The art of converting (and a status update)

I have always liked to do small conversions that people might not see or think about at first sight. I almost always end up swapping heads, arms or other parts on the miniatures when I build boxes with more than one miniature in them. Often it is just a matter of giving head A to body B and placing ams C on the same body, other times I delve in to my bitz box (or rather several boxes) to see if I find something I like better there.

I haven't built too much scenery before, but when I made the chapel for Warhammer Fantasy I used greestuff to plug the hole in the roof. Not a big conversion, but something someone might notice sometime (or not).
When I bought the Skullvane Mance, I thought from day one that I would like to replace the astronomer globe with a regular tower. Then I would put the astronomer globe on something else. Deathknell watch would be a perfect place for it as I didn't like the weird skeleton signal thingy that came with it that much.
But I have never gotten arround to it, partially because I am lazy and partially because I have been afraid that it wouldn't fit. Now I know it fits!
I was at Games Workshop yesterday, and they had the Armies on Parade competition. One of the boards was an undead army with a Deathknell watch tower and a Skullvane manse, so we tried to swap it with the owners permission, and it fit perfect.
After doing some more investigating we were quite sure that the tower in itself is the same frames for both sets, and when I came home and finally opened my boxes I could confirm that.
After chatting with the others in the store, I decided to add some more height to the tower. so I bought one more tower with the plan of taking one wallsection. But suprise, the sections was not one floor by itself, but the entire height (2 floors) in one section.

Here is a picture of the two towers placed on top of each other:

And with the astronomer globe added to it, the finished tower will be like this:

There are so many sculls on the tower to begin with, that I really did't want or need all the sculls in these pieces. They are the ones blocking off the doors that lead out to nothing.

The greenstuff in the last pic is not dried yet, and I will add a little more and file it before I'm finished. 

I will make sure is is as smooth a surface as possible.

In other updates I have just the ammo and horns left to paint on my first 3 Chaos Marines, and if I only decide on what colour to paint the horns, they will be done in a short time.

The ork bikers are comming along. The bikes are now completed, and I have started to fix the riders so I gan glue them on and fit them correctly.