Monday 27 February 2017

IHMN Venusian Heavy Cavalry/ AoS Troglodon Mash-Up

I use GW skinks for my IHMN Venusian Native Army. These are available second hand for a song and are reasonably priced when new.

The Troglodon is, however, one of those wildly overpriced large-but-simple plastic kits that GW specialise in.


However Carnegie Collection dinosaurs are available prepainted for around a tenner and are gorgeous models. This is their Spinosaurus. All I did was reposition the feet (using boiling water) to tilt the body forward into a more accurate pose - bipedal dinosaurs did not walk upright - add a couple of skinks, and put it on a Venusian base.

I am really pleased with the result and the fact that it only cost me a tenner plus some spares I had sitting in store really appeals to my skinflint soul.


8 comments:

  1. Love the colours mate. And a good use for some old GW skinks as well.

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    1. Skinks are great models with all sorts of uses.

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  2. Dear John,
    Skinks are in profusion outside our house and occasionally within (until I shoo them out or the cat does something less gentle). I once watched a frog splash across our ornamental pond and snatch one from the rim (probably noticing only the blue tail). And spitting it out quickly when it taste the poisonous covering.
    North Carolina, where Nature is red in vomerine fang!
    Dave

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    1. I had an unfortunate experience with a skink in Florid.

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  3. Hi John I've just had a thought I've got hundreds of Lizardmen so I've got an IHMN
    Venusian army (They've just got to work out their Global warming problems)

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    1. You have colonial British as well, I seem to recall.

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