Having purchased the new reduced cost, Gamers' Edition of the Space Marine codex (after swearing to never pay for another codex again - shrewd move, GW, shrewd move) I realized I needed a chaplain to run the Battle Company formation.
Sadly, all the official models are either metal or finecast ( NO THANKS!), so I kit bashed my own. I trolled the bits box and ended up with this:
The two real challenges were the Crozius, and the skull mask. I created the Crozius from a terminator thunder hammer handle and a bit from the Basillica Administratum kit. I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out!
I tried a skull from a servoskull bit, but it was too small. Fortunately, while trolling my scenery bits box for the Crozius, I saw a skull embedded in a buttress!
A little hacking on the buttress, and some surgery on a corvus helmet... and VIOLA! a chaplain's skull helmet. Not the greatest, but certainly table ready.
I've applied the black and begun painting the other parts. All I need to do to complete it is to edge highlight the model, and finish the details.
Here's to free dedicated transports!
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That's nice, man. Makes me want to break out the bitz box and do some more kit bashing.
ReplyDeleteThere's a plastic Chaplain but he comes bundled with a bunch of other stuff. It's a good model but maybe not as cool as some of the other Chaplains.
ReplyDeleteI see a lot of people making their own Chaplains who decide to find a way to make their own skull helmet, from using CSM helmets and servo-skulls to using WHFB skeleton skulls. Yours is by far the most ingenuitive.
What are your thoughts on an idea I've had for a while: taking a normal Mk IV or Mk VII helmet, and simply painting a white skull on the forehead and faceplate, with the marine's eye lenses being the eye sockets for the skull? I thought it was quite a novel idea until the 30K Night Lords started doing it.
That might be really cool. If I need to make another chaplain, I'd consider it.
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