Tumbling Fling WIP and friends. New Pic.

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:52 am

Heres a project that I've been working on, off and on for a bit now. I wanted to add in a few different, dynamic figs for the Fling team that I'm working on, and when I spoted the basis for this guy a lightbulb went on in my head. For the conversion I used.... Wait. You tell me what I used.

I still want to paint a logo on his chest and clean him up a bit. Any suggestions on how to finish him off are welcome.

Oxinotl · Post by **Oxinotl** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:53 pm

Absolutely love him!
Reminds me of those garbage pail kids stickers.
Great conversion work too.

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:02 pm

Thanks! Any guesses on what I used?

Joemanji · Post by **Joemanji** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:05 pm

Cottage cheese.

Bonehead · Post by **Bonehead** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:13 pm

Very nice mini. Reminds me of my avatar a bit.

What parts did you use (I know I should guess but I don't see it)?

Ithilkir · Post by **Ithilkir** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:15 pm

Puggy?

mlindsay2706 · Post by **mlindsay2706** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:01 pm

DUDE THAT ROCKS

Its differnet, i like it, Bonehead your AV. rocks to always like it

hehe cartwhellin' fling!

for pieces...id say Puggy to?

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:18 pm

Thanks mlindsay2706! But no, no Puggy was harmed in the making of this miniature.....

Ok, he started off life as a heroclix fig, Puck from Alpha Flight. I spotted him at a local comic book store. I'm not a heroclix collector at all, but every once in a while I have a look to see if there is anything cool for conversion purposes. (I've used The Blob a couple of times in the past)

It took a little bit of doing to get him into his current state.

1) I cut off his legs at the knees and added feet from a goblin wolfrider
2) I cut his midrift off between the 6 packs to give him a more compact, halfling look
3) I added Kroot shoulder pads with spikes
4) I brown stuffed on a belly, jersey and pant legs onto the body, and then
added hair on the feet
5) I selected a head from my bitbox. I went with the fantasy football boris helmeted head:

It took a bit to get the head looking "halflingish." I added some brown stuff to his cheeks and cut off the horns on the helmet. I then brown stuffed the helmet over the chubby cheeks

Heres the fig pre-paint:

I've named him Puck Yellowbelly.

Axtklinge · Post by **Axtklinge** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:48 pm

Thats a great convertion!

Cheers
Axt

Sallacious · Post by **Sallacious** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:51 pm

lol
great job Chairface
I would never have guessed right. I too would have guessed puggy 'cuz of the shoulderpads.

bound for glory · Post by **bound for glory** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:32 pm

you are the man! thats one energetic fling! hoped up on half time suger?

Tritex · Post by **Tritex** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:46 pm

Simplistic and elegant - very nice conversion - well done!!

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 6:54 pm

Thank you for all of the kind words everyone! I enjoyed working on the Tumbling fling so much that I started another one based on the same heroclix model, calling him Belkar Bitterleaf, former ranger turned blood bowl killing machine.

My aim is to have as unique team as possible. For Belkar I used:

One Puck Heroclix figure.
One new style Big Boris ginning head
One Heresy Lord Va'durr ff hand
One chaos marine hand
Feet from a goblin wolfrider
Kroot should pads with spikes
and a few other bits and pieces to recreate one of the most wonderfully psychotic halfling characters ever to grace the internet.

mlindsay2706 · Post by **mlindsay2706** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:00 pm

Chairface wrote: and a few other bits and pieces to recreate one of the most wonderfully psychotic halfling characters ever to grace the internet.

!!!!

Thast made my night for this night haha,

Well, ive already said that the first one is defo one of my favourite minis, and the second seems to going to way of legendary status to

Keep it up dude these are looking GUD

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:11 pm

Thanks man! I always appreciate your enthusiasm.

I've actually taken Belkar back to the conversion stage when I realized that his legs are just far too long for a fling. He was small human sized

so I am redoing his legs. Belkar will rise again though!