 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today we're going to talk about doing heavy conversions and as you can see we're going to be using a giant. So we're going to start with the stuff you need and of course if we're going to do some heavy converting the first thing we need is bits. Now I have a sort of Frankensteinian monster look that I'm going for and converting to so I went through all my bits and I went through and found tubes and mechanical parts and stuff like that and made a big old pile. Having extra bits from the kit itself for example here's my extra mega gargant bits just in case you need those. Having extra bits of the existing kit can also be helpful. But of course then we're going to need something to put it together with. So our main tool is going to be sprugu. Sprugu is Tamiya extra thin cement with a bunch of plastic sprue melted into it. You will see I use this as my main adhesive for this proper because this is like painting with plastic. We're also going to use some super glue I have both normal CA glue and super thin. We also have just some chain this is jeweler's chain you can order it online and I've got some fun cogs you can get these from like little jewelry parts or watch parts or stuff like that and some sandpaper to file it all down. So with our tools in hand let's get going so we start with the giant body itself. Now one important note that you always want to have when you're thinking about doing large or heavy conversions is that when you start with your individual pieces make sure that you still clean the piece first. Because as you're going to start chopping and changing it's going to become more difficult. So the first thing we did in attaching this is we're going to get out our sprugu and you see that I'm just painting down this famously awful joint on the side of the giant. Now the cool part about sprugu is that it's just painting with plastic I said it once I'll say it again it is painting with plastic because when that hardens and shrinks a little bit and the glue evaporates it's just going to harden into plastic glue and it will sink and settle into the plastic some but now I have nice like those joint lines are just gone when I prime over them you'll be able to see them at all and if you ever need to smooth them down or anything you can always just take your normal extra thin and just kind of run it over top. So now begins the great mission. Some people sometimes ask me like do you have a vision when you start for what the thing is going to be? No, almost never. I have no idea what any of these giants are going to be when I start them. You know sometimes I've got kind of a concept of what I'm aiming at on some of my conversions but often times I do not. So the first thing I'm doing with my torso here is just grabbing some bits and just kind of seeing what fits where what looks interesting and be crazy like there I grabbed the big triangle thing from I think that's like a Talos or something and I said well could I put it over his head and make him like a pyramid head that could be funny right so I just keep trying pieces until I find something that I like the look of next lesson here so you notice I this is like one of the connector pieces from a KO boat that I had extra from my city's a sigmar project I when I held that up to him I realized the top part of that really looked like a cool smokestack it's a very different sort of smokestack but nonetheless it's a little smokestack so it was a really cool chance to just do something unusual with a bit and that's part of the key don't ever be afraid to start chopping up your bits and only use a small part of it right in this case I didn't have to use the whole thing when I chopped it up I made a real fun little smokestack piece so here I'm just going ahead and attaching those two smokestacks to his back with plastic glue okay with my sprue and again yes you can use this to assemble as well alright so I put that on there make sure they're nicely attached and then I'm going to take that sprue goo and I'm just going to trace it right around the outside so that we get a nice smooth adherence what's cool when you're doing organic organic conversions like this is that the sprue goo ends up looking like more flesh so this is actually a really easy kind of conversion to make sort of Frankensteinian type monsters with the with the sprue goo because you're effectively painting more flesh on so you can make it look like stretched flesh over the metal or something like that really it's just a cool easy way to do it it looks right here's another piece where I knew I wanted their arms to be weird all my Giants have like you know weird arms and weird legs and stuff like that because they're meant to be these weird horror monsters and so I took part of the leg of a soul grinder cut off one piece smooth that all down and I thought oh this would make a neat arm right or the upper part of an arm or whatever we want to say then once I sort of established how the joint is gonna fit there I cut off the shoulder because I didn't need that piece I wanted to connect right or cut off the sorry the upper bicep so one of this connect directly to the shoulder and again we're just sprue gooing it up and then bottom boom we drop it on there and it it holds make it a sprue goo will dry in just a few seconds now please note you notice when I put more sprue goo on there that's when it fell from its position that's what will happen when you put more plastic glue into the location you will weaken the existing bond because you're introducing more of the chemical solvent into everything so but now that's all attached and dry by the way this process takes actually quite a while like this is over several this whole giant took me several hours to do because I'm letting things dry in between I'm testing pieces I'm putting stuff together off camera the whole like where you saw me hold up a couple of pieces and see what I liked that is a constant thing throughout this process and oftentimes when you're doing big crazy conversions that's what you'll be doing even some when I have a vision like when I did my big archaion conversion for slanesh where I knew that I wanted to have a l'oreal on top converted into a into my Archeon that was still a ton of little testing and little changes and stuff like that here I'm just trying to get these two tentacles to balance this is a nice fun little thing there the goo will do it it will hold in place but I've got to sit here and hold them for a little while to make sure that they dry so there we go all dry I also added in the third tentacle to brace that and I really like how that looks but now the challenge is I've got this little gap this like hole in the tentacles where it looks like there should be something but there's nothing there's just a big hole haha well then we put in more bits more grieving never stop grieving so here I grabbed one of my handy dandy tubes and I'm gonna drop that right down in the hole and connect it up to the arm and more over now that just feels to me even better because when you're sort of connecting pseudo organic parts to non-organic parts it feels like there should be a tube there that's pumping some kind of vital fluid or something in there right and once again you'll notice that I use the sprue goo to on the on the bottom to attach it and then also I run a tiny bit of it around the base as well so now we're just gonna very quickly mess around with the head I went ahead and attached the um his little collar I put his little collar around him and now I'm gonna I put his tongue on and now we're gonna put his head on now to this point we're still normal right like this is just the standard model I'm gonna use the chaos giant head for reasons you'll see here in just a moment because I wanted all their faces to be interesting but this is another example of me covering one of these really really really horrible gaps that occurs in these giants oftentimes these giants the neck and how it connects to the head has this like really horrible gap so I found this little piece this is out of um oh gosh I think this is out of a um one of the ad mech kits and I thought it just looked like a cool weird sci-fi sort of eye cover face cover thing and so I test fit it fit rather well said great I love this so now we're just gonna go ahead and stick that on his head so he's got a little mask on right by the way I love how goofy he looks with this this mask on it's one of my favorite conversions I've done this just makes me smile even looking back on this now so now he's got a cool mask but yet again we need to connect that mask to the rest of him so a lot of what you're doing when you're grieving and grieving is just adding on these extra little bits you know comes out of scale modeling where you take like an existing tiny robot kid or you know a matchbox car or some scale model kit like a plane and you grieve it which just means adding a bunch of extra bits to turn it into something that's like sci-fi or whatever it was used a lot that's how a lot of like movie set models are made they'll take existing kits and then they'll just grieve them to high-heck and back like original stardust rares and stuff like that so at any rate it's just always adding more stuff to either cover things that look weird or to make things look consistent or whatever so with the tube running into the mask and then into his head now we've got a nice little play so I with the giant leg I glued it together and then I cut it off like I or sorry I thought I flipped that strike that reverse it I cut the two pieces at the same point then I glued it all together that's what I was trying to say oftentimes if you've ever got a front and back of something like an arm or a leg it can be really nice to do the cup before you glue it together because then it's much easier to cut so once again just attach that leg with some sprugu and now we're gonna give him a peg leg but I didn't just want any normal peg leg I wanted it to be a big knife which seemed cool because you know part of what Giants do is kick and stop people and so kicking somebody with a giant sword blade would seem fun I would also point out that this giant blade is from the soul grinder leg that I cut in half earlier to make his arm so when you chop existing bits into pieces there's no reason to just immediately throw the rest of that away it can oftentimes be the case that those remaining bits could still have a lot of value okay sometimes when we're doing heavy conversions we just can't get there completely on sprugu or plastic glue or whatever alone sometimes we've got to go a little farther so here with this arm you'll notice that I'm gonna attach the arm to the joint with the sprugu as normal but I have a pin running out of the lower arm and that pin running out of the lower arm is of course so I can connect the big giant chainsaw and yes he's gonna have a big giant chainsaw and no I don't think it's 240k there are quite literally KO people running around with chainsaws sawing people up a thematic saws so I'm perfectly okay with this guy having a chainsaw as well but the point was that chainsaw was so big and long and the connection point was so small I couldn't attach it just through the glue so you saw how I made sure the pin was there it went into the hole I and then I still plastic glued around it and then I still filled the seam that was there with plastic glue as well again painting with plastic when that solidifies all the plastic parts are gonna touch it doesn't matter that there was a metal pin there I didn't need to use traditional glue now the joint between the shoulder and the arm looked a little goofy and stretched so we're gonna do what we do which is we grieve so I covered it up with again I think this is from the another ad-mat kit then I put a little couple little pieces into those open spots to make it look like the shoulder pad has something going on the little the little rock power thing as I think from the I'm pretty sure that's from the hell pit abomination in Skaven and that's just it cast a wide net when you're thinking about your bits cast a wide net okay so here I'm just again continuing to grieve now we're into the grieving phase completely where I'm adding a lot of additional stuff just to break up surfaces to make him feel more converted so an in theme for example here because I've got this Frankensteinian concept he has tubes running out all over him let's say however I had almost the opposite concept let's say I had a concept like they were given into nature or were like swamp monsters and I was combining it with silvanette kits that could be certainly doable with your giant kits then I would be working in pieces of bark or flowers or tree branches growing out of their back or something like that right the point being is that when you're trying to sell your theme when you're trying to make sure that what you're doing is felt all throughout the model you don't just want to make a couple of small changes like oh I'll replace one arm and put a little mask on him and call it a day it's often the very little touches that help sell the theme hence all this grieving you see me doing with all these tubes and these little pieces and parts that are coming out the his of his body and making him seem more monstrous more nightmarish more like a scientific creation than a traditional flesh and blood creature so here we're gonna use one of those little cogs I laid down some some super glue and I just pushed that little cog in there so it looks like he's a little bit of a clockwork machinery where a cog is coming out of his side and theoretically spinning I cut the cog in half and you'll notice it doesn't fit exactly to his gut there's a little bit of a gap there that's okay don't worry we can fix that you'll see how we're gonna fix it in a couple steps but the first thing I do is make sure it's actually attached then apply and in this case I did have to use super glue because I'm attaching a metal piece to plastics I can't use the goo alone but I then build out the bridge between the two pieces with a little bit of more of the ultra gel control now that that's dry then I'm going in with the plastic glue or sorry the sprue goo and I'm painting over that joint connection and you might say why the heck are you doing this remember painting with sprue goo is like painting with plastic and so in doing so I can actually make it seem like that thing has pulled some of the skin out with it I'm also attaching a little antenna to his head because in my mind all of my giants are remote controlled by their by their boss who built them and that will make it look like that both in the case of that antenna and the little cog that it's more connected all right let's talk about chain let's say you want to do a nice big chain arm where's where you got chain wrapped around that's what we're going to do here I start in the crux of his arm and I dropped a little bit of super glue in there then I pulled the chain up through it so the bottom part of his hidden in the armpit of his you know in his armpit where you can't see it then I'm going to wrap the chain around him tightly okay in whatever fashion and crisscrosses tend to look good as opposed to just straight wraps so like a an X pattern in the chain will often look good and then you want the chain to end in a location that will also be out of sight in other words the connection points of things like wrapped chain put them in places where you can't see them so here the the the end of the chain in the beginning of the chain are both hidden right the arm the beginning of it was hidden in his armpit the end of it is hidden on sort of underneath his arm underneath a bunch of other stuff once that chain has been wrapped and the beginning and end have been attached nice and tightly you want to take a little super glue thin and you'll notice I'm just going to dab a little bit of that along there I'm just running down the length of each chain and this super glue thin will run like crazy I mean it has the consistency of water it just goes everywhere and I'm just touching all of those little chains with just a tiny little bit of super glue thin and what that does is that soaks into the chain and hardens it and solidifies it in place so that that way it doesn't it's not moving around it's not scraping stuff when you paint it becomes solid and you notice there I can push it around it's not moving that chain is now solid and in place and that just makes it a lot easier to paint later later you don't have other problems now to further hide the start of this chain we're going to give him a cool little shoulder pad and so this is another thing you can do is whenever you have chains it's cool to just attach stuff to chains because it makes sense that the model would have a couple different things attached to the chain so here again I've taken some of my sprue goo and even though there is metal underneath there there's a lot of plastic for it to bond to and I'm going to use this is the back plate from a I think like an auric brood like an iron jaw brood um and so I had a couple extra of those so putting that on there and then just making sure that glue is down in there everywhere where there should be connections and then bada boom he's got a nice little you know upper arm plate now or shield or something like that that he's using to deflect blows final couple pieces and grebes to attach in other things just to break up space uh and this guy's more or less ready to go now like I said this is a lengthy process when you go through and do all this don't try to rush big conversions my honest answer is it's a lot of fun doing this and the grieving process of just throwing on little bits and creating a little narrative for what each one is doing in your head is really fun you can regardless of what you're doing like I know I'm doing something that most sort of AOS players might not want to do although if you're a 40k player and you want to make some really horrible monstrosities uh and like your your your dark eldar this is a great tutorial um you notice I put another cog coming out of a spine I thought that was cool I like stuff coming out of spines is really creepy and awful so that's great and now we're just attaching some final tubes and we'll call it a day now as I said the key with this is have fun test different bits move them around in different places when you set them down don't look at a bit as being only that bit that it is cut bits change bits use things in unusual ways his top tentacle that's part of a giant vermin lord tail right like you can use these things for anything you just pay attention to the shapes not the bit so there you go give that a like if you liked it subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future but as always I thank you very much for watching this one and we'll see you next time