cheers, mate!
With the apparrent success of the additon of advisors from both the Commissariat and the Inquisition to this army project, I have decided to turn my sights onto the adeptus mechanicus next.
Yes, Ive still several squads worth of other guys to get done, I know but I just can't resist a good conversion on the side!
The Tech-priest/adept I have planned is not quite ready for public viewing yet, but here are a couple of her charges:
as you can see this is essentially her personal side-arm! (why have a dog and bark yourself, eh?)
clearly based off of the devastator squad servo-skull, with added las-muzzle on the right side lens and a nice mechadendrite tail made from guitar-wire with a bit of enforcer grenade on the end as a plug/port.
this one was more invloved, conversion-wise.
the more die-hard of my project followers will remember that I used the Indomitus boxed-set primaris ancient standard bearer guy as a basis for a fallen angel conversion.
as that model no longer used the banner it came with, the skull of the skeleton upon it was donated to this servo-skull.
Its hybrid bone/metal design and the addition of ports and lens' made it ideal for the job!
a few guitar strings, some fuse wire, a bit of brass tube and some bits of bfg aerials as plugs/ports and this one was done!
the bases for these two are actually buttons.
I deliberately wanted something smaller than 25mm to base them on.
these are around 16mm.
I've always felt that servo skulls and tiny familiar bases should be smaller to represent the smaller model upon them. This just makes more visual sense and stops the model looking lost or somehow unimportant on them.
Also I personally can't stand servo skulls tacked onto the same base or off-the-shoulder on a model. thats pure tackiness!
The other advantage of these conversions, over the standard gw models is, using guitar wire, I can make them really fly high over the models, I wanted the laspistol one in particular to look as though it is soaring around the magos in a protective holding-pattern, provinding cover-fire, whereas the other is simply gently whizzing directly along in a forward motion.
the guitar-string mechadendrites really makes the sense of motion easier to capture. They bend relitively easy and are seamless as far as ad-mech tech visuals go.
For extra advise on moddleling these I'd say go look at how a sentinel in any of the matrix films moves. Try to emulate the look of the mechadendrites for the motion you wish to portray and you wont go far wrong...
painted shots soon and their master is soon to follow...
