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Title: My lurker conversions (New stuff 24/2)
Post by: Gabriel on 18 February 2011, 01:56:15 PM
Ok, so while I'm waiting impatiently for my rulebook to arrive(grr, overseas shipping) so that I can start to put my threshold agents together I've started making some Lurkers. As I mentioned in another thread the conversion part of the hobby is sort of where I find the most enjoyment, so I tend to want to build/kitbash my own models.
So, I started by making some Scrawny ones, with some eldritch-looking thinies on stone pentagons.

The Scrawny ones are 40k kroot legs, the older WHFB skeleton torsos and arms, and greenstuffed heads and hands. The pentagons are pure greenstuff.

(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z264/gabrielforsen/scrawnies.jpg)
I'm not great at taking pictures, so the colors come off as very saturated, but let me know what you think.

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Edit: Ok, so I figured it'd be easier if I added a copy of each update picture to this post. So here's a werewolf
(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z264/gabrielforsen/were.jpg)
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: Steve F on 18 February 2011, 02:03:13 PM
Very nice.  They remind me of Harryhausen's Selenites for The First Men in the Moon.
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: myincubliss on 18 February 2011, 02:04:19 PM
Those look great! Is the detail on the pentagons sculpted or painted on?
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: Gabriel on 18 February 2011, 03:03:09 PM
Very nice.  They remind me of Harryhausen's Selenites for The First Men in the Moon.

Thanks. :) I was going for a very tall and lean look. I think that next to these my more human models are probably going to reach the shoulders of the scrawny ones. For some reason I felt that was fitting.

Those look great! Is the detail on the pentagons sculpted or painted on?

Only painted, kinda. The thing is I was trying to make a greestuff mold based on my Cthulhu Dice (http://"http://www.sjgames.com/dice/cthulhudice/") but the result ended up very weak and only really served as a guide for the painting. If you look at them directly from the side you can make out a bit of a wobbly surface, but that's about it.
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: Dathbain on 18 February 2011, 03:06:38 PM
Those are first class! The markers look really great too!
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: Malebolgia on 18 February 2011, 03:12:43 PM
Really cool stuff. The miniatures fit the Scrawny Ones really well. Cool stuff 8)
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: fairoaks024 on 18 February 2011, 05:20:02 PM
Really cool scrawny ones, and excellent painting on the stones,

very well done sir, hope your rules arrive soon, as it's a fun game.

regards

jim
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: Anatoli on 18 February 2011, 06:05:23 PM
Really cool but the stones are amazing! Great painting as well  :)
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: ballistic_bro on 18 February 2011, 07:33:14 PM
Nice job on the conversions. Very creative. :)
I like the markers aswell, nice idea.
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: blackstone on 18 February 2011, 07:35:08 PM
Great greenstuffin'  :)
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: jnr on 19 February 2011, 06:03:52 PM
Nice Work
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: widgren on 20 February 2011, 02:25:16 PM
ooh! i love creative kit bashing!
modelling, sculpting and painting is ace!
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: former user on 20 February 2011, 02:30:13 PM
well done  :)
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: einarolafson on 21 February 2011, 10:16:19 PM
Great conversions and the pentagrams are fabulous!!
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: D@rth J@ymZ on 23 February 2011, 05:27:03 AM
what they said.  :o :-*
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: Gabriel on 23 February 2011, 05:01:09 PM
Thank you all, I'm very humbled by the positive response. I had hoped to be able to show some new stuff but I've been pretty swamped the last week. I'll try to paint up something more before the weekend, though.

Also: My book arrived today! Hooray!
Title: Re: My lurker conversions
Post by: Gabriel on 24 February 2011, 07:37:12 PM
So I've made a Werewolf.

(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z264/gabrielforsen/were.jpg)

It's not 100% done yet. I still need to fix a base for it and maybe do some tweaks here and there, but at least now you can see what it is.

Conversionwise the feet and head are from a a Tharn Wolfrider's, well, wolf, and the pants are modded from a Cadian Stormtrooper. The rest of the model is greenstuff.
Title: Re: My lurker conversions (New stuff 24/2)
Post by: blackstone on 24 February 2011, 07:49:33 PM
You've done a great job on the torso and arms. Spot on conversion  :)
Title: Re: My lurker conversions (New stuff 24/2)
Post by: D@rth J@ymZ on 25 February 2011, 12:01:42 AM
very lupine indeed.  Great conversion.
Title: Re: My lurker conversions (New stuff 24/2)
Post by: former user on 03 March 2011, 06:48:14 AM
I am not sure it can be still called a conversion  :)
if one looks how the pros usually work, it might already be a sculpt  ;)
at least for me

good job :-*