Well it's been a while since I've posted any kind of update, life events keep getting in the way.
Hopefully I'll be able to get around to finishing of my Lizardman army, but until then, I've got some Deathwatch Marines to share.
As soon as I opened the box and saw the Marines, I knew that I had to convert them all to Blood Angels to fit in with my other Space Marines, so without any further ado, here they are:
So first up, we have the real Blood Angel from the box who was the easiest to convert, all I had to do was glue him together
Next up, we have the librarian, all I had to do was swap out the shoulder pad, he even already had the perfect icon on his shin pad too.
The Devastator was the next one to get the treatment. The Imperial Fist icon got scratched off the chest plate and was replaced by the
BA teardrop and the shoulderpad was swapped out.
Vael Donatus has been changed into a Blood Angels Veteran with a head swap and the remove of the Ultramarine icons on his knee and backpack.
The second jump user in the boxset got some careful scalpel work done to his chapter icons, with the bird skulls being replaced by teardrops again.
Moving onto the White Scars speed freak, I swapped out the torso, weapon and head all for Blood Angel ones. The chapter icons were also scratched off the bike.
Zameon Gydrael lost his hood, sword and backpack, and was reborn as a Sanguinary Priest. I think I still need a few more bits to make him seem a little more Apothecary-ery, maybe a spotlight on the backpack and some extra bits on his arm to make a Narthecium.
Chaplains always look dark and foreboding, so the first thing I did to Ortan Cassius was swap out his head to a sweet skull helmet (or more specifically, the helmet that came with that sweet limited edition Interrogator Chaplain from Dark Vengeance). The bolt pistol arm was swapped out for one with a plasma pistol. Using an engraving tool, I removed the Ultramarines logo from the backpack and from the heraldry badge on his torso, which was then replaced by a skull.
Removing the Salamanders icon of the shoulder pad was the easiest bit of converting the Terminator. I removed the skull from the heraldry badge and put it onto the belt after removing the hammer icon. I placed a chalice icon to the badge, and looks pretty cool with the flames behind it
The engraving tool came into play again as I carved off the Salamanders icon from the shin pad and replaced it with a tear drop from one of the tank sized
BA icons.
I knew right from the start, that I'd have to convert Drenn Redblade the same way he converts his enemies...with a lot of hacking and slashing.
The chainsword and helmet were easily swapped, the shoulder pad, however, needed some careful work with the clippers. I wanted to keep the backpack with the bolter slung under it because it it looks cool, however after removing the Space Wolf stuff off it, I was left with a pretty horrible mess, a mess that was easily covered up by a Genestealers head
I just need to add some string to make it look like it's tied on there and not just magically stuck there.
There was a small runestone that was on the pelt that got replaced with (you guessed it), the
BA tear drop icon.
And last up, is my favourite conversion, turning an Iron Hands Marine into a Techmarine
The servo arm is from the Onager Dunecrawler kit and was the perfect size, all I had to do was cut of the claw and flip it around. The power axe is made out of left over bits from the Fulgurite Electro-Priest kit. I didn't really like the combi-bolter that he was originally armed with, so it was swapped out with a bolt pistol.
After finishing all the conversions, I sat back and thought "hmm, there's still some non-
BA stuff on them".
So my excuse (or fluff) will be, that after dealing with Tyranids inside the Sin of Damnation, and with Hive Fleet Leviathan heading to Baal, a number of Blood Angels were dispatched to other chapters to learn tatics that would prove effective against the 'Nids. So for example, the Terminator (yet to be named) was sent to Salamanders to learn their ways with fire and that's why he's got a Firedrake hide.
Hopefully I'll get around to updating this more often (don't we all say that
).
I've got Skitarii that I'm working on, so I should be able to get some photos of them up soon. I've got some ideas for the Genestealers that are currently sitting unloved in the Deathwatch box, and of course, I've got plenty more skinks that need painting.
So far the only feedback I've gotten on these Marines was from a
GW employee who just says "cool" to anything you show them, so feel free to leave any comments and criticisms below