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Lol why do these legs come with a separate ass plate

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Conversion #080 (repost)

Original text: "Yes indeed, after making the last Sister of Slaughter, I made another immediately. I couldn’t help myself.

Once again I gave her the bare armed muscular look by way of Chaos melee weapon arms, combined with a great 3rd party sculpted head, and finally splayed out the fins on her wings to make her presence seem larger and less orderly. Yes, that took a lot of pinning. It’s worth it, I love these models."

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Conversion #079 (repost)

Original text: "This Khornate Sister - Sisters of Slaughter, I think I was going to call them - was very well received when I posted her WIP a while ago! So here she is refined and undercoated.

I plan on actually making almost all of the Sisters battleforce I have into Sisters of Slaughter - it isn’t as diverse a plan as I set out to have with my army, but these models aren’t my existing ones, I’ve bought them since, and so I feel it doesn’t deviate from my mission statement much. Also, they’re just too cool not to do this way."

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I will say, I don't know why I worded this post to imply I invented the phrase "Sisters of Slaughter", because that's definitely too apt to not have already been used elsewhere lol

Still one of my favourites!

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Conversion #077 (repost)

Original text: "This strange fellow started life as a very oddly made Ork, and finished it as a zombie Russian, complete with vodka bottle. 

I was in the mood to make things unnecessarily complicated when I made him, and so there was a lot of filing and cutting and carving in order to splice the parts together that weren’t supposed to be together. As a result, he has a very unique look, and I look forward to painting him."

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Conversion #065 (repost)

Original text: "Yes, this dwarf was definitely not one of the original models I had and was absolutely something I nabbed off eBay, but these models are too good to resist! Besides, who doesn’t love Chaos Dwarves? 

The spear came tragically broken, but that was okay, giving me the opportunity to create a fun pistol staff, and aside from that the only real changes were a few spikes and skull adornments. Just a fun little bonus!"

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Test run of a turntable shot of the most recently posted guy

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Conversion #063 (repost)

Original text: "I immediately had the intention to change the very boring pose to something indicative of how heavy those massive metal railguns really are, and then added to that the idea of giving it a hunchback and very Chaotic manner to its design. I wanted to fill that back area with grotesqueries, as I had decided to make this suit into a daemon engine of sorts. 

The pose was pinned and altered, the weapons were attached - including weapons less Tau-like than before, riffing off that idea I had of them swapping them out after their ammo runs out - and the power plant area on the back was filled to the brim with gross biological parts and muscle strands. 

I really like how this came out. Like, really. The supplementary tubes and pipes, made from putty and actual wire alike, really brought it all together. It’s so immensely gratifying to continue having so much fun with these conversions, even when I don’t expect one to be as fun as it turns out to be."

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This is the first model I tend to show people to explain what I'm going for, in a large part because I'm so proud of it! He's not perfect, but I wrestled myself away from touching him up any further, having already spent far too long fussing over the details.

The nasty gunky back was what got me into really enjoying the look of a glossy finish. At first I was using it wholesale on skin - but that's not how skin is - and now I'm restricting that use to when that disgusting sheen is best implemented, i.e., to contrast with the matte armour of the rest of the suit.

I also used a little bit of a copper corrosion effect! I won't be implementing it across every model, for one reason because I want the impression of a somewhat newer conversion to the Heinous Powers for a lot of the marines, but I think it works well on extra decrepit vehicles like this.

Bonus pictures:

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Conversion #061 (repost)

Original text: "There are few sculpts from the 90s as unfortunate in design and proportion as the old Dark Eldar sets. Those massive feet, the bizarre shoulders, the weirdly static designs of a model meant to emulate a race focused on speed and agility. It’s no wonder the new Drukhari models are as adored as they are. Still, there’s potential!

I had no idea where the poor fellow’s head was, and I did not want to maintain the awkward pose the heavy weapon was inflicting on him, so I shook things up a little. A third party and insanely detailed head, lots of fun bits and pieces to pad out his spindly design, and an authoritative pose with a sword arm completed a guy that whilst reminiscent of Shovel Knight, will not hesitate to mess you up."

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Conversion #059 (repost)

Original text: "This was another one of the custom marines my teenage self attempted to bolster my Hawk Lords army with - an Emperor’s Champion. Yup, that’s a Lizardman shield and a chainsword altered to use an Aquila as a blade. It’s a bit odd. But hey, that’s youth. 

The leftover body parts went into producing a very gangly and… Interesting looking fellow model. The rather flat pose reminds me of the metal models from the early 90s, back when they had to be as flat as possible for the purposes of moulding them, and so had a rather flattened stance."

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This is another two-parter, and I'll say, the other model to come out of this Champion is a hell of a lot better lol.

Somewhat goofy already, I let a newly-emigrated Ukrainian coworker pick the colour for his armour, resulting in this rather different shade to what I've been using on the rest of them. She named him Zeke. Zeke says Gay Rights.

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Conversion #052 (repost)

Original text: "This guy was already previewed a while ago. He might be my favourite existing Chaos Marine conversion so far - moving the mouth from his hand to his, uh, mouth, has had such a creepy effect that I genuinely could see myself having nightmares where this thing is running towards me lol

The Wulfen legs once again were used to add a really fun dynamic stance, without having to cut up and alter his existing legs. The arm was completed with a mess of nasty claws and tendrils, and he’s ready to eat everything in his path."

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Conversion #048 (repost)

Original text: "This gentleman was definitely one of the first Marines I collected, once again from the first - or maybe the second - Tactical Squad box I ever owned. Unfortunately for him, that didn’t protect him from becoming more beast than man, but he doesn’t seem to be complaining. 

This model was a case of wanting to use the lovely weapons from the Gene Cult set more, and so he was based around the mining laser thingy they come with. Of course, I spruced it up with some supplementary spikes / nodes, and equally vitally, his head with that of a beastman. To keep a reminder of who he once was, I made sure to have his helmet attached to his person still, even if it doesn’t fit him anymore."

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Conversion #046 (repost)

Original text: "I have a very pure enjoyment of beakie marines. Even ones slathered as thickly with paint as this guy. It was time to bestow him with the gifts of the damned. 

I went for a gross pockmarked and pustule-ridden look with this poor fellow, drilling holes on one side of his body and mirroring it with protrusions on the other. A simple backpack conversion, a nice sword arm, and a custom twin bolter to keep his profile recognisable but noticeably improved. After all, I want my loyalist marines to look like they only recently converted to the Ruinous Powers, so they’re not going to be as catastrophically altered as say, Plague Marines. I want them to remain somewhat recognisably Loyalist in their core design."

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Conversion #045 (repost)

Original text: "Why is he blue? Were certain orcs born in the fumes of Mount Doom tinted with Ultramarine Blue? We may never know. 

Now he is blue no longer. At least, not physically, I don’t deign to know his emotional state. A very straightforward conversion, once again thanks to the pleasing flexibility of both the orc designs and the Gene Cult sets. A simple body and arm replacement, sprucing the gun up with a MASSIVE bayonet made from an orc spear that detached itself elsewhere."

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Conversion #038 (repost)

Original text: "This guy was mostly a reminder of how goddamn ancient these sculpts are lol

A friend pointed out to me that the end result is basically Robocop, and I cannot deny that. Armour, visor, big gun, and even the spike from between the knuckls. Not much to say here, as there won’t be with a lot of the Chaos marines, because they’re already suitable in design to worship the dark powers, but I had fun nonetheless!"

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Conversion #035 (repost)

Original text: "Don’t we love a monopose marine? They’re always so full of… Expression.

So I chopped his head off and gave him one of the very cool Ash Waste Nomad ones at a kooky angle, adding to the glee in his mannerisms that he was getting to use such a massive machinegun. Some extra gubbins, skulls, armour damage, and this little guy no longer feels monopose to me!"

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Conversion #068 (repost)

Already previously covered, this gentleman is the second of the two models made from the old kitbashed techmarine. He's a much more of a new entity than #034, primarily borrowing elements with the backpack claw arrangement, but otherwise mostly new. An evolution of the idea, if you will.

One of my favourite models to paint, and favourite models in general, so far.

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Conversion #034 (repost)

This is the first of the two models made from this original "techmarine" individual.

Original text:

"Here’s a little Technmarine teenage Aster made when he didn’t want to buy an actual Techmarine! Yes, this wasn’t the only "interesting" proxy I made, and it won’t be the last you see here.

I liked too much about this guy to make just one model out of - so I made two. The first uses most of his original parts, and the second is mostly a continuation in spirit more than anything."