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Dedwrekka

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I\'m looking to convert a Squiggoth for my Feral Ork army, and I have a problem. Whenever I ask what I should use as a base, I\'m always pointed to the GW Olyphant (Mumakill). Unfortunatly I always say that\'s not an option....they\'d never understand.


It\'s too good for me to convert it.


If I cut into that model it\'d be like cutting into a Da Vinci statue, for me. Alright so it\'s not exactly that bad but it\'s something like that. Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem.
 
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Originally posted by Dedwrekka
It\'s too good for me to convert it.

If I cut into that model it\'d be like cutting into a Da Vinci statue, for me.
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You are joking?? It\'s over priced and over rated. It\'s blasphemous to stick anything GW in the same sentence as someone like Da Vinci!

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Ritual

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$65 in the U.S. and £50 in UK (which I think is a lot more than in the U.S.). I don\'t know what it costs here in Sweden cause I haven\'t been in a GW store in ages.
 
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supervike

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Go to a toy store.

There are hundreds of cheap-o plastic Dinosaurs, elephants, buffalo, lizards, koala bears, skinks, dodo birds to choose from. The cheaper the better. Chop em up with a saw and start glueing them together.

Usually the scales would work wonderfully.
 
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Verm1s

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Yeah, but the cheap-o plastic dinosaurs look really cheap-o. :(

My advice would be to go for one of the Tamiya dinosaur kits; Invicta toys, which have better details and proportions than most dino toys; or Tsukuda Jurassic Park kits, which are rare, though something might pop up on ebay.
 
freakinacage

freakinacage

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Originally posted by Verm1s
Yeah, but the cheap-o plastic dinosaurs look really cheap-o. :(
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just sculpt on a load of stuff. you\'ll have to change the head whatever.it shouldn\'t take much skill or effort to bulk out a bit here and there. add loads of armour too to cover up any really crappy parts
 
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Verm1s

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Urk... bulking up with little skill or effort would not help it look better, I feel.

I commented on this thread on Warseer. The engine construct looks good, and admittedly it looks a little less like a rubber toy when painted; but the giant paving-slab scales didn\'t help (made it look more like a rubber toy again), even if they weren\'t going to be painted bright blue.

Sorry. I\'m just fond of dinosaurs and large monsters. I like them to look as well as possible.
 
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Dedwrekka

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There are hundreds of cheap-o plastic Dinosaurs, elephants, buffalo, lizards, koala bears, skinks, dodo birds to choose from. The cheaper the better. Chop em up with a saw and start glueing them together
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The thing is that the model has to be 12 inches long from head to tail (It\'s part of the speccs GW added in), as I\'m going for the gargantuan sized ones.

I can get an accurate measure by eye, but it\'s finding something that large that becomes a problem for me.


You are joking?? It\'s over priced and over rated. It\'s blasphemous to stick anything GW in the same sentence as someone like Da Vinci!
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I\'ve never said that GW was that great. However, large companies attract very good one armed sculptors. I\'m not compairing GW or their prices to Da Vinci, I\'m compairing the defacing of the work of a good sculptor to the defacing of the work of a good all around artist. I don\'t pretend to think that GW\'s prices on the Olyphant models are fair, so that\'s another reason not to use it as a base.
 
freakinacage

freakinacage

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Originally posted by Verm1s
Urk... bulking up with little skill or effort would not help it look better, I feel.
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i\'m not saying don\'t use any skill or effort. but its shouldn\'t be too hard to make them more realistic. that guy you commented on had just stuck blobs of putty on for the scales (i agree totally with your comments about it). also i think his choice of mini isn\'t very good. i reckon if you go for a short, squat dino or preferably a sci-fi/fantasy kids model that isn\'t half bad, you\'ve got a good start that shouldn\'t require much work

btw. apart from the price i like the gw model. love to convert one into a war mammoth but i can imagine getting half way and just leaving at a half-hairy elephant thing!!
 
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Dedwrekka

New member
Who needs Photoshop....

Right now I\'m actually looking at several toys and considering a splice of them, and I\'d like your opinions of them.
Like my splicing several dinosaurs together to create this:
squiggoth-preveiw.jpg


or my mammoth/T-rex splice:
mammoth-squiggoth.jpg
 
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