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Hey all! I just picked up a box of Space Marine Centurions, because the siren song of 15 AP 2 shots is too strong to ignore.

I thought you all might be interested to see how it goes putting them all together.

Couple of interesting things: This is a complete kit. In fact, it's the first infantry kit I've ever purchased from GW that contains all the possible unit options. Yeah, you read that right. Any way you could conceivably kit out a unit of three Centurions, be it Assault or Devastator, you will have all of the bits in this box. What's more, from my preliminary investigation, it looks to be easily magnetizable. The way I see it, it's like getting four units for the price of one, so I'm super excited.

Quick note, if you plan to buy one. Do NOT just start cutting. The box contains three sprues. Each sprue contains all the bits you'll need to make a single one of your centurions, but here's the kicker: their legs (and I think their arms too) are individually sculpted, and not interchangeable. Some of the weapons systems might be, but if you just snip all the leg pieces off, you'll wind up doing what I spent the last two hours doing, which is trying to fit all the little plastic pieces together like a damn jigsaw.

Mold lines look nice, there are notched joints for the pieces, meaning this is the easiest plastic kit I've put together from GW. There might be trouble down the line, of course, but for now it's smooth sailing.

That's it so far. If anyone has any questions, then by all means ask away.

Thanks for the post. I liked the looks of them once I actually had them in my hands, I didn't care for the earliest pictures I saw of them because of the paintjobs not giving their armor depth.

Throw up some pictures once you get going on them if you would.

My first ideas for converting them up as i saw the first pictures was to remove the torso weapons entirely and attach them instead of their shoulders. But as far as i can see on sprue pictures the torso weapons aren't that easily moved.(they are integrated in the torsos and only the front is a seperate piece) Having the spures at hand how hard would it be to cut the housing of those weapons away and reuse the parts after closing the holes with plasticard?

Wouldn't be impossible. The torso weapon housings are separate bits, and if you never attached them, you'd have two little tabs to cut off, but then either side of the chest plate would just be flat. (Great place for a decal, though.) If you changed the pieces across to the other side, it would be okay on the shoulders, but the backs of the now-shoulder-weapons would look a little odd, in my opinion. Still, totally within the bounds of possibility as far as conversions go.

Updated information, so people don't make the same mistakes I did: To repeat, the leg pieces are not interchangeable. Torso pieces are, but from the waist down the models all have to be assembled from the same sprue.

The instruction book makes it seem like each arm piece can go on one of three different ways, but the truth is that each arm can go on only one way, there's just three different arms for each side. The finger/thumb pieces of the 'ceramite mitten' the Centurions wear are interchangeable, however, so you can make a big difference to their character that way.

When attaching the shoulder plates, they are not omni directional. The largely blank ones go on the right arm (from the model's perspective) and the designed ones go on the left. There are two tiny notches (one almost imperceptible) in the underside of the shoulder plates that are designed to rest on the large piston that runs across the shoulders. The shoulder plates, when glued correctly, will NOT rest on the chest weapon housing.

Finally, although the three 'tassets' (metal groin plate things) seem to be, according to the instruction book, interchangeable, I felt like I got a better fit when I assembled them with the tassets matching the same leg sets as the Ultramarines on the box front. Your mileage may vary.

Generic news- great kit so far. Nothing has come up ill-fitting, haven't found a single molding error, and I don't know if they have some different process for molding, but the mold lines have been almost nonexistent. Many of the pieces were designed intelligently to keep the mold lines minimal, but even where you can see the joining line, it's been barely there at all.

You shouldn't worry too much about how hard it is to figure this out, incidentally. The instruction booklet is 30 pages long.


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Update - Quick question:

So, the torso weapons can easily be slipped in and out of the weapon housing, but I think the bits might be a tad too small to magnetize. Is spirit gum safe to use on plastic, you think? Blue tack would work, since it is recessed and no one would ever see it, but I kind of thought that spirit gum might be thinner.

this is a very timely thread, as I'll be starting on a box of these fellows myself in the next few days. regarding the chest weapons, what about just gluing a thin metal strip to the weapon and recessing a magnet into the housing? I haven't opened my box yet, so no idea if that'll fly

 varl wrote:
this is a very timely thread, as I'll be starting on a box of these fellows myself in the next few days. regarding the chest weapons, what about just gluing a thin metal strip to the weapon and recessing a magnet into the housing? I haven't opened my box yet, so no idea if that'll fly

That would fly, absolutely, although I don't have any magnetic material that is thin enough to not leave them sticking out. I was thinking something sticky might work better, but I could always be wrong.