Monday 1 February 2016

Space Marine Conversion

I thought I dabble in the art of conversion.  It's not something I've done before but having seen a few blogs I follow I thought I give it a go. 

As I have the Betrayal at Calth boxset available (and many other boxes that's in my wardrobe!) I thought I convert a 30K Space Marine in the fashion of a Ravenguard.  I never painted a SM before and always been a fan of the Ravenguard due to their looks and background. 



My initial thought process was to establish a point in Ravenguard history that was monumentum.  Since I have 30K spruces available I wanted to depict their survival in Isstvan V, Dropsite Massacre. The pose idea tells a Marine snapping back to action after taking damage to the head.  His survival was due to the safeguard of his helmet, which had taken majority of the impact from an in swing of a hammer, wielded by a traitor Marine.  Our Marine survived and the traitor Marine perished whether from the burst of fire from the Ravenguard's bolter or from cross fire.  Our Marine survived without a functional helmet and he picked up the hammer to rally on the fight. 

I started cutting and trimming parts to make fit of my Marine.  I had to use Kurtha Sedd gun arm and removed the plasma and replaced it with a bolter.  I've taken the hammer from the Solaq boxset and the head from the Sternguard marine boxset.

I will be painting each part first and then assembling afterwards to make painting easier.   The first step was to paint the head to get things going.