Inspired by these two threads [URL="http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2009/06/40k-hobbypainting-budget-obliterators.html"]http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2009/06/40k-hobbypainting-budget-obliterators.html[/URL] and [URL="http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2009/07/40k-hobby-chaos-obliterators-by.html"]http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2009/07/40k-hobby-chaos-obliterators-by.html[/URL] I decided to have a go at making my own, partly because I've done relatively few conversions & wanted to set myself a modelling challenge and partly because I don't like metal figures & thought I'd have a go at making something more dynamic out of plastic rather than buying another three.
The reason I started this thread was to let people know how easy it was even for a conversion newbie like me.
I started by I picking up some second hand terminators, stripped, disassembled and cleaned them up ready to start.
I wanted to end up with something part way between the two examples I'd seen. Looking at the metal figure the solution I came up with was to bulk out the torso with plastic card, mask it with a covering of mutant flesh and use parts from the mutant sprue and arm conversions again with mutant flesh to cover the joins. I put them on a slightly built up base to give a little extra height and figured that with these changes no one would really notice that the legs and shoulder pads were less bulky.
To give a sense of the plastic card work I've attached a shot of the modified torso & a mostly painted model and another of another mostly painted model and a metal version for size comparison.
