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I'm looking for ideas on cool Space Sharks conversions any ideas will help.

some ideas I've seen:

I like the raptor jump packs for a shark themed army (like the librarian in the picture there). Very sleek and deadly.

You might also want to go heavy on the chainswords. Shreading you foes and spraying gore and chunks everywhere.

How campy do you want to go? We talking just a paint job and some wargear options? Or beating someone to death with a shark (counts as thunderhammer)?

Get as many beakie marine helmets as you can.

Now, for some reason, shortly after I started my research on Carcharadons Astra it become a tad more mainstream (aka popular).

From my research (and a tad of my own personal input).
I'll safely assume the 1st 2 images are from running Space Sharks through Codex: Space Wolves (guy turns into shark: MoTW. Guy riding shark: Thunderwolf Cavalry).

Now Nevelon has a few good points:
-Very assault oriented force means more chainswords.
-Beaky helmets

Now, read up on the fluff a tad (wiki and such, nothing extreme, because it doesn't exist). Most recent encounter with force in question was Badab War.
Gear was Pre-heresy and Heresy era (Mk3,4,5, ~6). Meaning beakies, studs, and iron.

You can get pre-heresy and heresy style armor (some, anyway) from Chaos SMs, I also skeeved (yep, new word. Skeeved) some backpacks from the same set b/c they're different, and that's what I wanted.

Something else I like was that, because the LC on Tyberos are so wicked looking (aka not normal) I looked around for alternate LC for the assault termie squad that I would inexplicably run with him, and found these:
http://chapterhousestudios.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=85&product_id=228
and
http://www.shapeways.com/model/320409/10-28mm-power-claw-sets.html

I'm unsure of the 2nd link as to quality in any aspect, but it looks to me like they were modeled after Tyberos' personal set of teeth.

So... That's about all I've got to contribute. You can also grab some chain weapons off the Chaos set (axes?) to mix it up a tad, and look into the FW bits.

As for the conversions that you showed in the examples above, I can't help. Fins can be done with plasticard, the shark man looks almost custom modeled (as does the shark jumping out of the guys hand). Otherwise it's all paint jobs. You can mix up your army by using bare heads, and following fluff for the bare heads (what I've found says pale skin, and all black eyes).

If you want a few other ideas, research sharks, shark toys, and oceanic culture. Should give you an idea as to what the fins look like, paint schemes, and other aspects of the topic.

That's my 2 cents, hope it helped.

model terminator thunder hammers to look like sharks, add shark teeth to combat/lightning shields, adding fins to terminators, adding small fins on SM heads...

kind of take a look at what spacewolfs have with wolf iconology, then convert that to sharks

Thank you for the help all!

Here is a site with some appropriate Models
http://www.princeaugust.ie/target_games/index_capitol.html

I can see sharks teeth paint jobs, shark skin cloaks, etc.

However fins on helmets, and tanks even when done expertly look...silly.

To me that would be like a Space Wolf player putting tails on his rhino's (Imagine the dumb, and dumber puppy dog van).

I mean there are a lot of chapters with animal/fish/creature names. They don't dress up like them.

In the end it's your army so your free to do what you want. At least it's not something like a Slaanesh army with female pleasure devices as weapons, etc (and yes I have seen one of those armies...it was creepy.)

Wagguy80 wrote:To me that would be like a Space Wolf player putting tails on his rhino's (Imagine the dumb, and dumber puppy dog van)

You! Now I need to make that! You!