Dan The Deamon Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 Converting the Dark Elf Corsair cloaks to fit your space marines. You will need: -Standard plastic clippers -A rectangular/flat mini file. -An Exacto knife To begin your Dark Elf corsair cloak must be clipped of all the rear torso plastic that is molded into it. This doesn’t have to be pretty or smooth, just get rid of any excess plastic so that you can carve and shape the inside more easily. Use your clippers or knife and remove the cloaks collar. If you are interested in using this later the majority of the collars can be fitted to the neck guard of marine armor. Set this bit off to the side. Next take the space marine torso you’re planning on using and clip the entire backpack mount off. Try not to bite into the plastic too deeply but try to get the backpack mount flat. When this is done file and clean any excess plastic so that the rear is flat and clean. The top of the cloak needs to be clipped slightly where it curves up. This will ensure a better fit onto the torso mount. Next begin shaving off the sharp rough plastic on the inside of the cloak. Remove a very thin strip of plastic from the top and begin filing from the top to the bottom of the cloak (Green outline) . This is where it will mesh with your backpack mount and your torso bit. You will need to shave some of the plastic on the sides of the cloak so that it fits the marine torso correctly (red outline). Each corsair cloak is slightly different and requires different work. Dry fit these cloaks regularly and you shouldn’t have a problem. The cloak and torso will not be seamless. What you are concerned about is making that seam as small as possible and remembering that arms and shoulderpards still need to fit. I have found myself going back to the cloak several times to shave off more plastic to fit arms and shoulderpads. If you still want to use the collar bit off the cloak simply file and carve until it is roughly the same size as your marines neck armor. In most cases these cloak collars won't need much work, however you won't be able to use every one of them. The last step is to fit your backpack to the cloak. If there are any spiky, bony, or plastic protrusions you want to clip or cut them off. Once again depending on the cloak each backpack will fit differently. Use your rectangular file and flatten the area where the backpack is likely to sit. It doesn’t have to be perfectly flat or clean, just enough width and height to fit the backpack flatly. The last step would be green stuffing the gaps between the cloak and torso, and extend the cloak up to the armor seamlessly. I don’t have any WIP photos of this however beginner level gap filling will achieve sufficient results. There you have it. A simple cheap way to add scaled cloaks to your space marine armies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrannicide Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 Perfect tutorial Dan, I'll be adding this to the Librarium if that's alright with you. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan The Deamon Posted July 10, 2009 Author Share Posted July 10, 2009 Sure thing glad to help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrannicide Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 There ya go! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Anvilus Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 whooptiedoo, I'll be using this on my DIY dragon themed chapter ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venerable Jazzman Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 I found this a few years back, it's been useful. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/fatjazzer/scales.jpg nb, this isn't mine, see copyright details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Chaplain Ginn Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Hey Dan any new progress here with the Alpha Legion? What about other projects? Im gonna get busy when I get back from Korea in a week or so. Im definitely on for Adepticon. Should be a blast. Is your stuff in the chaos section around here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Melice Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 love the conversion idea.. great originality... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaton666 Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Great tutorial, I have just used it to model a dragon scale cloak for my rune priest. It has turned out great. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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