Friday, 29 June 2012

Beastmen Harpy Conversions

These foul and winged girlies took me quite a while to glue together even though the kit-bash was very simple indeed: Tyranid Gargoyle wings grafted onto Daemonettes. I know I'm not the first person to try this, but I think my early results will eventually produce some of the very best examples. I've gone for dynamism over the practicality of making certain they rank-up on the tabletop... I'll deal with that sometime later.





I'd never suggest for a moment that there was a best way to do a particular conversion - personal preferences certainly rule - but on a trawl round the web I've found a few kit-bash conversions using some very odd choices (in my opinion); ungors for example, and even crypt ghouls. I can't see how anyone wouldn't opt for daemonettes, or, why they would add the extra arms at the front (like the meat-puppet-handed old sculpts GW still offer). In my mind harpies look something like this, even if mine aren't so feathery!

4 comments:

  1. Simple, seamless and awesome conversion.
    Would make stellar chaos furies, if they didn't suck as a unit in 40K.

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  2. Doesn't really look like a conversion, looks perfect to me.

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  3. Very nice. I guess the obvious reason for using ungor is a) so they'd fit in with your beastman army and b) because you have spare ungor lying around as a result of said army. But these really look the part to me.

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