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So im looking to make my commander into a Libarian. I know very little about modding so how could i make this commander look more like a librarian. how would i go about making that hod they use. im sure thats the toughest part. i have several power weapons and assault guns i can put on him. more purity seals. parchment and the deathcompany pants with the cloth hanging in front of the legs? any help would be great.

thanks.
Joel

You can use a dremel to remove some parts of a space marine shoulder pad to look like a psychic hood, or use parts from the Grey Knights kits.

Aquaterry

I think i saw a librarian with a shoulderpad for psycick hood. Make a dryfit first, so your shure

ah, yeah. just smooth out the ridges on the pads and cut away some. right on ill try and do that to some extra shoulder pads i have. thanks for the tip ;D.

I'd suggested looking at bits sites as there are plenty of cheap bits you could buy and add to the commander kit to make him look more like a Librarian. I didn't use the commander for mine I used the Dark Angel veterans kit with a CSM shoulder pad (it has the horned skull on it), in his right hand he has a sword and I used the hand from a Devastators missle launcher as his left hand so it tools like he's shooting lightning or psychic energy out of his hand while he's charging forward yelling.

@warboss, do you have a suggestive bitz site? i know of bitz barn and spikey bitz

So heres what i have so far for my kitbash librarian. from various kits, mainly the commander box for the body. the legs came from deathcompany. power sword and infernus pistol and ill be adding a jumppack.

For bitz sites I usually use www.thewarstore.com great service. A simple Grey Knight torso would work great.

As for you conversion I think the hood looks fine but the green stuff cables are too thick. if you can get guitar strings they'd work a lot better.

yeah the cords were big ive made them alot smaller. im going to get wire sometime over the weekend and fashion a spiral psychic lightning effect going on from his arm to the power sword.ill keep updates.

If you have a buddy who plays guitar, beg and plead for either the excess bit of guitar string, or the broken bits of guitar string. Incredibly handy stuff.

im picking up florial wire a ton of it for like 2 dollars that should serve to be very useful, i re did the tubes to the psychic-hood. they are alot smaller my only diffculty is getting the ribbed look which im not to worried about. also would i be able to use this is a GW tourament? or would i need to buy an actual librarian model? it just seems like a waste of plastic if i can not. im trying to make as close as possible so people wont question it and cry b/c i didnt x amount of money to buy the blister.

GW have not yet gone that far down the fascist road of requiring you to use the actual model. GW has two stipulations for tournament: a.) That the vast majority or the entirety of the model is GW product range, and that b.) WYSIWYG holds true. So.... unless there is someone that's particularly fascist about the fact that you dont actually have a GW(R) Space Marine(TM) Librarian(TM) model, you should be okay.

the new grey knights plastic kits have librarian parts, insofar as the front torso and the back which has the hood. you'd do well to add some scrolls and stuff though to the general armour.

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:I'd suggested looking at bits sites as there are plenty of cheap bits you could buy and add to the commander kit to make him look more like a Librarian. I didn't use the commander for mine I used the Dark Angel veterans kit with a CSM shoulder pad (it has the horned skull on it), in his right hand he has a sword and I used the hand from a Devastators missle launcher as his left hand so it tools like he's shooting lightning or psychic energy out of his hand while he's charging forward yelling.

I did almost this exact thing (for a CSM sorceror), but I used a Necron lords staff for a force weapon (the shoulder pad is the Tzeentch champion pad)

I've used shoulderpads as psychic hoods before; looks alright:


I'd rather use a plastic Grey Knight torso, as they already have psychic hoods.