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How did you make these? are they a kitbash or 3d print?

Hey,

It was a lot of work.

The bodies are from Tortuga Bay. The upscaled version.  Forgot the name.

The right arms and combibolters are from plastic tartaros terminators.

The left arms are mostly the thunderhammer arms from assault intercessor kits. (One is the powersword arm from tartaros kit)

The heads are from Forge World Iron Warriors upgrades.

The multimelta is the plastic tartaros heavy flamer arm with all multimelta bits from the Eradicators kit.

The chains are from a model railroad bits company called "builders in scale" (they have lots of different sizes)

I used plasticard to bulk up the thunderhammer arms, plus assorted bits and greenstuff.

And I used bits of old wound guitar strings for the extra power cables.  (Wait, is wound spelled the same as wound?)

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Right off i have to say the Tortuga Bay minis are pretty good.  But the shoulder pads are way to big, so I trimmed them down.  Other than that it was just a matter of carving the inside of them to land right on the arms.  There was also a bit of messing around to do with the torso-waist ball and socket conection.  Resin flashing in the socket and things not sitting quite right, and an odd gapped look on some i had to fix.  I ended up using part of a plastic straw above the belt and tucked under the chest plate.  

Gotta say, i am very happy with the final result, but it was a slog.  The chains were a pain to deal with, having to glue one end where they attack and then drip very thin superglue that wickes along the chain so that it will lock in place.  Very tedious and prone to getting messed up.  The other big task was making the multimelta work.  The result speaks for itself i believe, but there was a lot of finagling with the hoses and matching the gun to the arm and the powerplant to the back of the terminator.  

Highly recomend a very good hobby saw.  I used mine to cut off the vents of the melta gunner's back to fit the power plant and was able to glue the same vents to the powerplant for some detail.

Excellent work, nice scaling of the parts and nice paintjob.