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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: Pappa Midnight on June 28, 2012, 10:07:30 PM
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I finally got my Mage-Knight Steam Tinkers from the US ( 6 week wait!!!) and have converted one into "Professor Niles' Patented Fighting Trousers"
The original mini is a little rough but I can't complain for .99 Cents!
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c334/pappa_midnight/MKSteamTinker.jpg)
I remodelled the body of the pilot ( almost entirely!!) and replaced the circular saw with a Gatling.
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c334/pappa_midnight/FightT1.jpg)
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c334/pappa_midnight/FightT2.jpg)
Comparison Shot
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c334/pappa_midnight/Trouser1Original.jpg)
Regards
PM
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Great conversion! You do excellent work sir! You've inspired me to work on the one I have.
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Great work with a really nice result.
Love the look of determination on the new figure.
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Brilliant. ;D :-*
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Best topic title ever.
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Lovely. Truly outstanding work. :-*
Now where are his time travel trousers?
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Brilliant! :o
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Nice! Might have to pick me up a couple of those...
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very nice
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I remodelled the body of the pilot ( almost entirely!!) and replaced the circular saw with a Gatling.
Regards
PM
You sir did indeed remodel the body. I hadn't noticed the first time i looked on the first pic but you turned the body from that of a dwarf to that of a human. Bravo. :-)
Grimm
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That is fantastic! Brilliant work! :-*
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I like that 8) A Victorian version of the Aliens power loader :D
cheers
James
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That's smashing, PM :-*
Is the new 'driver' a cut'n'shunt using another miniature, or wholly greenstuff*?
*other brands of modelling putty are available
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Great work! :-*
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More great work Pappa. You certainly have the eye (and skill) to see and pull off these wonderful creations
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:o :o :o :o :o :o
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Very nice work.
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Thank you all for the comments. I really enjoyed making this one and wasn't completely sure I could pull it off until it was base coated!
Is the new 'driver' a cut'n'shunt using another miniature, or wholly greenstuff*?
The driver uses the original mini as a basis with the following mods:
I cut the long beard right back and cleaned up the chest of the mini adding a GS waistcoat, scarf and belt buckle.
As the original pilot was a dwarf, his arms, legs and torso were too short. I cut the arms off and replaced the upper portion (above his gloves) with upper arms from a 1:48 scale tamiya mini. I lowered his "crotch" with GS to increase the length of his body. I cut his feet and foot-rests off and made some GS knee pads . There were pistons running down the front of the walker's legs which I carved out and replaced with GS lower legs and a new pair of feet.
His top hat is from an Ironclad Miniatures figure.
The walker itself has been altered by removing the arms and re-positioning them using plastic sprue. Some plastic rod was used to make the pistons.
The Gatling is from a Games Workshop Empire plastic mini.
Now I've done one it should be reasonably straightforward to do another (without a beard this time!).
Regards
PM
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The driver uses the original mini as a basis with the following mods:
... loads of detailed stuff that I sincerely doubt I could replicate ...
Now I've done one it should be reasonably straightforward to do another.
Straightforward? Yes, that's the right word lol lol
Thanks for the explanation, though, I'm always as fascinated by the conversion process as by seeing the finished object.
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Great conversion and paint job....I have a bunch of clix type minis with this sort of idea in mind.........they are all sitting in the plastic project mountain next to the lead project mountain :D
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Perhaps a more action-oriented pose for the next one? Maybe the automaton can be mid-step, with a high raised fist like he just completed an whopping uppercut? Or swung out wide in a sweep (might less practical from a gaming perspective).
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Great work as usual :-*
I picked up a couple of these for my 15mm VSF projectto convert as walkers. I've found some useful pieces in the range.
Cheers,
Barry
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Just out of curiosity...
where's Grommit?
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looks very cool!
I am always astonished why we do not find more of these steam-things in regular dwarven army sets anayway!
great paintjob and conversion! thanks for showing!
best wishes
DK
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The wrong trousers... Well done! lol
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Very nice indeed
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Nicely done Al, very impressed. There's a whole heap of Gothic/steampunkery abound now what with Westwind's EoTD rules so this would be great for a gentleman's Club exo-armoured member.
Thanks for sharing.
The Commander
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Lovely. Truly outstanding work. :-*
Now where are his time travel trousers?
And his tea drinking trousers of course?
"http://www.youtube.com/v/0iRTB-FTMdk?version=3&hl=en_GB&rel=0"
;)
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Fantastic!
You never cease to amaze!
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Now that is an elegant conversion, sir! :-* Jolly good show! :)
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He's just a man like the rest of us. His trousers put themselves on, one leg at a time. lol
Very well done. You took what I always thought was a horrid figure and made something excellent.
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Blimey. :o
Fantastic conversion - you have realized the potential of this mundane figure and taken it to a whole new level. :-*
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Thanks again for all the comments.
For anyone who is interested I have posted a quick tutorial here:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=43345.0
Regards
PM
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Great conversion! You do excellent work sir! You've inspired me to work on the one I have.
Meanwhile, Sir Randall, he's totally quashed my inclination to use mine. lol
Too bad, I had a Mage Knight riding lass of surpassing beauty to ride a mechanical beast as his companion, with some clockwork dogs as outriders.
*sigh* I just can't face them now.
Doug
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Meanwhile, Sir Randall, he's totally quashed my inclination to use mine. lol
Too bad, I had a Mage Knight riding lass of surpassing beauty to ride a mechanical beast as his companion, with some clockwork dogs as outriders.
*sigh* I just can't face them now.
Doug
Oh, come on Doug! Let the Beast loose! And where did you find clockwork doggies while we are at it?
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Oh, come on Doug! Let the Beast loose! And where did you find clockwork doggies while we are at it?
Also Mage Knight, but they may have been more wolves than dogs. I'll try to find the box they're in in the basement (The horror!) and at least give names.
Doug
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a really great conversion