Mechanicus Conversions - Small Project

[Inquisitor Trinity]

Back again with some new models! For my next project I'm doing something a little different and building some mechanicus. Mostly supplied by the Warhammer Imperium magazine. I imagine they'll essentially be the tech staff of my deathwatch so it still works out.

 

I... i don't really know what this one is haha. A magos i guess? Honestly i just threw this together out of scrap and spare parts. There's bits from 12 kits involved! It went "hmm, what if i did this? And then this, and then i add that" and this is the result! Very damn please with it though, whatever it is! It came about because the ambot kit gives you an entire spare set of legs for some reason and i figured the mechanicus would be the best way to use them. Couldn't think of a good way to incorporate them into the existing models so i created an entirely new one! The central torso piece is a contemptor foot! The blue bits are land speeder doors! Pure scrap but it looks like an actual model haha.

 

I've also put together some skitarii. I know that they've either got the wrong heads or the wrong weapons but I doubt these guys will ever get a chance to play (certainly not competitively) so I've gone for rule of cool and the vanguard heads are the coolest as are the rifles.

 

I'm so glad they made the engineseer plastic, it was always a great part of the imperial guard lineup and for a long time was the only mechanicus model we had. The plastic version is loads better. I do wish I could have thought of some way to convert it but it's too good as it is. I'll be able to paint it my way though so that'll be something

 

Next up for the mechanicus forces is a kataphron battle servitor. I only have the one of these as I don't plan on playing any games with them so one was just fun to have. I think I've made some slight conversions? It's hard to say as I only used the parts in the kit but I think the shooty version isn't supposed to have armour. How could I not add the armour though! I've also not added the little servo arms as I plan to use those for another conversion. The heavy gun arm I've not glued so I can swap the weapons out which you can see on the second image. I didn't realise how big these things were they need a 60mm base, that's dreadnought size! Sadly there aren't any of the sector mechanicus based available for them (ironic) as I save those for dreadnoughts. So I made one of the scratch built ones I do out of card and some sort of knitting frame. Works very well I'd say!

 

I've actually converted this one a bit, they've got a kataphron head and a flamer arm plus a little servo arm as well. I wanted to replace the cane but I couldn't find anything that worked well. Pretty cool kit though, given me a few extra parts to use for conversions. Again I've made a spaceship style base for them as there isn't a 50mm sector me mechanicus equivalent

 

I'm looking forward to painting these, any ideas on which forge world they'll be from? The mechanicus have always been really interesting to me, the bionic and robotic elements have so many crazy possibilities! Please follow my instagram for more details and videos! https://www.instagram.com/onyx_warpainter/

[Brother Tyler]

That is a very menacing magos conversion. What forge world/color scheme(s) have you been considering?

[Inquisitor Trinity]

I'm back! Sorry it's been a while, i kept meaning to update this. Anyways, lets get to some new models. All the mechanicus stuff is now finished! If you want to keep more up to date follow my instagram https://www.instagram.com/onyx_warpainter

 

I wanted to do a different colour scheme to the usual red so I had a look at other forge worlds and it turns out Ryza is the closest to Furor Shield where my deathwatch are based. So I went with this cool orange style. What do you think? I'm really happy with the way the white trim came out on the cloaks. It's the little details that make a models.

 

First is my completely kitbashed Magos Reductor Quintus. Lord of the Ryza delegation to Furor Shield. I am so pleased with how this has turned out. It started with some ambot legs and me wondering, how can I use these for my mechanicus. Then I just started attaching bits to each other and here we are! After looking into the different types of tech-priest I figured this guy had to be one of the ones whose only concern was war. They've upgraded pretty much their entire body to be a machine of destruction. And what a machine it is! No less than 12 different kits contributed to this beast. Can you guess all the parts?

 

 

Next of my mechanicus detachment is Magos Dominus Hadrianus. When they aren't fixing tanks and crafting bolters they're killing xenos alongside the deathwatch of Furor Shield. My watch fortress needs a lot of technical staff and so they have a full time delegation from nearby Forge World Ryza. Hadrianus is one of the senior magi in the fortress. Not a big conversion bit I head swapped for a kataphron head and added a flamer arm with a servo claw. Definitely not game legal but I'm unlikely to actually bring it to a table so it just has to look cool 

 

 

This is Engineseer Lucius, a junior member of the Furor Shield tech staff. I didn't do any conversions here as the basic model is already very cool. I'm so glad they made these in plastic. I put a lot of white trim on their robes and it looks very distinctive, pretty pleased with how it turned out. I wonder if I'll ever actually use this guy in a game. Maybe a casual one with a friend where we can use whatever we like. I only bought them because the dark Imperium magazine made it really cheap to do so.

 

 

A kataphron servitor. For those times when you just need something destroyed. No conversion, I've just left some parts out so I can use them for other things. There's so many cables! It looks a bit multicoloured from certain angles. I've done a bit of object source lighting on the plasma cannon, nothing too crazy just a bit of overspill on the light so it looks like it's glowing.

 

 

Finally we have  the skitarii squad. The only conversion I did here was a simple head swap (or weapon swap depending on how you look at it) so that they had ranger rifles but also vanguard heads. Rule of cool!