Cheapskates guide to making shrikes with BS/RC

[gloomfang]

I posted this a long time ago, but people are asking for it again and I can't find the post anywhere.

I'm on a very tight budget so I looked over my bits bin and realised a quick, dirty and cheap way to make shrikes.

Things required:
1 gargyle model
1 set genestealer rending claws
1 set termagaunt spinefists
1 Strip of thin balsa wood or whatever you want to use as a blade.

Sorry I don't have WIP pics for the spine fists or rending claws. I'm making 4 shrikes next week with the rest of my box and I'll do some WIP pics then.

Step one: Cut the spinefist gun portion off of the gaunt arms. This will leave you with just the hand attached to the arm.

Step two: carefully remove any portions of the gun that do not look like a pommel. Basically the very top and front.

Step three: Cut the hose off the arm. (Optional. I thought they looked silly.)

Step four: file down and fit the "pomel" that was made from the spinefist on to the hand.

Step five: Carefully cut down the material you want to make the bonesword of to the right length and shape.

Step six: Attach the sword to the top of the pomel. Pinning is hard to do so I recommend using plasticard so you can glue it. I used balsa wood for a more organic texture and I have problems with them staying glued on.

Step seven: Cut the hand and claw off of the rending claw arm.

Step eight: Reattach the claw at a 90 degree angle to make more of a claw. You can use greenstuff to round out the heel if you have the skills.

Step nine: Glue the wings and head onto the gargoyle model. You need to do this first to make sure you position the swords right.

Step ten: Glue the rending claw arms down about here the little stubs are on the wings. This area is really dark, so I didn't bother with greenstuffing.

Step eleven: Glue the sword arms to the model.


Just a note, make sure that you use the larger warrior sized bases. Just using the gargoyle flight bases can cause issues as they are not the right size and these are HtH units.

Single figure head on (and out of focus)


Brood shot as a WIP


Completed Shrike. Only base coated for a tourney last weekend so ignore the paint.

[TheContortionist]

i like the idea.

[fnorrll]

Not too bad, if youre gonna go that way. A little small, but effective. I also like the purple on the wings.

[avsimone]

interesting concept. I like the idea that the shrikes are gargoyles more than warriors. kinda interesting. though to make it stand out a little more, maybe you could use a few mawloc spines, like people use for converting zoanthrope into doom. this might indicate or at least make it look like it is more important (unless you want to mask that from your opponent, higly unlikely but plausible)

[avsimone]

oh and what do you think about changing the rending claws to scything talons?

[gloomfang]

May 24, 2012 23:13:11 GMT avsimone said:

oh and what do you think about changing the rending claws to scything talons?

When I do it now I just say the long scythe thing at the end of the tail counts as a scything talon. Honestly when I make more I am going to make the tail 2 pieces with greenstuff and make a dual scything blade at the end.

[firefash]

Hvae you tried Warrior heads to make them look less gargoyle?

[gloomfang]

May 25, 2012 7:51:03 GMT firefash said:

Hvae you tried Warrior heads to make them look less gargoyle?

No becasue I didn't have any spare heads. I would worry they would be to big.

[Braddon]

May 25, 2012 13:49:04 GMT gloomfang said:

May 25, 2012 7:51:03 GMT firefash said:

Hvae you tried Warrior heads to make them look less gargoyle?

No becasue I didn't have any spare heads. I would worry they would be to big.

They would. I did it just for fun, because I had an extra warrior head. I'm not at home, but I'll get a picture ASAP. Might be to some people's liking.