Fully Painted Sanguinary Priest Conversions

Welcome back one and all!  Today I'll show the fully painted Sanguinary Priests I had put together back in November.  Somehow the images turned out spectacularly, so a definite plus.

The post with the unpainted images can be found here.

I was actually surprised the little medical packet things on the hips turned out as well as they did.  Chopped up melta bombs worked great for this purpose, and I was quite pleased with how the swords turned out as well.

Again, I absolutely love how these images turned out.  Not much more to say than that!

These 3 Sanguinary Priests will make fantastic additions to the Emperor's Children army and saved quite a bit of dough in the process.  The process was easy and well worth it!

Converted Terminator Librarian painted

Sadly, I don't have any images of this model as I put it together.

For the most part it is a normal Terminator that uses a human face, a Dreadnought ornament, and a book on the shoulder made from plasticard and wire.  Overall I think it's a good centerpiece to head my army into battle!

I'd also like to say thank you to all of you, the readers, for reading and commenting.  We've hit a milestone here at Scratchbuilt 40k, and I (obviously) couldn't have done it without you.  With that said, thank you for helping the site reach 50 'people who like Scratchbuilt 40k'!

Hobby Friday- Making that tactical squad an assault squad

When I decided on the units I would want for the Pride of the Emperor Space Marine army list, a counts-as Blood Angels army, I knew right away that I would want assault squads without the jump packs to be put in Razorbacks and a Land Raider.  Unfortunately, the Assault squad didn't come with regular back packs, so I'd have to do some converting of the Tactical squads.

The first thing I noticed were the Bolters and a severe lack of a chain sword.  Next I noticed there were no weapon options for the Sergeant, which I planned to put lightning claws on (lions have claws, of course).  I was going to have to do some converting to get these guys as close to WISIWYG as I could.

To solve the problem of the bolt pistol, it seemed logical to chop the end of the bolter down and adjust the arms to be pointing outward.  After cutting this piece off, I noticed that it was just about the same length as the open left hand of the tactical marines that normally hold part of the bolter.  It dawned on me that a great weapon which would be easy to build would be a katar, using the left over bolter piece as the handle and simply plasticarding the remaining blade area.  Since I'd been struggling to come up with a good assault weapon for the chapter, this was a fortuitous turn of events.

And for a final look at what an assault marine will look like-

After doing some trimming and getting the model in position, the remaining 15 would end up being a piece of cake to adjust.  In the end the fluff will justify katar as a humming weapon which in all ways works like a chain sword.  Now for the Sergeants and those lightning claws!

Thursday post- Pride of the Emperor update

Thought I'd include a quick update on the Pride of the Emperor progress so far.  (busy with wedding and other stuff, so will be a short post)

 The above image is the Tactical squad I painted up.  So far I like how it looks, but I may replace the claws (which are going to represent Lightning Claws) on the Sergeant.

This, however, is an assault squad in progress.  Notice how the bolters have been cut down and the extra pieces used for the katars (which will represent chain swords).  If time is on my side tomorrow I will put up a post detailing how I came up with this design and what brought about its creation.  Till next time!