The Moriya Forge Fane - General Project Log

[MoriyaSchism]

This thread will serve as a repository for all the random projects I have in mind and items from my backlog. I have a pretty sizable backlog of various miniatures from multiple Imperial and Xenos factions along with some Horus Heresy stuff.

My current backlog:

-25 Kriegers, 3 old plastic Sentinels and a Chimera APC

-Tyranids from the Leviathan and Typhon boxes
-Necrons from the Indomitus box

-Various Space Marine kits (Mostly Tacticus Primaris bodies with old classic Marine bits)

-Striking Scorpions, Howling Banshees, Guardians and multiple Eldar vehicles
-Two Imperial Agents kill teams
-5 Grey Knights Terminators, Vortimer Pattern Land Raider Redeemer and Razorback

-5 Terminator Librarians
-Blackstone Fortress

The general idea for this thread will be trying to capture the style of the Imperial Armour books and 3rd/4th Edition. I will be exploring things from the setting's past and trying to put my own spin on things. In terms of scale I will be aiming for Primaris scale across all projects (Horus Heresy included). I will be using Primaris, Tortuga and modern Chaos Space Marine bodies to achieve that scale. I will be doing kill teams for the Badab War as part of this thread too. 

 

I will be starting out with an Ordo Malleus force featuring the Grey Knights and Exorcists. 

 

The first model of this project will be a Purgation squad Justicar with a custom Psybolter. He is the recreation of the old Realm of Chaos Grey Knights beakie from my avatar and will be wearing a modified version of Aegis Mark 6 power armour. I was thinking of giving him a Paragon bolter but I thought it would look too small when compared to the rest of the squad. I made his rifle, pauldron and powerpack last night. Still converting his body and arms. 

[Procrastinate]

All sounds very interesting, look forward to seeing more

[space wolf]

Oh, now this will be interesting. Looking forward to seeing more!

[Dr_Ruminahui]

That's a really neat and effective gun conversion - other than perhaps a few missing rivets at the front end, when its painted I'm sure it will look like it was modelled that way rather than a conversion... which in my mind is a sign of conversion job well done.

[MoriyaSchism]

39 minutes ago, Dr_Ruminahui said:

That's a really neat and effective gun conversion - other than perhaps a few missing rivets at the front end, when its painted I'm sure it will look like it was modelled that way rather than a conversion... which in my mind is a sign of conversion job well done.

All the putty was sanded flat and the join between all three materials is seamless. I was thinking of leaving the rivets off the front end of the gun because the older Psycannons usually didn't have rivets, but I was in the process of getting some glass beads to re-add rivets to some of the Plague Marines I cleaned up so I'll think about it. On the other side of the gun I repurposed the battery from the Adrastus Bolt Caliver into one of those sideways mounted scopes you usually see on some of the older metal Marine models like one of the Tyrannic War Veterans and the original metal Psycannon gunner. It's a bit hard to see, but I glued a lens from a spare bolt carbine scope that was laying around. 

Still working on the body. I picked the Hellblaster Sergeant from the Dark Imperium box as the base. Ended up carving off both of his pauldrons, cleaning the Primaris bits off his legs and removing the pectoral plate/Imperialis from his chest. I'll post an image of that once I pass over it with some milliput and extra bits.

 

[MoriyaSchism]

I finished the body. It took longer than I expected because I kept adding to it. Working on it was rather satisfying, I really enjoy modifying Primaris models to fit my vision of what a Space Marine should be. Might sort out some of the minor imperfections before priming, but he's pretty much done. Carving off the pauldrons was the most annoying part. The psychic hood was a last minute addition because I wanted to keep the unique Grey Knights silhouette. Also ended up extending the original Hellblaster ammo pouch to match the weapon he'll be carrying. 

 

[batu]

Exciting project. Keep us in the loop!

[MoriyaSchism]

I started another side project. This time it's a character from the Badab War and one of my favourite chapters. By some miracle I got my hands on a Captain Centos model without paying a fortune for it and I'm converting him to Captain Zhrukal Androcles. 

 

The weapon I picked out used to be the Black Templar Castellan's combi-flamer. I'm thinking of removing the hose to make the combi-melta conversion look a bit different than the original bit. The auto bolt rifle is getting replaced once I slice off the stock and original hand. Also got rid of the cape because I thought it was too fancy for a no-nonsense chapter like the Star Phantoms. 

This is a mock up image of the backpack conversion I'm going to try next. He is the Captain of a Devastator company and I wanted him to have some sort of miniaturized Signum. I also picked out one of the bits from the Ravenwing Knights box to have some sort of loose connection to the Dark Angels, but it's totally not related to the Dark Angels it's actually a depiction of the Imperator Mortifex. Trying to figure out a solution for the Iron Halo he has, it will probably be mounted on the back of his helmet similar to the Iron Halo on the Bladeguard Ancient. I will probably update again soon. Any feedback or criticism is welcome. 

[MetalFingers]

Keen to see more from this project! Amazingly precise modelling work so far. 

[MoriyaSchism]

He's pretty much done. I just need to make a helmet with a crown style Iron Halo. It will probably be a Mark 7 or 8. The miniature Signum is turned in the same direction as his head, I imagine it's linked to the auto-senses in his helmet kind of like a helicopter gunner's camera. 

 

Both antennas on the Signum were harvested from a Phobos Infiltrator, the thin antenna came from the headset of a Phobos Lieutenant (Shadowspear). The muzzle on the multi-melta came from one of the new Horus Heresy meltaguns. 

 

On 9/9/2025 at 11:33 PM, MetalFingers said:

Keen to see more from this project! Amazingly precise modelling work so far. 

Thanks. It's fiddly work but it's really satisfying. Slowly working on a batch of converted Primaris Marines, the most tedious parts to deal with are the ball things on the legs. 

Edited September 12 by MoriyaSchism