40K SHOWCASE: Mechanicus Knight by iPlayThisGame

Sometimes you see a conversion and paintjob so good you think it’s official!  Get a load of THIS!

via iPlayThisGame

The Knight
I decided to pick one of these up because I just love the model. I also will be starting a Mechanicus(counts as Tau maybe) army when I get a bit more of my Heresy era Deathguard done. I understand the fluff of the Knight houses, but I was kind of going for a more closely aligned Mechanicus Knight. In that viegn, I don’t really like the rippy chainsaw of doom. I picture the Knight being at least a little more useful in other areas. So I tried to turn the ccw into a power lifter type claw.

The Claw
The claw was mostly styrene. I used a Silhouette Portrait scrapbook type vinyl cutter to cut most of it out. I drew inspiration on the claw from a lot of sources. Aliens(a bit too clean), the sentinel, and real scissor claws. Just kind of worked some drawings until it looked like it might actually work. Had another version of it that was just too plain when I started painting it up and before I got the Silhouette Portrait to cut the styrene. Pictures of it HERE.

More images of the conversion process can be found on my blog.

~Give the man a hand – that model is just superb!

Author: Larry Vela

Dad, Gamer, Publisher, Pilot, Texan. All games all the time since junior-high. I started BoLS Interactive in 2006. I’m a lifelong tabletop & RPG gaming enthusiast, and internet publisher working to entertain and inform my readers every day. I've been playing RPGs and Tabletop Games since the 1970s. I'm been playing and covering Warhammer and Warhammer 40K for over 35 years.