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I'm working on an all-plastic SM army. Of course, this means I have to do some converting (Pedro Cantor and a Sternguard squad so far). But where they are available, I like to use the original GW plastic figures. Which brings me to my question:

Have GW ever produced a plastic Librarian in normal power armour?

They have done plastics in Terminator armour, and metal figures in power armour, but (for instance) the plastic Command Squad doesn't have a librarian in it.

Do I have to start converting?

no is the simple answer, sorry mate.

If your going to make one in plastic i suggest makign him significantly different from the usual marines, maybe using Dark angel vets so he is robed and has the sudo-knightly helmet? need any ideas i am full of them :p

I guess you could make it a psychic hood out of green stuff and a left over SM sholder pad, going with the above idea.

check out bitz shops online, i'm sure you can find some appropriate bitz to add

http://www.bitzbox.co.uk/index.php?cPath=21_27_117

Sgt.Roadkill wrote:no is the simple answer, sorry mate.

If your going to make one in plastic i suggest makign him significantly different from the usual marines, maybe using Dark angel vets so he is robed and has the sudo-knightly helmet? need any ideas i am full of them :p

I did this for a Chaplin and works great, just make sure to give him some of the "Scroll Tubes" for the real look.

Anpu42 wrote:

Sgt.Roadkill wrote:no is the simple answer, sorry mate.

If your going to make one in plastic i suggest makign him significantly different from the usual marines, maybe using Dark angel vets so he is robed and has the sudo-knightly helmet? need any ideas i am full of them :p

I did this for a Chaplin and works great, just make sure to give him some of the "Scroll Tubes" for the real look.

chaplains are actually easier than librarians because of the existance of those Chaos warrior skull heads,



and a plastic termi version here



bit off topic i know but shwos what can be done with simple headswaps

aha, this is what I was after:

http://www.bitzbox.co.uk/conversion_corner_librarian.php

Thanks very much, guys. As usual with Dakka, fast informative replies. The BitzBox link was especially useful -thanks Million.

I have been using a metal Librarian - one of the first GW ever made - that I've had for about 20 years. He needs replacing 'cos he doesn't fit the theme of the army, but I may try to make the plastic conversion look like him....

I did my lib as a marine in power armour, with a power axe(from the assault squad sprue) and then an arm pointing with an open hand (made from at pointy arm and a missile launcher arm)

I did my librarian of a normal marine, a commander's loincloth, a bare head, a shoulder plate and some wire.

I drilled a couple of holes to the head and stuck short wires to it. Then I modified the shoulder plate to look like a psychic hood (trims off, filled the gaps and cut it to resemble a hood from a metal librarian. Then I drilled small not-through holes to the shoulder guard and fitted the wires to the holes. Then I glued the head-shoulder guard thingie to the marines neck guard thingie. He had a Force Hammer

Too bad I don't have any pics as he joined Death Guard :/