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Title: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: James Holloway on November 29, 2022, 10:48:07 AM: I have no idea what the toy is or where it came from, but I've had it for years. Inspired by a facebook group challenge, I finally got it together to convert, crew and paint it. I think of it as some primeval boar god corrupted by the coming of chaos and finally entombed alive in this brass and bone nightmare, with the high-pitched shriek of the saw blade being like the squealing of the boar. Here it is!

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Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: Mad Lord Snapcase on November 29, 2022, 10:58:07 AM: Excellent work! :-*
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: Hobgoblin on November 29, 2022, 11:45:09 AM: Tremendous! That's just screaming to be used in a game!

That's a very effective conversion of that Reaper figure too.
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: James Holloway on November 29, 2022, 11:47:43 AM: Quote from: Hobgoblin on November 29, 2022, 11:45:09 AM
Tremendous! That's just screaming to be used in a game!

That's a very effective conversion of that Reaper figure too.

Thanks! In my experience, a lot of Reaper Bones figures, particularly older ones and human-sized ones, benefit from head swaps and weapon swaps. If you have a well-stocked bits box you can do a lot with them; otherwise, the smaller figures are just a bit too bendy.
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: Hobgoblin on November 29, 2022, 11:52:52 AM: Quote from: James Holloway on November 29, 2022, 11:47:43 AM
In my experience, a lot of Reaper Bones figures, particularly older ones and human-sized ones, benefit from head swaps and weapon swaps. If you have a well-stocked bits box you can do a lot with them; otherwise, the smaller figures are just a bit too bendy.

Yes, indeed - and it fixes the problem of soft details on Bones faces.
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: has.been on November 29, 2022, 12:25:21 PM: Good job.
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: commissarmoody on November 29, 2022, 01:03:43 PM: Pretty cool
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: LouieN on November 29, 2022, 03:29:33 PM: Impressive
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: Luigi on November 29, 2022, 04:57:13 PM: :o :-*

I absolutely love projects like this one.

And yours turned out amazing!

Any progress picture or a before/after photo?
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: FramFramson on November 29, 2022, 05:25:28 PM: Yes! What on earth did the toy look like before?!
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: James Holloway on November 29, 2022, 11:08:22 PM: Quote from: FramFramson on November 29, 2022, 05:25:28 PM
Yes! What on earth did the toy look like before?!

Pretty much like that1 All I did was fill in some gaps and holes, build the platform at the rear so that the chariot had two sort of siege tower levels, make a floor for the "cockpit" area, and so on. The basic structure of a boar with a buzzsaw in its head was already there. Honestly, I have no idea where it came from.

Also, don't ask how the guys up top get up there. I was going to add a ladder but I forgot.
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: Seal on November 30, 2022, 01:51:32 AM: :o

Love it!
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: has.been on November 30, 2022, 06:54:17 AM: Quote
Also, don't ask how the guys up top get up there. I was going to add a ladder but I forgot.

Add a rolled up rope ladder to the top level. You don't want people/things
climbing up a ladder after you, do you?
;)
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: Luigi on November 30, 2022, 01:40:17 PM: I found it!

Or at least I found someone else talking about it (http://www.jomitoys.com/2010/03/vikings-darkwater-sharkie-playset.html)

James, I think you did an amazing job. it really does look like something you would see in a large chaos invasion.
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: James Holloway on November 30, 2022, 04:46:30 PM: That's it, all right! The rest of the line looks like it would make pretty good Chaos marauder fodder as well, actually.
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: eilif on November 30, 2022, 07:46:37 PM: Really Excellent work. "Toybashing" is my favorite source for terrain and sci-fi vehicles (usually spacecraft) but I've not used it for fantasy vehicles. Really impressed by how well it turned out.
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: manic _miner on December 01, 2022, 03:00:00 PM: Really nice conversion that you have done.

I have ordered one of the Tusker toy creatures after seeing it in the range.I am sure a lad who has a Comic Collectables shop near to me had one in the shop.He did not know what range it was from though at the time.
Title: Re: I made a daemon engine from a charity shop toy
Post by: Orctrader on December 01, 2022, 03:46:31 PM: This looks very good.

It's a Chap Mei toy, I think OOP but I'm sure they come up on Ebay. Checked a couple of minutes ago and there were a couple.

LINK (https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=Chap+Mei++Chariot&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&rt=nc&_odkw=Chap+Mei++Chariot&_osacat=0&LH_PrefLoc=1)