Cataphractii lighting claws in power armors

[Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf]

Hello, I have a doubt. I lack if paired lighting claws for my SoH in power armor, but I have several Cataphractii lighting claws spare and, I was thinking, to use the in power armored miniatures.

The problem is the design. I don't know how to transform them, or where to cut. Anyone tried to do the same before? It is possible to "recycle" this bits? And how?

Any help, tutorial,... Is more than welcome.

[Brother Captain Arkley]

Not fully the answer you want but I did this with Tart ones.

 

I think it works.

 

Edited April 27, 2023 by Brother Captain Arkley

[Grotsmasha]

I'm literally walking out the door for work, BUT, these are the type of questions I LOVE. When I get home, I'll dig some of my spares out, see if I can make it work, take pictures and show my results. That'll be 10hrs or so from now.

[Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf]

8 hours ago, Brother Captain Arkley said:

Not fully the answer you want but I did this with Tart ones.

 

I think it works.

 

 Tartaros' TLC are far more easy to transform. But sadly in my case, mine are all in good use...

[Firedrake Cordova]

9 hours ago, AGRAMAR said:

 Tartaros' TLC are far more easy to transform. But sadly in my case, mine are all in good use...

If you don't mind additional expenditure, Bitz Box have the lightning claws up for 50p per claw (and have ~30 pairs available), and 60p per powerfist arm (~10 available), which works out to about £2.20/marine - I don't know if the ease of conversion is worth it?

[Grotsmasha]

Sorry, long night last night, am sitting down now to play with some Cataphractii arms....

[Grotsmasha]

So my first thought was just to trim the shoulder down to accommodate at Terminator / Gravis shoulder pad, which worked, but only ofr the straighter arms and not the really bent ones,

 

 

So my second thought was to more aggressively trim the top of the Cataphractii arm and just add a new shoulder, which works for both bent and straight arms, I tried with both power armour arms/pads, and terminator arms/pads, The trick ended up being to glue the arm into the shoulder pad and then once set, trim the arm off level with the bottom lip of the shoulder pad,

 

 

and finally some pics with them poster-puttyied to an Art Scale marine,

 

 

Hopefully you find this helpful.

 

Cheers,

Jono

 

[Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf]

Thank you so much. Yes, is really helpful!

[space wolf]

I'd imagine if you had Powerfist arms for primaris, you just cut the power claws right behind thumb, separating the front part of the hand from the rest of the hand. Then do the same to the powerfist and glue on the power claw hand. May need to do some gap filling depending on thr neatness of the cut.

Edited May 13, 2023 by space wolf

[gideon stargreave]

I use cataphracti stuff for my marines all the time, but beware, not all arms are made equal. Some are much much longer than others, and will need attaching to primaris biceps. I’ll have a go when i get home