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Hey Guys,

I'm planning on trying to convert some of the DV Termi's to wield TH/SS. I think I've found the weapons I want to use (the mechanicals from maxmini).
I think I can cut the storm bolters off easy enough and replace them with the hammers. It's the sheilds I'm wondering about, putting them ontop of the PF's. Has anyone gotten an experience with converting tac termi's to TH/SS termis?

When I get round to it I'll take some pics for anyone else interested in doing this as well.

Until I got another solution, I had some terminators with right hand swaps sporting trimmed down (cut off chaos symbols) chaos warrior shields. I think they were the box before the most recent one, the big long tower shields. I think those maximini shields *could* go right over the top of a power fist if the back is flat or concave (even better).

I'm not sure doing it that way will look better than getting proper storm shield arms, but I think it works alright (and its different so there's that).

Would it not be worth buying a number of the shield arms from the assault terminators box off eBay, and apply the shields straight to them?

I'm not sure if the maxmini shields have hands on them, but getting a number of GW's SS and then carefully scraping off the hand part and reattaching it to the maxmini shields cold avoid this problem. Just and idea, it may be a bit costly, but would probably give you a decent result.

"Different" being "cheap n chearful DW termi's".
The eventual plan, if I can get it to work, is get 6 sets of PS/SB, 3* TH/SS, AC/PF & PF||CF/SB.

Using the black reach sarge as Belial I *should* be able to get ~ 1750-1850 worth of termi's for <£100. maybe sub some of the AC's for CML's (using left over sentinel ML's) as well.

I didn't go for the pucker GW TH/SS arms cause of the cost. When the goals cheap termicide I think this *may* work.

 Warpig1815 wrote:
Would it not be worth buying a number of the shield arms from the assault terminators box off eBay, and apply the shields straight to them?

I'm not sure if the maxmini shields have hands on them, but getting a number of GW's SS and then carefully scraping off the hand part and reattaching it to the maxmini shields cold avoid this problem. Just and idea, it may be a bit costly, but would probably give you a decent result.

The assault box storm shield is missing the forearm, so really you could cut the power first off at the elbow and green stuff/plasticard tube a forearm and it could work.

Here is what I did back when I was converting my first batch of AOBR terminators to be shadow knights. I've since gotten some proper DA shield arms from the DA conversion/upgrade sprue and don't need these guys to shield up as much now. But here's a picture concerning what a shield on top of a powerfist looks like:

Looks pretty baller mate. I'll probably have to adjust some of the arms a bit but if looks could kill.

This guy converted his DV termies to have TH/SS. I think they look really good.
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@Desubot - I've just built myself a box a couple of months ago and I'm sitting painting them right now. The arm is complete, including the forearm, with only the hand missing. On the storm shield, the only part of the arm there is the hand, gripping the SS handle.

@ Blaggard - Like I've mentioned to Desubot, the hand is the only part of the arm affixed to the GW SS - hence it should be pretty easy to remove. Cost wise, eBay's putting them at around £0.99 an arm, with a P+P of £1.00 (Which is probably combined if you get more than one). However, if you get in quick this person (Not me I must say, I'm not shamelessly promoting my own listing! ) is selling the whole set of 5, with SS and TH, for roughly a tenner:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-Space-Marine-Terminator-Thunder-Hammers-Storm-Shields-and-Arms-bits-auction-/370845441639?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item56581c5e67

Interesting. I'll have to keep an eye out for sets like that. I'll have to do the maths regarding that or assault boxes||maxmini & DV termi's.

So the maxmini hammer/sheilds arrived today along with some of the termi's. atm I'll be keeping the sarge and AC default. This is what the blue-tac shows atm: http://i.imgur.com/DW5b2qh.jpg

They're looking good like that. Bit drunk atm so I don't think I'll try snipping things off. I'll also have to do mold lines on the termi's but I expected that for £6 w/ P&P.

Some of your shields are on sideways

But those look great

just cut off the arms and replace them we TH/SS bits.

If I put them on sideways on those arms they look a bit weird when vertical. I figured the 'action pose in line with the hand' looks better. http://i.imgur.com/uCJHZ7u.jpg

Suggestion: replace the entire pf arm and the SB hands for assault terminators bits. I would do this way because the DV PF are my favourites and full of fun details to paint.

I wish you luck. Removing some arms look like they'd be a huge pain. Being molded as part of a side, as opposed to a separate piece is why I gave up and am
using them as they are. I will do minor weapon swaps, but that's probably it. If starts getting frustrating, keep drinking and tackle it tomorrow!

I ain't going to be doing this when drinking. Too risky, I like my fingers. Although I have just tried to do the chainfist guy.

First thing I did was snip off the gun and the shield. I then drilled a hole through his gun hand, widening it with a bigger drill at the top. I also cut the pommel off the handle.
http://i.imgur.com/Elir6RD.jpg - - http://i.imgur.com/Hy1AwaA.jpg

The hole at the top was a bit big. I'll fix that by filling it with liquid greenstuff, mashing the shaft in, removing it, putting in super glue and mashing the shaft back in. Overflow can be dealt with later.
http://i.imgur.com/QigcxHk.jpg

Getting the pommel to fit required cutting a bit of the bottom of the, iuno, power ending thing off? After some clean up that'd look ok. I had to remove him from the base to be able to get a good enough angle to do that.
http://i.imgur.com/WpY55JH.jpg

For the shield I just glued that onto the hand. After some cleanup this may actually look good. As you can see the "green stuff & super glue" idea caused a huge mess around the handle.
http://i.imgur.com/VArlXwd.jpg

Lessons learned? Try to get the handle to fit a bit more snugly in the first place so liquid greenstuff won't be needed. I had thought of using a bicyclespoke as the handle instead but drilling that hole larger would have screwed the little finger. Chainfist dude looks a bit weird in this pose with a hammer & shield. It looks like he's doing a dance with the hammer. I didn't trust my skills to do it the way I intended earlier. Next try will be one of the twins.

Those Maxmini hammers look great! I've purchased heads from them, good quality.

Just did one of the twins. Bit harder to remove the gun but the drilling is easier. I decided I'd try to use a bit of spoke instead of the handle. Bad idea. It's the same fit but now I have a weakpoint at the join between the shaft and 'handle'.