Captain/Chaplain Halo/Rosarius

[awilden]

I am putting together 2 blood angels terminators one captain and a chaplain, from normal terminator models (had 2 unfinished sanguinary priests that are no longer usable, luckily I'm very lazy and hadn't gotten around to painting them up yet), and was looking to deck them out with new weapons, accessories and if need be conversions with greenstuff etc. Now what would be the best bitz to use to replicate the iron halo and rosarius? They seem to be the signature bits of gear to identify the HQ, I've already done the skull helmet thanks to a tutorial i found, and got hold of a crozius and chopped that up to fit. For the captain i was going to order an ordinary iron halo from the commander box, but not sure how that would look/ft on terminator armour.

 

What could i cannibalise or buy separately to make effective looking captain/chaplain terminator models?

 

Also any other ideas on accessories to make it look the part?

 

Have the chaplain with just a stormbolter arm, and the converted sword arm just with a crozius fitted to it, and the skull head.

 

The captain was going to have magnetised arms and be able to have either sword+stormbolter, or lightning claw+powerfist, other than a death company bare head i haven't thought of any extra bits to make him look special (aside for thinking of using the iron halo if it fits).

 

Just thought I'd get some peoples ideas on how to make them look the part, or if someone has already made some themselves and wants to show them off.

[Damo1701]

Thunder Hammer and Lightning Claw is a fun combination.

[appiah4]

I do believe the Tactical Terminator Squad box comes with an Iron Halo:

 

http://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/images/898718077750.jpg

 

Failing that, the old Space Marine Captain box had a nice Iron Halo you can use (Not sure if this kit is still sold, now that the clampack is out, but I would guess so):

 

http://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/images/SM17.JPG

 

And the new Blood Angels Terminator Squad box has two that you could consider hacking up and converting:

 

http://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/images/BATERMS%20(36).JPGhttp://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/images/BATERMS%20(35).JPG

 

As for Rosarius - that one is kind of bonkers, expecially for Terminators. I haven't seen any suitable bit to model a Rosarius on my chaplain kitbashes. 

 

However, for Power Armor, this Dark Angel shoulderpad can be easily turned into a shoulderpad with a Rosarius if you remoe the sword hilt, the icon becomes an aquila:

 

http://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/images/136401739894.jpg

 

Also, if you are using the Dark Angels Power Maul as a crozius (or as a base for your crozius conversion - I like not butchering it, the thing looks a lot more sensible as a weapon with its cudgel head than with an aquila on top) it also happens to have a DA penchant wrapped around it that can easily be trimmed to look like an aquila - voila, there's your rosarius:

 

http://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/images/683078114399.jpg

 

Similarly Death Company kit has lots of arms/legs with ropes with penchants wrapped around them; all you'd need to do is replace the penchants with suitable icons.

 

Also, if you are kitbashing a terminator chaplain, this is also kind of a must:

 

http://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/images/408968234216.jpg

 

I'll post my recent Chaplain kitbash's photos later tonight, hope it offers some inspiration.

[Brother Lame]

When I kitbashed a plastic Chaplain in the past, I used a thunder hammer arm as a base, then snipped off the hammerhead and replaced it with an 'Eagley' bit that I believe may have come from the plastic Command Squad boxset, as a Standard Bearer Banner topper (it gives you a few good parts). I'd link an image of the parts in question, but the best image I got came from an eBay listing, which may mean it won't last forever.

[appiah4]

Here's my Chaplain kitbash, using primarily the Blood Angels Chaplain Death Company kit, some Sanguinary Guard bits )Power Fist, shoulder pad) and assorted DA/CSM pieces (Cudgel, Helmet), for your inspiration; hope you can excuse the godawful phone cam quality.

 

http://image.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/gallery/album_8363/gallery_60983_8363_38193.jpg

 

http://image.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/gallery/album_8363/gallery_60983_8363_16919.jpg

 

http://image.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/gallery/album_8363/gallery_60983_8363_13489.jpg

[awilden]

Here's my Chaplain kitbash, using primarily the Blood Angels Chaplain Death Company kit, some Sanguinary Guard bits )Power Fist, shoulder pad) and assorted DA/CSM pieces (Cudgel, Helmet), for your inspiration; hope you can excuse the godawful phone cam quality.

That does look pretty cool, i had thought about using the chaos helmet (and maybe trimming it to fit inside the terminator armour, but the skull (on a chain) from the chaos rhino kit fit surprisingly well, and just needed greenstuff tubes and whatnot. Also my 2nd army is chaos, and I'm using that helmet type for the normal marines and plague marines, it probably wouldn't matter at all, painting it all black/white for the chaplain, but i like to try make them all look significantly different.

[Xenith]

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk141/Mechxen/Blood%20Angels/Characters/2014-11-16142030_zpsdcd3adbb.jpg

 

My Chaplain is very similar. I too the crux part from some bits, sanded the back and attached it to his chest.