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The Boy got me a primaris chaplain for Christmas, and I was thinking of converting him up to join the vanguard elements of my Ultras. The shoulders should be a simple swap. The pistol arm is either a clean cut at the shoulder, or a full arm swap with a reiver. I built a box of them with carbines, so have plenty of those to play with. The other is just slapping a phobos armor pad on the shoulder (which I have spares, as my reivers joined the Deathwatch)

The question is the legs. I could just skip this step and build him as-is. Most of the visuals of the armor are in the shoulders, and the legs are mostly shrouded in his robe. But if I want to do this right, he needs a leg swap.

Now there are a few places to get phobos legs. Reivers, infiltrators, the ETB vanguard and ETB reivers. Plus some HQs, but I’m not carving up an expensive model just for flavor. The eliminators don’t have the right stance.


Looking for a left leg forward, striding stance


The guy under the suppressor sarge might work.

Left front looks promising

Running guy with the knife out, middle left

None of these guys look like they would work.

Anyone try something like this? With legs and robes/tabards things can very fussy lining things up. It’s easy to carve up things, as the robe hides a lot of clipping issues, but I’d rather start with something that meshes well. And as I’m going to have to chop the torso off, I’d rather not blow through a whole box attempting to find parts that work.

Looking at those pics, I think second group down, dude on the left next to the guy in the red mask is your best bet. Good luck! I look forward to seeing how it turns out.

For anyone else thinking about doing this, Infiltrator “B” (parts 12-15) provides a good set of legs to work with. Just need to cut the torso off and taper the hips a little to fit in the robe.