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Here's a link to making enlarged Terminators to complement Primaris marines. The result is here:


...and a painted example:

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This is awesome, thanks for putting it on here. You’ve done a tidy job of cleaning off the Legio Custodes livery there.

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Inspired. Thank u.
   
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Have you tried to do it with the slightly cheaper GW Allarus Terminators?

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I looked at that. They are too fancy and have little capes on.
   
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Hope you don’t me resurrecting this thread but all the bits I need to make my own have arrived today do am going to make some using this guide. I’ll post pics when I’m done. Excited!


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First one done. Might want to trim down the top piece of the torso so it isn’t as high. Shave some off the bottom of it. Otherwise very happy. Going with a squad of five and a captain. One will have a assault cannon. The captain will have a Grenade launcher on his powerfist.
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Not at all – glad it's useful, and lovely to see such a cool model result

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Glad this got resurrected, I just did an eBay raid in order to convert and then cast the parts for this tutorial !

I only got the legs and body, has anyone used standard plastic or FW resin arms with any success ?
Im hoping that as GW mostly designs its marines with gibbon arms, standard ones will work just fine ??!!??

   
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They will work, though as with anything of this type, what looks ‘right’ to different people will vary. My suggestion would be to hold things in place with blu-tak or similar and try it out. You can easily add a hint of length to arms at the shoulder and/or wrist with .5mm/1mm plasticard; or - as I’d suggest - extend at either side of the elbow.

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 Apologist wrote:
They will work, though as with anything of this type, what looks ‘right’ to different people will vary. My suggestion would be to hold things in place with blu-tak or similar and try it out. You can easily add a hint of length to arms at the shoulder and/or wrist with .5mm/1mm plasticard; or - as I’d suggest - extend at either side of the elbow.


A good tip, thanks mate, I will most likely lengthen under the shoulder pad and cover it up with those enormous Mastercrafted shoulder pads I have waiting for a cancelled project !

   
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I used a normal terminator assault cannon arm and it looked ok. Just about to me. It’s such a simple build to do that’s why I like the tutorial so much. Even the reshaping the eagle on the torso follows the natural lines so isn’t too hard to get about right. Resin is easy to remove detail from too though my house looked like it had a skin condition.

I ended up filing the bottom of the terminator head flat and putting a module cut from the bottom of a marine neck on it so I could articulate the head better and it raised it up a bit too and looked good. Tried to take a pic but phone could not focus on the little bits.
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More of the squad and captain. Used 40mm bases and am going to look out for some of the top mounted light/scanner things to add too. Guy on the big base is a captain. Has a Grenade launcher on his power glove from the plastic custodes terminator.
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More of the squad and captain. Used 40mm bases and am going to look out for some of the top mounted light/scanner things to add too. Guy on the big base is a captain. Has a Grenade launcher on his power glove from the plastic custodes terminator.


To confirm, did you use standard terminator arms there mate ?

   
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Just on the assault cannon. All the others are from the FW kit. But it doesn’t look out of place. Like I said those shoulder pads hide a lot of sins if I need to bulk them out a bit. I’ll take a close up pic showing it better later for you and post it here.
   
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Just on the assault cannon. All the others are from the FW kit. But it doesn’t look out of place. Like I said those shoulder pads hide a lot of sins if I need to bulk them out a bit. I’ll take a close up pic showing it better later for you and post it here.


Thanks mate !


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Just on the assault cannon. All the others are from the FW kit. But it doesn’t look out of place. Like I said those shoulder pads hide a lot of sins if I need to bulk them out a bit. I’ll take a close up pic showing it better later for you and post it here.


Thanks mate !

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Hard to get an angle to show it well but seems to work.
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Group shot of them all and painted. I’ve made rules up using the add 1 wound and attack primaris formula and we are trying them out soon if that’s too much then going back to old terminator rules.
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Site used same pics three times. Oh dear.
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Looking lovely, AndyKP – I finally got round to painting my own up







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Mate they are gorgeous. Love the battle damage. I keep looking at mine and thinking the need something extra detail wise on the armour. But don’t know what.
   
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Absolutely amazing. Custodes are the same size as primaris marines, so this conversion is true to scale.

For the second pic, did you cut the knee fins off the primaris using a knife and replace the helmet? Or did you do something else? He looks good too.

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Thanks Epie10. Regarding the power-armoured marine, yes; it's really just a bit of trimming. I cut away the collar; removed the flared bits on the knees; and also cut away the bulbous ankle details. The latter change required a little greenstuff, but if you cut carefully, you can leave it as a minor 'panel line' detail.

I think these simple changes go a long way to evoking the pre-Primaris silhouette, if that's what you're after. However, depending on people's own 'rivet-counting' tendencies(!), I think even simple head swaps can suffice.

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I'll have to keep that in mind. The more I look at him the more I like it. I'll have to consider that for any future marines I make. I assume you make the cuts before assembling him? And do you have more photos?

I ask because I like primaris scale marines and I like primaris helmets, but I don't like their silhouettes. Those three things are the biggest culprits. I think the knee fins are a must remove, and they look easy to cut. But it looks like the collar was hard to trim, any tips on that?
   
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Yes, I make the tweaks prior to assembly where possible, though you can make them afterwards – in the case of the push-to-fit kits, you sometimes have to.

In terms of other shots, there are lots on Death of a Rubricist – have a browse of the blog here – the main entries of interest will be those around Astral Claws and Blood Angels. The Astral Claws entry in particular shows the variety of changes – including some Mark X to Mark VI conversion.





Oddly enough, the knee fins are the thing I object to least about the updated design; they're exactly the sort of flair that the old marines would include. With that said, I do usually remove them. This varies in difficulty: it's very easy on the ones with separate shin guards, and an absolute pig on others!

The collar is one of the easiest changes. Just lay the torso flat and face-up, then use a sharp knife to cut through the whole collar, leaving a thin, even rim. You can then trim to completely remove it, or reshape it as you wish. I tend to do the whole collar in one cut, curving the cut as it reaches the back so it's flush with the collar piece on the torso back component. However, you could do it bit-by-bit, which is the safer way to ensure you get the effect you want.

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I'll have to start following your blog then.

I think the knee fins are too big, imo, even if they aren't a big departure from old marines. I'd still rather they be gone.

So do you use a special knife (anything but an Exacto) or have some trick to keep the cut height even?

Also, is that a different chest piece on the Nova Terra Interreginum model? I didn't know primaris torso were compatible with old marines? Or is it some fancy green stuff?
   
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Nothing special about the knife – I tend to use a knife with a 9mm retractable snap-off blade (something like this or this, but you could use anything. The main advice is to make sure the blade is very sharp. One advantage of the retractable blade is that you can extend it – be careful, as this makes it more likely to snap – and use the length to make the cut across the whole collar in one go. A needle file is a useful way to tidy up the cut, if the angle goes slightly off.

Regarding the Mark VI chestpiece conversions, I trim away both the chest eagle and the raised pectoral plate to get a smooth surface, then sculpt the cabling with greenstuff. As you can see, nothing hugely fancy!




If you don't fancy using greenstuff, you can just cut the cabling away from a normal marine torso – it should glue back on with minimal fuss, as you can see on the Land Speeder pilot (driver?) here:


There's some more detailed info on them here.

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The needle file seems like one of those tools people don't tell you you need. It looks like it will do a better job at shaving down bits than fine-grit sandpaper or an emery board.

That looks like a pretty easy green stuff project. I haven't done any big green stuff projects, but MK 4 primaris models would be good place to start.

Also, the rhino glass looks great. I wish GW included more transparent bits in their models.
   
 
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