Amateur conversion time!

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Amateur time!

So as i mentioned in the first posts, when i started out i was pretty keen on saving money. And as such i tended to do everything i could to dodge GK going prices, hunting on Amazon and ebay didn't really give me what i needed. So i tried my dab hand at building some additional troopers. And here are the results, now, these are pretty.....no, VERY amateurishly built, but maybe someone'll take a gander (fowl play,eh,eh nudge nudge) and get a better idea and do those.

Here we go.

What you see here is a "clip on" marine with a bolter, with some purity seals added on to him, the hands and "pegs" for the clip-on bolter cut away, and a falchion hand glued on, a storm bolter glued on, and a terminator shield on the left pauldron. The pose was intended to invoke the feeling of a knight in prayer, or greeting a dueling foe. All in all? you can see it is a silver painted space marine with a sword and a Storm bolter....he usually dies first though.

Yeah i'm not sure where to start, the paint scheme aside? damn, i'd forgotten all about these. This guy has a Venerable dreads secondary head, and a green stuffed incinerator. If nothing else i can mention how easy it is to alter "clip ons" with a bit of knife work and glue, i mean i was wondering if i should even add this, but hey, he's killed a Company command squad on his lonesome. So there is that, even with a crappy modell, if you can see what he is supposed to be, he can play, if he can play, you can try out different tactics while getting in the game. And that nets you experience if nothing else. And that will allow you to learn how you want to play your guys, without spending money. Which is a plus to me. 

Same thing here, a "complete" modell, allowed me to try out some different paint schemes, it got me to learn how to paint the eyes more completely, and wether or not i wanted to do the Storm bolters in grey or not.

Of course, the quality of painting on these modells make me cringe slightly nowadays, but it does give me a measurement of how far i've, if nothing else.

So in closing, horrible modells? sure. Tacky painting scheme? that too.

But i'd like to give a shout-out to kit bashing as a good way to save money and get a bit of inspiration.