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This project is just getting started since I first today got the last parts needed for the conversions that I have in mind, but first of a bit of background so that you guys can follow where I'm coming from and what my thought process looks/looked like. About 17-18 years ago I started started to read books and I fell in love with SciFi and Fantasy. During a trip to our local hobbystore I got introduced to the Warhammer 40K books, specifically William Kings Ragnar Blackmane books and my god where they good! I was and I am hooked on the 40K universe because of these books. I continued to read pretty much everything 40K and Space Marine related from there on out. About a year after that I dabbled a bit with the models but well being about 14 years old and not really having anyone to guide my painting I found out that I was pretty bad at it. Fast forward to February this year. I needed a mental outlet, something that would require complete focus if it was to be good and it had to be something that would pull me away from my high stress job. Well I remembered how demanding it was to paint properly good Warhammer minis and after having watched Duncans paint tutorials I decided that I wanted to get back into the hobby and this time go all in. So since about February I've been painting (a lot). When 8th dropped I was blown away by the really, really nice models and thought to myself that the Wolves of Fenris needed some reinforcements after the last attack by Magnus. So Primaris Wolves it was. When I then unpacked the minis in the Dark Imperium box I was actually a bit disappointed by the "easy to build" models that came with the box and that those models not really were as modular as I was used to from the standard marines. Well I went out and bought the Primaris Captain and expected actually the same very ridged type of model but was positively surprised that it had way more parts then the other marines and then an idea started to form in my head... I wanted Ragnar Blackmane in all his badassness in my army, but after having looked at the model GW is offering I concluded that it would not be the oldschool metal model. I took a long hard look at the Primaris Captain and I could see Ragnar or at the beginning I could make out certain things that would have potential to become the young king. So by looking at above images I started my hunt for parts and pieces that would transform above Captain into above Ragnar. I had recently bought the Skyhammer Wolf Pack and with those came some heads that would fit the bill perfect, see below picture: So good news the head would not be a problem Well next on the list would be the wolf pelt and even worse the wolf head shoulder pad. When I came back from my last 10 week work trip and whilst being on it I started to look into manufactures of parts and pieces that weren't GW produced (BTW that's also how I found this Forum ) and found bit by bit different vendors and producers. So whilst browsing Spellcrow I found what I had been looking for at that point for some weeks, the shoulder pad: Next step was his wolf coat. I thought about converting some of the existing backpieces that I got the Skyhammer box but quickly decided that wouldn't really fit what I had in mind. Then I thought about using green stuff to adapt the cape that came with the box. I browsed the web and found some really nice pictures from people who'd done it but again didn't really fit my idea and picture that had been generated in my head... Whilst again browsing different bit makers I stumbled upon the amazing bits from KFStudio on Facebook! There I not only found the perfect wolf pelt for the cape but furthermore also found the perfect "loincloth" to get rid of that lantern that the Primaris Captain comes with! See images below: Nice! Now I only needed Frostfang and of course Ragnars powerpack with the two wolfheads. I had sadly already used those packs for my Grey Hunter pack leaders so I needed a new one. Enter the GW Space Wolves Upgrade Pack as seen below: Well the powerpack looks about right so that's nice, though I am thinking about cutting the wolf head part of and then convert one of the Mk X powerpacks. Pretty much cut the exhaust part of above the round thing, transplant the wolf heads on top of that and then on top of that place the iron halo from the MK X pack, picture below so that you can see the two parts next to each other: I'm not quite sure what to do with that part since I do like the regular power pack, but fluff wise it would kinda be a missed opportunity not to individualize the Mk X pack and by that show that the Blackmanes embrace their new brothers to the pack. I'm open to suggestions here, so feel free to sway me either way As for Frostfang you can see on the Ragnar mini that the chainsword has skull at the bottom of the handle and I was unsure how to fix that until I realized that the sword you get with the spruce is for the right hand whilst the Primaris Captain points his sword with his left hand and lo and behold the Primaris Captains powersword has a skull as endpiece for the handle. Russ is looking down on this project! As a final piece I needed a base. I'm not a huge fan of building my own bases so whilst looking for some good bases for my regular marines I was on the lookout for some special 40mm ones as well for the special minis and found some. I have narrowed it down to 2 but I'm not sure about which one would fit the best especially because the captain minis foot is already placed upon a piece of stonework (I know, I know I could just grind it off but well... I don't quite know if I want that). So here are the 2 contenders: Again feel free to comment your thoughts in regards to it. I will over the next week update this topic with more images from the marines I already have painted and will also start on the groundwork for Ragnar. Furthermore I have started on a conversion of the Primaris Captain in Gravis armour there will come pictures as well from that project in this thread Sorry for the wall of text and the big pictures but I hope that you with this flood of information now really can see where I'm coming from and what i envision. Edit: I will use the Mastercrafted Assault bolter variant for Ragnar since I personally think that that variant is more like him then the Stalker Bolter.