This is only a tiny conversion. I didn’t like the webbing on the original Harrier’s head, so I chopped it off and gave them a little horn to make them look more like the Shredders.
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Perhaps I should clarify that it is the Spawning Vessel Acolyths that are converted, and not the pot itself.
As usual I didn’t want duplicates, and unfortunately the six Acolyths only come in two poses. Luckily they were easy enough to tweak. The one on the left is stock-standard haft-you-in-the-face pose. The middle one I slightly lowered the weapon into a more relaxed stance. I then had to sculpt a new upper arm for her as well as the feathers on her cloak which I damaged as I tried to repose her. The last one involved snipping the hand off the weapon and pinning it back together. I then sculpted back in the missing weapon haft, her upper arm and a rudimentary dagger.
I had trouble fitting her arm into a natural position and I wasn’t happy with the dagger, so I changed the angle and replaced her dagger with a shard of bone, which I think suits the unit better.
Here’s the finished Spawning Vessel unit:
In my mind, I imagine that the blight affects the Nyss in different ways. Sometimes it’s only a cosmetic change, like the little spikes jutting out of Saeryn’s face. Sometimes it’s a useful change like the legs of the Striders. Sometimes I imagine that the blight is a bad change, like horrible weeping protrusions that cause the bearer discomfort or pain. If the blight is particularly bad, the affected individual may have no choice but the wrap themselves in bandages and march behind the Everblight army, picking the field clear of corpses. Like lepers, they would be shunned for their affliction and their fellow Acolytes of the Vessel would be their only company.
With that in mind I stained their bandages and painted their robes black to emphasise their cultist look, and their separation from the rest of the army. I had fun painting this unit, but I might have gone a little overboard with the blood splatter!
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I disliked Thagrosh’s pointy head, so I tried something quite ambitious for my skill-level at the time. Up until this point, my greenstuffing skills consisted mostly of gap-filling and head/weapon swaps. I think this project, and the positive feedback I received for it, really helped inspire me to try even more ambitious projects, like my Deathstalker and later my Throne of Everblight Horror.
First, I cut away parts of his head and sculpted armour plates and filigree over the top. This is a WIP after I’d finished the edges and begun working the spirals inward.
I decided that I disliked his long loincloth so I cut it off and tried sculpting a new one. It was my first time sculpting cloth, so there’s room for improvement.
Here’s the finished conversion. In summary, after chopping off his pointy head, I added a helmet and filigree. I then chopped off his long cloth and resculpted a shorter one. I added a leather executioner-style hood with a couple of stitches and finally a fur trim to his cloth.
I think the folds in his leather could be better and the fur would have been better if it were a little shaggier. I put this down to my complete inexperience sculpting these textures, so it’s a point I can improve upon next time.
My favourite bits would have to be the way I managed to get his hood to swoop around, adding a little movement to an otherwise static model.
And here he is painted up:
When I started painting him, I became worried that all those browns and neutral colours would look a little dull. So I took advantage of his large chest area to incorporate a tattoo. I found it very tricky to blackline and highlight because it is so small, but I am pleased with the end result.
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After finishing my first Strider Deathstalker, I wanted to convert a second one to field them in pairs.
I had put off the conversion for a while as I knew the Deathstalker would be a difficult mod because she is basically one piece. (the bow with forearm is the only separate bit).
I started by removing the head and hair, the left arm, the right side of her cloak and severing the sword arm at the wrist. She looked awful when I was done butchering her, but then I had the fun task of putting her together again.
I rotated her sword wrist horizontally and joined it up with a Stone Keeper’s forearm. (I have a little stash of heads and hands from the last time I did a PP bits order as I find these pieces to be the most difficult to sculpt.) I resculpted the upper left arm and then I removed the bow from the left hand. I joined the bow back together again and stuck it onto the model’s back. I had to saw quite deep into the model’s back as I did not want the bow to appear to be “floating” over the top. I used my spare Eiryss3 head from my upcoming mounted Aeryn conversion but I filed off the pattern to make it look less recognisable. I added a lock of hair and filled in the rest of the feathers as well as extending the left side of the cloak to change the model’s profile from a distance.
Here’s the finished product:
I gave her a shoulder pad to emphasise the half-half armoured look.
And here she is with the original for comparison.
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My Striders unit features some small conversions:
The model on the far left has a weapon swap. I intend for his ornate bow to mark him out as the leader when I don’t field the UA. The model third from the left has a scabbard and I sculpted a very plain hilt for him to hold. Also, three of the models have sculpted face masks.
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The first unit I painted for Legion were the Warmongers:
Later, I converted another three Warmongers with minor arm swaps and sculpted face masks. This way I can field them as one large unit of five or two smaller units of three.
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When I first read about Spell Martyrs, I imagined them busting ribs Alien-style just as they are consumed by their Warlock’s magic. So I wanted my Martyrs to be mostly intact, pre-rib-burst. My third Martyr will eventually be the original sculpt.
The female is based on Cylena Raefyll’s torso with the original Martyr legs and arms. The male is the original with a resculpted chest.
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I love to use the Angelius in games, even if he is a little top heavy.
In order to convert my second Angelius, I chopped the middle part of the tail off and then sculpted a new one wrapping around a (bark chip) rock. The core of the tail was made of aluminium foil to save on weight, putty and to act as a frame so that I could get the positioning right.
I cut away the wing webbing close to his body and repositioned this wings curled around closer, like a perched gargoyle.
I might even prefer him to the original, he certainly topples over less often!
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I wanted at least two Forsaken for my Abby list but I don’t like to have identical models, so I had a go at modifying the second one.
At this point I was still very new to sculpting so I needed a reference to compare size and shapes. I based the new head off Vayl1 and the new arm off Annyssa Ryvaal’s.
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I painted my first Shepherd to have a bright red cape lining.
I came to greatly value the Shepherd’s presence on the battlefield, both in healing a much needed beast and managing fury. I don’t think there’s a better one-point option for Legion. I wanted another, so two years later I converted a second Shepherd.
To distinguish her from the original sculpt I wanted to remove her hood and make her hold the weapon in both hands. I gave her Saeryn’s head and Cylena Raefyll’s arms which I modified to hold the scythe instead of her sword.
This conversion looks simple but was actually surprisingly fiddly. First I had to remove the head, arms and a substantial part of the cloak to go with them. Cylena’s arms end halfway up the bicep so I pinned them into position and sculpted back in the rest. Getting them into the correct position was very tricky because I had to gauge the correct arm length and ensure that the angles matched up so that the haft would sit correctly in both hands. I resculpted the top part of the cloak and added a hood from Eiryss3.
Here they are, side by side for comparison:
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