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Post by commissarbob on Feb 16, 2015 19:08:06 GMT -5
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Post by Batou on Feb 17, 2015 16:13:30 GMT -5
That are a really nice conversion! I would never think off using Sentinel legs and those torsos. All those little details make them a great looking unit. Good job!
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Post by commissarbob on Feb 17, 2015 19:06:17 GMT -5
Thank you, I am happy the conversion worked out. I started messing with broken bits and just went with it. I am considering adding some segmented shoulder armor patterned after what illustrations of Skitarii have and a gut plate with the Adeptus Mechanicus symbol.
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Post by cheminhaler on Feb 18, 2015 15:04:36 GMT -5
These look really interesting, commissarbob. They could even be used as sentinels for some skitarri type guard regiment.
Good work with the springs. Did you drill into the bitz and use wire with springs, or use model parts for the springs/ cables?
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Post by commissarbob on Feb 18, 2015 18:26:54 GMT -5
It is my intention to use Scions as Skitarii along with these for kill teams and as part of my guard army as a detachment. The cables are actually cast pewter and were collected from mis-casts from larger pieces from where I was working in metal casting.
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Post by cheminhaler on Feb 21, 2015 15:41:20 GMT -5
That's interesting; I would have thought it to be harder to bend the metal to the right shape. Recently I discovered similarly sized actual springs in the removable bit of clipper lighters  |
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Post by Yeti's Yell on Feb 21, 2015 16:18:52 GMT -5
These are friggen sweet. I think you nailed the outlandish-but-perfectly-suited-for-40k look.
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Post by commissarbob on Feb 22, 2015 10:03:01 GMT -5
The pewter is nice because you can bend it to whatever shape you want and it will stay there. A spring would need something inside to hold a particular curve or curves.
Thanks, I am definitely going for the more outlandish Mechanicus conversions.
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Post by commissarbob on Mar 18, 2015 18:29:49 GMT -5
I have added some armor plates to the servitors. The gut plates from the ogre kits were used after removing the designs for the belly and I used Ork boy shoulder plates for the arms. I got them primed and have given them a black wash to pre-shade them in preparation for painting.    I will be painting all the mechanical bits in steel with copious amounts of brass, the cloth elements a rich crimson, and the exposed flesh will be done with glazes to give it a pallid translucent skin. I am however torn as to what to do for the armor plates and other hard structural elements. Option one, leave it the bare metallics. Option two, paint them black giving it a menacing and fairly foreboding scheme. Option three, paint them a cream white/ivory giving it visual interest and a nice color pallete. Thoughts? |
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Post by krexpex on Mar 19, 2015 22:55:10 GMT -5
it is a good idea. one can get a good chaos obliterators))))
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Post by 3ff3ct on Mar 20, 2015 16:02:28 GMT -5
Bare metallics with extra details (battle damage/kill markings) that way they won't look too 'the same-y' yet will not take ages to paint up. THese rock by the way  |
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Post by commissarbob on Mar 20, 2015 17:10:58 GMT -5
Thanks! They have some color on the now and I will post pictures again once I get them finished to the point of metallics. I can always add the ivory or the black over the metallics after that...
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Post by commissarbob on Apr 3, 2015 0:54:18 GMT -5
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Post by Captain Zapp Brannigan on Apr 6, 2015 18:26:40 GMT -5
Mate hats off to you for this unique idea. Its been really impressive watching these guys come along  ...As you can tell I am a big fan of kit bashing |
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Post by that1guy on May 19, 2015 20:30:07 GMT -5
These certainly look a lot better than those Kastellian robots they just released.
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Post by emptyhat on May 20, 2015 10:48:23 GMT -5
Your heavy servitors are looking a lot better now they've got some paint on them. These certainly look a lot better than those Kastellian robots they just released. I'm not too keen on the Kastellian robots either (I do want to loot some tracks of them for Grot tanks) but I do like that they look like cheap knock offs of Necron Destroyers. |
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Post by cheminhaler on May 20, 2015 13:50:33 GMT -5
They look brilliant now, commissarbob.
I'd use them as Kataphron battle servitors rather than Kastelan battle robots. Even though the Kataphrons are tracked it makes little difference in game terms and the whole battle servitor thing suits better; it's almost perfect timing on the rules release.
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Post by Rolling Thunder on May 21, 2015 2:34:53 GMT -5
These are really good models. I'd personally use them as the Skitarii warstriders myself, but bravo.
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Post by that1guy on May 23, 2015 19:07:46 GMT -5
Your heavy servitors are looking a lot better now they've got some paint on them. These certainly look a lot better than those Kastellian robots they just released. I'm not too keen on the Kastellian robots either (I do want to loot some tracks of them for Grot tanks) but I do like that they look like cheap knock offs of Necron Destroyers. You're not the only one who found their design more orky than the uber semetrical fighta bomba. |
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Post by commissarbob on May 25, 2015 10:48:10 GMT -5
I am actually considering getting a box of the Kataphron servitors and putting them on the Sentinel legs like I did with these things and use the track units for grot tanks for a different highly converted army I want to finish up.
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Post by emptyhat on May 26, 2015 3:42:34 GMT -5
I am actually considering getting a box of the Kataphron servitors and putting them on the Sentinel legs like I did with these things and use the track units for grot tanks for a different highly converted army I want to finish up. A plan as noble as it is savage. |
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on May 26, 2015 16:49:19 GMT -5
The Cattyfronds are quite nice. Lots of small intricate parts, and the torsos are eminently magnetizable to enable swapping between the punchy and shooty variant. I just need to find my stash of/get more small rare Earth magnets.
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