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I recently got back into the hobby, and almost immediately upon my return- I threw myself into a chaplain conversion contest on the B&C, a sister forum to dakka. Here are some work in progress shots of my model- comments, critique and criticism are appreciated and welcomed.


The base model is Ivanus Enkomi of the Minotaurs chapter from the Forge World model company.

The head has been replaced with a metal chaplain helmet, the feet will be replaced with the armored boots from the same chopped up metal model. The minotaur/bull head on the chest has been shaved down and slightly green stuffed to resemble a human sternum (figured I might as well considering the chest armor is modeled after a rib cage).


A side image of the chaplain conversion work in progress. Just a small detail to note but I green stuffed on a small squareish carpenter style nail into the purity seal. Wax can only adhere to a surface so well, especially something like armor- having it physically nailed into the surface of the armor makes a little more sense in my opinion.


The crozius arcanum mace head for the chaplain conversion. The minotaur/bull head was shaved off and replaced with a green stuff mold of an out of production chaplain crozius. There was a noticeable gap in the new crozius head and so I actually made a second mold of the skeleton just to extend the studded iron bar.
Still to do: fix the broken halo on the crozius, bore out the filled in eye socket and general touch up.


Once I shaved the minotaur/bull head off the shoulder pad I started molding a winged skeleton chapter symbol. Sadly the end product is kind of skewed to the side, so I may redo this piece over again- probably using the terminator chaplain shoulder pad for the mold.


I still have no idea what to do with the bare leg greave, or what backpack I should use on this model. Any suggestions? Thanks for looking