Hi everyone, this being my first post here I thought I would show some of the conversions I recently finished. The first is my highborn on cold one. He is made from a cold one knight, the witch king's cloak, malus' helmet and sword, and an older metal cold one. Anyways, here he is (pics are a bit large):
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b23/J ... /lord1.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b23/J ... /lord2.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b23/J ... /lord3.jpg
He isn't glued onto the cold one yet, he will be seated leaning slightly forward when I do the final attachment.
As well, here is my Morathi on foot conversion, made from morathi, the mounted sorceresses legs, and green stuff:
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b23/J ... rathi1.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b23/J ... rathi2.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b23/J ... rathi3.jpg
Well, I hope you like them, any feedback you can give me would be great, thanks!
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Centuryslayer
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Savonarola
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The Morathis shoulders, should that be fur?
One difficult thing with Elves is, that the modelling and painting needs to be very neat, smooth. Filthy races such as rates or humans (no offense!) can tolerate more ugliness and quicker modelling and painting job. Anyways. We all have problems to make the job clean and neat.
Try to use more water when you finish the surface of greenstuff. Some people even use oil (I never do).
Your work presented is very promissing and we tend to be better and better in things we do repeatedly. Sculpt more of it!
One difficult thing with Elves is, that the modelling and painting needs to be very neat, smooth. Filthy races such as rates or humans (no offense!) can tolerate more ugliness and quicker modelling and painting job. Anyways. We all have problems to make the job clean and neat.
Try to use more water when you finish the surface of greenstuff. Some people even use oil (I never do).
Your work presented is very promissing and we tend to be better and better in things we do repeatedly. Sculpt more of it!
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Hi CenturySlayer.
I must say that I see here two very good conversions, very good ideas and a good choosing of parts and bits. Only thing I don´t like is your greenstuff work, but I must say that my own pretensions in these things are very high. I think these two minis could be very nice showcase minis if a good sculpt and paint job, will be done. Work on your skills and go on making such nice minis. Your ideas are brilliant!
Regards GeOrc
I must say that I see here two very good conversions, very good ideas and a good choosing of parts and bits. Only thing I don´t like is your greenstuff work, but I must say that my own pretensions in these things are very high. I think these two minis could be very nice showcase minis if a good sculpt and paint job, will be done. Work on your skills and go on making such nice minis. Your ideas are brilliant!
Regards GeOrc
Nice and original! I particulary like the highborn, with what to me seems like a sculpted eye inside the helmet 
. Very nice detailing!
As for Morathi I think the conversion is quite nice, although the fur-thing on her shoulders seemsaa little odd..
. Very nice detailing!
As for Morathi I think the conversion is quite nice, although the fur-thing on her shoulders seemsaa little odd..
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Nice minis, especialy the highborn's helmet. Is it Malus' Helmet which he has hanged on his belt? I wonder how did you get this out of there!
Your Greenstuff skills aren't so bad(surely better than my own), the most I like Morathis cloak, great shape.
Your Greenstuff skills aren't so bad(surely better than my own), the most I like Morathis cloak, great shape.
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Pretty nice, especially the Highborn conversion.
A tip for texturing fur modelled from green stuff:
It looks like you just jabbed the greenstuff repeatedly with the tip of a pin. What you should do is jab in the tip of the pin (or dental pick or modelling tool) and then pull the pin down towards the edge of the "fur" area as you pull it out. This will have the effect of making the texture look more like hair that flows in a particular direction. Start at the bottom of the area you want to texture and work your way up. It's really very easy and quick when you get the motion down.
A tip for texturing fur modelled from green stuff:
It looks like you just jabbed the greenstuff repeatedly with the tip of a pin. What you should do is jab in the tip of the pin (or dental pick or modelling tool) and then pull the pin down towards the edge of the "fur" area as you pull it out. This will have the effect of making the texture look more like hair that flows in a particular direction. Start at the bottom of the area you want to texture and work your way up. It's really very easy and quick when you get the motion down.
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Thanks for the comments everyone!
The fur on Morathi's shoulders seems to be getting the most mention as what needs to be improved. Being my first attempt at fur I think it's all right, but could definitely be better. I may chop it away and use some of Dyvim's techniques. I used the fur look as I am doing an army from Ghrond, with everyone on snow bases. I wanted to add a bit of a Norse feel to the army, with some fur and big cloaks (yes, she is half naked anyways, but at least her shoulders are warm!).
Barthas: yes, that's the helm on malus' belt. It's actually not that hard to get it off him, it only requires one cut (though it is a big cut). You don't have a lot of malus left afterwards. After that the back of the helm just needs to be built out a bit with greenstuff and you are good to go.
Anyways, thanks for the feedbak, I will try to get painted pics up eventually (Morathi is next in line, I got a BSB on the go right now).
The fur on Morathi's shoulders seems to be getting the most mention as what needs to be improved. Being my first attempt at fur I think it's all right, but could definitely be better. I may chop it away and use some of Dyvim's techniques. I used the fur look as I am doing an army from Ghrond, with everyone on snow bases. I wanted to add a bit of a Norse feel to the army, with some fur and big cloaks (yes, she is half naked anyways, but at least her shoulders are warm!).
Barthas: yes, that's the helm on malus' belt. It's actually not that hard to get it off him, it only requires one cut (though it is a big cut). You don't have a lot of malus left afterwards. After that the back of the helm just needs to be built out a bit with greenstuff and you are good to go.
Anyways, thanks for the feedbak, I will try to get painted pics up eventually (Morathi is next in line, I got a BSB on the go right now).
Nice work on the conversions. As for myself I am a bit more conservative. I recently put together morathi, but instead of using the normal dark pegasus head I bogarted my friends spare wild rider horse head. I pinned a spike to its snout on top of the armor there. It looks a bit more sinister than the normal dark pegasus so I am pleased.
p.s. I am damn impressed that you can take that helm off in one cut and get it to look that neat. Again nice conversions man.
p.s. I am damn impressed that you can take that helm off in one cut and get it to look that neat. Again nice conversions man.
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my higborn on a cold one is fairly simply converted...ish. my friend has collected fantasy since 5th edition and he still has a few of the older white drawfs around and while i was flicking through them i found a dark elf generals body and legs. all i did was order the body and cut a CoK in half and stuck the body on it as the generals legs were desinged for being on foot. and with the help of some green stuff its been designed to look like it all fits prefectly and equiped with blood armour. ive replaced one of his arms with a warriors spear, cut the head of and replaced it with a halberd head from a black gaurd model to give him the crimson death. to mix and match some magic items (as it totals over 100pts) ive also given his helm the style of the deathmask to remove pesky units of night runners screening things like storm vermin so i can charge them instead and instill more panic and terror. also ive simply given him a CoK sheild.
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