Carnifex to Trygon Conversion?

[minimodeller]

Hi everyone, have only just joined the site having visited it avidly for the past few months to see whats on etc.

I've just completed a Carnifex to Trygon conversion from the bog standard kit and would be grateful for any C+C on it as it's my first Tyranid Conversion Project.

The links to a couple of shots are:

i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff92/minimodeller/TrygonFront2.jpg

i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff92/minimodeller/TrygonRear2.jpg

Hope you enjoy - let me know what you think. If theres enough interest I'll go through how I did it.

[Overread]

you did that! Great work!
Only comment I can make is that the plating looks a little rough, but to be honest as it looks like you carved it from the putty (what did you use, greenstuff?) i have no advice on how to improve - waiting till it dries and then adding a sharper edge by fileing might work

[minimodeller]

Thanks for the kind comments. I used Milliput superfine white to sculpt the tail and the carapace at the back near the chimneys. Fantastic stuff to work with and easier on a beginner than greenstuff, plus you get more for your money.

If you mean the rough edges of the plates on the tail - I wanted to leave them looking kind of natural with a few breaks in the edging. When I flattened the Milliput out into strips to wrap in sections around the tail, it naturally created 'tears' as I was applying it. I did worry about that effect to begin with but then felt it looked a bit more natural leaving it.

Better pic of the back view is at:

i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff92/minimodeller/TrygonRear.jpg

[badgeman]

That model is absolutely amazing, thank the lord for people like you and unlike myself, the people who can sculpt. I can't sculpt at all, im terrible at it.
Btw have you got any work in progress shots of your model?

Thanks, Badgeman

P.S. Good look when you paint it.

[Tauranid]

That's so cool! I wish I could make one of those. How much did It cost you altogether? Probably a lot cheaper than the real 150$ Trygon, right?

[WestRider]

Very Nice! Another one to add to my list of conversions I want to try. That Carnifex kit is just such a great base model for conversion.

[minimodeller]

Total cost of the model was £18 for an unboxed Carnifex from an independent retailer on e-bay (imagine paying £7 extra full price just for the Carnifex cardboard box when thats nearly the cost of another brood!) and £5 for the Milliput - huge saving over the FW model in total and a great deal more satisfying now seeing some of your kind comments.

Unfortunately I dont have any WIP shots but will over the next couple of days go through in stages how I built the model. All in all it probably took about 10 hours of modelling to make it. There was very little sculpting involved at all - a few tricky bits but nothing major. Despite the kind comments I couldnt work in greenstuff as my sculpting skills really arent up to it. Ive seen a few Tryanid scratchbuilt models done and they are amazing - I couldnt even attempt that which is why I elected for a conversion with a limited amount of work. Lots of the pieces as you've seen from the pics were from my bits box, and I've no doubts that you've all got piles of stuff lying around waiting for the next job.

[math]

Nice!, one conversion which also on my list but cash a bit tight at the moment as working on a top notch BT SM dedicated command squad, plus I'm expecting loads of money as crimbo presents so that will give a much needed boost to both my 40k armies.

[The Custodian]

I love it! JUst a question... is this thing the same size as a regular trygon?


And PLEASE tell us how you did it!

[shiro]

Very impressive work, any chance of getting a close-up of the very end of the tail?

[minimodeller]

No worries on posting a 'how to' - I'll write something up over the next couple of nights and post it up for all to follow. Ill take a few more detailed shots of the model to assist and make following the notes easier to understand.

It really was very easy to do, the only frustrating thing about the project and the time it takes to complete is that you cant do it all in one go. The 9-10 hours I spent doing it was in approx 7 goes. You have to put it down to allow time for the milliput to cure so you dont damage/nudge the work you've already done.

[omalley69]

But you used 1 carnifex and some warriror and ravener bodys aswell right?

[minimodeller]

No, I only used 1 carnifex kit, some milliput and a few odds and sods from the bits box (hormagaunt arms, spare spikes for the tail and chest, extra set of ST which were then cut down for the 3rd lower set and a few spare armor plates from various kits for the chest and abdomen plates).

That was it - no extra ravener or warrior bodies at all as I wanted to keep it as simple as possible with what I had in my bits box.

[Pheonix]

dude, i looked at that and thought it was an assembled version of the real thing, WELL DONE!

[omalley69]

But how did you then make the part from the 3rd set of talons to the normal tail part?

It looks like multiple bodies stuck together.