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After seeing pics of the new 8th Ed Death Guard Plague Marines I got excited, not to have more DG marines, I already have plenty of old metal and FW models. No, I was excited to find a new source for chaos terminator legs. The new models are based on the MKIII tooling, but they're all oversized at least 10%. This makes them about the same size as the basic Terminator models, of not bigger.

I've gone thru my new DG models and removed the legs, and sometimes chest plates and heads as well, from the rest of the model. I then combined the Chest to standard Chaos terminator backs, and remounted these on the legs. The plan is to build 5 Cataphractii and 5 Tartaros models.


I used some MK ii or Mk III heads, and scratch built the shoulders plates to build Death Guard Cataphractii.


I also chopped up some Mk III backpacks to detail up the back of the Terminator bodies. And added pipes to the top, as I really like the the look of the FW terminators.

Shoulder plate pattern is here
http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/gallery/image/211560-cataphractiishoulderplatepattern/


This is a good size comparison for the modified model with other terminators. The 8th Ed legs and chest are a great match for the terminator, and are indecently the same size as the Blight Kings as well.


I didn't toss the remaining DG parts. I combined them with plastic Mk III legs and chest plates to scale them down a bit. You can see the new Terminator size, compared to the resized DG and old metal model. The DG chest plates are 2mm widder then the Mk III . And the legs are ~3mm longer on the DG models.

The resized Plague Marines will make excellent champions and what not.


Some of the reworked Plague Marines, using HH Mk III legs. And in some cases the MK II or Mk III chest plates or heads and arms. The remaining models will become champions of some sort. The Icon is made from Vampire Count bits.


In some cases I just "stole" the legs. For these, I used the armored Blight King chest plates combined with Tartaros Terminator bodies. More on these at a later date.

Looking good (if that's an appropriate phrase for anything Nurgle) so far

This is brilliant, well done.

I've been pondering how to make the new Death Guard fit in a little better with the DG I've already built (mostly from mkIII and FW bits).

Thanks for the inspiration.

 alanmckenzie wrote:
This is brilliant, well done.

Thanks, I'd love to see what you end up doing. I like the conversions you did for your BA alternatives.

I've been saying how much I hate how the new DG look, but this: the new DG converted to terminators look great! The proportionality problem is gone and, quite frankly, the bigger terminator pack and shoulder pads look so much better than the base models.

Well done!

This is a good way to save the new DG models for sure - perhaps a bit time intensive considering DG terminators are maybe a month or two away, but if you weren' going to use the plague marines as they were - it's time well spent.

Thanks, now waiting to see what GW comes up with for a DG codex, the index was sad.

Now that we are finally gettting some information on the DG Codex, I'm going back to my TDA conversions.
In the first photo of 5 models at the top of this post, the one in the middle will become a CSM sorcerer in TDA. The others and more will be used to flush out a squad of Blightlords to 10 models.

I plan to build 6 Deathshroud. For those I'll be using Blight king/Tartaros conversions as a starting point.

And a modified FW Typhon as a CSM Warlord in TDA.

these are great, thanks for linking them in the DG news thread, I'd love to see more of the Tartaros conversions