Guess who’s back. Back again.
Crackgrin’s back (tell a friend).
Kind of a continuation of this post?
Anyway, I finally finished converting my much-beloved Banshee, Crackgrin, into an 8S (my favourite variant)! It wasn’t the most in-depth conversion I’ve ever done, but there were for sure some unique challenges.
The thing that ended up being the most annoying part of the conversation process was that shoulder-mounted SRM rack the BNC-3S base model has - it connects to the side of the head, so after removing it with my hobby saw I had to add some plasticard to make sure the head was symmetrical, and then try my best to reconstruct some of the detailing with green stuff. This was a huge pain in the ass, but it came out ok I think, as long as you don’t look too close!
Next up were the arms. I had one hell of a time trying to find scrap arms on IWM that would have about the same thickness as normal Banshee arms, and came up pretty much empty. The metal Battlemaster and Highlander both proved too thin, so I ended up 3d-printing a Banshee BNC-3E stl - this had arms what were, if anything, even bigger than the default, but I figured with the 8S being a TSM melee variant and all, it was ok if it had some bulky arms. So I sawed off the originals at the elbow and pinned my new ones on there.
After that, the rest was easy. The snub PPC on the right arm is taken from that metal Battlemaster arm, and the “hatchet” is a 3d-printed 3rd party Power Claymore intended for 40K (I figure that if the clanbuster Black Knight can have a sword-shaped hatchet, so can I). For completeness’s sake, I stuck a little piece of paper clip onto the PPC to represent a medium laser. After painting, I think it’s come out fantastically!
Crackgrin is absolutely my personal signature ‘mech, and in the past the dice have basically always favoured her - my only prayer is that I have done a good enough job with this conversion to appease her machine spirit and keep the good dice rolling!
