brother_contagion Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I've been looking at getting 3 Blood Slaughterer's ever since I saw the model and got IA: Apocalypse (don't know if the rules/points are any different in IA:13) but didn't want to bleed more money for FW than I do GW, so I decided on looking for relatively cheaper conversions. I figured that Maulerfiends are about the same size (maybe a bit bigger?) and roughly the same shape as a Blood Slaughterer. I was thinking I could use one of the Ectoplasma Cannon arms and one of the Lasher Tendrils as the Impaler harpoon gun. Also shortening the neck and maybe finding some smaller Defiler-like legs. Since they have cleavers, I'd need to get rid of the PF arm. Does anyone know of any Blood Slaughterer conversions they've done themselves or seen before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheex Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Maulerfiends are much bigger than Blood Slaughterers, which are more like Helbrute in height. Not sure what else you can use, but let me think on it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaolin_Monkey Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I had been thinking of using defilers in bits to make them. The basic upper hull part as the body with the big claws as the arms and smaller claws as legs. Would seem to fit the size and look suitably daemonic and built for slaughter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother_contagion Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 I had been thinking of using defilers in bits to make them. The basic upper hull part as the body with the big claws as the arms and smaller claws as legs. Would seem to fit the size and look suitably daemonic and built for slaughter. That's true, it's just that Defilers are bigger than Maulerfiends, which are bigger than Helbrutes. It seems to me that Blood Slaughterers are a good median between the size of a Helbrute and Maulerfiend, so I was thinking using a Maulerfiend would be the best choice from the GW range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warsmith Aznable Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 What about a Dreadnought body on Defiler legs (the smaller ones)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaolin_Monkey Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I had been thinking of using defilers in bits to make them. The basic upper hull part as the body with the big claws as the arms and smaller claws as legs. Would seem to fit the size and look suitably daemonic and built for slaughter. That's true, it's just that Defilers are bigger than Maulerfiends, which are bigger than Helbrutes. It seems to me that Blood Slaughterers are a good median between the size of a Helbrute and Maulerfiend, so I was thinking using a Maulerfiend would be the best choice from the GW range.Defilers are bigger but that's where using only the upper hull part with some legs/arms would seem to fit. It would end up smaller than a maulerfiend too. I'll try and do a mock up to show you what I mean when I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaolin_Monkey Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 here is what I was meaning by using the defiler. Bear in mind that these are just using a few bits to provide an example and are very loosely held together with blu-tak. http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq63/seraphile/Mobile%20Uploads/image-34.jpg so basically using only the top part of the hull as shown and using three of the smaller legs (or less if you want or even spare hooved legs from the Forgefiend if you built the Mauler). I would remove the top joint off the legs to make them a fair amount shorter and so they don't splay out from the body too much. Then using the big claws for the arms, again probably best to remove one of the joints or shorten the lengths so the overall reach doesn't look so out of proportion. As you can see with the Juggernaut, the size is bigger than a helbrute but not too over the top and once you give it a suitable face/helm/head on the front seems quite passable. as always, feel free to ignore any and all suggestions if they don't suit you! also another angle: http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq63/seraphile/Mobile%20Uploads/image-33.jpg and here showing where I would look to trim the legs: http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq63/seraphile/24-02-20151-20-50PM.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother_contagion Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 Ok cool, I can see where you're going with this. I appreciate your help! If you get further along in your conversion post it here so I can take a look at it and get some more ideas from you =] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warsmith Aznable Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I've been thinking more about it. I might do this myself: Dreadnought body The four smaller Defiler back legs BA dread blood talons for the arms or SW dreadnought lightning claw looking things maybe better BA librarian force halberd if you want it to be an Impaler variant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverike_prime Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 I would look at the Ork Def Dred body for a basis of a blood slaughter. I did a size comparison with a friends model a while back, and while the Deff Dread is... erm... 'bulkier' then the Forge world model, it's main body is closer in size then a Fiend or defiler. It also gives you 6 mounting points for arms/legs, which the Blood Slaughter is four legged with 2 arms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhesusforbreakfast Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 I would look at using Sentinel legs and Killa Kan parts and the smaller Heldrake claws. Or maybe you could do something like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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