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How would i go about converting 24 khorne beserkers into terminators.

I recently started playing with 24 zerkers and found jsut how hard they failed vs DE's PWs so i found out for a tiny amount more i can run the same number of terminators with marks of slaanesh and heavy flamers.

So instead of spending $250 plus tax on buying 25 terminators I would rather learn how to make my zerkers look like they have terminator armor on, and yes i will buy bigger bases for them all if i can get this to work.

You'll need a lot of GS, theres considerable bulk up from PA to termies

Although a lot of termies usually isnt the answer, you usually use them for small units with combi plasma and melta

if your going to that much trouble for a project that I'm not sure can succed why not scratch build your termies?

sudestions for conversion tho cause thats what you asked for.
you will need to add a plate to their shin protector/lower leg armour front section and some sort of strip or bead to the back of their legs to create the reinforcement thingies

rebuild the midesction then add greenstuff to the back of the torso unill you have a big blocky lump higher than his head

the arms will need bulking up maybe cut the wrists away from the elbow and extend with pinning and green stuff you only need to add one or two millimeteres 1or2/25th of an inch

visit maxmini.eu and buy some replacement mutated horrible heads or whatever their called as you standard space marine heads won't work anymore

bulk up the shoulder pads you could look into forgeworld or chapterhouse for replacement pads

just got done looking at forge world hoping they had some kinda conversion to term armor for marines somewhere... had no luck :/

i Know a lot of terms isnt a answer in a army but if you can get them at the same point cost as your normal troop why not

Why not........... special rules such as powerfists having to strike last weapon options being curtailed the list goes on

ebay honestly. You can get a lot of the bits you need for a lot cheaper and much less hassle.

mullet_steve wrote:Why not........... special rules such as powerfists having to strike last weapon options being curtailed the list goes on

All chaos terms start with PWs and bolter guns standard and i can give one a PF is needed for 10 extra points, and im chaos there is like 0 special rules

One word: EBAY. You would be better off converting black reach terminators than trying to do all that.

yeah just get the Black Reach ones
or play space wolves lol

This is not a good idea. They're never going to look like Terminators.

You're absolutely better off picking up terminators from the Assault on Black Reach boxed set cheap on eBay or elsewhere, and converting them with Chaos bits.

zhangbob wrote:How would i go about converting 24 khorne beserkers into terminators.

I recently started playing with 24 zerkers and found jsut how hard they failed vs DE's PWs so i found out for a tiny amount more i can run the same number of terminators with marks of slaanesh and heavy flamers.

So instead of spending $250 plus tax on buying 25 terminators I would rather learn how to make my zerkers look like they have terminator armor on, and yes i will buy bigger bases for them all if i can get this to work.

Your going to need extensive GS work. Start with one model and perfect your technique. Don't be in a hurry.


Another solution is to remove the "horns" from a few berzerker heads and join them onto some termie bodies....thats the route I would STRONGLY reccomend.

I mean no offense, but if you had the skills necessary to convert a marine into a terminator with bitz and greenstuff, you wouldn't be asking us how to do it. What you are referring to is a project that would require extensive sculpting skills, knowledge, and experience. I have been working with greenstuff for a few years now and have made extensive conversions with it such as a Tyrannofex from a carnifex. Even with what I have done, I would not attempt to sculpt something like Terminator armour on a marine.

The amount of time invested in practicing with greenstuff and learning how to be a professiona miniaturel sculptor will take a long time. I would suggest like many other memebers here, to get the assault of black reach terminators and convert them with chaos bitz. You can buy the spikey bitz on ebay that go on their shoulders pretty cheap. In fact I would probably go ahead and buy a box of regular chaos space marine terminators as well. You are going to get multiple sets of arms and heads from that box, more than what you need for the five terminators in the box. You can use those bitz to spruce up the assault on black reach terminators.

If you still want to try your hand at sculpting minis, I would suggest taking on smaller projects like a cloaks, etc.

DODcrazy wrote:One word: EBAY. You would be better off converting black reach terminators than trying to do all that.

+1, I was going to post exactly that. Black Reach Termies can be had pretty cheap. Really, if you dont need to have the super detail them AoBR models are a fantastic deal. Im using them to build a SM army for my 7 year old son.

All i need is terminators though i dont wanna spend, around 100 dollars for a Black reach box just to get 5 terms and still need 15 more, replacing the zerkers bodys with term bodys also requires me to buy the 200 dollars worth of terminators, i havent checked out Ebay yet....so thats still an option...

wonder if i bought the Black reach box if i could find other ork players and trade them ork pieces from it for their terminator pieces...

Did you go to Wizard School? No? Then you can't convert them into Terminators. Sorry, you just can't. I don't mean to be a jerk, but it's not like converting a Rhino into a Vindicator or something else simple. It would literally be easier to just sculpt the things yourself. No one makes conversion kits because none of the parts look the same, not even in the slightest. It's like trying to convert a Land Speeder into a Land Raider.

If I might make a suggestion, keep your Khorne Berzerkers. Any attempt to convert them is just going to leave you with no Khorne Berzerkers and no Terminators.

You don't have to buy the whole box. Go to ebay, search "Black Reach Terminators" or "AoBR Terminators", or just "Terminators", you will find great stuff, for not a lot of money. Good Luck!

whyst I commend your idea to swap khorne with slaanesh I dont think it would be too easy to do this. your best bet is to ebay around or do some swaps. I'm pretty sure you could swap some zerkers for termys over on the dakka traiding forum

zhangbob wrote:All i need is terminators though i dont wanna spend, around 100 dollars for a Black reach box just to get 5 terms and still need 15 more, replacing the zerkers bodys with term bodys also requires me to buy the 200 dollars worth of terminators, i havent checked out Ebay yet....so thats still an option...

ZB, four people mentioned Ebay before you posted this. People break down sets and sell the bits they don't want all the time.

zhangbob wrote:wonder if i bought the Black reach box if i could find other ork players and trade them ork pieces from it for their terminator pieces...

Yep. That's something people have been doing with the boxed starter sets since they first started making them. I primarily play chaos rather than loyalist SM, but I still bought an AoBR starter and split it with a friend who wanted the Orks, just because the SM and Terminators and Dread are all easily converted/painted to go into my chaos SM army, and they're CHEAP.

well we can delete this forum if you want XD
I got insanely lucky on ebay after a few hours of watching it i caught a sale for terminators
a guy was selling 10 sets of 5 terms from black reach box, for (with shipping included) 9 dollars for each set of 5 terms. Only needed 20 so i got 4 sets for 38 dollars <3

my term problem is over <3 you dakka