Terminators with two-handed swords

[Knightsword]

I'm contemplating converting the new Terminators or Deathwing Knights to have two-handed greatswords (using both hands to grip the hilts). Has anyone seen something like this around or tried similar? Do we think their body and arm proportions are even be suitable for something like? I'm eyeing up with the Stormcast Vanquishers for the swords bits of arms or the Inner Circle Companions which i'd bulk up with cut off bits of the Terminator's arms and greenstuff.

[Bung]

The only official GW Mini i know IS the old Tartaros Preator for Horus Heresy, but His weapon has an extreme long grip

https://tabletop-verkauf.de/Horus-Heresy-LEGION-PRAETOR-TRIBUNE-in-Tartaros-Terminator-Armour-unbemalt_1

[N1SB]

As far back as mid-1st ed, for the Space Hulk expansions, Grey Knight Terminators were all halberdiers:

 

 

Brother Knightsword, your vision is well in-line with the original concepts for Terminator armour!

[Knightsword]

2 hours ago, Bung said:

The only official GW Mini i know IS the old Tartaros Preator for Horus Heresy, but His weapon has an extreme long grip

https://tabletop-verkauf.de/Horus-Heresy-LEGION-PRAETOR-TRIBUNE-in-Tartaros-Terminator-Armour-unbemalt_1

 

I've seen this chap when googling. It's more of a guandao style polearm rather than a greatsword/claymore, but I'm suspecting that an elongated hilt is going to be how this works.  

 

5 minutes ago, N1SB said:

As far back as mid-1st ed, for the Space Hulk expansions, Grey Knight Terminators were all halberdiers:

 

 

Brother Knightsword, your vision is well in-line with the original concepts for Terminator armour!

 

I used to have a few of the Rogue Trader Grey Knights! Found them in a second hand wargames store back in the early 2000s. Sadly they vanished during moving house a few years later.

[phandaal]

The long handles/glaives/etc are because Terminator armor does not facilitate the range of motion for swinging a two-handed sword with both hands on the sword. If you can take that into account with your conversion it should look cool!

[Knightsword]

I'm now thinking something like Corswain's sword, maybe 1 or 2 mm longer on the hilt, should be long enough whilst not making it look like a polearm or mess with arm proportions.

[LameBeard]

The (now retired) Deathwing kit had a two-handed axe with incense burner, and some of the Grey Knight terminators have two hands on their force weapons. I know you want a shorter distance between the hands but I would start by looking at those and seeing if there is any tolerance or ability to fudge it a bit and overcome the problem @phandaal mentions.

 

And picture precedent from the White Dwarf archive, same vintage as @N1SB’s I believe:

Edited Wednesday at 06:18 PM by LameBeard

[Grotsmasha]

As long as you can man-handle the Termi shoulders and elbows into close enought position, the Companions forearms and hands aren't particularly out of scale. You will however, need to cut the swords between the hands and extend the hilt due to the torso widths not being compatible.

[N1SB]

9 hours ago, LameBeard said:

The (now retired) Deathwing kit had a two-handed axe with incense burner, and some of the Grey Knight terminators have two hands on their force weapons. I know you want a shorter distance between the hands but I would start by looking at those and seeing if there is any tolerance or ability to fudge it a bit and overcome the problem @phandaal mentions.

 

And picture precedent from the White Dwarf archive, same vintage as @N1SB’s I believe:

 

That was the actual one I had in mind, and I think that IS a sword!  I thought I misremembered it.

[Cleon]

It is a sword, there were two bodies, and two sets of arms and one halberd, one sword.

 

I wonder where my squad is....