Terminator inspired future modern/post apoc Project: Mototerminator progress

[The_Beast]

I so love going back to this thread, especially the part about the Hunter Killers. I showed them down at the store, and yawns were palpable. Still, they keep buying the GW and FoW stuff, and it keeps the roof over our heads. 

The other thing is seeing the first piccie of the T-600; I took a similar bust image, slotted half of my grandson's face over with, can you believe it, M$ Paint?, and sent it to my daughter. I assumed she'd be pissed I was abusing the sweet five year old lad, but she actually loved it.

Not sure which of us is more twisted in this case...

Thanks for showing yet another developed-in-depth project!

By the way, are you considering Harvesters? *duck*

Doug

[Commander Vyper]

I want to do some resistance after I finish the skin jobs and the moto-terminators and the HK. Plus I;ve some out of scale toy T100's to use as smaller HK's oh and the pair of flying HK's I've got too.

Then I'll be onto the huey's, Warthog and technicals and troopers/survivors for the resistance.

Eventually.....

Thanks for dropping by.

The Commander

[Pil]

Nice job on the endoskeletons and the aerostats!

[Anpu]

Nice work Commander

[Commander Vyper]

Update:

Got some nice little bits and pieces through from a 15mm company here in the UK, very usable and will mean I can start work on my moto-terminators.

Keep you posted.

The Commander

[AKULA]

mototerminators - those should be worth waiting for!

 

[Commander Vyper]

mototerminators - those should be worth waiting for!

 

I hope you like them.

Ok then, so you know when you're really really involved in a project and you get to a position of almost completed? It's about then that something else rears it's ugly head and off you go again right? Well that's what happened to this project. With just three T800 inflitrators and some mototerminators to go... I peaked!

I had the three T's all built, primed and ready to paint, the moto's parts were coming together well, (Anders sent me three void bikes, I'd managed to find a little 15mm company with some perfect miniguns) and that's how it sat till this afternoon.

Not relishing another monochrome paint stint, I did what every good hobbist did, I had a bit of a sort out.

And then I started work, with the aid again of my trusty copy of Artwork of Terminator Salvation.



Parts: (stage one).

Old void bike, (Again thanks to Anders (Anpu) for these and for his original inspirational motos, hoe you can see a little different highway travelled on these ).
Pair of chain guns and stands from a little 15/28mm company called The Scene Uk:
http://thesceneuk.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=16_63
(The gatling guns in question are now discountinued, but they have plenty there that will still work for the conversion).



Then I took a look at the artwork again, and as well as the twin chainguns, the moto's also have a further pair of fairing mounted guns. So a quick dive in the bits box and a pair of  Hersey sci-fi guns did the trick. magazines, grip and handle removed and shortened to fit.

So I started work on cutting the basic parts:



Then I went back to the artwork and the concept design and thought about how I could ensure that this looked like a terminator bike, the background design notes talked about being able to see the terminator body used with the bike's framework. Over the designs this became more stylised, but was still there, (the spine reference and the shape of the frame minicing a rider's body in places).

Was at a loss as to how to do this. Then I had a bit of a brainwave....necrons! 

More later.


The Commander

[inkwell]

Super nice work Commander!

[Braz]

I see where this conversion is going and can't wait to see the finished piece.

[Anpu]

I have actually finised one of mine but there the steam ran out for this time. I guess I should take a photo and put it in my thread

[Commander Vyper]

Ok then so necron bits:

From the design shots I needed to include some spine work, the hint of a ribcage and the bike chasis having some 'leg struture to it.

I decided that I'd try to be as frugle with parts as possible and set myself the challenge of only using one necron per bike. So after I'd filled the seat gap with greenstuff I set to work.

Parts used:



Legs (cut and trimmed and added to the framework)
Pelvis (used towards the rear of the bike behind the spine)
Spine and rear torso (shoulder pads shaved off to smooth the section to fit the gap between the fron fairing/screen and the rear of the bike).
Ribcage (halved and trimed down to minic the powerplant cage).
Gun muzzle, (one fin used on the top of the bike as a vent, two used as sensors/eyes, the ring halved and used on the sideS).
Necron gun stock, (trimmed and shaped added to each side as exhaust ports, plastirod tube sections added as exhaust pipes).

Finally, where I'd cut the rear of the bike off I added part of one of those necron swarmy things, (scarabs he says after a quick grab of the codex!;)) and shaved the sides to match the contours of the bike.

The chanigun mounts were trimed, filed and added to the lower sides and the heresy guns, shaped and added to the front fairings.

Finally a bit more plasti-rod (square and round) and some GS over the front sensors and we have almost a finished product, (still might add a bit more gs/plasti-rod strips, we'll see.

Final(ish) pics in a bit.

The Commander

[Commander Vyper]

Just need to finish off the sensory arrays at the front, tidy up the intake on the top and possible add another couple of bands and i'm done, hopefully paint tonight.

[dwartist]

That's brilliant!

[YIU]

Nice project and the bikes look nice : great conversion.

[TheSnackist]

Wow, that bike is sweet! Very nice.