Okay everyone - now that the competition is over I can post my conversion project in here - this was my first ever one so please keep the harsh comments to a minimum.
So first things first is the clear up the long name thingy I had intended on keeping it as its Lizardman name but I guess the powers that be had other ideas
and I was too polite to say anything.
Name Of Model - "Tehe-Tli-Chuq" - Escorting "Kor-Kai-Har-Am-Bai" Astride "Itza-Kor-Kha"
Name Of Palanquin - The Crown Of Lustria
Name Of Model Translation - "Knowledgeable Beast Magic - Escorting Mighty Ancient Harmless Soul Astride Mighty Revered One."
My Model is a Skink Priest Engine of the Gods proxy - The gods in this case being the chaos gods that tainted the giant gorilla - He is released in battle under the strict control of his skink priest who has dedicated his studies to the lore of beast magic. The rickety cage he is being held in is temporary and barley fit for purpose - as the model shows he has broken much of the bars already.
The model Is magnetised so that eventually I can use the gorilla element as scenery and the priest can remain atop on his Custom Palanquin - The Crown Of Lustria . and be used as a priest on ancient Stegadon Proxy.
I also intended to make these dedications:
" (I'd actually like to dedicate the monkey in the cage element of this model to Harmabe. I don't want this to influence peoples decisions at all so you can either add this as a spoiler of freely mention it if you wish. Or wait till the end of competition and then I can tell people about it. I started to conceptualise this around the time of the tragedy for the poor gorilla - I had the model of a monkey looking tainted by chaos and it made me think that that's how the media portrayed him. The Name of the gorilla in my conversion represents the true nature of the animal - and although he is tainted by the chaos gods and appears to be grabbing a skink in the model his motives may well be kind natured.)
The other dedication I'd like to mention is that the snake casting element was a direct copy of @ Hojdar 's Skink priest from the Itza Gallery of Fine Arts - I'm mentioning this because I didn't want to plagiarise it more pay homage to it with my own and as its 1 element of a larger conversion I hope it doesn't affect things. Everything else on the model was done of my own ideas. "
So how did I go about this conversion? - In short attempting a lot of stuff I didn't even know what I was doing ^.^
I recorded a lot of the little bits I did along the way but I had a mish mash approach to making the model so I'll post some of the steps I took bellow -
In this step you can see I have made a circular base for the cage of the gorilla this later got changed due to it looking ridiculous on the back of the Stegadon (Who knew an elongated cage would also look ridiculous - but that's because I never got round to making the support structures either
) - I also wanted to have it carried by 2 Stegadons but I just never tried it that well. Here you can see I have ripped by Stegadon of his base which he was firmly attached too both in an emotional sense and otherwise. I guess at this point I had already magnetised the circular base and the stegadons back as he has it inside him.
In this step you can see the construction of the crown I used metallic struts that came attached to other miniatures and bent them to go in a circular shape as I thought they would look like a nice crown
In this step you can see part construction of the throne I used part of the basdillion (I cant even begin to bother to spell this atm) kit and steps from a wizard set that the names alludes me of but I found out its name for someone before - the one people use for engine of the gods a lot.
Here is some brass wire I ordered to make a cage
Here is some brass wire cut into little rows (Tougher than u'd think with the wrong equipment
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I started to make the cage from the corners at first.
Then painstaking propping up of bars as they glued individually for hours -.- ... oh oh oh here u can kinda see the blade I had sticking out the monkey - I wanted to glue some weapons in him to make it seem like he'd had a bit of a back story and seen some action - I also green stuffed in a gap in his arm.
Then I began some shaping of bent bars to make it look like the beast was strong and capable of acts of brutality and to insinuate that he was not happy being locked up.
Here we see the crown palanquin about to be smoothed over by a sweet talking Slann...haha nah It had the makers marks of the models imprinted in the metal so I had to smooth over a lot of that in afew layers and the gaps between the connecting parts - this took a few layers.
Here is some of the smoothing.
The max file limit is 10 so i'll do a second post shortly
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