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Hi!
My friends and I have recently just started 40k.
My friend bought AoBR(Assault on Black Reach) set and said I can have the Space Marines.
I want to Convert my Space Marines to Chaos Space Marines.
So any Conversion tutorials or tips for a new gamer?

Just add spikes.

Basically yea thats it. MAke them look ebil(yes ebil) and get the chaos codex.

Is there any certain thing I should to the captain or the Srgt to make them Chaos or just spike them up also?

I dunno you could by a box of choas marines and do some head swaps with what heads you would have left. Also yha pretty much just add spikes.

ummm
I glued my pieces on
so just use a knife to plop them off i guess?
and glue the head on?

Buy some Chaos marines and use the extra bits, blackreach marines arnt the most convertable considering the only parts you have to glue to them are the gun and backpack (cutting the heads off might be disasterous). The Termies are a little better, arms are seperate. If you wanna make it easy paint some toothpicks black for spikes, with a skull here and there or some gore made of greenstuff.

toothpick idea doesn't sound that bad for now

Buy a blister of CSM backpacks.

When I converted my Macragge Marines to Chaos Marines, I simply cut off the heads of the regular marines and replaced them with CSM heads (Obviously re-positioning them to get a cooler-looking model)

Wait isn't there the chaos vehicle sprue, that should contain enougn parts.
And you should think about which choas god you like, nurgle would make it a lot harder.
Khorne would be the easiest. And coolest.
Well that's just my 2 cents.

Also destroy any traces of imperial eagles :-)

Chaos is one of those armies where for me anything goes, you can grab any part from any of the ranges and convert it to suit your marines, the limit is endless! what you could do is sketch out some ideas and colour schemes on some paper and go from there.

Good luck and keep us updated!

I would advise taking the Marines and carving big crosses, slashes over the Imperial icons, so they look like they have removed the hated logos. You could then glue on some spikes made with cocktail sticks, and perhaps some chains, skulls etc here and there.

Then, buy a few real Chaos Space Marines and assemble them. Mix the AoBR Marines in with those (so each unit has a mix of converted and normal Chaos Marines). This will blend the two sets of models together so it is less obvious you converted them.

Red corsairs are recently betraying chaos marines, so many will still be in their imperium armour, effective paint scheme and minor conversions using chaos bits will sort your marines out quickly, go to a bitz seller online (I use bitz box) and order some bits you like the look of.

If there are other guys in your area who play chaos maybe you can buy some bitz like heads and spiky chaos bitz. Or if he is kind enough he could give it to you for free!! (if you ask him nicely!)

like what they said add spiky bitz, and shave some parts off the eagles and Imperial iconography.

And you could cut off the skull bit and replace it on the Sgt. head, or just paint the head in a pale dead like fashion.

Small chain and spikes are easy enough to find and are the cheapest way to convert models to chaos if you are strapped for cash. Otherwise just look online for 40k chaos bitz and you'll find chaos items to customize your units. Also look into getting some greenstuff if you have some modeling skills.

A good chaos themed paint job will do most of the work for you though.

Paint X's over the Ultra Marine symbols and claim they are newly converted to chaos. :}

Give them spikes and ruin the Ultramarine symbols... and give them a pansy name like "Pink Lillies". That never made sense to me, how did the Regular Space Marines end up with the terrifing/evil-sounding names while Chaos has "Emperor's Children" and "World Bearers" or Eaters or whatever....

If Nurgle, Slice up their Shoulder Pads and Scratch Up Areas. Maybe Drill in the 3 cirlces?( nurgle logo)

Depends on what god you pick for chaos.


Undivided: add skulls and horns where needed.

Khorne: horns work well, chains and skulls work even better.

Nurgle: GS works to no end.
adding bloated bodies, boils, cuts, tenticles, should look good.

Slaanesh: use GS once again to form skin around leg armour, sculpt faces into armour aswell.

Tzeentch: flames work well, plenty of battle damage will also help to make them look good.

Spikes , blades , and such can make them look chaos but it also can be done with just a proper paint job as well .

Yeah, it can be really simple. If they're newly-turned 'renegade' marines then you just need to file down all the imperial symbols and paint them in an evil color scheme.

The simplest 'conversions' would be chaos marine heads or backpacks. Or get hold of the 'chaos mutation' sprue, which has lots of chaosy arms and heads.

EDIT

Found it - this sprue is a godsend for anyone converting chaos...

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1300063&prodId=prod1290060

For Nurgle, just GS pustly bits and slashed guts on them, looks hard but is surprisingly easy!

Thanks everyone!
Just recently bought Khorne Berserkers(Yes,I am goin Khorne).
Im going to use the spare parts from them.
And some if the ideas that were given to me via this thread!