Inquisitor and his wench

Greetings to you, my fellow readers, Romio will be your host for today.

I want to present you the first conversions I’ve ever made – the inquisitor and the fist of his retinue, the female bodyguard.

As this blog does, this conversion started with Storag, who brought me a plastic hammerhead, sawed off some DnD miniature (yeah, this guy loves sawing). It required a hilt and I made one, using a metal paper clip as a base, and covered it with a green stuff, to give it a leather-wrapped look. Each Thunder Hammer should have a power generator, hence I made one for mine, connecting it to the head by gluing a plastic cord. To give it a more imperial appearance I decorated the generator and placed a scull at the hilt’s bottom. So, the weapon of mass destruction was created and needed a proper hand to hold it.

Such a hand was found in the local Hobby Store in the face of the Forge World Solomon Lok. He was a perfect candidate, not just because of his cool hooded garment, but also because his puny saber just cried for replacement.

A sutable ranged weapon was needed to pair his grand hammer and thus I made a Plasma Revolver. The weapon that looks as good as stupid it sounds. Plasma Pistol and Grot Blasta was used as parts for this gun.

Due to the shape of his hands I had to use green stuff to remake fingers to fit both grips.

Now here he is, charging into battle to crush skulls and purge heresy:

A small man with a big gun.

Speaking of second one, the Inquisitor’s wench – it was hell of a problem to get a decent female body suitable for my simple idea: deadly, zealous and sexy female warrior, much alike Julie from the Heavy Metal 2000 animated movie. I took a GW Dark Eldar Wyches, but I’m still not sure this choice fulfills it. This Wyches are way too brutal with their muscular arms, bulky manly torso and awful shaped ass. A pair of tits just isn’t enough to make one sexy.

I had to cut her whole back and used some green stuff to cover it with a short scarf-like cape, encrusting right soulder with a small fibula. On her shoulder pad I sculpted a small Inquisition insignia.

Being too lazy to shape her rear to a proper condition, I just hid it under a green stuff rag. Not the best idea, as I understand now, but experience is always an experience.

As for weapons, her left hand holds a sword, made of a Catachan blade, some Chaos ceremonial dagger hilt and default Wyches handle. And in the right hand there’s a Catachan laspistol, slightly modified to get more classic look.

So, she stepping forward to strike Inquisitor's foes with a lasbeam, sharp blade and lecherous makeup:

Janie's Got A Gun

Well, that’s all for today. I hope my first experience was interesting for you.

The most elite grot military unit ever assembled!

Hi! Your friendly neighbor Storag is in the mood for some writing and hence here is a group photo of my gretchin squad recently primed and ready to be painted.

- Are you gangsters? - No! We are GRETCHINS!!!

This is kinda special moment, because now my first conversion project can be deemed complete.

I want to say a few words about why I started this one.

Partially, because I feel it was unfair that goblins where reduced to the state of half-minded orc slaves in 40k. As for the other part - grots are cheap and grubby in concept  therefore that makes them a great "target practice" for a beginner such as myself.

It took me quite some time and effort to complete them. I learned a lot working on them, - from basic concepts of miniature modding to the point where I'm looking forward to manufacturing plastic copies of my own green stuff designs. And at the end I like this guys very much and will write a detailed post about each of them as I did with "Loota".

Thanks for your time, that's all for now folks! =)

Grot Loota conversion (WIP)

Hello there, it's still Storag and today's post is about one of my current "work in progress", the latest addition to my heavily modified grot squad - a grot loota with big shoota :) (a whole squad I will present later).

A couple days ago, one nice fella gave me the body of GW FB gnoblar and so he's going be my today's willing subject.

   

Using this body might give my squad a bit more of so precious variety.

The first thing anyone need to start a conversion is an Idea. What do you see looking at this one? I see not a bludgeon but a crudely made shoota, I see loot bags and ammo instead of meat rations. And this one should definitely have an angry face - carrying such weight on your back is not a feat to raise one's mood.

The body

In order for the club to look like a gun certain changes must be made to create a distinctive rifle look.

First I needed to add a weapon part featuring ammo cartridge. To do this I gently cut part of the club away trying not to damage the hand. Then I shape the part which I sawed off from a standard issue slugga to fit in.

Second, I glue in some bits to form a rifle-style stock around the club's original grip.

The shoota is obviously too big for a grot to use as it is, so I decided to install a pair of support legs to let him actually shoot it rather than carry around as a trophy.

Finally I place aiming cross and a halberd-like blade on the barrel to complete the weapon's shape.

After the major work is done I cut off some unwanted decoration from his back and add two details; one is an ammo clip, and the other are several shells falling through the hole in one of his sacks.

The head

As I've said before, his face should be angry and thus I searched my bitsbox for a worthy head. The one I've found was angry enough but upward pointing ears made it look more like a cheerful-angry than a grim-angry I wanted. So I sliced his ears off, cut them a bit and glued back so they point down now. But still that wasn't enough for me. To make it look more 40k and a little psychotic I've build from scrap something like implanted monocular.

This is how it all look like when assembled.

Searching for target practice.

Feel free to comment. I'm looking forward any feedback on my works.      

The grot "Big Mek" conversion

Hi guys, Storag here. To start with, I want to show you a milestone that marks the beginning of my miniature modding endeavors.

Looking back at him through the time passed I see many flaws and lots of things I could have done better. But none the less he was born rather charismatic to compensate for my lack of experience and skill - Da Slopawka, my firstborn. He pokes. Slow, but hard.

Originally he was meant to look like this one:

But then my knife messed with his body and here is his new appearance: 

"Da Warbozz needz ya!"

"They went this way!"

"I meant THAT way!"

To make this conversion i used:

- Body and head from GW "Ork Gretchin" pack (the only body in the kit without premade hands)

- Power fist arm from GW "Devastator squad" pack

- Army Painter "Green stuff"

Backpack was made from piece of plastic decorated with parts from Runtherds shock rod and the right hand was scratch-build using random plastic scrap sawed off from whatever was within my reach =)

Must say that I have a weakness to creating back stories for every character I work on. Just can't leave all those questions like "who he is", "why he is as he is" and so on unanswered. Sometimes this even helps =). Here is a story for this green buddy, a short variant...

The Weird Moon's clan "miniature big mek" got his position when his master the former clan's big mek was partially warped away by his own warp gun. Suffice to say this wasn't a "usual" accident. Such "accidents" occurred to every orc in the clan who had some potential of becoming a mek, until he was the only one with the skills to do the job.

Thanks for watching this and please leave your comments!