Converting a Ghoul King!!

[Nelganis]

Hey guys, been a long time since Ive been on (Tales of Ivana for anyone who was wondering). In my absence I picked up alot more Vamps to build and paint...around ~2200 points

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone has converted an awesome Ghoul King that was NOT the terrorgheist rider. I personally think that doesn't look cool enough to be my Strigoi and am looking to convert one.

Going off of the picture in our codex, I want to try and replicate something along those lines but am not sure where to really start it. For legs, I'm looking into a pair of Ghoul legs or possibly Bloodletters because they have similar looking form. That leaves the muscular, non-hunched over chest which I was debating possibly a chaos marauder's since it would be very muscular and I could maybe just greenstuff the gap between the chest and legs. And then I would just add arms and a head which shouldn't be a biggy at all.

Any other ideas on where to go/what to use for this project of mine??All ideas are welcome, with the exception of "just use the terrorgheist model" :tongue:

Thanks,
-Nelganis

Edit: the marauder chest will not work since none of them are bare it turns out...back to the drawing board for chestpieces now

 

[WilsonUndead]

I always kinda thought the event only forge world skin wolf would be a sweet strigoi, if you covered up the fur parts with GS and did a head swap maybe... seems in the right pose for it anyways.... or just use the toerrorgheist model. lol

 

[Santawraith]

Wight lords plog has a cool one its the avatar of war's deamon champion body with crypt horror claws and a vargheist head. I would post the pic but I have not finished the one I am making myself.

 

[Santawraith]

Link to wight lords plog

Here is a link to his plog it is halfway down the page.

 

[Nelganis]

Link to wight lords plog

Here is a link to his plog it is halfway down the page.

Thanks alot Santa, that Ghoul King was awesome, I love how it was a hulking monstrosity of a Vampire, very fitting for a Strigoi.

Ultimately, as much as I loathe the model, I will be using the Strigoi on the Terrorgheist as a base and then just bit-swapping some things on it

I might have to steal that Strigoi idea though, that thing would scare the hell out people :devil2:

 

[Adam_Barrow]

Is it just me, or does this guy

kinda have some similarities to this guy:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440004a&prodId=prod1670026a

I note the windswept locks in particular. Seems a leg swap/remodeling, shaving the horns, and I guess maybe some work to the snout (though it /does/ have fangs, and I'm not sure it'd be a stretch to say a Strigoi may be slightly more prognathic than your more courtly undead types) could have you with a pretty gnarly looking Strigoi. And now that there's a resin model, it'd be a Hell of a lot easier to convert.

Just passing on some idle thoughts.

 

[Chaos_Born]

He has similarities in his 'badassness', but you can't really convert him into a ghoul king because he's fully armoured