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I have just started playing Iron Warriors and would possibly like to include plague and noise marines as Troops one day.

However, the look of them doesn't really fit the Iron Warriors to me so I would like to convert them in some way to look more Iron Warrior-y.

I had the idea (well I saw it on Dakka) of using the Iron Hands bionic parts with basic CSM models to make bionic Plague Marines, so I will likely do that.

The one I am stuck on is Noise Marines. How can I make their weapons look more technological to suit the IW, or is the fact that they are physical weapons and not some daemonic mutation enough?

seen these before?

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/The_Horus_Heresy/Legiones_Astartes/Space_Marine_Legion_Army_List/Legion_Troops/Legion_Tactical_Support_Squad/VOLKITE_CALIVER_SET.html

Might do the trick?

You could use noise marine weapons and simply paint them in iron warriors colours, its already well established in the iw books that they have khornate berserkers. So it stands to reason they'd have other cult followers.

Yes, plague marines don't seem too hard, use the mechanical look beloved by all IW, then add rust and verdigris etc to imply Nurglish decay.

Slaanesh, lovers of extreme sensation - hmm, not so easy to do that in a machine theme. Maybe fluorescent colours as spot contrast against the normal iron and brass? And/or bionic noise weapons, i.e. replacing the entire arm?

Yea, the noise marine guns on their own would work well, with maybe a couple of tweaks. I would mod where the right hand goes into the gun and the right shoulder pad, the faces of the end of the gun kind of work, could tie it into the named heroes/gods/muses that were talked about when Perturabo builds the stadium for Fulgrim.

For the why of them, and using the sonic weapons, maybe they are siege engineers that have ended up trying exotic ways to destroy fortifications and are on a big music kick? The denying cover rule on the sonic weapons would fit right in with that.

Or just model them as normal and just add the preferred god's color somewhere on the figure, like paint the inside part of one of the shoulderpads green for the Nurgle guys, etc.