Notmo Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Disclaimer: This is my first project, first conversion, first time using plasticard and all that. Please be gentle. I recently re-discovered the hobby after a 10+ year break. I have a small, outdated Imperial Guard army. I've never actually played the game, only collected models and painted them. I want to start playing, so I've started to buy and paint the models I need for an army. A key piece of that army is a Techpriest, to be accompanied by some Servitors. I'm very unimpressed with the actual GW servitor models - mostly because they generally come with weapons and not servo-arms, which is what makes them useful. I also don't really like the idea of having zombies in my army. I think my conversions fit with the fluff and stuff. So I decided to build some from scratch, and I also thought I'd post here to show you my progress so far. I found some small tracked vehicles from Anvil Industries. (http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/AFTERLIFE/Republic/Taurus-Gun-Tractors) I actually thought they'd be much bigger than they actually are, but they're incredibly detailed and I'm actually pleased with the size of them in the end: (scalpel blade for reference) http://i.imgur.com/H433rm7.jpg My first thought was to also buy some of the weapons and then cut things away and sculpt what I wanted with GS. The biggest flaw in this is that I am not a very good sculptor. So I did some research and bought some plasticard. I got a sheet of 2mm, a sheet of 1.5m, a 3mm tube and a 3mm square section. http://i.imgur.com/OtQHtzH.jpg The basic premise is that each vehicle (there are 5) have a utility crane of some form. Each is made as the above, two pieces with a round piece as a joint. This is then attached to a plate, which in turn attaches to the vehicle (with magnets so that they can rotate). On the end of each crane is a removable tool as you'll see below. I spent a LONG time trying to see if I could figure out how to make the joints in the crane arm moveable, but after a few different attempts I gave up and just stuck them together. If anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears. So far, I have three "tools" - an excavator bucket, a drill and a sort of pointy thing (I made that one first). If anyone is interested, I'll go through how I made each one (but it's fairly obvious). I also have a plow or dozer blade to attach to one or more of them. The Excavator: http://i.imgur.com/r4jDtSQ.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/bjKdJ80.jpg The Drill: http://i.imgur.com/PY258S1.jpg The Dozer Blade: http://i.imgur.com/WKNty9S.jpg The Pointy Thing: http://i.imgur.com/njnzrfY.jpg The magnets: http://i.imgur.com/G9ssY6M.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stercus Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Well if this is your first project in a decade, I'm certainly intrigued as to what you get up to next! Those are great, some really good ideas. Were the little tracked units expensive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notmo Posted February 18, 2016 Author Share Posted February 18, 2016 Well if this is your first project in a decade, I'm certainly intrigued as to what you get up to next! Those are great, some really good ideas. Were the little tracked units expensive? £13 plus a few quid for delivery... I'm not sure what to put on the last two units yet. Probably going to spend the day at work tomorrow looking at heavy industrial tools... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedInventor Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Those are looking great so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notmo Posted February 18, 2016 Author Share Posted February 18, 2016 Thanks! I'll try to remember to post updates once they're finished and once they're painted. For the last two, I've thought of a couple of ideas: A fuel truck - have a fuel tank on the back with a type of nozzle on the crane part A crane - the crane part would need to be much longer, but I could build some sort of grab or hook to go on the end. If I can work out how to make movable crane arms, I'll definitely do this one. A mobile comms vehicle - like a vox caster, lots of antennas, rotating radar dish? Forklift - forklift type device at the front/back Fire Engine - Painted bright red (obviously), with hoses and a water cannon? Dump truck - to go with the excavator, literally just a big bucket on the back - maybe movable? Bridge builder - NO idea how to do this one, but would be quite cool, but maybe the models are a bit small... Winch - Bit winches on the front and back Mine clearer - A specialised (somehow) dozer blade for mine clearance... Claw - normal crane as the others but with a claw type thing at the end for manipulating things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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