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Thought you might be interested to see the WIP's from the Painting Challenge for this month and my entry Raticus Mechanicus and his Doom Trike.
(WARNING: LOTS OF PICS AND RATHER LONG)
Early on I thought How about him riding on top of a Storm fiend? Thankfully I was talked out of that idea.
Then I had thought about what I was lacking in my Rats in Hats army and I always wanted another Doom Wheel and so I decide to in that direction.
Last year Wayne Kemp and I chatted about conversion ideas and he mentioned a penny farthing and I almost went in that direction for Raticus but then I started messing around with my bits and stumbled on the Doom Trike concept.
Most of my conversions start like this I build them as I go cutting, scrapping and pushing parts together from my bits hoping for inspiration.
As the trike started to take shape I found 40k Orc parts that would serve as the power source for the tike.
At this stage I faced the most challenging bit. The control console. How would Raticus pilot the Doom Trike across the battle field?
I used every bit I could find hacking away at the Doom Wheel kit and eventually found the right configuration.
Once I had the control console in place I was wondering how it would be mount and how could I add in movement to the model? I grabbed my bits from the Screaming Bell and place the smoke and flames spewing from the tail pipes.
Something was still bothering me about the control console there were enough levers and controls. Hard to tell they are there in the finish pics once these were added I was super excited to my on to Raticus.
Next up I needed to do a bit of sculpting on Raticus I used Apoxie Sculpt on his cloak and green stuff on his warp thrower attachment and his control levers, I don't have a finished pic of the green stuff work before I primed him up for paint :(
Next up was the positioning on the base and I wanted action so canting the Doom Trike was the obvious choice.
