CaptainForrix Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 I've got the syndrome of only wanting to convert vets, commanders, and terminators. The problem is, these are specialists and not the bulk of my force. I become so bored with the assault, tactical, dev., and scout models. Is there any ways that you've found to want to put them together? Are there any simple conversions that inspire you? Thanks for the help, Forrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feuer_faust Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Hmm... Clip some of the magzines, and make the hand holding the gun higher and the hand holding the hand-rest lower; the end result is a marine reloading his bolter. Also: by all means make your basic guys look a little fancier; a knife here, a seal or special badge there. Perhaps your chapter fully displays each marines heraldry and battle honours all the danged time? Try a lot of cutting and GS to do left-handed marines? There's a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teutogen Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 I like to look at artwork and read about how dead ard' the basic marine is to get some inspiration for my tactical marines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mentors Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 have a look at the mentors in my photobucket (see sig) you'll see a few converted tac marines, this might give you a bit more incentive. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoon Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Take a look at a few good comic books (BattleChasers is good) with big guys in power armour, and observe some of the poses they use. Comic artists exaggerate things to make them more dramatic - and so should miniature builders :D Even a vanilla Marine can be interesting with the right pose... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyson_Vore Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 What I do is I try to make each person in the squad to have his own feel. I have one that is positioned liked he just went through a breach in the wall, another is ready to lance a tank with his melta gun. Try to give each member a little character... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krystalmesh Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Try a lot of cutting and GS to do left-handed marines? amazing. all these years, and i never thought of lefty marine...AND IM LEFTY! thanks for the idea. no idea how im going to go about doing it, but it must be done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beornling 3.1415 Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Try a lot of cutting and GS to do left-handed marines? amazing. all these years, and i never thought of lefty marine...AND IM LEFTY! thanks for the idea. no idea how im going to go about doing it, but it must be done strangely it's not that hard, I usually GS and file the right hand so that: Throwing a grendade signaling to the rest of the squad gripping the ammo reload etc the limit to the poses you can do with the right hand is a big thing, also if your a beginner at making lefties, try buying the Vet squad arm sprues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Angelus Sanctus Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Zgar (many moons ago) did some minor conversions to basic marines to bring them out alot more and i think they were great. Here is the link: Zgar's Ultramarines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Sergeant Alasseo Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Play around with the bolter style- give a couple of them bolt carbines, or pre-heresy bolters, or drum mags, or even try and figure out the mentor pattern (since the tutorial for them seems to have died in the Great Crash). Even if you just give a bolter a foregrip it can totally change the feel (especially with a drum mag). Personally, i have one tac-marine with a pre-heresy style (tutorial in the Liber Faber), and another with a bolt carbine, and a third with a mkilia pattern bolt sniper rifle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aretziel Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 hope this pic isn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mentors Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 here's some different bolters i made based on the pics above http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/spikyjames/WIP%20Stuff/100_0859.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feuer_faust Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 oh: the Plasma Pistols on the older assault arm sprue has tons of lefties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwlandMoonGuy Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 One thing that you can try is to turn your generic squads into more specialized units Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_lee_ Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 OwlandMoonGuy - those marines are quite impressive. If I had to assemble a bunch of generic marines, as you call them in your OP, I would try my best to make each one into a small diorama that looks good as a squad. For example, I have a unit of Chaos Marines that when put in place look like they're running the same way as their champion is pointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aretziel Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 the knifes on the bolters do look good on those marines =) I neve rliked knifes on bolters before but ... looking good =) and the minis themself look g-g-g-gg-great =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kr00tman Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 cut up the legs and make running poses , thats always cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einstein Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Try to raid your friends Bitz Boxes, and get some alien stuff to work with - make them Tyranid, Tau, Ork fighters, or anything, even if only on the bases... You could also look for bitz to make different marks of armour, or research a bit and make the things in the tactical box fit together (still talking armour). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retlaw83 Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 While this is impossible to do with a loyalist army, I purposefully built every single marine in my Chaos army to look different through a combination of different torsos, guns and switching parts between plastic and metal models, using parts from both the loyalist and Chaos ranges. My one havoc is even holding his autocannon across his chest like a bolter, something I managed by bending the shoulder pad and hand to the side using pliers and using a little greenstuff. My one missile launcher havoc has a heavy bolter converted into a missile launcher hefted in his left arm, due to some creativity with the Catachan and Chaos Space Marine box sets. I've also noticed that holsters, grenades, sheated swords and other bric-a-brac spice up bolter marines nicely. A very simple conversion that anyone can do is attaching a combat knife underneath the foregrip of a bolter, giving your marines bayonets. When the heads are turned to the side like they're firing from the hip at enemy targets, and then the models turned to face the opposing army, a line of bayonetted bolters looks good in front of the heavy weapons of a havoc squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T14 Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 When I assemble my minis I try to theme batches in terms of different stages of battle. examples batch 1: Charging batch 2: Close combat poses batch 3: Rapid firing/suppression fire batch 4: Reloading batch 5: deploying/marching batch 6: relaxed poses (checking bolter, dressing wound etc.) Then you can either keep the "1 unit only has 1 type of pose" when you field your army... or mix up the poses in your battlefield units Cheers -t14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Angelus Sanctus Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 IIRC, i think there was an article in WD that covered some marine conversions as well, some needing some minor GS work. Cant recall what issue of WD it was (would have to go and look at my cover notes to find out which one). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLZBOB Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Some light customising is always good as are weapon swaps my previous assault squad have several weapon swaps and more dynamic poses linky linky 2 linky the third In my almost completed tac squad I have taken this a little further and have a few marines in more interesting poses including a bolter with box mag for the squad 2IC one marine with a knife held behind his back and one guy that looks as if he is racking the slide back on the bolter. Its a very, very rare marine that doesnt get the scalpel treatment at some point even if it is only rotating the hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Lysander Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 I too opt for a theme per squad. The last squad I did all had beaky helmets, and I mixed in some chaos torsos to get across that archaic look, and attached bayonets to each bolter. I also tend to assemble my marines in pairs, and make them interact, for example a marine pointing next to a marine holding an auspex, 2 marines running, 1 throwing a grenade whilst the other lays down some surpressing fire. This gives your squad some nice variety. BL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legacy40k Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Play Chaos :P -Legacy40k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ragnarok Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 hope this pic isn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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