-JK- Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Not made much in a while, so with this being my first squad in a long while, I thought I may as well share. Nothing too fancy; just a five-man Sternguard made from a tactical squad box with some minor kitbash converting. Like I said, nothing fancy but just looking to see what people thought ^_^ Marine with combi-melta and Marine with storm bolter http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae75/kennedyjr754/W40K/Works%20in%20Progress/13.jpg Marine with bolter + laser sight and Marine with the expected high cap mag + scope http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae75/kennedyjr754/W40K/Works%20in%20Progress/23.jpg Marine with scoped bolter and Marine from previous photo. http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae75/kennedyjr754/W40K/Works%20in%20Progress/3.jpg They're for a new chapter I'm starting (Dark Angels successor) that thus far has no name. Colour scheme for these guys will be: http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae75/kennedyjr754/W40K/Space%20Marine%20Chapter%20Schemes/spacemarine2.jpg C&C much appreciated, share your thoughts with me! JK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dizzy-xc Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 I'm needing to do this too. I need sternguard and a veteran squad. I just ordered a buncha bits to customize mine... Gotta find some good guns... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly_bear Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I really like the sutble conversions, one thing in terms of gaming wise, a storm bolter on a Sterngaurd is a waste of a Sterngaurds special ammo rule, but as we all know and say, this is your army so you do what you want when you want with it. Also how did you achieve the left handed shooting pose? I tried once and failed and can never find anything to help me out with it. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidus Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 They are awesome dude!!! I really like the subtlety to them. The posing is spot on and the tweaks in the rist position sets them off really well. Looking forward to seing them painted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JK- Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 Also how did you achieve the left handed shooting pose? I tried once and failed and can never find anything to help me out with it. I actually based my left handers off a guide from here a long, long time ago; maybe 4-5 years ago. No idea if it still exists. You could try doing a search here on the forums, there are probably various guides about, but I have a spare moment, so may as well explain :) Basically, you will need: - Some arms - Some wire - A pin drill - Some green stuff/epoxy - Usual tools/glues Method: 1. Take your selected arms (I find that the rocket launcher bracing arm (left hand) and the standard tactical arm with the 3 parallel lines on (right hand) work quite well together). 2. Remove the hands and soft wrist armour on both arms so that you're left with just the solid wrist ridge at the end of each arm. 3. Use your pin drill to drill a hole in the centre of each arm (where the hands will go). 4. Glue some metal wire into each hole (resonable length that can be trimmed down later). 5. Carefully cut the hand from a LEFT-hand arm holding a weapon (usually being a bolt or plasma pistol) and trim off the weapon and soft armour from it. 6 . Attach this hand to the weapon of your choice, i.e. a bolter. 7. When glue is dry, drill out the centre of the hand to fit the wire protruding from the wrist. 8. Clip the wire to fit into the hand a reasonable and realistic distance away (leaving space for soft armour) and carefully bend it to suit the angle you want. 9. Glue the hand onto the wire and attach your new aiming left arm onto a marine (using blu-tac or something similar), to check the angles. 10. Cut the gripping hand off of a normal tactical left hand. 11. Remove the thumb, and carefully trim the hand to place the thumb the other way around - making the left hand a right one (don't fuss too much over the thumb, it can't be seen that clearly). 12. Drill out the right hand and right wrist and pin together to fit the bolter. If you are struggling with the angle, try pinning the shoulder to the torso as well, to leave a gap and make a better angle. 13. Glue it all together and sculpt soft armour in green stuff to fill in the gaps in the wrists and armpit (if you pinned the shoulder). 14. You have a left-handed marine! Hope that wasn't too long winded! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sword brethren Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 these look awesome, simple and very effective. i love it when people bring out a great model by using a few very well done tweaks. well played sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxyogi Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Love the poses!! Nice work!! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayesh Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 the poses are great, i like how you have the high collars on each one, a nice way to tie them in with each other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quannum Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Fantastic marines! You've inspired me to try this on my Imperial Fists! May I ask, where is the square-magazine drum from on the scoped bolter? I'm gonna order some! Q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulkan454 Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Really nice posing and converting, where did you get the laser sight, mounted on the side of the bolter? Also, how have you found using storm bolters? Vulkan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JK- Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 May I ask, where is the square-magazine drum from on the scoped bolter? I'm gonna order some! That drum mag was actually cut down from a spare Rhino pintle-mounted storm bolter I had knocking around. But that's not the only option; in the past I've used the mags from terminator storm bolters or cut down assault cannon ammo boxes. There's plenty of bits that with a bit of modification can be used quite happily as high capacity magazines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabouras Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Great work!!! Nice posing and converting. Where did you get the laser sight, mounted on the side of the bolter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JK- Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 Where did you get the laser sight, mounted on the side of the bolter? That 'laser sight' was originally the binoculars from the sniper scouts box! It has since been cut in half, had the eyepiece removed and then been glued to the side of a bolter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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