Nehemiah Hobby's conversion thread

I have been sculpting on my Infinity models since around the time I started playing this game, but did not have a good repository for them, so I have decided to start this thread. These conversions span from 2016 to the present.

The most ambitious of my early conversions was to make a decoy for my Nikoul to fool counter snipers. I first sculped a large artichoke, and then sculpted a copy of the Nikoul's mask onto it. The tires on the base were made using a press mold and feature heavily in my basing for my Tohaa and later my JSA.

 

I wanted to give Le Muet a different look so I trimmed his beard thing and gave him a hat.


When I began my Tohaa, I wanted to focus on a few themes to give me an idea on how to paint them, and develop a table to put them on. The theme I went with was part Dune, part District 9, and part Idiocracy (this part is mainly in bottles of Brawndo, and adds for it on my terrain). I wanted to give them some coverage for the sun that I imagined would be beating down on the trash filled desert slum, so I gave my Sakiel some ponchos, and my Kameil hoods.




I began playing shortly before the release of HSN3, and when it came out I immediately wanted to run Sukiul, so I converted one from a Fraacta. When they later came out with the official model, this became my Taqeul proxy.


I liked running Krakots in my Tohaa list, (the more aliens the merrier), but the transition from the pectoral to the arm on the general release looked a little odd to me, so I tried to fix that up, and I decided to give him some goggles.

 

My new Taqeul needed a SybioBug. I loosely based this conversion off of an Ohmu, and the help of a friend I was able to cast this in resin so I did not have to sculpt more than one.


It was around this time I decided to do something really ambitious, and a bit comical, so I decided to convert an Lizard Pilot into a Gorgos pilot and have her carrying the Gorgos sized spitfire.


I do not often take on commission work, but someone reached out to me to convert a Van Zant head and a the Female Foxtrot into Snake and Quiet.

 

When the first Sukeul released was the K1 combi version, I expected they may not come out with an HMG or ML for some time. I did not have any reference for what a Tohaa Missile Launcher would be, so I settled on converting the HGM.


I wanted to play Ariadna Kazaks when they came out and decided to get prepped by converting some USArianda Gunts into Line Kazaks.


With the intro of the 2017 ITS season there was an set of hackers you could bring called Alive. I wanted to bring them, and converted them to look like Kusanagi, Batou, and the Laughing Man.


Decided to convert up another Kerail in case I wanted to run two.


I did not feel like the Sukeul Missile Launcher showcased the Missile Launcher enough, so I mashed it up with the K1 version, and sculpted in the detail where it was missing or where I had to remove it to get it to fit.


Another Le Muet, another hat.

 

The Dice Abide and I decided to enter the 2017 Adepticon team tournament with USAriadna and the units from the Kazak side of Ariadna, (this was before TAK was released), and we needed appropriate HVTs.


A had a fun commission to convert Yojimbo into Yojimbo.


I thought it would be fun to convert a female Morat without a mask so I used the Raicho pilot to convert up another Krakot.

I wanted to run a Sakeil Light Rocket Launcher so I converted one and based the LRL off of the Missile Launcher since I did not have any reference for what a Tohaa version would look like.

 

Another small commission to change up the Skiavoros so I swapped out the plasma gun with one from a the Q Drone, and gave it a smiley face like the Unidrons.


I wanted to be able to run some of the other Ninja Profiles other than the Tac Bow, but wanted flexibility so I figured just converting one to be holding a sword would work well.


I was not super interested in the Karakuri models, but also thought they may release new models for them, so did not want to go too overboard with conversions, so I just did some modes to the original models.


Made a small case for the Grunt SpecOps because I did not want to chop up a LE model, (even if it was just to remove a rock).
I also made a crushed box for a friend's Avatar because he did not think the Gorgos would fit the rest of his theme. (I got to keep the Gorgos piece).

 

Thanks all!

I have a Grenzer conversion I worked on where I took a few photos of the process, and will include those when I get to that conversion and write a short description of the steps I took.

I realized I did not have any photos of these when they were finished, so some of the detail is missing. I have them all painted up now, and I am happy with them, even though one looks a little cardboard.

 

Unfortunelty I cannot find the any photos of this before I started painting it, but I converted and painted up this Domavoi as prize support.



I wanted to convert up a new Oyama and split a box of Domaru with a friend to get the parts. This left me with another Domaru boarding shotgun, so I converted it into a bit of a chunky combi rifle to use as the FO profile.



I really liked the Tank Hunter with auto cannon profile, so I converted one out of Rosie. I named her Zoya the Destroyer.

I used Nakadai's head and gave him some more appropriate hair for my Oyama conversion.


I wanted my Tanko to have a little bit more of a scrapped together look for their armor, so I added some Crane Spines to the back of the Missile Launcher, and gave the Contender a Pan-O shoulder pad. I still have not decided if I will make any changes to the Blitzen Tanko.



The Ryuken-9 profiles were great, but the minis were so unique I felt they would look odd if I was running multiples, and I did not expect they would make alternates, so I decided to make a male version of the SMG profile. I thought it would be fun to have him based off of Jack Burton so I used Thrasymedes as the base model.



I started collecting Tunguska and wanted an appropriately cyberpunk HVT for them, so I converted up Max Headroom.



A commission piece was put up as one of the raffle prizes for a tournament, and the person who won wanted a bit of a joke piece converted.

 

The Vet Kazak model came out and looked great, but I thought the ammo belt looked bit odd like the bullets were just kind of floating on it, so I banded them in. It was also around this time I started converting my Daiyokai, but I never really felt satisfied with it, until I swapped out one of its weapons, but that would be years later.



I had a Tech Bee leftover from when I converted the Alive crew, and I had just picked up the new Warcor model and wanted her to look a bit different, so I swapped in the Tech Bee's head. This left me with a Warcor head and a Tech Bee Body. Since I was starting Tunguska, and the Clockmaker mini was pretty outdated I figure I could mash up my own.



I really liked the Andromeda mini when it was released, and thought I could make a fun Zondnautica out of it. Once the official mini came out she became my Mary Problems. Then the official Mary Problems came out and she stayed my Mary Problems. Then the civilian pack came out, and now she is my Puppet Master. The kitty is still waiting for me to find it a home.



Someone else did not like the idea of runny two identical Ryuken-9 and commissioned an alternate.



I liked the Securitate Feurbach profile, and as it seemed like it may be some time before it was released, I converted one. I had recently watched Conan the Barbarian 2 and thought a flattop would look great. I think I made the right choice.



For the next year's tournament I was commissioned to create a full mini by The Dice Abide. After some back and forth we landed on the idea of a Drunk Yuan Yuan.



I was commissioned to make a punk rock Jaguar. I did not have much direction other than that, so this is what I came up with.

 

I did not expect I would use a Ryuken 9 HRL, but If I did I would probably want to use two. Since I had made the other conversion male I thought I should make this one female. Luckily I was able to find and Raiden HRL so I did not have to convert that.



Since it was previewed I thought the Deva Spitfire's head would be much better on a Kealtar. Unfortunately, I do not have a photo of the finished green unpainted, but here is a WIP.



Not wanting his tournament to be outdone, and another friend commissioned me to make a mini. It took me a few days to decide what I should make, and it was around the time that Invincible Army was released, and a number of Yu Jing players were not super enthusiastic about it on its initial release, and some were still annoyed about the uprising and loosing JSA. This helped me decide to make a Carlos mini who used to be a Zhanying who had been demoted to a Kuan Shi. However he was maybe winning his way back into the Party's good graces so he was allowed to wear his coat again. I had a short turn around time on this one, so I do not feel that it is my best work, but I think it still came out pretty well.



I was commissioned to do some Diablo themed conversion for De Fersen and a Father Knight.

 

The profile for Perseus had been out for awhile, but we were still waiting on a model when I was commissioned for this piece. The Idea was to create a bit of a hybrid of Aleph and Nomad armor. I had the sword and pack left over from the Thrasymedes I converted into the Ryuken-9. The client decided the Achilles head was too recognizable, so I modified the Mobil Brigada helmet to use instead.

 

With the leftover Deva Spitfire body, and a spare Tohaa Spec Ops helmet I made a Daftari for the Tunguska.



I had heard good things about the Heckler red fury, but all I had was the dossier art from the Puppet Bots at the time, so I did what I could with that and an Aleph boarding shotgun.



The Aleph boarding shotgun I stole from my Raoul Spector conversion.



Jay from Warsonal reached out for a commission of his dossier art.



I was not a big fan of the Taagma Schemer's ski goggle-style MSV2, so I decided to gave him a half mask based off of the Nikoul mask.



I converted the puppet bots a little. The rabbit was changed to a red panda, and the pumpkin head was changed into a secretary bird. I just softened the pointiness of the gorilla's head.

I wanted a different pose for my O-Yoroi, and made it firing its gun. The most difficult thing about reposing manned tags is that you have to change their little arms too.