plus I would love to see you do the trukk I want to see you make something with a smooth edge on it. And resist the urge to battle damage it.
Thanks. Resisting the urge to do battle damage, especially the semi-massive amount I usually overboard my minis with will be hard, but its something I will have to do... one day. Battle damage is naturally Orky to me, and thankfully my scrap offcuts of Plasticard are almost all scratched and dinged up all ready which does thankfully save me some time in the present.
CheesyRobMan I hope one day to be able to paint with half the amount of skill you have. Just thought I'd let you know.
Zognuts you have no idea how tempted I am to loot your work for a Chinnork of my own. As a question are you using the measurements of the official model? I ask because I have yet to find them on the web, and being a perfectionist (as well as having many opponents who refuse to play against konversions that aren't built at the exact size) I was wondering if you could clue me in (PM would probably be best, we don't want to clutter the thread with too much info and I very well might be the only one who wants to know). As a side note where did you get the bits added to the back of the guns? I don't recognize them, but that may be in part because its currently 3 am)
@OD. I will give you some mega props, I hate working on metal models as even glueing them is a real pain. Your konversion work is coming along very good.
thanks a lot AoD, I will admit that it's not that much fun working with the metal, but thankfully once I got a base of card down over the bits I could resort to my standard plastic glue. The Tyrant right now is my favorite Konversion I've done so far both in this event and in my miniature konversion history. I really hope I can only paint it good now!
Respekt, I can't speak for AoD, but even if it is too late to pledge I'll cheer you on! Cyborks are cool, and its a very fluffy old school choice. I'll state the obvious though as well as my own opinion in the matter that you make them Snakebites. Yes it is the obvious choice, but Goffs are often overdone, and they don't exactly fit very well with Evil Sunz or Blood Axes. An argument could be made for fancy Bad Moon stables or Death Skulls stealing them and cybering them up to hide the fact that they're stolen goods, but Snakebites would be really cool, and they aren't seen too often.
As for myself this is my project update
18.5 hours into projekt...
Not exactly the most productive I've ever been, working on the "Serpent Dread". Mostly things not sticking together too well, leading to reglue/replace, and having to cut (and re-cut) wire; there were lots of screwups and things not turning out exactly as planned. But of course I should let some WIP photos do most of the talking.
Here we can see the Serpent Dread with its shiny new set of wheels for the front. While it may look like an easy bit of scratchbuilding, boy oh boy was it a pain! You may (or may not) notice two bits of tube attached forward at the top. Now originally I was thinking this as non DCCW mounts but taking a break from all of them being CC monsters. But more on that later...
Of course this close up on the wheel assembly does show a bit of my screwups. This was actually the third front mock up that I made (Of course there will be bits covering it, but the other two times it really didn't come out right, leading me to have to remake it!). The Wheel really needs to get repositioned to hide the imperfection caused by a glue drip, but that I'll have to do at a slightly later time.
Now remember how I said that I put some tube up at the top? Well this is what I ended up doing instead of adding switchable guns...
I loved the concept much more than the way it turned out. Which in its own right was the 9th or 10th time repositioning everything! Those dang guitar string wires kept exploding outward and ripped out the positioning of the tubing to the point that I almost regret taking all the time and hard work putting it together. Don't get me wrong I'm happy with it (I guess), but it just doesn't quite feel like it was worth all the effort. I know I'll probably change my mind post paint, but right now I'm not too into the Serpent Dread anymore.
To make this projekt even more complicated than it had to be my Roommate moved the Deff Dread sprues and doesn't remember where they were put, which means that all the bits not already cut and in the bits box are lost to the warp of the house. It'll probably show up right after the end of the month when this project is "over".
Anyways everyone's builds are looking great, and I look forward to seeing them all fully complete. I'll race ya'll to the finish line!
Peace
~OD