I wish I had that mentality. I flip out and move the furniture around until I find it. If I don't, the cats will find it. At 4am when I'm trying to sleep. And all hell will break loose as they play soccer with it until day break.
A trick for 3d printers that someone told me is if you're printing models for an army and you need to print duplicates, mirror the model in your 3d printing program. Someone holding their weapon in their left hand rather than their right hand really helps hide twin poses and load outs.
@@photonfartsqueeze6694 Only 10% of people are left handed. 1% are truly ambidextrous. It's possible that most of them are a part of the population that didn't become h2h fighters. Another theory is that lefthandedness could be considered a "gift" of Chaos and the gene was weeded out, especially in 40K. Lastly, it's possible all of the left-handed were recruited for Blood Bowl. 😏
A lot of 3D modelers make multi part models anyway. Even if you count simple variants like shields, one-hand weapons and simple hands/fists, you already have a lot of variation. Once you go into head, torso and feet variations, you're in business. And if you discount the initial investment for the printer and the material, you save a shitload of money, compared to what GW sells, for example. Although I've seen way more expensive stuff than what GW sells.
The conversions and looking through bitboxes to create unique mini's is one of the favourite parts of the hobby to me. Thanks for the insipiration you give in the video!
Dude just calmly narrating the absolute best practices in mini conversions, completely bypassing those yellow Chaos mini paint jobs that just DRIP awesomeness!!! Another common banger for Brent!!
We circled back to a (pseudo-)monopose, but at least the quality is very good, and the design of these chaos warriors in specific is excellent, avoiding many of the trappings of modern GW sculpts. This motivates many into working with them. Good video.
Agreed. A lot of modern GW stuff is way too stylized in terms of long, flowing bits and odd proportions, these sculpts don't look genuinely retro but they have the charm that older minis do. As a D&D guy who sometimes raids Warhammer for nice minis, I actually want these.
That digression about Space Marines makes me think: if you could chop off pegs to make arms more classically modular anyway, could you do that _between_ kits? Take a copy of the Intercessor and Assault Intercessor kits. Then, swap the sets of arms. So you'd have Intercessors with running poses, and Assault Intercessors with standing poses.
Yeah that should work! The flat joint between torso is a classic and used to be very common. Actually those old chaos arms would probably look OK on that modern space marine torso hehehe. Always save your old bits, ya never know when they might come in handy.
Yeah well I got custodes with thousand sons sorcerer hands because I don't like them holding on to spears with both hands lol Also got rubrics with custodes arms for the same reasons and they almost all hold their guns in the air
@@danielblanchette8593 there IS a pretty good hand / wrist joint on a lot of those custodes models- Good work making use of the opportunities that the kit provides!! 🙂
Yeah! I had a set of intercessors I got second-hand. I took some Sternguard arms from the Leviathan box set and once I clipped off the arm pegs on the Intercessors it was just a bit of sprue goo to be good as new
Kitbashing and conversions are my jam. All the way since 3rd edition 40k. I don’t even play 40k anymore but I still kitbash most of my models. I’m ok with my painting but the kitbashes make me feel like whatever I work on stands out as unique. It’s deeply satisfying.
yupyup! the standard legs + torso + arms + head configuration has some advantages! I think that was from the era when orcs had a weird hip-tilt forward... but still! :-)
I have mixed feelings. I did exactly what Brent just did with his chaos warriors, with 40 of the new orks a few years ago. And because of the more dynamic poses of the newer orks the end results look much better than any of my previous orks made with the older multi-part kits. I loved the fact that so many of the bits from the older kits were interchangeable; you could use your leftover bits from one kit (or even the old fantasy orcs) and use them to spice up a group of boyz; but most of the silhouettes were still very 'samey'. I still use all the old bits (except torsos and legs) in my conversions of the new boyz kits.
@@paulstallings1177 Overall I think more kits and more options is always a good thing... bashing together a couple generations just adds even more variety!
I can totally relate to this. One of the big issues with me collecting middle earth is the repetitive poses. Ive gone as far as proxies and doing this to solve the problem. Nice to know other people feel the same and im not obsessed.
Those Chaos Warriors looks so good, I’d never think to use those colours but they’ve come out great. Love all the conversion ideas as well, very inspiring. The new GW kits really are amazing, but there’s definitely a part of me that misses the old style more possible kits.
Kitbashes and conversions are by far my favorite aspects of modeling. BTW, I believe you are the "Bob Ross" of miniatures. You personify positive energy and encouragement. Kudos, Brent!
Kitbashing is awesome. I often do it when I have a bunch of identical minis for D&D. Like the Cthulhu Wars cultists, which are probably my favourite cultist designs ever, but they're all the exact same sculpt. Not much kitbashing that can be done with them, but the arms can be changed. I also changed the head on one of them, from the standard hooded head with skull mask to an unhooded, mostly bald and sinister looking guy, which was a bunch of work, but worth it.
This! I did this exact same process with my 40K Ork boyz a couple years ago, jeweler's saw and all. I have been a strong advocate for using a jeweler's saw (over that of clippers) whenever the topic of conversions come up. When the "new" mono-pose ork boyz came out I bought 2 of the combat patrol boxes, I had 4 copies of 10 different sculpts to have to differentiate. And I pretty much did the exact same thing, I made one of each exactly as instructed, and then I went to town converting the others.
@@GoobertownHobbies - "the combat patrol had duplicates in the box!??" Yes it did. While I was initially put off by the new monopose orkz, it really wasn't difficult, and was a fun exercise to convert the duplicates. And because of the much more dynamic poses I have come to actually prefer the new boyz models, with one caveat, you must also have plenty of the older bits laying around to kitbash with. If I was just getting started and didn't already have a sufficient bits box, the lack of options with the new kits to swap in and out, would be crushingly frustrating. Luckily I have been collecting orkz since 3rd ed (2000-2001) and have what some might describe as too many bits; no self-respecting ork collector would ever say such a thing, but someone who collects one of the "stuntier" armies might.
This was really helpful Brent. I often struggle without how to effectively convert but not go overboard. I had never thought of just rotating wrists. Thanks for sparking some creative new thoughts.
@4:19 Ginger floof squig butt! I've long ago lost count the number of times I've had to relocate a cat during assembly and painting of minis. Your nimbleness and your cat's experience with this process is not missed.
Great video, this is perfect timing for me because Imperium magazine is coming out here now so I am stocking up on cheap space marines, but they're all monopose so will need a bit of reposing. Thanks for all the ideas!
this is perfect timing. I got me 2 blood angels combat patrols and they come with a static monopose character librarian. I was worried about how I could do some simple reposing, so thank you goober!
These are really good hints, especially if you're modelling a force even more uniform in design, something like Imperial Romans. I really like what you've done with these Chaos Warriors to make them dynamic and varied.
Did some of these tricks while assembling my World Eaters Combat Patrol and it's a lot of fun to see just how much effect a simple weapon swap or head tilt can bring to the profile of a model
Your videos always get me in the mood to paint. Your creative techniques make it feel like there are no limits to what I can create. Thanks for the awesome content!
Thanks so much for doing a mini conversion video. I’m going to watch this multiple times, then I’m going to give it a go. I just got a box of Orc Boyz & Orc Arrer Boyz for The Old World. There are four of each of the Orc Boyz poses, so I’m going to need to do some converting. This video has inspired me to give it a go. Thanks!
Thanks for making this Brent. I love your "go with the flow" attitude towards conversions. I've always struggled with cutting up models to make conversions because I always think I'll ruin the mini. Now I know that even if I do, I will most likely end up with a happy accident.
I love the creativity of posing modular minis. Great to think about working towards that on monopose minis as well. Also the thumbnail is amazing! The colors are so bright and bold I thought I was looking at pixel art versions of your minis!
hehe ty! For the image... remove background, give them a black outline... slight crank on saturation and contrast... Also I purposely painted the green one that color with thumbnail image in mind ;-)
"I dropped the bit and lost it" hits so close to home, sometimes you just gotta accept that you aren't working with all the options you thought. It makes you improvise and that's a good thing!
I just started messing with models/learning 40k this month and I went with Orks as my army since I am inexperienced and figured with the lore Orks leave a lot of room for bad painting and fun customization. First thing I did was modify the hell out of a squad of boyz and quickly realized conversions are my jam. Loved cutting bits and bobs off, gluing new stuff on, and coming up with little back story bits for all my boyz. Also, I'm not as bad a painter as I expected to be (as long as it takes me a week per model)
I've bee doing these kinds of conversions for years now, but it's always nice to get more inspiration from others. Monopose and especially starter set models are a really nice challenge. I can, however, understand that some people that don't enjoy the building aspect of the hobby as much may be frustrated with them. For cutting joints, I usually prefer my sharp hobby knife over clippers, if I want to preserve both sides. If there is a lot of space to fill in, sprue goo may be a better choice than just plastic glue, as it can act as a filler on top of providing the same effect plastic glue does. When drilling in or otherwise hollowing out a hidden area of a model to alter the hidden joint, pieces of the sprue itself may bee good substitutes for hidden sections of the arms, if these are missing on the selected new part. On the Space Marine intermission: I like to glue the pins back into the shoulders after removing them from the torso, so I have the full surface for the glue to work with and not the hole in the middle. I've long reached the conclusion that a big part of what makes the Primaris Range so much better looking to me than the old multipose models is actually the fact that legs and torso are connected. The old models had the ability to freely rotate at the hip, but compared to the new models it just looks silly how the belt and everything upwards just stays static as opposed to the different layers of the armor moving to accommodate the movement of the wearer. Also, funny how you kept coming back to the thing about twins finding other twins and taking their heads. I'm not sure the twin aspect is the worst part of the interaction though, at least one set of twins may have more pressing issues.
Another tip if you're in for a long painting session is to add some freehands. They can go a long way in hiding that all the sculpted details are the same.
I don't really play games, but love building, converting (or at least kit bashing) and painting. I like to change miniatures to make them my own and to remove things I don't like (most mini'a are busy enough as it is).
A week or so back I picked up the freshly OOP Ork Combat Patrol, and strove to do something like this with the second monopose boyz squad, and while not the most noticeable thing in the world, there are no exact duplicates to be found, which is satisfying to me even if nobody else notices.
So, I did similar thing with the freebie Stormcast Eternal that you can get in WH store, or in the Getting Started magazine (I had 3 of those total from a big online order) - rotating wrists with weapon and heads to follow the speartip gave a good effect - but what changed a lot of the stances, was clipping the original stud from the premade base, and rotating the models on the sculpted base, so their feet would be at slightly different levels than original - on models without sculpted bases you can easily do that with a thin piece of cork, or thicker blob of texture paste under one leg.
@@GoobertownHobbies I was just trying to see what I could do with 3 identical models without resorting to adding any external bits - and rotating the models on the bases also hid the fact that it's the same base design on all of them, with careful placement of tufts on each model pretty damn well. The fact that Stormcasts have easy to rotate shield arms also made a difference.
definitely a god send for me when I wanted to make 30 units using the voidscarred kill team was the fact the kit naturally had about 40+ arm/biceps to make it easy to hide duplicates, but the video really helping with a kitbash and knowing good places to cut and where to disguise alterations makes it a far less daunting prospect since the models are like the start collecting slave of darkness box with just 3 pieces to make the body.
I won’t lie, I love the idea of a pair of psychotic twins roaming the battlefield searching for other twins to add their heads to the trophy rack. I’m highly tempted to make a kill team or something like a little scene/diorama built around this idea! I’ve got a lottle pile of mono pose models specifically for silly ideas like this. 😂 Edit: Lottle; it’s like a little, but it’s kind of a lot.
This is one of the first things I did when I got into the hobby! The Deathwing terminators from the starter kit are four unique sculpts, and one duplicate. No idea why they did it that way, but the twins bothered me, so one of them got their bolter and head rotated, and power fist replaced. And I've been doing small conversions on basically every single model I've owned ever since.
I like everything that you're doing here. This is wonderful and I want to try it on some of my own duplicates. I wouldn't dare try this with super glue though. Plastic glue is definitely going to be your champion
Nice! Have fun making your new characters :-) I used plastic glue for most of this... but on the weaker joints sometimes I coat the outside with superglue as a lazy bit of reinforcement
hehe, thanks! a lot of it is the thumbnail tweaks, but I've been leaning more and more towards 'cel shading' with my painting, and I'm liking the style! :-)
Kitbashing and conversions are what I love about the old multi part models. Made three Goblin bosses from the goblin sprue, with the only parts not from the box being a helmet from a dwarf set (not sure which) that fit perfectly on a Goblin without helmet, and an axe from a Black Orc aprue
I honestly just did this exact thing with three Blade Guard veterans that I got from the Imperium Magazine. A little bit of converting and bits swap and they look like 3 unique characters.
I'm usually building the first squad as per instructions but in the process look at what i could be changing for the second and third group. When I'm getting to the third or 4th squad is where i might start using some putty.
You are underselling this in the title. It's a wonderful intro to kitbashing. Focus a little more on the tooling, and you can make a strong series out of this
Love this video, reminds me of when you made Slambo I went out bought that warband and made Slambo myself it was fun and turned out great😊 I also feel like kitbashing feels so tough these days I'm glad you made this video showing that it doesn't have to be and that even mistakes can be cool opportunities
I've not done much kitbashing myself yet, but its FUN! The deathwing terminator that I got for free this month got a chainsword in his offhand now instead of a shield (its his parrying dagger.), and I've done a few modifications for my Voidscarred so they fit their self-made spaceship bases (no more tactical rocks!), and so that I have ALL specialists instead of 2 gunners. One of the gunners has a skin-cloak and is the obvious Drukhari member of the kill team, so I made him the dual sword wielding specialist by just swapping some arms around.
This is super helpful right now. I've been thinking about putting my custodes army together and it's some hard to make 20 guards unique... I'll try this :)
I've been looking at that kit recently... not a ton of options, but at least some of the wrists have nice flat attachment points that can be rotated- good luck and have fun with it!! :-)
@@GoobertownHobbies I've already converted 2 into heroes for my Kill Team, but doing the whole group for my army is a bit daunting. Thanks for the support :)
For swaps like the axe-to-the-other-hand, I would suggest drilling a shallow hole in the hand that is about the size of the axe haft, rather than gluing it on flat. You'll get a much better bond, especially when using plastic glue. I find it's a nice alternative to pinning when the weapon haft is very thin.
I recently converted a chaos rhino to look a bit more Nurgley. I used some tentacles from some GUO bits and use some green stuff for some living flesh patches this was also my first experience with green stuff. It didn’t quite turn out the way I wanted but I think it looks ok. I also converted a daemon prince again to be a little more Nurgley, I changed his horns to, again, a GUO’s horns from a spare face, and I used a face from a Foetid Bloatdrone it makes it look like he is wearing a gas mask and gave him a fly buzzing around his sword. It is pretty fun to take something that is supposed to look a certain way and make something completely new.
Cool! Nurgle is great because it's supposed to be a bit gross and messy... so even if it doesn't turn out how you planned it still might be awesome! :-)
I've converted a good number of those old 90s monopose warriors too. It's amazing what a difference it can make to give them a sword or mace instead of that big axe... not that there's anything wrong with big axes.
I always appreciate a nice, simple conversion talk. Nothing crazy, but something actually doable. I have to know, what is that teal color? It's amazing!
Great video! I am doing this quite alot to make the lost of all the push fit models from the 40k starter sets. So now one of my three duplicate captains have become a chaplain, and the other two are destined to becime a librarian and a judiciar. But somehow swapping arms on the assault intercessors never occured to me. They are not glued, so i might be able to pull it off, but changing the head poses will take quite some work now 😅
I'd go mad with power! :-) I do actually have a dremmel, I should investigate options for cutting wheels that do a nice clean cut on plastic without lighting it on fire
This is an amazing video about one of my favorite parts of the hobby. I hate having my models look like each other as well as everyone else's. You missed a really impactful easy conversion which is to tilt the model in a new way on the base. It is amazing the different poses you can get that way. Often just requires shaving the feet at a slight angle to create the new pose.
I'd better take notes, I have around 50 of the old, old plastic Goff Orks holding a shoota in an arm which was a separate part, and an axe in another fixed arm. Nice to see the Chaos Yellows back, I was watching the 24 hour painting video just this morning! The blue chap is splendid, though.
hey thanks! I bet you can easily make a handful of distinct goffs.... 50 different lads is gonna be tricky though, but I'm sure you're up to the challenge ;-)
11:45 the main reason these nippers don't pinch the plastic that much, is because of their single blade design, not necessarily because they're sharp. I switched from high end regular clippers to Godhand type single blade nippers and never looked back.
Your "runt of the litter" is my favourite! Not because it looks good, but because it once killed my friends Vengorian Lord. Something which I never miss an opportunity to remind him of!
With the dominion box I sacrificed the killaboss and the big head on the mounted boss to make yndrasta holding a severed head. Her speak is in the back of the killboss as he lies at her feet dismembered. Used a horse tail from Perry miniatures to give that ogre head a literal pony tail above her hand. The "Holding a head" trope is so much fun to model imo. I was defintely bummed to find the minis so mono-pose, and the way the heads are molded on some of them makes them very difficult to change out, but in miliput and greenstuff I trust.
Nice! Yup you gotta be creative and willing to cut stuff apart these days... oh well! I'm sure you're getting some sweet unique models at the end of the day :-)
"I dropped the bit and lost it, and that's ok too." I strive for this level of chill.
I got more of 'em! :-)
I wish I had that mentality. I flip out and move the furniture around until I find it. If I don't, the cats will find it. At 4am when I'm trying to sleep. And all hell will break loose as they play soccer with it until day break.
Brent is an overgrown capybara
Same. Finding this channel at the start of my mini building/painting journey was really good for my mindset going into the hobby.
I panic when I do that.
A trick for 3d printers that someone told me is if you're printing models for an army and you need to print duplicates, mirror the model in your 3d printing program. Someone holding their weapon in their left hand rather than their right hand really helps hide twin poses and load outs.
That's a great call!
Everyone is right handed in Warhammer!
@@photonfartsqueeze6694 Only 10% of people are left handed. 1% are truly ambidextrous. It's possible that most of them are a part of the population that didn't become h2h fighters.
Another theory is that lefthandedness could be considered a "gift" of Chaos and the gene was weeded out, especially in 40K. Lastly, it's possible all of the left-handed were recruited for Blood Bowl. 😏
Dual Shield Warrior...
A lot of 3D modelers make multi part models anyway. Even if you count simple variants like shields, one-hand weapons and simple hands/fists, you already have a lot of variation. Once you go into head, torso and feet variations, you're in business.
And if you discount the initial investment for the printer and the material, you save a shitload of money, compared to what GW sells, for example. Although I've seen way more expensive stuff than what GW sells.
The fact I'm not a painter and still click on this channel before anything else just tells how good these videos are.
hehehe, thanks for hanging out! :-)
Then, become a painter.
A different kind of “positivism” makes me watch the channel constantly heh.
That Warrior swinging his hammer up is a great conversion and it looks like theres a lot of weight behind that shield bash and follow up!
a mighty blow! (thanks!) 🙂
The conversions and looking through bitboxes to create unique mini's is one of the favourite parts of the hobby to me. Thanks for the insipiration you give in the video!
Right on! Keep have fun with your projects! :-)
Dude just calmly narrating the absolute best practices in mini conversions, completely bypassing those yellow Chaos mini paint jobs that just DRIP awesomeness!!!
Another common banger for Brent!!
We circled back to a (pseudo-)monopose, but at least the quality is very good, and the design of these chaos warriors in specific is excellent, avoiding many of the trappings of modern GW sculpts. This motivates many into working with them.
Good video.
Agreed. A lot of modern GW stuff is way too stylized in terms of long, flowing bits and odd proportions, these sculpts don't look genuinely retro but they have the charm that older minis do. As a D&D guy who sometimes raids Warhammer for nice minis, I actually want these.
That digression about Space Marines makes me think: if you could chop off pegs to make arms more classically modular anyway, could you do that _between_ kits? Take a copy of the Intercessor and Assault Intercessor kits. Then, swap the sets of arms. So you'd have Intercessors with running poses, and Assault Intercessors with standing poses.
Yeah that should work! The flat joint between torso is a classic and used to be very common. Actually those old chaos arms would probably look OK on that modern space marine torso hehehe. Always save your old bits, ya never know when they might come in handy.
Yeah well I got custodes with thousand sons sorcerer hands because I don't like them holding on to spears with both hands lol
Also got rubrics with custodes arms for the same reasons and they almost all hold their guns in the air
@@danielblanchette8593 there IS a pretty good hand / wrist joint on a lot of those custodes models- Good work making use of the opportunities that the kit provides!! 🙂
The best thing about 40k is that just about everything space marine from the past 10 years can have its arms, head and hands swapped around.
Yeah! I had a set of intercessors I got second-hand. I took some Sternguard arms from the Leviathan box set and once I clipped off the arm pegs on the Intercessors it was just a bit of sprue goo to be good as new
Kitbashing and conversions are my jam. All the way since 3rd edition 40k. I don’t even play 40k anymore but I still kitbash most of my models. I’m ok with my painting but the kitbashes make me feel like whatever I work on stands out as unique. It’s deeply satisfying.
it IS pretty fun! 🙂
One of the best talks on conversions in a long while, very accessible and straightforward theory and related techniques. Good stuff!
I will never get over the apparent pure joy when you look at the painted & converted models. So wholesome.
This is why I 100% prefer the old Ork Boyz kit, they look a bit odd but are soooooo much easier to kitbash
yupyup! the standard legs + torso + arms + head configuration has some advantages! I think that was from the era when orcs had a weird hip-tilt forward... but still! :-)
Not to mention manufacturers like Spellcrow, that sell bits designed specifically to work with the old Boyz.
@@Bluecho4 heck yeah! 🙂
I have mixed feelings. I did exactly what Brent just did with his chaos warriors, with 40 of the new orks a few years ago. And because of the more dynamic poses of the newer orks the end results look much better than any of my previous orks made with the older multi-part kits. I loved the fact that so many of the bits from the older kits were interchangeable; you could use your leftover bits from one kit (or even the old fantasy orcs) and use them to spice up a group of boyz; but most of the silhouettes were still very 'samey'. I still use all the old bits (except torsos and legs) in my conversions of the new boyz kits.
@@paulstallings1177 Overall I think more kits and more options is always a good thing... bashing together a couple generations just adds even more variety!
I can totally relate to this. One of the big issues with me collecting middle earth is the repetitive poses. Ive gone as far as proxies and doing this to solve the problem. Nice to know other people feel the same and im not obsessed.
the twins, they haunt me! 🙂
Great video! I'm going through this process with the older LotR plastics, and you can so so much just by rotating a head, elbow, and wrist.
Those Chaos Warriors looks so good, I’d never think to use those colours but they’ve come out great. Love all the conversion ideas as well, very inspiring. The new GW kits really are amazing, but there’s definitely a part of me that misses the old style more possible kits.
Kitbashes and conversions are by far my favorite aspects of modeling. BTW, I believe you are the "Bob Ross" of miniatures. You personify positive energy and encouragement.
Kudos, Brent!
This is brilliant!
Although I’m working with 3D printing, your explanation of the thinking and importance of changing profile is really helpful.
''They each found a unique head to carry around'' This one made me laugh haha Great Video as always !
This is an awesome video.
That's super useful.
Converting is one of my favorite things to do, so it's smart to break it down to its simplest forms.
Kitbashing is awesome. I often do it when I have a bunch of identical minis for D&D. Like the Cthulhu Wars cultists, which are probably my favourite cultist designs ever, but they're all the exact same sculpt. Not much kitbashing that can be done with them, but the arms can be changed. I also changed the head on one of them, from the standard hooded head with skull mask to an unhooded, mostly bald and sinister looking guy, which was a bunch of work, but worth it.
That shield guy looks so sick! So smart to have him actually use his shield compared to the rest who seem to just carry it around is awesome!
This! I did this exact same process with my 40K Ork boyz a couple years ago, jeweler's saw and all. I have been a strong advocate for using a jeweler's saw (over that of clippers) whenever the topic of conversions come up. When the "new" mono-pose ork boyz came out I bought 2 of the combat patrol boxes, I had 4 copies of 10 different sculpts to have to differentiate. And I pretty much did the exact same thing, I made one of each exactly as instructed, and then I went to town converting the others.
whoa, the combat patrol had duplicates in the box!?? I'm glad you found some ways to hack 'em up and put 'em back together!! :-)
@@GoobertownHobbies - "the combat patrol had duplicates in the box!??" Yes it did. While I was initially put off by the new monopose orkz, it really wasn't difficult, and was a fun exercise to convert the duplicates. And because of the much more dynamic poses I have come to actually prefer the new boyz models, with one caveat, you must also have plenty of the older bits laying around to kitbash with. If I was just getting started and didn't already have a sufficient bits box, the lack of options with the new kits to swap in and out, would be crushingly frustrating. Luckily I have been collecting orkz since 3rd ed (2000-2001) and have what some might describe as too many bits; no self-respecting ork collector would ever say such a thing, but someone who collects one of the "stuntier" armies might.
This was really helpful Brent. I often struggle without how to effectively convert but not go overboard. I had never thought of just rotating wrists. Thanks for sparking some creative new thoughts.
@4:19 Ginger floof squig butt!
I've long ago lost count the number of times I've had to relocate a cat during assembly and painting of minis. Your nimbleness and your cat's experience with this process is not missed.
it's all part of the system 🙂
Great video, this is perfect timing for me because Imperium magazine is coming out here now so I am stocking up on cheap space marines, but they're all monopose so will need a bit of reposing. Thanks for all the ideas!
this is perfect timing. I got me 2 blood angels combat patrols and they come with a static monopose character librarian. I was worried about how I could do some simple reposing, so thank you goober!
I believe in you! Have fun with it :-)
Great video. The painting on the chaos warriors is fantastic ❤
These are really good hints, especially if you're modelling a force even more uniform in design, something like Imperial Romans. I really like what you've done with these Chaos Warriors to make them dynamic and varied.
Did some of these tricks while assembling my World Eaters Combat Patrol and it's a lot of fun to see just how much effect a simple weapon swap or head tilt can bring to the profile of a model
absolutely! :-)
Thanks, Brent, for yet another chill and relaxing video. This channel is a great resource for de-stressing.
I hope you have an outstanding friday and weekend :-)
Your videos always get me in the mood to paint. Your creative techniques make it feel like there are no limits to what I can create. Thanks for the awesome content!
That's what I like to hear! Now go make something awesome :-)
Thanks so much for doing a mini conversion video. I’m going to watch this multiple times, then I’m going to give it a go. I just got a box of Orc Boyz & Orc Arrer Boyz for The Old World. There are four of each of the Orc Boyz poses, so I’m going to need to do some converting. This video has inspired me to give it a go. Thanks!
Hell yeah, always happy to take a new trip to goobertown!
awww yeahh!!!! thanks for hangin out :-)
Fantastic video! I just bought some chaos knights to start an army for 4th edition and this has given me some amazing inspiration!
oh nice! they're really fun models :-)
Thanks for making this Brent. I love your "go with the flow" attitude towards conversions. I've always struggled with cutting up models to make conversions because I always think I'll ruin the mini. Now I know that even if I do, I will most likely end up with a happy accident.
hehehehe, worst case scenario your squad has an amputee... I suspect there are indeed some amputees in the old world :-)
Really nice. I've read about swaps and such, but seeing it presented makes all the difference. Thanks.
right on! Give it a try someday, it's real easy to get started :-)
Great tips from Brent as always! And liking how you put your cat in the indomitus box as the kitty box / shelter haha!
Heck yeah! Always gotta have places to store cats when they are getting in the way.
I love the creativity of posing modular minis. Great to think about working towards that on monopose minis as well. Also the thumbnail is amazing! The colors are so bright and bold I thought I was looking at pixel art versions of your minis!
hehe ty! For the image... remove background, give them a black outline... slight crank on saturation and contrast... Also I purposely painted the green one that color with thumbnail image in mind ;-)
Easy conversions is an awesome video topic! I, too, want to make all the duplicate models in my army unique with conversions.
heck yeah! :-)
That's amazing, you are truly a craftsman! I really like the green warrior!
Hey thanks! he's a fun one :-)
"I dropped the bit and lost it" hits so close to home, sometimes you just gotta accept that you aren't working with all the options you thought. It makes you improvise and that's a good thing!
I just started messing with models/learning 40k this month and I went with Orks as my army since I am inexperienced and figured with the lore Orks leave a lot of room for bad painting and fun customization. First thing I did was modify the hell out of a squad of boyz and quickly realized conversions are my jam. Loved cutting bits and bobs off, gluing new stuff on, and coming up with little back story bits for all my boyz. Also, I'm not as bad a painter as I expected to be (as long as it takes me a week per model)
I've bee doing these kinds of conversions for years now, but it's always nice to get more inspiration from others. Monopose and especially starter set models are a really nice challenge.
I can, however, understand that some people that don't enjoy the building aspect of the hobby as much may be frustrated with them.
For cutting joints, I usually prefer my sharp hobby knife over clippers, if I want to preserve both sides.
If there is a lot of space to fill in, sprue goo may be a better choice than just plastic glue, as it can act as a filler on top of providing the same effect plastic glue does.
When drilling in or otherwise hollowing out a hidden area of a model to alter the hidden joint, pieces of the sprue itself may bee good substitutes for hidden sections of the arms, if these are missing on the selected new part.
On the Space Marine intermission: I like to glue the pins back into the shoulders after removing them from the torso, so I have the full surface for the glue to work with and not the hole in the middle.
I've long reached the conclusion that a big part of what makes the Primaris Range so much better looking to me than the old multipose models is actually the fact that legs and torso are connected. The old models had the ability to freely rotate at the hip, but compared to the new models it just looks silly how the belt and everything upwards just stays static as opposed to the different layers of the armor moving to accommodate the movement of the wearer.
Also, funny how you kept coming back to the thing about twins finding other twins and taking their heads. I'm not sure the twin aspect is the worst part of the interaction though, at least one set of twins may have more pressing issues.
Loved the upper cut hammer pose. This is why I love this channel. Easy, fun ideas. Rock on
heck yeah, thank you!! :-)
what was juicy about chaos warriors was this menecing uniformality. they look nice. the new aos look sweet also
This paint scheme is SO vibrant and gorgeous
hey thanks buddy! 🙂
I was waiting for you to sing head, shoulders, knees and toes…. Great inspiration for anyone running a horde army! Thank you!
Hehehe, I had to resist the urge!! :-)
love this topic ! I experienced the same challenge many times ! love it, I applied a same solution with some of the Frostgrave minis, and gw ones!
The frostgrave kits are SO GOOD! they're getting a video from me one of these days... :-)
Another tip if you're in for a long painting session is to add some freehands. They can go a long way in hiding that all the sculpted details are the same.
I don't really play games, but love building, converting (or at least kit bashing) and painting. I like to change miniatures to make them my own and to remove things I don't like (most mini'a are busy enough as it is).
A week or so back I picked up the freshly OOP Ork Combat Patrol, and strove to do something like this with the second monopose boyz squad, and while not the most noticeable thing in the world, there are no exact duplicates to be found, which is satisfying to me even if nobody else notices.
heck yeah! great work makin those ladz unique! :-)
So, I did similar thing with the freebie Stormcast Eternal that you can get in WH store, or in the Getting Started magazine (I had 3 of those total from a big online order) - rotating wrists with weapon and heads to follow the speartip gave a good effect - but what changed a lot of the stances, was clipping the original stud from the premade base, and rotating the models on the sculpted base, so their feet would be at slightly different levels than original - on models without sculpted bases you can easily do that with a thin piece of cork, or thicker blob of texture paste under one leg.
Great call! I've got a lot of stormcast copies myself... I suspect many of us do hehehehe
@@GoobertownHobbies I was just trying to see what I could do with 3 identical models without resorting to adding any external bits - and rotating the models on the bases also hid the fact that it's the same base design on all of them, with careful placement of tufts on each model pretty damn well.
The fact that Stormcasts have easy to rotate shield arms also made a difference.
definitely a god send for me when I wanted to make 30 units using the voidscarred kill team was the fact the kit naturally had about 40+ arm/biceps to make it easy to hide duplicates, but the video really helping with a kitbash and knowing good places to cut and where to disguise alterations makes it a far less daunting prospect since the models are like the start collecting slave of darkness box with just 3 pieces to make the body.
conversion video are probably the best ! so chill to paint with that in the background too !
I won’t lie, I love the idea of a pair of psychotic twins roaming the battlefield searching for other twins to add their heads to the trophy rack.
I’m highly tempted to make a kill team or something like a little scene/diorama built around this idea!
I’ve got a lottle pile of mono pose models specifically for silly ideas like this. 😂
Edit: Lottle; it’s like a little, but it’s kind of a lot.
That's a good idea, it sounds like a lottle fun! 🙂
This is one of the first things I did when I got into the hobby! The Deathwing terminators from the starter kit are four unique sculpts, and one duplicate. No idea why they did it that way, but the twins bothered me, so one of them got their bolter and head rotated, and power fist replaced. And I've been doing small conversions on basically every single model I've owned ever since.
I remember that!!! That's plenty of motivation to get anyone doin conversions :-)
I like everything that you're doing here. This is wonderful and I want to try it on some of my own duplicates. I wouldn't dare try this with super glue though. Plastic glue is definitely going to be your champion
Nice! Have fun making your new characters :-) I used plastic glue for most of this... but on the weaker joints sometimes I coat the outside with superglue as a lazy bit of reinforcement
The outline on the thumbnail makes it look like a videogame character. I like how it looks
hehe, thanks! a lot of it is the thumbnail tweaks, but I've been leaning more and more towards 'cel shading' with my painting, and I'm liking the style! :-)
@@GoobertownHobbies It's really nice and vibrant. Very inspirational
Kitbashing and conversions are what I love about the old multi part models. Made three Goblin bosses from the goblin sprue, with the only parts not from the box being a helmet from a dwarf set (not sure which) that fit perfectly on a Goblin without helmet, and an axe from a Black Orc aprue
I honestly just did this exact thing with three Blade Guard veterans that I got from the Imperium Magazine. A little bit of converting and bits swap and they look like 3 unique characters.
heck yeah!! congrats to you and your little squad 🙂
I'm usually building the first squad as per instructions but in the process look at what i could be changing for the second and third group. When I'm getting to the third or 4th squad is where i might start using some putty.
Maybe the best kit-bashing video I have seen. Absolutely brilliant work!
These are beautiful, Brent! Love the yellow!
This was the most enjoyable and understandable conversion video I have seen
Best part of my week is when you upload ❤
You are underselling this in the title. It's a wonderful intro to kitbashing. Focus a little more on the tooling, and you can make a strong series out of this
right on! I gotta squeeze "kitbashing" into the title somewhere... hmmmm... :-)
Brent you really buried the lead on how great the paint schemes would be! Love how vibrant these are!!
Hey thanks! They paint up quite nicely, ya just gotta pick one fun color for the armor :-)
And this is what I miss most about my second hand Ork army... great work, Goobs!
orks iz fun :-)
Awesome. I wish i had a fraction of the stuff you have. Keep up the great work. Love your vids
Love this video, reminds me of when you made Slambo I went out bought that warband and made Slambo myself it was fun and turned out great😊 I also feel like kitbashing feels so tough these days I'm glad you made this video showing that it doesn't have to be and that even mistakes can be cool opportunities
heck yeah! that slambo got a couple seconds of screen time in this video ;-)
Such beautifully painted warriors!
hey thanks!! :-)
I've not done much kitbashing myself yet, but its FUN! The deathwing terminator that I got for free this month got a chainsword in his offhand now instead of a shield (its his parrying dagger.), and I've done a few modifications for my Voidscarred so they fit their self-made spaceship bases (no more tactical rocks!), and so that I have ALL specialists instead of 2 gunners. One of the gunners has a skin-cloak and is the obvious Drukhari member of the kill team, so I made him the dual sword wielding specialist by just swapping some arms around.
Great video. I am absolutely looking at easy conversions for my three human Blood Bowl sprues.
This is super helpful right now.
I've been thinking about putting my custodes army together and it's some hard to make 20 guards unique...
I'll try this :)
I've been looking at that kit recently... not a ton of options, but at least some of the wrists have nice flat attachment points that can be rotated- good luck and have fun with it!! :-)
@@GoobertownHobbies I've already converted 2 into heroes for my Kill Team, but doing the whole group for my army is a bit daunting.
Thanks for the support :)
For swaps like the axe-to-the-other-hand, I would suggest drilling a shallow hole in the hand that is about the size of the axe haft, rather than gluing it on flat. You'll get a much better bond, especially when using plastic glue.
I find it's a nice alternative to pinning when the weapon haft is very thin.
oh dang, that's a great idea! I'll try that next time for sure :-)
I recently converted a chaos rhino to look a bit more Nurgley. I used some tentacles from some GUO bits and use some green stuff for some living flesh patches this was also my first experience with green stuff. It didn’t quite turn out the way I wanted but I think it looks ok.
I also converted a daemon prince again to be a little more Nurgley, I changed his horns to, again, a GUO’s horns from a spare face, and I used a face from a Foetid Bloatdrone it makes it look like he is wearing a gas mask and gave him a fly buzzing around his sword.
It is pretty fun to take something that is supposed to look a certain way and make something completely new.
Cool! Nurgle is great because it's supposed to be a bit gross and messy... so even if it doesn't turn out how you planned it still might be awesome! :-)
@@GoobertownHobbies thanks Brent! Appreciate it keep doing what you do, you are the most positive ambassador this hobby could ever want!
Very helpful tutorial thank you Brent.
Also love your cat monitoring your work
converting the one with the severed elf head to hold a different severed elf head was incredible.
my brain transmits only the very best ideas for silly conversions! :-)
I've converted a good number of those old 90s monopose warriors too. It's amazing what a difference it can make to give them a sword or mace instead of that big axe... not that there's anything wrong with big axes.
I always appreciate a nice, simple conversion talk. Nothing crazy, but something actually doable. I have to know, what is that teal color? It's amazing!
hey thanks! That's the jade / bright jade from pro acryl :-)
@GoobertownHobbies damn. Mine never looks that good! Great video brent!
Great video! I am doing this quite alot to make the lost of all the push fit models from the 40k starter sets. So now one of my three duplicate captains have become a chaplain, and the other two are destined to becime a librarian and a judiciar.
But somehow swapping arms on the assault intercessors never occured to me. They are not glued, so i might be able to pull it off, but changing the head poses will take quite some work now 😅
Thats some cool ideas and clever little tricks!! 😊
Hey Brent beautiful models. Any chance you could give a quick run down what you did to achieve the color of their yellow armor?
@@cambot1337 I've got an older video "how I paint yellow why I prime with pink" or somesuch title :-)
You'd be amazed what you can do with a dremel with a cutting wheel, some greenstuff and bits from other sprues.
Good man. Hobby up!
I'd go mad with power! :-) I do actually have a dremmel, I should investigate options for cutting wheels that do a nice clean cut on plastic without lighting it on fire
Really like these sort of changes for uniform models
I love converting minis. And these conversions were great and gave me ideas.
that's what I like to hear! I hope you come up with some fun new stuff :-)
@@GoobertownHobbies we'll see. :-)
Awesome kitbash ideas, thanks for some conversion fodder.
This is an amazing video about one of my favorite parts of the hobby. I hate having my models look like each other as well as everyone else's. You missed a really impactful easy conversion which is to tilt the model in a new way on the base. It is amazing the different poses you can get that way. Often just requires shaving the feet at a slight angle to create the new pose.
Once again a great video. Thanks Brent!
So now I’m digging for the video on painting all that gorgeous, deep yellow armor!! It must be somewhere.
Video title is something like "painting yellow why I prime with pink"
Nice vid, Brent! Very helpful!
Huh... I actually learned something from a UA-cam video today. Neat.
heck yeah, that's the spirit! 🙂
I'd better take notes, I have around 50 of the old, old plastic Goff Orks holding a shoota in an arm which was a separate part, and an axe in another fixed arm. Nice to see the Chaos Yellows back, I was watching the 24 hour painting video just this morning! The blue chap is splendid, though.
hey thanks! I bet you can easily make a handful of distinct goffs.... 50 different lads is gonna be tricky though, but I'm sure you're up to the challenge ;-)
@@GoobertownHobbies Oh dear, I am challenged.... this might take a while! And they have no neck at all.
"I hope you like this look for Chaos Warriors, because this is what you're getting."
I freakin' love that look for Chaos Warriors tho...
this is excellent news! :-)
What a great video! Please do this for the monopose Orks.
hey thanks! I dunno, I've still got a bunch of older ladz who need attention first... ;-)
11:45 the main reason these nippers don't pinch the plastic that much, is because of their single blade design, not necessarily because they're sharp. I switched from high end regular clippers to Godhand type single blade nippers and never looked back.
Your "runt of the litter" is my favourite! Not because it looks good, but because it once killed my friends Vengorian Lord. Something which I never miss an opportunity to remind him of!
hehehe, eat horn, loser!! what a hero hehehe
Super useful presentation!
With the dominion box I sacrificed the killaboss and the big head on the mounted boss to make yndrasta holding a severed head. Her speak is in the back of the killboss as he lies at her feet dismembered. Used a horse tail from Perry miniatures to give that ogre head a literal pony tail above her hand. The "Holding a head" trope is so much fun to model imo.
I was defintely bummed to find the minis so mono-pose, and the way the heads are molded on some of them makes them very difficult to change out, but in miliput and greenstuff I trust.
Nice! Yup you gotta be creative and willing to cut stuff apart these days... oh well! I'm sure you're getting some sweet unique models at the end of the day :-)
top props for conversions and kitbashing