Converting the Venomcrawler
Rebuilding the Surfaces
Once I’d carved down all of the offending details, it was time to fill some of the gaps and divots left in the armor surfaces. It was pretty straightforward to be able to do this with some greenstuff and the burnishing end of a sculpting tool. At this stage I also glued the eyes/faceplate on to the beastie.
It was at this stage that I felt the exhausts were missing something. Perhaps that Imperial touch? So I cut the heat shrouds off two Astra Militarum meltaguns and glued them onto the exhaust pipes that I had green stuffed over (apologies for the blurry photo, good one-handed photography is tough).
Finally, I glued the back spine plate on, and added the round hatch from the AdMech Dunecrawler for some extra interest.
Wow, in just 3 short posts I’ve gone from “he’ll never do this” to “Holy s**t he’s doing it!!!”
I’m looking forward so much to what you do next. Interesting your using that old ‘mount’ model you did in the first post, will you look to include some sort of rider on this too?
Impressive work, but haven’t you missed one typical chaos design?
This borders with rivets and the arrows around armor plates are at least for me typical for chaos in both old fantasy and 40k miniatures.
An old chaos warrior, which shows quite good that the arrows actually may represent the arrows of the chaos star.
http://www.coolminiornot.com/13745 (Not really a typical chaos colour scheme, but the first one i found and it should be enough to show the point)