Whenever I chop a bit of a model and throw it away, later on when I'm looking for something my brain goes, 'do you remember that thing you binned? It would be really useful now.' So, now I have my hobby room set up, I have these handy drawers from Aldi where I keep odd cut offs, just in case.
When it comes down to greenskin engineering, it is priceless to have access to these bits.
Here is my first Pumpwagon conversion. It doesn't have much floor space to it but it feels lanky, breakable and has spiky bits. Using about 50% of the parts from the pumpwagon in the snotling box. Instead of using a big rock pumping the wagon I found loads on flails that where cut off from old chaos marauders arms, probably to be weaponless arms for blood bowl.
The front wheels are from a skaven plague catapult. Back steering wheel is almost all from the kit. Added a bit of a cross beam to one of the poles holding up the roof and added a bottom of a spear shaft to act as an axel bolt, which can be seen better in the previous picture. I also used a metal bit which looks like some sort of wooden shaft as the handle. A bit of aluminium foil from a tea light to strap it to the main body and plastic rod blips for bolts/nails.
Quite a lot of snotlings have had their clubs removed for various projects including becoming blood bowl players. I needed a wooden bit to anchor the steering mechanism and this wooden bit came already with a nail in it - couldn't be better.
Side blades are from the old goblin wolf chariot kit that came in the polystyrene trays.
This is my second Pumpwagon conversion. It's the main body flipped upside down. It looks way more sturdy and more like a tank this way around.
Think the mushrooms look better this way around too. The skaven aesthetic on the wheels works great once you've removed the runes. Again from the skaven plague catapult/warp lighting cannon.
The millstone is from the giants necklace. Works great as a wheel.
Front face is from the old pump wagon kit. It looks a lot more robust this way around. Will add some spear tips on the front to give it a bit more impact power.
I've converted up lots of the battle for skull pass goblins to be using hand weapons, so I have lots of spear bits. They will go well to give a bit more stabby lethblity to the pump wagon.
Done some more work on the troll.
So I haven't moved any of the limbs far off from where they where supposed to go but away from the extremes making the pose more palatable.
You can see that I chopped a bit more off the cloth at the back than I needed but it was a faff getting the leg in the right place so was nice with a bit of wiggle room. Planned on adding a bit back on the cloth but think it is more likely to come out bad so think it looks alright to just leave it rather than draw attention to it with a bad sculpting joint. The filling in the armpit might need some detail added to blend it better with the back scales.
From the back it looks alright.
His right ear still needs a bit of work but think the left is good enough.
This guys right ear sculpted and the left ear was carved off from one of the goblin arms I believe.
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| Part -1 || Part 1 || Part 1.2 || Part 2 || Pump W Conversions || Positionals || Linemen || Staff || Old Positionals || Old Linemen || New Linemen || New Positionals || Pump W & Trolls || Trolls || Finished |
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