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[Aginor]

Agree, the first one does look a bit "unnatural" with the bright recesses, but cool.

 

[VikingRage]

Haha, I just finally caved and picked up the seraphon box too, but all of the warriors just suddenly disappeared...well at least l found a bunch of Saurus Guard while I was hunting them down ✌

They are looking good btw! And my vote if for painting first to knock back that grey army a little bit (though I don't do very good following that advice).

 

[Imrahil]

I like the progress you have got to.
The colors on the Saurus are looking great, leaning towards the green shields.

ok, So I've been slightly unsatisfied with the Saurus sculpts (too small, too scrawny, shorter than some humans due to the hunch, etc) sooooo I cam up with this guy (He hasn't been greenstuffed yet so there are a few obvious gaps):View attachment 97153

He's about a head taller than the other Saurus; also wider with thicker thighs and shoulders. View attachment 97154

The actual conversion is a fairly in-depth kitbash between the saurus warrior and a bloodletter (who have the same basic structure and posture as Saurus), using most of the bloodletters longer limbs with the scaled parts from the saurus limbs spliced on to cut down on sculpting requirements.
Some group shots next to some other random miniatures:

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To me one of the most important parts of it is that he's actually able to stand eye-to-eye with a chaos warrior:View attachment 97155

Also the foot claws are sooooo much more defined than on the basic Saurus - that always annoyed me about their sculpt too.

I checked some bits sellers and the bloodletter legs are about £0.40 each, with the arms being £1 (sword arm was the killer there), so it adds a decent amount of £££ to the model - but seeing as the base Saurus were essentially free in the carnosaur kit it might not be that bad. I could also see how it looks just with the leg + posture conversion, and try to use a bit of armour to bulk out the shoulders.

I'm fairly happy with the result (though idk if if i'll remain happy after my mediocre sculpting skills get unleashed on him), for me, the biggest problem with the conversion is the time involved. Even if I streamline the process it's going to take quite a few hours to convert all the 30-50 Saurus I'll need.

Let me know what you think! couple more comparison shots below.

That beefy Saurus is way more impressive than his normal brother. Cool conversion!

Grrr, Imrahil