First day Herald of Slaanesh Conversion

 Starting my new project to enter into a conversion contest.  I think this event should bring quite a bit of competition and if the organizers keeps it up on a yearly basis I definitely think it will draw a lot of attention from the community for them in the future.
  I got the package in the mail today, just barely getting it out of the office because one of the maintenance guys happened to let my wife in to pick it up.  Probably took about a week for my order to get to my door from purchase to delivery.  There was one broken model and unfortunately it was a piece that I want to use too, but it should be fine.  I can either glue the piece back, or just sculpt a fix myself with green stuff.
  The main piece that I got was an old out of print "Champion of Slaanesh".  I'm going to be converting it into a Herald of Slaanesh that can stand in as being mounted or unmounted and I may also get another conversion out of it for just a Herald of Slaanesh on foot.  I picked this model out and decided to pick up the Codex: Daemons because it is in direct juxtaposition of both my favorite army the Eldar and my other favorite the Gray Knights. I would have gone with something from the Eldar, but there wasn't anything up on the webstore that I would have really wanted to convert and that my army would benefit having another of.
   I'm not entirely sure the model hadn't already been converted by somebody else with some Nid bits, but I'll be finding out when the simple green gets done striping the 1/4" of paint off of it.  No joking I had to take a hobby knife and pick at this thing just to see if it actually had metal under it.  It felt like I was excavating the model out of hard pack earth.  I'm still not sure if there was a huge layer of paint, or somebody had just slathered on a ton of green stuff trying to do their conversion.  I was thinking perhaps somebody had actually just green stuffed this thing together on their own. I did some careful scraping as to not ruin it if that was the case and can tell that it is definitely a pewter model.

 This is the rubble that was left after trying to figure out if this was a solid pewter model, or if somebody had actually done their own conversion work to add details to some model to make their own Slaaneshy model in the past.  Turns out it is almost all pewter, and I do believe most the parts are original to the model.  I actually did quite a bit more digging after this photo was taken.  The larger chunks in the upper left I think are actually Nid armor bits and the only plastic on this model when I received it.

 

 This photo shows where I have cut the model to try and make my own conversion.  I'm probably going to have to do some more cutting to get it to look the way I have envisioned.  I'll also probably still be using those Nid limbs on it as well, though with Daemonette claws instead of Hormagaunt ones.

This is my base that I'm going to be using.  Green stuffed this up today while I waited for the simple green to take its toll on the sediment on the main body of the model.  This is my first real attempt at green stuffing an actual base and no those aren't finger prints in it.  I was able to get a bit of texture on it by pressing another base up against it.  Guess I'll see how I like it after its been painted, but I think it will work well just by looking at it.  I'm going for a defiled Eldar ruins look and am pretty happy with it right now as a basic shape.

 

This is what I have for the fist day after having received my package from Blue Table Painting.  I say first day, but really it was only about a couple hours "work".  Have about another month to work on this.

 

John