Skorne Cyclops Conversions

 The Skorne Cyclops Savage is one of those models that has a lot of untapped potential for use outside of the game it is designed for. Included with the Skorne starter battlebox, it's a model that very quickly finds itself replaced in most armies and often finds itself buried in the bottom of carrying cases and closets never again to see the light of day. This also means you can get it fairly cheap (over 50% off in most cases),

Skorne Cyclops Savage (plastic kit version)

That said, the body of the Cyclops looks very nice (the weird gorilla arms I'm not a fan of), and is a great base to work from in conversions. Note that the plastic Cyclops is a somewhat different sculpt, and has less detail, so you may want to prioritize the metal ones for conversion. You can see a size comparison below.


 

 

Skorne Cyclops Size Comparison

 As metal models are a pain to work with, it's nice that the arms and head are separated perfectly at the shoulders and neck, making conversion a snap. For example, I've been playing with either using spare Necropolis knight arms (green-stuffing some bulk on the skeleton arms) or seeing how Ogre arms look. Just for fun I sticky-tac'd two of the arms from a spare Cynwall Nova I have on my desk and it looked pretty decent once I placed a Dark Eldar Talos mask on it (those things have a million-and-one uses by the way).

Savage body with two arms from Rackham Confrontation Nova

 I have almost ten Savages (no joke) between various purchases and people giving me extras they didn't want, so I am looking at using some for Dark Eldar Groteques or as champions of some sort in 40K. Not sure, but I like the look of the bodies too much to see them go to waste. If I can find some good looking arms I may even rework my Brute and Raider since I absolutely hate their default monkey limbs.

Preview of my headswapped Skorne (need a better head for EHexy).