Need help with a Conversion.....

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Elzanith

Grave Guard
Mar 29, 2012
220
Canada
Zombies
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Hey guys i am trying to think of how to make my self some ghostly graveguard and suddenly remember in one of the old white dwarfs there was a conversion using wood elfs to make ghost like models..... Does anyone remember how this was done or have any suggestions on good models to use for "Ghostly" like grave guard? I rather wouldn't buy 40 of the new wraiths to count as :P
 
I'm pretty sure I've got that WD, but it'd take hours to go through them all...

You could try the US WD Index here:

WD Index on Dakkadakka.com

I think it's post issue 300 if that helps!

As I recall, all they did was cut away the visible "live" parts of the model and reassemble leaving "gaps" where necessary. So cut away the face, any exposed hands and legs, leaving the hooded cloak, gloves / weapons and boots. It works with wood elf models because of the cloak connecting all the parts together.
 
Shadespyre said:
I'm pretty sure I've got that WD, but it'd take hours to go through them all...

You could try the US WD Index here:

WD Index on Dakkadakka.com

I think it's post issue 300 if that helps!

As I recall, all they did was cut away the visible "live" parts of the model and reassemble leaving "gaps" where necessary. So cut away the face, any exposed hands and legs, leaving the hooded cloak, gloves / weapons and boots. It works with wood elf models because of the cloak connecting all the parts together.

Yup, check mad'ats plog, he did those WE ghosts
 
Indeed I did, thanks for referring to my guys.

As Shadespyre said it is simply a matter of cutting away all the skin parts (and some more sometimes, like the waist), leaving just the cloth. The tricky part is to put the models together with all that matter missing. The cloak is the key here, the torso will be glues to the cloak, and the clock to the legs. The arm pats can also be glued to the cloak, but you'd run out of poses pretty quickly by only doing so.

For models I'd stick to plastic WD, it's be to hard to cut/drill away all the skin from metal one. This would limit you pretty much to glade guards however, don't really know what kits you could spice it up with.

A problem I had with the conversion is weapons. You'll need a lot of weapons free from hands, which can be tricky. Axes are easier than swords.

What weapons would you equip you GG with? Great weapons would be cool I think and with a little imagination you could get some pretty cool poses to. Shield would work too I guess, arm parts can be attached to the inside and the shield angled so that it can be glued to something else (like the cloak xD)

A last word of advise is to pin and use plastic glue as much as you can, they are insanely fragile.

With that I wish you good luck.

EDIT: And it is true I too was inspired by that WD, even though I only saw it once when a friend brought his new copy to school.
 

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