Dec Voting - Fixed!

[Pheonix]

Here are this months entries - there is 5, i hope that this is all... i really dont want to repost this...

Minimodeller
Before:


After:


Archon

Barbed Hierodule


Hive Tyrant w base, its not attached so i can paint the model withought painting the support stick


Pheonix





Thlaylie





Math

[Pheonix]

i did like maths SM's... kinda partial to them cause they use a banner... i like banners... but i voted for me, cause i think i did a great job, and with all the effort that went into turning dark eldar blade bits into lightning claws and shredding guns and making that shield and all the trixie modelling stuff i am happy with it.

[Thlaylie]

Thanks for the fix Pheonix

[math]

Yes, thanks for the fix also.

[Julio]

ya thanks pheonix for the fix

[Pheonix]

well it is already looking pretty clear... though we did not get nearly as much votes as the last one... should i just declare a winner?

[The Custodian]

NOOOOO I may yet pull off a Hillary Clinton!!!

Yeh its over...

[shiro]

The poll has only been going for a few days so it is probably too soon to call for a final result. Leave it for a few days to provide the opportunity for more people participate in the vote.

[Enigma]

Gotta say, that brass scorpion (or defiler, i can't tell) really takes the cake.

[Tauranid]

Wooo! Minimodeler all the way!

[Enigma]

When i think about it, minimodeller is pretty good, but really just sculpted it out of milliput, while Thlaylie really had to splice different parts together, making it more interesting

[minimodeller]

ha ha ok i'll bite as it was a decent-ish sort of troll... I considered this point myself when putting together my entry last month and how it would be viewed against the hardcore of converters on the forum and you've risen exactly to the bite as I expected someone to.

This is probably a completely different thread in its own right and if so, mods feel free to move it if you see fit.

So what do you, hivefleetenigma, and others on the forum consider a 'real' conversion? Is it a simple 'kit bash' where all parts are provided by a manufacturer (GW) and kit pieces are simply mixed and matched by the 'converter' to make a new model - essentially requiring little modelling skill other than matching up the necessary pre-made parts from a bulging stock catalogue and then adding the odd bit of greestuff here and there. Or is it a completely different beast in that the inspiration is in the modellers mind and he searches for multi-source materials to become the end piece - regardless of what or where they are acquired from to acheive the same effect? Or are they both part and parcel of the same skill, just at different ends of the spectrum?

"When i think about it, minimodeller is pretty good, but really just sculpted it out of milliput"

Good throw away comment - "just sculpted"...

MM

[Overread]

I consdier a conversion to be something that is converted from the original. Thus a part of coversions is modification of an existing thing - be it a model or a concept - such as remodelling from scratch a Hive Tyrant. Now in this you can use whatever you like - 40K players will tend to use materials from 40k as it is the most readily availble and is also often similar to the idea that they are thinking of.

What you did is a conversion of a hierodule - its not an orignial scuplt that you have made - it is based on an existing idea. The difference with yours and many others is that you have taken a model from outside of 40K as a base and then used a lot of skill to scuple the tyranid around that base. It might be pushing at the boundaries between a full conversion and a sculplt 0 but I think it is still based more in the conversion line; I would consider a scuplt to involve only a basic wire design or outline and have the scuplt grow around that.

That said mini 0 here is a challenge for you - take it if you wish - I would really like to see what you could make from not only your own mind, but without a base for the model - starting of at the bare bones, as it were, with a wireframe

[minimodeller]

good response overmind, as always.

There really would be a challenge! I think i was pushing my modelling boundaries in doing the hierodule, with so much milliputting involved, but to do something from scratch on a wire armature - i don't know if I could go that far. Not saying I wouldn't do it, just whilst Im still learning to convert/sculpt whether I would think a model of a good enough standard to show to an external audience - yet.

I will defo give this some thought though.

mm

[hivefleetsiafu]

minimodellors is one insane conversion dinosaur to tyranids, just awesome