BFEoT
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Post by BFEoT on Nov 20, 2004 21:27:08 GMT
+++I imagine conversions of bfg ships are quite rare, due to the tiny scale of the ships and the difficulty to find parts that are small enough or that fit. So my question is, does anyone actually have any conversions in their fleet, and if so what are they? I know I'll be converting some or all of my fleet when I eventually get it, but it'll be a chaos fleet so what d'you expect? +++
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Post by Spiritbw on Nov 20, 2004 22:00:46 GMT
Well, it's possible to do some converting with just the pieces you are given in the starter box. You wind up with a ton of bitz that with carefull cutting can be used but that's more if your just wanting to ships of the same class to look diffrent.
I did three chaos conversions on the chaos cruisers that came in the box, partially to practice sculpting with green stuff. I didn't do one for the Lord of Change because I couldn't think how to be represent that mark.
Nurgle was easy. I tooka hot glue gun to the finished ship and added bubbles and strands of glue to the surface. Once it dired it was hard as the plastic and with painting, looked like veins and pustules.
Korne was more involved and took the parts from a Tyranid sprue. I trimed down the head to the point where it wasn't to diffrent in side from part of the prow. Curtting out a section of the prow allowed the two to mesh nealty enough.
Once that was done I sculpted some greenstuff onto it, first to extened the plates on the head and murge them with the upper hull. On the underside I did the same and tried to make it look like a throat aht was warping out of the metal. Once that dried I made a worm out of greenstuff and with much cursing managed to get it cross the brow and bent around so it looked like a set of horns.
A few greenstuff spikes added to the hull improved a bit on the effect(want to do that part again). Int he end it looks fairly well like a greater demon has possed the ship and is trying to get out.
Slannesh was a pain but looks good. Durning the Korne conversion i noticed cutting the tip off the prow would leave a roundish hole where the ship was hollow. Expanding on that I cut the tip off the cruiser then put a ring of greenstuff around it and tried my best to sculpt it to look like a sucker.
Step by step afterwards I put worms of GS around that and bent them into respectable tenticles. If I had to do it agian I'd put light gage wire in first as most have now broke off(sob). It took a bit to do with just green stuff as I had to position them with toothpicks and prop them in place till they dried.
To increase the Slannesh fieal to the ship I took a cereal box and with the aid of a ruler cut some thin strips that I then wrapped across the body of the ship, criscrossing them and adding little GS studs. When painted these looked reasonably like black leather straps.
Admittedly I never play with them but in the end i think they all worked.
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Post by BFEoT on Nov 20, 2004 22:04:15 GMT
+++All sound cool... for the Tzeench ship you could have just done leering faces, either sculpted with greenstuff, or from other models+++
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Post by Spiritbw on Nov 22, 2004 20:38:40 GMT
True, but getting it to look right might have been a trick. As you said, they are small models so anything easily seen tends to look huge. It's all to easy to wind up with two mishappen lumps witha section of gunddeck between them.
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Post by BFEoT on Nov 23, 2004 17:49:40 GMT
+++Well there's always the option of using epic heads... ... but they'd be even more fiddly . Anyway, maybe just more tentacles? They're quite Tzeenchy+++
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Post by Spiritbw on Nov 24, 2004 2:02:51 GMT
Hmm, possible. I was also I rember at the time thinking of trying to actually twist the ship a little but never figured out a safe way to heat the plastic.
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Post by BFEoT on Nov 25, 2004 17:33:04 GMT
+++No need for a safe way, any way will do j/k. Yeah, would look pretty good if you could find a good way to do it+++ +++Anyone else have any conversions? Or do you prefer to just use the models 'as is'?+++
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Post by Yurrath (aka Rezzy) on Dec 19, 2004 21:00:45 GMT
+++No need for a safe way, any way will do j/k. Yeah, would look pretty good if you could find a good way to do it+++ +++Anyone else have any conversions? Or do you prefer to just use the models 'as is'?+++ I wish I could do more conversions, but I don't really have enough money. If I do buy any models I take great care to keep them how they should be bcause I can't afford to mess them up!
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Post by BFEoT on Dec 19, 2004 21:20:26 GMT
I wish I could do more conversions, but I don't really have enough money. If I do buy any models I take great care to keep them how they should be bcause I can't afford to mess them up! +++Well, (talking about 40k conversions not BFG ones) I just do the conversion anyway. Then if I don't like it I just leave the model on my painting table to gather dust, and whenever I see it it reminds me never to attempt such a stupid idea of a conversion again . And if I do like it then that's excellent, I have a nice model ;D+++ +++So, I'll do the same with my BFG fleet when I start it. Also, if you are worried a conversion might ruin the model then you could always just plan carefully how you're gonna do it (OK I never do that but I'd probably end up with less failed conversions if I did). And finally, I tend to end up with a lot more good end results than bad ones, so it is worth it to do conversions +++ +++Phew! Rant over+++
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Post by VexedDuck on Dec 20, 2004 13:45:35 GMT
I'm converting my whole nurgle plaguefleet.
Foer pustules, I simply used greenstuff.
I made decaying/diseased/rusting areas on the hull by applying some superglue and dipping the whole thing in fine sand.
Then, to make tenacles, stuck lengths of small guage wire into sum of the pustules. After that was dry and hard, I then wraped the wire it a light coat of gS and moddeled tenracles.
Alas it does not look to good because I'm new to greenstuff, but I'm getting better.
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Post by Yurrath (aka Rezzy) on Dec 20, 2004 20:38:00 GMT
+++Well, (talking about 40k conversions not BFG ones) I just do the conversion anyway. Then if I don't like it I just leave the model on my painting table to gather dust, and whenever I see it it reminds me never to attempt such a stupid idea of a conversion again . And if I do like it then that's excellent, I have a nice model ;D+++ +++So, I'll do the same with my BFG fleet when I start it. Also, if you are worried a conversion might ruin the model then you could always just plan carefully how you're gonna do it (OK I never do that but I'd probably end up with less failed conversions if I did). And finally, I tend to end up with a lot more good end results than bad ones, so it is worth it to do conversions +++ +++Phew! Rant over+++ Lol, I suppose you're right. Although I do find it quite hard to be optimistic when it comes to my modelling skills. ;D Sounds good... another way to add pock-marks etc is to get a ball of polystyrene (about 1/4 cm across) and try to superglue it to the hull. Superglue melts the polystyrene into a malformed blob. Perseverence is the key, practice makes perfect as they say!
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Post by BFEoT on Dec 28, 2004 23:32:49 GMT
+++Right, I just got the BFG boxed set for Christmas ;D and assembled a Styx class Heavy Cruiser, a Hades class Heavy Cruiser, a Carnage class cruiser and a Slaughter class cruiser (illegal fleet I know). As they're the first four ships in my fleet, I haven't done a huge amount of conversion to them, but I thought I'd share with all you lucky people, the few minor conversions I have done . Unfortunately no pics yet as I still don't have a digital camera , but this is what I've done so far: - SPIKES and lots of 'em. Stuck on at different places and angles on the ship to add to the Chaotic feel . I also added a few antenna.
- Prow rams added to all the ships, made from spikes and a 40k scale (!) knife.
- The hades class, being the ship assigned to my Chaos Tau army, has antenna, turrets and prow ram stolen from Imperial ships to give it a more "techie" feel to it.
- The carnage class has the weapons batteries cut down to look more like the picture in the army list (which will also help to distinguish it from any Murder class cruisers I choose to add in the future).
- That's all.
+++I'll post pics when I get a digital camera +++
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Post by Yurrath (aka Rezzy) on Jan 8, 2005 13:56:03 GMT
+++Right, I just got the BFG boxed set for Christmas ;D and assembled a Styx class Heavy Cruiser, a Hades class Heavy Cruiser, a Carnage class cruiser and a Slaughter class cruiser (illegal fleet I know). As they're the first four ships in my fleet, I haven't done a huge amount of conversion to them, but I thought I'd share with all you lucky people, the few minor conversions I have done . Unfortunately no pics yet as I still don't have a digital camera , but this is what I've done so far: - SPIKES and lots of 'em. Stuck on at different places and angles on the ship to add to the Chaotic feel . I also added a few antenna.
- Prow rams added to all the ships, made from spikes and a 40k scale (!) knife.
- The hades class, being the ship assigned to my Chaos Tau army, has antenna, turrets and prow ram stolen from Imperial ships to give it a more "techie" feel to it.
- The carnage class has the weapons batteries cut down to look more like the picture in the army list (which will also help to distinguish it from any Murder class cruisers I choose to add in the future).
- That's all.
+++I'll post pics when I get a digital camera +++ What a coincidence, those are the same ships that I created too! I added some extra antennae to the Styx, and to make the Hades stand out from the other cruisers I stuck a second bridge ( ) onto it behind the first one at a right angle. It worked quite well!
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Post by chaintinker on Jul 10, 2005 22:47:55 GMT
The main conversion I made to my Chaos fleet was the addition of magnets under the weapons so that none of my ships are dedicated to one configuration. If you are interested I can make a tutorial on how to magnetise the Chaos and Imperial ships.
~tink
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Post by xthetenth on Mar 16, 2008 15:29:44 GMT
Well, nobody made any tzeentch conversions, so I'll share mine once I get a pic. I just used lots of bits from the cities of death box to make a bunch of towers to replace the bridge, which i'll then paint silver because in one of the chaos codexes, it said that tzeentch daemon worlds are coated in the things, so I figured 'why wouldn't that carry over to their ships'. It looks pretty cool, so I'll repeat it with two other ships, and try to figure out something for my slaaneshi pawn..*cough* valuable allies.
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