Standard Bearer Conversion

This one was a little more in depth than the last:

For the right arm I started with a regular sergeant arm and cut away the laspistol and the hand. Then I took a grenade throwing arm and drilled/cut out the grenade so that the flag pole would fit snugly into the hand. Next I cut the hand from the arm and glued it to the aforementioned sergeant’s arm (tidying it up with a bit of greenstuff).

For the left arm I started with the other regular sergeant arm and cut/filed away the sergeant stripes and cut away the chainsword. I then took the laspistol (which I had left over from the right arm conversion) and after cutting away the right hand, glued it in place. I then had to do a bit of tricky filling/sculpting with some greenstuff to make the trigger finger look right, and also reshape the handle.

The banner itself is straight from a bretonian (WHFB) command sprue - though I had to cut/file away the hand attatched to it. I also added a purity seal from the marine (tactical upgrade) sprue I have lying around – just to make it look a little more like the one pictured in the codex.

Veteran Sergeant Conversion

Today I picked up a chimera transport from the local GamesWorkshop store (Walsall), and so I thought I’d get to work on my armoured fist squad.

I’ve already got most of the troops painted (just regular guardsmen), but I thought I’d forgo a heavy weapon team (to give the squad increased mobility) and just include a special weapon with this squad (either a meltagun or plasma gun). However, I think I would like this unit to pack more of a punch than that, and so I plan on including a veteran sergeant with a plasma pistol to lead them into battle.

The model is predominately cadian pieces with catachan pouches and grenade. The plasma pistol was made by cutting off the laspistol from the sergeant’s right arm and replacing it with a plasma pistol cut from a space marine arm (from the tactical upgrade sprue I purchased last month). It required a bit of greenstuff to get it looking right, but overall I’m happy with the result.

Recent Purchases

Here’s a quick look at what’s been arriving in the post this past week or so:

1. 20 cadian troops (£11.60 + 2.20 P&P)
2. 1 cadian heavy weapon team (£4.99 inc P&P)
3. Cadian special weapons (£7.00)
4. Misc. weapons (£0.80 + £0.75 P&P)
5. Imperial guard tank commander parts (£1.00 +£1.00 P&P)
6. 5 catachan troops (£2.60 + £2.20 P&P)

Pretty much all of the above (apart from the metal special weapon troopers) came from eBay, and now that they have arrived I think that I have enough infantry troops to give me a reasonable amount of flexibility when trying to put together army lists of various points values.

The miscellaneous weapons were a particularly good find, as it contains two meltaguns, a power sword, a chainsword, various pistols, powerfists, etc. – which I may combine with the tank commander parts to try and make my own unique captain/colonel model.

I also intend to purchase a chimera APC and another sentinel at some point (with the chimera being the priority) – which will enable me to field an army of around 750 points.

And then I can start thinking about some tanks!