Black Magic Woman
Lots of people complain about the Wraith witch Deneghra model sucking and I completely agree. Its really not a nice model. Her face is way chubbier than her body which makes no sense post-mortum. Those curving horns alongside her face are ridiculous. Her half cape covering only her bum doesn’t help her out.
Instead of complaining too loudly about it, I went against the grain and converted her. This isn’t a major conversion; I wanted to use the original model and just improve her.
My vision: I imagine the wraith witch floating around when she goes incorporeal, drifting along on unseen spectral currents. That’s how I wanted my Deneghra to look: like a floating death fairy! I cut her legs with many passes of a new razorblade until I separated the calves. Then I bent one back and posed her like she is landing on a stone ruin. Whenever you fly, your arms need to be outstretched (duh), so I modified those. Also the draping butt cape had to go. Why this was even included is beyond me. The model has a sculpted bootie with fishnet stockings and a thong on, yet they want you to cover it with a lame ass cape. Not on my watch!!! If I’m looking at the backs of my models all game, I’d like to see something that is visually stimulating!
Her fat face was mitigated with a file. I slowly worked her cheekbones, jowls, chin, and the face covering parts of the helmet until these were less chubby and more feminine.
Her weapon Eclipse was bent like a banana (you know how I feel about banana shapes!) so I replaced the haft with a steel rod. This was a real pain in the banana because her hand is barely larger than the haft. I ended up breaking her hand and remaking it with greenstuff, glue, and curses.
Here she is!
She's coming on on a wing and a prayer!!!
Not the best angles, I admit. She does look sort of fae, which is cool to me. I’ll get her painted up soon to truly show her off…after the deathjack of course. That should be done soon. This is filler material anyway. No offense to D. She is my woman. And she is my wraith. I love it when she goes incorporeal on me.
dude, seriously awesome. I also converted my eDenny, but I’m tempted to do one like this, for several reasons. I won’t get asked “what model is that?” all the time, and it can be useful in a tourney setting if they don’t like my conversion. Good stuff!
Jon (Iron Twitch) said this on June 7th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Thanks Jon. I drive down teh middle of the road the subject of official models. If someone is going to give me a hard time, screw it I ain’t playing them. On the other hand I don’t usually deviate tooo far from the original models’ look in most cases,….unless I love the conversion too much. Personally I prefer to tell people to “f*ck off” rather than play by their stupid paper rules. That’s just my way. There’s too many rules out there. And too many signs. And not enough money in my pocket to justify buying two models just to appease some dumbass waving a red flag at my creativity.
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Baba Yaga said this on June 18th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
I will be in touch shortly…..
Thundernuts said this on June 22nd, 2010 at 8:48 am
She looks snazzy
Glad to see your sites taken off. Mines still a bit naff but planning to get more WM done now that I’ve settled down 
Joe said this on July 19th, 2010 at 3:23 pm