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hi people,

looking to make some marines with bare arms.

i know that imp guard are to thin and that orks are to large. any way to cut them to look less outta place. or am i best just going with my friends idea and green stuffing a load of arms using the hands from the space marines arms and bluking up imp guard arms.
been sat on this idea for a year now, as others attempts have put me off.

would love pic of others attempts or advice.

easy easy easy answer, Chaos marauders MASSIVe Muscley human arms

job done

What about Catachan arms?

smaller than the orks arms ?

Yeah they would be a little smaller IIRC

looks like they will need chopping and repinning to be used as gun arms.
tho they are on 40p a hit so might buy some from a tester.

If they don't work use Catachan. When asked why they don't look so strong reply with "Does Superman look really strong?". With that the Catachan arms will work

I think those Marauder arms will be easier to work with than the catachans, a lot of those are bent across the body to hold their rifles.

Someone actually tested out using Ork arms, Catachan arms on a SM for the same idea. And both looked weird. The Catachan arms were ok, but stubby looking, and you pegged it, the Ork arms were friggin massive compared to the SM. So give those Marauders a try, they might work rather well.

I'm converting a SM Scout Sergeant at the moment. Using some Blood Angels Death Company body i found. I'm using Catachan arm's. They look fine so far, although I may have to extend them somewhat due to what KingC already said; Stubby. Each arm I'm using is outstretched so it wont be to hard to do so.

Depending how well it goes, I'll get some photos. I dunno if it will help much though as you want them holding Bolters.


Slappy

Here are a couple of pictures of mine. They are for my chaos army but they are using the marauder arms. IMO they are the correct size. I would have more pictures but my camera batteries died. I'll put some more up after the charge. Heavy Weapons guys need a little bit of converting.

I gave one of my space marines a bare right arm with a shoulder pad only by using an arm from a tryanid.I cut off the tyranid hand and replaced it with the hand supposed to be holding the bolter grip and it looks really cool actually and it looks a little more bulky than it should but hey its my model so i like it

thank you everyone for your help.
a big thank you werewolfhunter for the photo that shows me the sizes are right its just a case of pinning them to hold a bolter.
i have another question if anyone is up for answering it. i am a lazy converter, so if i want my whole army with bare arms i think ill make 2 or 3 variants and make resin copies. anyone reckomend a good starter resin/mold kit.

I did a world eater army with ork arms a long time ago and figured out how to make them work. You keep the upper arm of the space marine on the model, which will be covered by the shoulderpad anyways, then you cut the ork arm at the elbow. If you really want them to be size appropriate, you use hands from the WHFB goblin box.

The models posted look just fine however, and the marauder arms are what I have started using for my space wolf army.

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thank you mastiff,

this is the exact right size. i notice the ork arm on the far rght model, looks that tad to big
the only othe problem i can now see is gettting them away from the two weapons layout they have atm and pinning them in the weapon mounted position.

still great pic

ciac89 wrote:thank you mastiff,
this is the exact right size. i notice the ork arm on the far rght model, looks that tad to big

Happy to help. But they all have Marauder arms, no ork arms here. I think he just ate more spinach.

I just tried a Catachan arm and it seems a little small. I think Marauders are indeed your best bet.

I just converted a guy with beastmen arms, just to warn you the medieval posed arms need significant reposing to hold a gun.

If I ever felt the need to actually MAKE a SM army, Id deffinetly go with this style. The bare arm look brings a nice change of pace to how the SM looks. I dig this very much

the affect im thinking of going for is a blend. ill use catachan arms for the troops and the marauder arms on the assault squads

hoping my army might look somthing like white dwarf no. 304 pg 65 ' the fists of the damned' by christian cavonios

I think that this is a really good idea & I hope to see more

Sgt.Roadkill wrote:easy easy easy answer, Chaos marauders MASSIVe Muscley human arms

job done

QFT

ciac89 wrote:the affect im thinking of going for is a blend. ill use catachan arms for the troops and the marauder arms on the assault squads

hoping my army might look somthing like white dwarf no. 304 pg 65 ' the fists of the damned' by christian cavonios

Really the Catachan arms are just stubby looking. Im talking dwarven arms. STUBBY. If your good at GS then go ahead and stretch them. Nut those marauders arms look perfect