Upgrading Drupal 7 PHPTemplate-based themes to Drupal 8

I'm looking to start trying out Drupal 8. But I need some themes for display.

Here's a couple good articles on how to handle this :

http://www.undpaul.de/en/blog/2013/06/02/upgrading-busy-theme-drupal-8

http://www.undpaul.de/blog/2013/07/04/theming-drupal-8-conversion-themes...

For my current D7-based themes, looks like I have a couple options :

- Modify "slightly" the PHPTemplate-based themes and use them mostly as-is.

- Run the PHPTemplate-based theme thru "Twigify" at https://drupal.org/sandbox/forest/1974984

As far as D7 PHPTemplate-based themes that have already been upgraded (somewhat) to D8 I see these examples :

https://drupal.org/project/busy

https://drupal.org/project/Themage

https://drupal.org/project/fontfolio

https://drupal.org/project/newsflash

I'll try to give updates on how this is working out.

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