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Ok, so I am starting a marine army for my fiance and I, with a particular theme.

Now, without getting too much into army list territory, I am going to be doing some conversions. Because, We Are PennState. (Alumni, that is.)

So I am making a chaplin with power claws and the Nittany Lion's Pelt. He is after all the spiritual leader of the chapter *cough*... I am not going for uber serious here.

My question for my little army is how to model Paterno. I was thinking two options:

The first, and most obvious, is a chapter master. I don't really want to put him into melee, so I was going to have him in power armor with a power fist and bolter, sitting with a tank hunting (or infiltrating) HQ unit with two anti tank weapons. In which case I would sculpt a head, or decapitate a suitably sized trinket or souvenier.

Alternately, I was thinking of making him a librarian with Fury of the Anchients and Fear the Darkness, with an infiltrating squad with some anti-tank. I haven't really thought out this idea yet, but given half the library was built by him, and the amusing idea of giving the model a giant "Play Book", I am suddenly torn.

So raise your voices, servants of the Emporer! Our Immortal Liege demands to know: is Joe Pa a Chapter Master, or a Librarian? The Imperium depends on you!

(I will post pics once I get the project started in earnest. I only have a single marine painted up now as a proof of concept.)

Joe Pa strikes me as a librarian, you know; aged, educated in the old ways, with powers a mere mortal can not understand. The play book could be his forceweapon, with which he can take down the toughest enemies with a single blow.

Yea, that is what I was thinking, what with his name on half the library (the nice, air conditioned half). It is a little more expensive, but fits pretty well I think. I will just have to change the squad some, away from a tank hunting missile/plasma cannon HQ to something else, perhaps infiltrating fear bomb...

Ursarker Creed has more than a passing resemblance to Joe Pa.

Not a bad idea... I was thinking of just getting a small trinket of some sort with his head, removing it and green stuffing it to taste. Creed might be a good base though, with a big pair of black glasses added, and the little head set...