WF plastic British colonials conversion (Praetorians, might be used in VSF)

[Geudens]

Figures as per Wargames Factory sprue, except arms and weapons taken from the 40K bitbox.  GW Mordian to the left for scale comparison:

The arms were filed slightly to fit on the body, but no putty was used.  File, glue, paint, ready!

Rudi

[twrchtrwyth]

Excellent conversions, but not sure about the arms on the first one, and much cheaper than GW.

[Bako]

Praetorian gorilla men, now I've seen nearly everything . It's a nice idea, but those arms are so long compared to the rest of the guy.

[Geudens]

Excellent conversions, but not sure about the arms on the first one, and much cheaper than GW.

You're right.  When I do some more this will be attended to.  I just wanted to see if conversions could be done without putty or sculpting.  Seems to have worked OK for the other ones (same arm length as the Cadian figure).

Rudi

[twrchtrwyth]

Excellent conversions, but not sure about the arms on the first one, and much cheaper than GW.

You're right.  When I do some more this will be attended to.  I just wanted to see if conversions could be done without putty or sculpting.  Seems to have worked OK for the other ones (same arm length as the Cadian figure).

Rudi

Looking at the first one again I'd say it was the grenade arm that's not quite right. When I blocked out that side of the model with my finger the chainsword arm looks better. Are they possibly a fraction to far down the body?

I think you've proved beyond any doubt that the conversions work without putty etc.

[Braxandur]

damn!!! now I definitely need a box (make that multiple boxes) of those guys!

Are they possibly a fraction to far down the body?

That is exactly what I was thinking when I saw the figure. A good test and many thanks for the pictures.

[Commander Vyper]

damn!!! now I definitely need a box (make that multiple boxes) of those guys!

Are they possibly a fraction to far down the body?

That is exactly what I was thinking when I saw the figure. A good test and many thanks for the pictures.

You could lose the pads and gs on new shoulders? make the arms a little less bulky?

[Geudens]

Gents,

The one with the sword and grenade must indeed be changed.  I'll look into it, again trying to do it without putty, since the goal of the whole test is to produce units fast rather than single figures in which case sculpting time would not matter.  I'll get back on this.  Thx for your comments, they are much appreciated.  The weird thing about these figures is that they do look better in the flesh than in pics.  There is actually nearly no difference between the metal GW Mordian's arms and the converted ones.  They also stand exactly as tall as the Cadians from which I took the arms.  If anything counts, the legs of the WF's are probably slighty too thin compared with the rest of the figure (as compared to the Mordian, but not shorter...).

Cheers,

Rudi