Homemade Gargoyle Wings

[Halollet]

Know what stinks? Being really broke.  Know what's worse? Playing warhammer while being broke!

But, gotta do what you can.  So I have a bunch of gaunts that haven't seen the light of day since 3rd edition and I want to slap some wings on them.

Was thinking card, but that might look silly.  Found this idea of printing a wing pattern on clear plastic and just cutting that out.

Just buying bits looks like it wouldn't be worth it as I would be half way to just buying actual gargoyles.

I want to make 20 so I can play that sky lord formation and I will be that much closer to owning skyblight!

Any ideas out there?

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[winstonnilesrumfoord]

This is awesome! I always thought bugs looked better with buggy wings.

[Jabberwocky]

Buy the plastic sheets you write on for overhead projectors. It's lightweight and easy to print on. It should be just about stiff enough to stay flat once glued in place especially if you can glue it with a very slight curve to hold the shape. Should be very cheap.

[darthplagis]

Looks awesome, but nids are dinosaurs

Would look great in place of the solid membranes of the nurgle flies (keep limbs)

[monkeychuka]

ziyousansz made a thread about homemade gargoyle wings here:

thetyranidhive.proboards.com/thread/38353

They look really good:



WestRider also does really good insectlike wings:

[WestRider]

I did simpler ones for my gargoyles, because the ones on that Flyrant were a total pain, and took me forever. I don't have any painted pics of the Gargs, but here are a couple of wips:




I just drew the vein patterns on with a fine-tip sharpie.

[mattblowers]

Feb 18, 2015 6:33:46 GMT WestRider said:

I did simpler ones for my gargoyles, because the ones on that Flyrant were a total pain, and took me forever. I don't have any painted pics of the Gargs, but here are a couple of wips:

I just drew the vein patterns on with a fine-tip sharpie.

First off, great job, very well executed.

BUT, why? Why go to all that work for a model that costs about the same as the actual model? Was it a general dislike of the garg model? Or was it just to fit the theme of your army? Or just b/c you like to build your own thing? (The catachan devil fex is awesome BTW, any chance of painted pics on that one?)

[WestRider]

Back when I did those, Gargoyles were metal models that cost something like US$12 for two, were a major pain to fit together, and had a tendency to do cartwheels and fly apart if someone so much as looked at them funny. The Tyrant was also a metal kit, and had no wing options short of major conversion. I'd seen a cool Flyrant with insect wings at a tournament the year before, so I decided to go that route.

Originally, I was going to continue on that way, but then they came out with nice plastic Gargoyle and Flyrant kits, so I've got 16 of these Gargs and the one Flyrant, and then 30 of the new ones and a pair of the new Flyrants. I figure fluff-wise, my Hive Fleet is experimenting with different types, running them at the same time to see how they stack up against each other.

I never actually built that Catachan Devilfex, it was only ever a mockup stuck together with Blu-Tac. I may still do it up properly at some point, but for right now, all the Fex back plates I have are earmarked for a Tyrannocyte scratchbuild.

[mattblowers]

That makes sense, I never ran the gargs until the new kit came out. I just couldn't bring myself to pay that much for awful models (especially the Lady Parts mouth one). My old flyrant had wings made out of scytals.


EDIT: Haha! Lady Parts??



Picture is worth a thousand words. Since v-jay is too racy for the hive, I'll leave you with this.