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Hello,

 

Just going through my DV box, and man I love this set. I'm looking at some of the DA models and it appears some conversions are possible with the Terminators and PA Marines.

 

I haven't done anything yet, but if you have, post em up!

 

Tell us what you did and how difficult it is to do.

 

Thanks

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I've so far done a few conversions to the DV models as I have no intention of fielding any loyalists.

 

Introducing the First Legion: The Fallen Angels

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/Fallen-Group.jpg

 

Champ:

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/Fallen-Champ.jpg

 

Beakie:

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/Fallen-Beakie.jpg

 

Bolter:

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/Fallen-Marine.jpg

 

Reaper:

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/Fallen-Reaper.jpg

 

I scraped all of the chest wings off with my scalpel, dremmeled off the Tac Squad shoulder pads and replaced them with Chaos pads, Dremmeled out some of the heads and replaced them with Chaos heads, removed all purity seals, Dremeled out some of the legs and replaced with Chaos ones, Chaos backpacks all around and the Plasma Cannon guy got a Reaper Auttocannon (will count as a regular auttocannon in game) as chaos doesn't have man portable Plasma Cannons... The Beaky guy also had his whole torso front dremmeled off and replaced with a Chaos Chest with chain mail tabard. Fairly extensive conversions for these guys.

 

I also did a couple of conversions on the Chaos side as well:

 

Lord:

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/Alpha-Arkos.jpg

 

A simple gun swap. I am going to be using him as Arkos the Faithless from IA 6 Siege of Vraks, and Arkos has a combi melta, so the plasma pistol had to go.

 

Dark Apostle:

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/Alpha-Apostle.jpg

 

This guy basicly got his helmet swapped out for a book. Also a fairly simple conversion.

 

Bolter Twin:

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/Alpha-Twin-1.jpg

 

This guy got the helmet from the Apostles hand! This conversion was a little more complicated than the other Chaos ones as I had to build the back of the helmet and carefully remove the Apostles thumb from the helmet without wrecking any detail.

 

That's it so far, but the Ravenwing will be getting similar treatment to the Fallen Angels above, and the CC Cultists might wind up with Forge World Renegade Autogun arms, not sure about them yet.

 

I'm also not sure if I'll be able to effectively Chaosify the Deathwing, Company Master and Libby, but I'm feeling somewhat positive about the Librarian.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edit to add Sorcerer:

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/fallen-sorcerer.jpg

 

Just a quick Arm swap. CSM Bolter Left arm, Chaos Lord Staff, Lord Familar, Sorcerer backpack. He's also got a Tzeentch shoulder pad on his left arm from the CSM champ sprue.

gallery_53104_6070_675720.jpg

This is the RW plasma gunner on some new legs and with a new head and left arm (rest assured the mold lines are gone now...). Shamelessly copied from someone more inventive than me...

Haha!

Someone's had one too many Gets Hot rolls go bad :D

Here's my Ravenwing Librarian,

gallery_48988_7152_291309.jpg

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It was fairly straight forward, hobby saw off the legs of the Libby, tidy with clippers then knife, glue to bike. Add some grenades and pouches. Actually modelling, from sprue to this was less than an hour half.

Cheers,

Jono

(edit: stupid photobucket)

 

Shrike counts-as from the Chaos guy with the lightning claws. Shaved down his shoulderpad, added a Blood Angels jump pack.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l209/nemfx/dvc/Picture020.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l209/nemfx/dvc/Picture022.jpg

 

A few marines, arm swaps, added gear like cloaks, nothing too crazy for them just yet..

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l209/nemfx/dvc/Picture023.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l209/nemfx/dvc/Picture024.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l209/nemfx/dvc/Picture025.jpg

 

And the part that I have been having the most fun with. Cultists turned wastelander themed scouts:

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l209/nemfx/dvc/Picture029.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l209/nemfx/dvc/Picture026.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l209/nemfx/dvc/Picture027.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l209/nemfx/dvc/Picture028.jpg

 

The heavy weapons guy is going to eventually look more like the Blastmaster Raider. The card armour is going to end up looking like leather or plasteel. Haven't decided yet.

They have gotten part swaps from scouts and guardsmen..

ive converted the librarian onto a ravenwing sergeant bike, will post pics later, question though...what colour would a librarians bike be?

should it be from the chapter (green), ravenwing (black)or blue as per his power armour?

 

pics.

http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh543/raven-sco/Conversions/lib-rw-1_zpsccce6df0.jpg

http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh543/raven-sco/Conversions/lib-rw-2_zps53ad3cce.jpg

I'm currently contemplating converting DV models to Black Templars. Originally I intended to field them as allies, but as I don't like green tacticals and in general preferring to just field Templars over Dark Angels I've been reconsidering my stance not to take the knife to the models to convert them.

 

I'll likely not touch the Company Master or Librarian, seeing as the CM is a bit too robe-y to fit aesthetically, and we don't have filthy psyk... ehh, librarians. The model itself is nice, but probably too tricky to make into anything useful for BT.

 

Of the tactical marines, I'm unsure yet. I suppose I could always use more models if the need arises, but it'd still take a while to erase the iconography from both shoulders (as compared to one shoulder on the AoBR models, and even then I hated doing it), and that still leaves some of the chest swords. On the terminators the swords are acceptable, since BT terminators are, after all, called Sword Brethren so it kinda fits. Also probably going to try to convert the feathers into purity seals, or if that fails, just cut them off and replace with actual purity seals.

 

Oh, and the Bikes. I'd like to have some, but without paying 10 euros each. There's not a huge amount of things to file off there I guess, main problem might be the front wings. They seem quite "integrated."

 

The thing I'm really unsure about though is the Chaplain. Because it's Limited, I'm hesitant to take it off the sprue, let alone start converting it. It's silly, I know! If I were more confident in my conversion abilities it'd be one thing, but if I mess it up... ugh. No cheap second chances without buying an entire new box (and who knows for how long you can still find those). But then again if I don't use him, what's the point in having him other than as a display model? And I'd rather have a playable and display model at the same time. I suppose the conversion itself shouldn't be a huge undertaking - with sandpaper get rid of the cloak icon (the trickiest part), and then smooth out the pistol arm's shoulderpad as well. Finally, change the head of the Crozius to a non-DA one. Of course I could just use him as is, but it's just a bit silly-feeling to use a model with the wrong darn iconography <_<

Right, gave one bike a go so far, as well as a bit of effort on the chaplain. Didn't "break" anything with the chaplain yet though, but the plasma rifle bike has its fenders and and rider cleansed of the symbols of the lesser chapter :) Just trying to decide on the wing thingies. I was considering using the rear one as a "flag pole", so cut away the feathers and make a flag with a templar cross on it in its place. The front wings I am trying to convert to an armor plate by evening the feathers to an even armor plate surface, since I feel that just cutting them out entirely would make the front of the bike a bit... empty.

Some nice ideas in this thread, here are a few of mine. ;)

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n235/Stovie_2006/2A1BC475-8AEF-4D8F-921A-648FF067996A-11361-00000B7D0B8DD775.jpg

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n235/Stovie_2006/3091E5EE-0242-4A1A-9909-0957A326F4C5-11361-00000B7D03FE7E34.jpg

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n235/Stovie_2006/A54D2B90-1229-4A1D-A5CD-26CCC2843274-11440-00000B84EEF0EF35.jpg

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n235/Stovie_2006/92E825C4-F43B-45EE-9097-582B2ABF8842-11440-00000B84F4DB64D7.jpg

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n235/Stovie_2006/53FB0E4B-3D67-4987-8F12-0FF39E9E1BBE-11440-00000B84FBC30157.jpg

 

Blade Brothers

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n235/Stovie_2006/25A70A55-7733-4527-83CB-C5797A4930A3-11440-00000B850224F816.jpg

Well I took the plunge and converted the Chaplain. I already posted him in my own thread, but I guess I could spam him here too.

 

http://www.tvih.net/stuff/wh40k/chaplain2-tableready1.jpg

 

He's lacking some finishing touches, but the majority of the work was done. Took me over six hours. Yes, I'm really that slow.

 

Next in line would be the bikes or the terminators. Probably the latter.

I decided to raid my bitz box and Chaos up the Dark Vengeance Terminators. I have built a couple FW Chaos Termie kits, so I had a ton of Chaos bitz to use on them!

 

Mould lines will be cleaned before painting!

 

I've removed DA symbols, but left purity seals on them as I will be painting these guys as Word Bearers, and parchment is an acceptable decoration:

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/Word-Bearer-Termies.jpg

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/Word-Bearer-Termies-2.jpg

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/Word-Bearer-Termies-3.jpg

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/Word-Bearer-Termies-1.jpg

I converted 3 of them sorry the pics are dark. I'll see if i cant get better pics. after seeing biohazards work Im thinking of doing simular conversions myself.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m74/Margorach/6654496D-F2C5-4CD6-960D-10A3DC4D1F81-1723-0000007041A831F7_zpscbd8ab14.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m74/Margorach/F2B3F621-4C11-42BE-8FED-6B714999C792-1723-00000070510D3DB8_zps2c557ddc.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m74/Margorach/82659257-74AC-4B1E-BAAE-5F6646EF91DC-1723-0000007059DD5AB3_zps2f8a088f.jpg

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m74/Margorach/0721E1F3-BE48-4957-8E38-0A747842CF04-1723-00000070606D406A_zpsf3fe4c58.jpg

  • 2 weeks later...

DV Terminators - 2 of them are the same......not any more! Simply chop off the left arm and attach 2 lightning claws from the Assault terminator box and heey presto!

 

http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii324/facmanpob/Miniatures/works%20in%20progress/DV_DW_kitbash_zpscee3dd04.jpg

DV Termies as Word Bearers, painted:

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/Word-Bearer-Termie-Group.jpg

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/Word-Bearer-Termie-1and2.jpg

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/Danny_Cyanide/minis/Word-Bearer-Termie-champ.jpg

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