+Betrayal at Calth: Conversions and Ideas for the New Box+

[Thordendal]

Here's my quite simple conversion of the chaplain, a very simple weapon swap and a couple of minor tweaks but I'm happy with how it turned out.

 

 

You nailed the Alpha Legion colours there Dargoth! Lovely job. 

[pathatrick]

simple weapons swap for my delegatus

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c128/pathatrick/20160316_225542_zpsrgubx4ri.jpg

[Quixus]

Here's my quite simple conversion of the chaplain, a very simple weapon swap and a couple of minor tweaks but I'm happy with how it turned out.

Looking great, but why did you remove the crest? Wouldn't a centurion wear just such a crest?

[Soldier of Dorn]

 

Here's my quite simple conversion of the chaplain, a very simple weapon swap and a couple of minor tweaks but I'm happy with how it turned out.

Looking great, but why did you remove the crest? Wouldn't a centurion wear just such a crest?

 

 

Not necessarily. A crest is a convenient way to identify officers on the field of battle, but they're not exactly standard issue. F'rex, Forge World's Master of Signal doesn't, and he's a consul like the Chaplain, and neither do the models in the MKIII Command Set which are to "be used to represent a variety of different roles in the Legion army list from The Horus Heresy Book One: Betrayal, from Centurions to Veteran Sergeants." GW and their subsidiaries do use the crested helmet a lot to mark out Legion officers, especially on MKIV, but it's hardly necessary, and some people don't really like them on their models.

[KBA]

 

Really awesome conversions going on in this thread. Did some work on my BaC Terminator Character:http://s28.postimg.org/sfal1vnz1/image.jpg

 

 

This is great! Where does the rope/rosarius detail come from?

Blood Angels terminator set :)

[Jerichus]

Wow! I am in awe of everyone's modelling skillz.

I'll humbly submit a simple kit swap for my DA Termi Centurion

[Dargoth]

 

 

Here's my quite simple conversion of the chaplain, a very simple weapon swap and a couple of minor tweaks but I'm happy with how it turned out.

Looking great, but why did you remove the crest? Wouldn't a centurion wear just such a crest?

 

 

Not necessarily. A crest is a convenient way to identify officers on the field of battle, but they're not exactly standard issue. F'rex, Forge World's Master of Signal doesn't, and he's a consul like the Chaplain, and neither do the models in the MKIII Command Set which are to "be used to represent a variety of different roles in the Legion army list from The Horus Heresy Book One: Betrayal, from Centurions to Veteran Sergeants." GW and their subsidiaries do use the crested helmet a lot to mark out Legion officers, especially on MKIV, but it's hardly necessary, and some people don't really like them on their models.

 

Pretty much what he said.  I quite like those crests on the more Roman influenced aesthetic of legions like the Ultras but I feel they are a bit much on my Alpha Legion.  I'm going for more of a sleek look that feels more consistent with the Alpha fluff.

[KrautScientist]

So, another short update on my World Eaters Cataphractii:

 

 

 

The longer I am working with this kit, the more I realise that quite a bit of work is needed to get some slightly more interesting poses out of the models, but the result certainly warrants that bit of extra work.

 

So here are the three Cataphractii I have so far:

 

 

And I have also started working on the Cataphractii Praetor. The main objective here was to get rid of the base model's pretty awkward pose, and the easiest way was to simply make this guy look the other way:

 

 

The most important part was to cut off the right leg above the knee and rotate it inwards a bit -- that gets rid of the somewhat pidgeon-toed look you see on many conversions of this model, plus the cloak neatly covers up all the damage from the cutting ;)

[RedInventor]

Here is a Siege Breaker that I made from Steloc Aethon.  With this one I didn't want to cut the chain fist arm off, mostly because I am lazy so I tried to do a underslung/wrist mounted combi-flamer.  I am still not sold on his nuncio vox box on his back but I have really struggled to figure out a good way to model it.  I feel like a box mounted on his top back area would make the most sense, but I'm not sure about it visually.  I found out that there isn't a ton of room to model on some flair on this guy without dumping a huge amount of time into the conversion (I am super slow).  Anyways, what do you think?

 

[KrautScientist]

And another small update: Finally managed to finish converting my World Eaters Cataphractii squad and the Praetor to go with it:

 

The Cataphractii:

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2016/4/12/792322-30k%2C%20Betrayal%20At%20Calth%2C%20Cataphractii%2C%20Conversion%2C%20Horus%20Heresy%2C%20Kitbash.JPG

 

The Praetor (actually a 30k version of my 40k Khornate Chaos Lord):

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2016/4/12/792314-30k%2C%20Betrayal%20At%20Calth%2C%20Cataphractii%2C%20Conversion%2C%20Horus%20Heresy%2C%20Kitbash.JPG

 

And all of the models in one picture:

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2016/4/12/792313-30k%2C%20Betrayal%20At%20Calth%2C%20Cataphractii%2C%20Conversion%2C%20Horus%20Heresy%2C%20Kitbash.JPG

[Ganders]

Death Guard Primus Medicae;

 

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii160/gordonayr/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160421_213744_zpsosj9zdvk.jpg

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii160/gordonayr/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160421_213805_zpsg5gfio7u.jpg

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii160/gordonayr/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160421_213831_zpstea0tiaw.jpg

[noigrim]

An idea from arhammer visions: add a chainsword to your contemptor CCW and voilà: chainfist

[Plaguecaster]

Hows this

A converted Nurgle contemptor Dreadnought with Butcher cannon and Plague scourge (AKA chainfist), was going to orginally use him for my heresy iron hands but thought If i am adding any moremy Forgeworld army that then i might as well hold off until I can get the actual Iron hands Dreads since they are cooler plus I suck at converting loyalist stuff

[Jalgar]

That dread is sick, avenger! Over the top and festering in oozy goodness. Papa would be proud.

[ThatOneMarshal]

That's awesome Teutonic!

 

So I'm getting my termies set up but I've ran into 2 problems.

 

Any ideas on doing combi weapons specifically plasma? Would the combi plasmas for the tactical squad work?

 

Secondary, has anyone had success with putting a normal marine helmet on the termie captain? I know unhelmeted heads work fine because their smaller but I really want to put a terror squad head on my guy. Any tips? I've tried cutting the bottom part of the head but it still doesn't fit all the way.

[Grotsmasha]

Hows this

....snip...

Epic, just epic.....

[Knight of the Raven]

Hows this

Impressive. Busier than a red light district Adepta Sororitas cosplayer on Ophelia VII, but impressive.

[Charlo]

Thats a bloody leviathan with drill, storm cannon and Phosphex is what it is!

[Plaguecaster]

Thats a bloody leviathan with drill, storm cannon and Phosphex is what it is!

Ok to be fair I did think that after I finished the conversion that the butcher cannon looked like the storm cannon (used the quad autocannon from the aegis defence line kit) but that aint no siege drill and Phosphex that a wrecking ball from the skaven plague/ screaming bell kit with a heavy flamer attached(I wonder the size of the leviathan and contemptor)

[God-Potato of Mankind]

I'd say that was more a Chaos kitbashed with BaC bits, than a BaC conversion

I am very boring, I've just used the Terminator Captain model and added combi-plasma and am using both as terminator sergeants.

[Guiltysparc]

This is a super tame in comparison to some of the awesome stuff in this thread but it does use a power fist from the calth box so i figured i'd post it up here.

This is my world eaters despoiler sargent. Legion upgrade head, torso, and shoulder. Calth power fist. mk3 despoiler legs/arms/backpack.

[Brother Handro]

This thread still going?

 

 

Here's my Sons of Horus contemptor, which'll form part of my ETL vow...

 

 

 

http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy112/BrotherHandro/4d11f30e-e59a-4b1a-af61-f42427d8d3b3_zpssmouo9vz.jpg

 

 

 

 

http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy112/BrotherHandro/817dc400-6d98-4db7-819b-1362e5ed7f61_zpso7eoluxr.jpg

 

 

 

 

I'm happy with the pose I got out of it, less so the arm poses, but it was a sacrifice in the name of magnetisation I was wiling to make. Banner is magnetised too because reasons!

 

 

 

[LameBeard]

I'm glad this thread is still going.  I humbly submit one of my conversions.

 

 

I think someone above asked about swapping the arms on the Kurtha Sedd model.  Well, I did.  And because the pose was  a bit different, this meant having to take off the shoulders as well.  By this stage, there was a lot missing around the armpits so some rebuild required there. And then with the replacement shoulder pads on, I had to resculpt the cloak back over the top.  I am not the best with green stuff, so I might go back and give it a fur trim to cover it.  And then I had to file the left shoulder pad down a bit to get the backpack and half-cloak on - that join will have to be green-stuffed too.  And I am undecided about the head.

 

Anyway, I would like to make a last minute pledge to paint him up for ETL V.  He was going to be a Gabriel Seth 'counts-as' in 40k, not sure about 30k. Maybe a chaplain like Kurtha Sedd?  Ideas appreciated.

[Soldier of Dorn]

I've posted all of these in my own thread, but might be nice to have them here too.

http://i.imgur.com/HNpcXdm.jpg

 

Converted Contemptor with chainfist (heavy flamer), multi-melta.

 

http://i.imgur.com/w2kxkIX.jpg

 

Cataphractii Terminators with combi-weapons.

 

http://i.imgur.com/yexaHNw.jpg

 

WIP Terminator Captain.

[Haydencz]

Here is my little addition my Legio IV legion champion