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guide to some of the materials and methods used to convert the Farseer on a jetbike. Due to the large amount of images used for this conversion, I've divided this article up into two separate pages, One page for the Farseer and one page for the jetbike. This first page will deal with the Farseer. If you want to go to the page with the jetbike conversion, click here Whenever I have mentioned the specific place I've bought certain items, I've also tried to provide some kind of contact address whenever possible. My giving out addresses shouldn't be seen as an endorsement of these businesses, but rather an attempt to make things easier for those people wishing to use some of the same materials that I've used.
This conversion of the Farseer will need the following materials: 1 Eldar jetbike
Below is a list of tools used for the conversion: Jewellers saw
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First the head from one of the "Eldrad" miniatures was cut from the body. Removing the head will damage the torso and that's why the second miniature is needed. Be careful when cutting so as to make sure your don't damage the left side of its head (red arrow).
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 When the head has been separated, file down the underside so it is nice smooth. I used a very small half round file for this purpose.
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| The next step is to cut out the torso from the other miniature and then file the ends smooth with small files. The torso is then ready to be joined with the legs fron the guardian rider of the Eldar jetbike
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To join the torso to the legs, a 1.5mm
hole was drilled into both parts and a 5mm piece of 1.5mm thick music wire was epoxied and
inserted into both parts to hold them together. Music wire was
used because it is very stiff and hard which helps to make the join very strong and
secure. I bought it from Hobbyco in Sydney Australia. |
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| A "singing spear" was was
constructed by firstly cutting the end off a warlock's spear and then drilling a 1.5mm
hole into it. The spear point was then glued onto the end of a 40mm length of 1.5mm music
wire.
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The Farseers forearms and hands were
cut off at the elbows, and 1.5mm diameter holes were drilled through the grips. Music wire
pins were epoxied and inserted into the arm near the elbow.
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Once the torso and legs have set, the Farseer's jacket was completed. To make sure that the jacket didn't obscure to much of the bike, the jacket was kept shorter that the normal gown that the Farseer wears.
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The "riding jacket" was
sculpted out of white millput, making sure all the while that the Farseer would still fit
on the jetbike. When the milliput had hardened it was sanded smoth with fine Emery paper. 1.5mm holes were then drilled into the armpits of the torso |
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| The pinned forearms were then glued to some guardian upper arms, which were then pinned and glued into the armpits of the torso. The arms were glued into place with the Farseer was sitting on the jetbike, spear in hand to make sure the positions would be correct. The next step was to drill a 3mm diameter hole into the torso and head. The hole in the head need only be a mere 2 or 3mm deep. More of a depression than a hole.
A 2cm long piece of 3mm thick brass rod (plexiglass or styrene could also be used) was put into the drill press and the end was rounded off with a file while it rotated. The rounded end of the rod was then cut down to 7mm in length and then epoxied into the torso. Enough of the rod to form a neck was left sticking out of the torso. The head was then glued onto the rod.
Conversion of the
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