Space Wolf Terminators from Stormcast Eternals

[sbarnby71]

Ever since I saw the Stormcast Externals I thought they would making pretty good Space Marine Terminators, so with this half idea in my head for well over a year I decided to give one a try.

 

Here is the massive shopping list of items I used to create a single model, I'm going to show some alternatives so you could leave out the Dreadnought, Terminators and Upgrade Pack, but I wanted to show where every item came from:

 

Stormcast Externals Liberators

Space Wolves Terminators

Space Wolves Wulfen

Space Wolves Upgrade Pack

Space Wolves Wolf Guard or Space Wolves Pack

Space Wolves Venerable Dreadnought

Space Wolves Thunder Wolves Cavalry

Chaos Marauders

Blu-Stuff

Green Stuff

Furry/Wolves Tabards (Spellcrow.com)

 

Since getting some Blu-Stuff a few months back I've been taking cast from every 'Wolfy' thing I can find on every Space Wolf item I own, this stuff is great as you can even takes casts from painted items without affecting the paint job.  If you do this too you can avoid using originals of some critical parts from expensive kits like the Dreadnought.  So in a few places I've used my own casts to complete this model.

 

My first cast for this project was from the Wolf Skull found on the Chainsword in the Space Wolves Upgrade Pack. Using two of these skulls made from the cast using Green Stuff I took a Sword from the Stormcast Externals Liberators and trimmed the Quillions down and added the skulls either side.

 

Next I took a Power Sword from the Space Wolves Pack and trimmed the pommel off with the teeth and rune stones.  I then removed the pommel from the Stormcast Externals Sword and attached it.  To me it looks a little too wide for the sword handle, but I don't think it looks too bad.

 

Now I started on the legs, these are from the Stormcast Externals Liberators, but any Stormcast Externals will do (the ones from the Age of Sigmar box set are a bit more tricky to convert as they have integrated heads and arms, but are still usable).  First thing is to remove the chainmail tabard. We still have the leather straps showing, but that will be covered up at a later stage so leave that for now.

 

My first idea for covering up the leather straps and Sigmar Insignia was to use one of the Belt-Buckle/Knife pieces from the Wolf Pack kit and as you can see it looks ok, I'd then just cover any odd bits with green stuff and make it look like fur.  But then I remembered I had spare wolf pelt that is from the Venerable Dreadnought's shoulder, so I gave it a go and it looked pretty good, but would need some trimming to sit flush and  would also need some filling in on the back of it because it has a diamond imprint in the back of it.  Then my better idea was to make a cast of it so I could keep the original for other projects.

 

After a lot of debate I felt the Belt-Buckle/Knife piece looked better, so I hacked the rest of the leather straps from the legs so the fit was better.  I attached the buckle using green stuff and then inserted a fur tabard from underneath, this meant I could have the buckle sitting flush and had to cut the tabard a little to get it too fit.  I added a bit more green stuff to keep the tabard in place, then set aside to dry overnight.  Once this was dry I went back and added more green stuff to create some extra fur to tidy the whole area up.

 

Now for the head, what an endless choice I had here, but it would have to be a bare head.  I've included some of the choice I went through here, just be aware if you go for a Wulfen head they have no back of the skull, so you'd need to sculpt your own as unlike Terminator Armour there is no rear cowl to cover the missing bit. Most of the bare head Space Wolves heads really didn't work here, either the high Gorget just got in the way of the beardy ones and those without beards looked like their necks were too long.  The best option for me was a head from the Thunder Wolves cavalry set.

 

Shoulder pads, I tried fitting some normal Terminator pads here, but they just didn't work too well, maybe if I had some Cataphractii versions, they might work better.  So I'm left with the normal pads from the Liberators.  The left shoulder pad is pretty plain, so I've left that as it is, as I will most likely add a decal to it.  The right pad has a hammer & lightning bolt symbol, so this needs scraping off, don't worry about the bit that goes over the bottom lip of the pad as this will be covered up by our next cast.  For this I took a cast from a Thunder Wolves cavalry Shield.  Superglue this to the pad and fill any gaps with green stuff.

 

For the left arm I want to go for a shield just like the Stormcast Externals Liberators, so I had a couple of choices, a Terminator Shield or one from the Wulfen kit.  I'm leaning towards the Wulfen shield as it looks more primal and the whole model has that feel.

 

Now I added the fur cloak from the Chaos Marauders kit across his back, again I made a cast for this.

 

Now for a small shield on the knee, I used the same cast I did for the sword and added it to shield you get from a Terminator set.  I also added a wolf skull to the centre of the chest.

 

Terminators have built-in power-plants in their armour and I wanted to keep that idea here as the armour is bulky enough to suggest it could contain a power source.  The only downside is there are no visible exhaust ports on the back of the armour and it would need ventilation.  So I went for the Wulfen backpacks, these are bigger than a normal backpack and the scale feels right, the only downside is you'll be looking at paying £30+ for a Wulfen set with only 5 backpacks, so this would work out to be a costly conversion.

 

Anyway, hope you like the conversions and I’ll post some details of the rest of the squad soon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 10, 2017 by sbarnby71

[sbarnby71]

Here is the 2nd of my Stormcast Eternal based Space Wolf Terminators.

 

This time I used a Liberator from the Age of Sigmar starter box set:

 

I removed the lightening bolt symbols from the legs, thigh and forearm armour and then removed the mail tabard:

 

Now to cover up the half moon symbol on the chest, I took the chained Terminator symbol from the Wolf Guard Terminator set and removed the chain and the extra points to make it even on all sides:

 

This was then placed with blu-tack so I could adjust the angle later once the model was a bit more complete:

 

I wanted to keep the hammer as goes with the Wolves theme, but wanted to add some extra detail.  This was done by adding a cast I took from a Space Wolves Cavalry set shield:

 

I add one on either side of the hammer head and fixed, filled with green-stuff:

 

I've kept the spikes on the lower part of the hammer head, but I may remove them before I finish as I'm not 100% sure on the look.  Also the carving on the hammer was left, I might fill this in later.

 

Next we need to remove the head as it's built into the model.  This takes a fair bit of work to remove it and leave the gorget, neck plate, so for this I removed as much as I could with clippers, then used a electric hand-drill to finish up:

 

I then added a fur tabard, this was made from a cast of an item from Spellcrow.com, then I removed the symbol from the left shoulder pad, which took some time as the lightening symbols go over the lip of the armour.

 

Now to add some detail back onto the leg, thigh and forearm armour I took a cast from Krom Dragongaze's right leg and also from the chainsword in the Space Wolves upgrade pack:

 

And then added them:

 

Now the left shoulder pad, this had no symbol on it, so it was a simple task of applying another wolf skull cast that I used on the hammer head:

 

Next up, the head.  I must confess I can't remember where this one came from, I bought a bag of heads from ebay a while back, but here he is after a small adjustment to his chin so it would fit:

 

My plan was to create 2 very similar models using the Liberators as the base and have similar heads\haircuts, so they look like actual brothers.

 

Now I added a combat knife to the left leg, this required a bit of trimming to get it flush with the edge of the leg armour:

 

I added a cast of a Chaos Marauders fur cloak and added this, pushing it to sit under the shoulder pads:

 

Final part was to add a Wulfen backpack:

 

Hope you like the conversion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 11, 2017 by sbarnby71

[GrandMagnus]

OK, cool looking space wolf, but you actually gave me an idea for a stormcast army that actually follows Ulrik or something like that.

[sbarnby71]

I do like that idea.  I kinda wanted something that was space wolves but were not the main stream, like some lost company, but not rehash the 13th company.  I've built 5 so far and they all have medieval style weapons (swords, hammers, axes) that have no visible power source which I like. 

[Halandaar]

Nice work with bits and greenstuff in particular is excellent, but to me it still looks like a Stormcast Eternal with a power armour backpack on, not a Space Marine.

 

No fault of yours, I just think the Stormcast have such a distinct visual style that it's very difficult to make them look like anything other than what they are.

[sbarnby71]

Here is the brother to the Terminator I created in Stormcast Eternal Space Wolf Terminator No.3

 

The process is very similar to the pervious model so I'll keep the descriptions brief.

 

Grab a Liberator from the Age of Sigmar box set, then I removed the hammer head:

 

Now I used a great axe from the Wulfen set:

 

Clip the axe head and pommel/wolf tail from the axe and I've pinned the axe head so I can adjust the angle of the head later:

 

Right shoulder pad, add a wolf skull made from a cast from the Wolf Cavalry shield:

 

Remove the lightening symbol from the forearm armour and add a cast taken from the chainsword in the Space Wolves Upgrade kit:

 

Next removed the mail tabard and the symbol above the waist.  I then added a wolf pelt:

 

I then added 2 combat knives to the rear of the leg armour, with a little trimming to get a tight fit:

 

I then took a cast from a wolf skull from the Terminator kit:

 

And added this above the waist line.  I then choose a head from the Wolf Cavalry set and covered the half moon symbol on the chest armour with a symbol from the Wulfen kit:

 

I then removes the symbol from the left shoulder pad so I can add a decal later, then added the wolf tail to end of the axe.  Final bit was to add a Wulfen backpack:

 

I've left the axe head lose until I decide on the final pose.

 

Hope you like.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 11, 2017 by sbarnby71

[GrandMagnus]

OK, for some reason B&C didn't save and post my previous answer to this thread. I really like this conversion, but it gave me an idea to some cult of Ulrik stormcasts. So thank you.

[sbarnby71]

GrandMagnus, I think you posted your quote on No.2 of my conversions.  Glad you like it!