Saturnine conversions and ideas

[Mr Farson]

Following on in the grand old tradition of the calth conversion thread let's have a new one for Saturnine!

 

Post up your conversions and kitbashes from the Saturnine box.

 

 

Mine are pretty simple, arms from the iron hand praetor slapped onto the MK2 centurion and the mechahendrites from the same model mounted to the praetors back

[roryokane]

I assumed from that one passage in that one novel ) that apparently references these Termies in the HH novels and a piece of art (not sure if it was official or fan made) that Saturnine Terminators would have some sort of heavy weapon mounted between the tops of the pauldrons. Am I the only one that’s slightly disappointed that they don’t…?

[1ncarnadine]

1 hour ago, roryokane said:

I assumed from that one passage in that one novel ) that apparently references these Termies in the HH novels and a piece of art (not sure if it was official or fan made) that Saturnine Terminators would have some sort of heavy weapon mounted between the tops of the pauldrons. Am I the only one that’s slightly disappointed that they don’t…?

 

That's a Salamanders variant of the suit that we might still see, as a conversion supported by the Journals, or maybe as a resin upgrade or something. I wouldn't write it off, but I also wouldn't necessarily expect it soon either, even though Salamanders are functioning as one of this edition's poster boys. We don't know if/when they'll get back to legion specific stuff and seem focused on filling in the plastic range at the moment. I somewhat expect we'll finally see Salamanders and Iron Warrior Praetors in the next year or so, though, but that's just me guessing.

But yeah, brilliant conversions just using bits from that IH Praetor. They seem like a great Legion to do with the Saturnine box 

It's going to be a bit before I get to my Saturnine box but I'm planning on removing the Saturnine aquilae and Death Guarding them up a bit with maybe some additional chest plating and maybe some censers/emitters/vents. I think I'll also source a fist from somewhere for my Centurion mini, and use the extra wound and Eternal Warrior (2) from the Unnatural Resilience Prime Advantage to hopefully weather any faster attacks to deliver his punches.

Edited July 29 by 1ncarnadine

[Jarl of Wulfen]

Space Wolf Centurion....from South Central Fenris.  Shoulder pads from Spellcrow and PgtM.  Base from Elrik's Hobbies.

[apologist]

Fun idea for a thread, thanks @Mr Farson. I picked up a few models from the release, and have been working on this Saturnine terminator. The conversion's pretty minimal; I just wanted to remove the eagle from the chest and swap out the ray gun for a good old-fashioned boltgun. I also reshaped the eagle's head that forms part of the 'collar' to make an oval setting for a spirit stone pinched from a Striking Scorpion exarch, too. Finally, the helm spikes were trimmed off, and a loincloth was added.

 

 

While I'm writing, what a pain in the [SCRAPSHUNTERRORABORT] these models are to build! Forty-odd pieces to build a single infantryman? Six pieces just to build the power fist arm? While so many bits makes converting more approachable, I can't help feeling that some further refinement could have made things a bit more... fun if you just want to build them out of the box?  While I like the result very much, it took me two evenings to get the model from sprue to this point. I'm all for posability and modularity, but... oof. Perhaps I've just got to the point where time is becoming more of a factor in my enjoyment of the hobby – or maybe I've got too used to single piece metal models as I've dug out my Steel Legion recently.

 

Anyway, back to the conversion: the forearm is from a Squat prospector model (the power fist equivalent), which was fairly simple to integrate by trimming the ball of the elbow flat. The storm bolter itself was from my bits box – I think it's from a Justaerin Terminator, though I wouldn't swear to that.

 

 

 

Size-wise, these are absolute chunks. Mine is pictured here alongside a 'truescale' marine and Captain Aethon in Terminator armour (a conversion based on the FW Custodes Terminators). I've put the Saturnine Terminator on two bases to account for the height of Captain Aethon's base.

 

[lokkorex]

Apologist: Saturnine Terminators look REALLY nice in Silver Stars colours!

[Mr Farson]

5 hours ago, apologist said:

Fun idea for a thread, thanks @Mr Farson. I picked up a few models from the release, and have been working on this Saturnine terminator. The conversion's pretty minimal; I just wanted to remove the eagle from the chest and swap out the ray gun for a good old-fashioned boltgun. I also reshaped the eagle's head that forms part of the 'collar' to make an oval setting for a spirit stone pinched from a Striking Scorpion exarch, too. Finally, the helm spikes were trimmed off, and a loincloth was added.

 

 

While I'm writing, what a pain in the [SCRAPSHUNTERRORABORT] these models are to build! Forty-odd pieces to build a single infantryman? Six pieces just to build the power fist arm? While so many bits makes converting more approachable, I can't help feeling that some further refinement could have made things a bit more... fun if you just want to build them out of the box?  While I like the result very much, it took me two evenings to get the model from sprue to this point. I'm all for posability and modularity, but... oof. Perhaps I've just got to the point where time is becoming more of a factor in my enjoyment of the hobby – or maybe I've got too used to single piece metal models as I've dug out my Steel Legion recently.

 

Anyway, back to the conversion: the forearm is from a Squat prospector model (the power fist equivalent), which was fairly simple to integrate by trimming the ball of the elbow flat. The storm bolter itself was from my bits box – I think it's from a Justaerin Terminator, though I wouldn't swear to that.

 

 

 

Size-wise, these are absolute chunks. Mine is pictured here alongside a 'truescale' marine and Captain Aethon in Terminator armour (a conversion based on the FW Custodes Terminators). I've put the Saturnine Terminator on two bases to account for the height of Captain Aethon's base.

 

 

Absolutely fantastic conversion 

[Mandragola]

Posted elsewhere already but this is a saturnine dreadnought with AT warlord titan conversion beamers. 
 

 

It’s also got a tiny raven skull, covering some damage, and will have a mostly-black paint job for my Raven Guard. 

Edited Monday at 05:03 PM by Mandragola

[MoriyaSchism]

I didn't manage to get my hands on any of the new kits. Only bought two Disintegrator upgrade sprues. I tried removing the grip hand from one of the rifles because I really want to use these for my current projects and the smaller hands on the Heresy kits annoy me a little bit. I also had another idea for a Deredeo variant using the weapons and atomantic pavaise from the Saturnine Dreadnought, I'm currently waiting for the Saturnine Dreadnought weapon sprue to arrive and I'm looking for another spare Leviathan left shoulder. 

There's still a bit of cleaning left to do at the part where the hand gripped the rifle. The other arm should come off easily. 

Edited Monday at 09:54 PM by MoriyaSchism

[Jamafore]

12 hours ago, Mandragola said:

Posted elsewhere already but this is a saturnine dreadnought with AT warlord titan conversion beamers. 
 

 

It’s also got a tiny raven skull, covering some damage, and will have a mostly-black paint job for my Raven Guard. 

 

That's an interesting idea. How easy was it to modify those weapons to fit on the arms?

[Mandragola]

2 hours ago, Jamafore said:

 

That's an interesting idea. How easy was it to modify those weapons to fit on the arms?

Not too difficult but it needed some careful scalpel work. The Warlord elbow joint is smaller and narrower. I removed the thickness of the trim from the gun, making a bigger socket for the dreadnought's elbow joint to fit into. There's a bit of a gap either side of where the gun fits in so I ought to put 0.5mm of green stuff or something on it, but it holds well enough. I was removing the trim anyway because I didn't want a load of Titanicus symbols on there.

[Jamafore]

Thank you. Since I saw your picture, I looked and was thinking about using the plasma cannon and power claw upgrade set, then figure out how I would run it as I am working on a 40k marine army

[Gorgoff]

On 8/11/2025 at 11:53 PM, MoriyaSchism said:

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There's still a bit of cleaning left . 

I wonder if those looked better if we remove the nozzles. 

[MoriyaSchism]

7 hours ago, Gorgoff said:

I wonder if those looked better if we remove the nozzles. 

I'm not sure if that would work. Might make the pistols look a bit like hair dryers. I was thinking of maybe using Adhratic weapon parts as an alternate muzzle, but I think the current one is fine as is. If you do snip them off you can use the muzzles to make John Blanche style bolters. There's a bolter in the Visions of Heresy art book that looks similar to this iteration of disintegrators. 

Edited Friday at 02:53 PM by MoriyaSchism

[Gorgoff]

1 hour ago, MoriyaSchism said:

I'm not sure it that would work. Might make the pistols look a bit like hair dryers. I was thinking of maybe using Adhratic weapon parts as an alternate muzzle, but I think the current one is fine as is. If you do snip them off you can use the muzzles to make John Blanche style bolters. There's a bolter in the Visions of Heresy art book that looks similar to this iteration of disintegrators. 

For real?

You don't have that picture at hand so that you can show us that boltgun, no?

[MoriyaSchism]

2 hours ago, Gorgoff said:

For real?

You don't have that picture at hand so that you can show us that boltgun, no?

The forum interface won't let me copy the image so here is the link I got off Google Images. 

 

 

=][= Here you go, W.A.Rorie=][=

Edited Friday at 02:56 PM by W.A.Rorie
added photo

[Gorgoff]

8 minutes ago, MoriyaSchism said:

The forum interface won't let me copy the image so here is the link I got off Google Images. 

 

 

=][= Here you go, W.A.Rorie=][=

Ah that.

I always thought it is a shotgun.