OT: Original Terminators and More Chapterhouse Goodness

Went old school (or rather saved myself at least 150 bucks) and converted over my old terminators to Ultramarines. I used some Chapterhouse Studios hammers and shields to convert what were regular terminators into Thunderhammer/Stormshield Terminators. However, for all my talk of using original terminators, many of the arms came from leftover bits from the new plastics. Because one of my T-hammer terminators is missing, I had to use the AoBR sergeant with a front plate swap (the idea of wearing the best armor the imperium has to offer but no helmet drives me crazy-except for the capitain where I didn't want to jack with the original figure). I also knocked out a Hunter Killer missle to swap out on my Land Raider.

I really like the shields and hammers and I think they work much better than the dinky shields the terminators come with. They have flourish worthy of 1st Company marines.


Lightning Claws (Why? Because I ran out of arms and have a ton of claws).


Lastly, Captain, Librarian, and missile:

The Story So Far

Although I think this may be a ploy by my once-again nemesis to spy on what I have available for our upcoming battles(I still have some tricks up my sleeve if that is the case), here is what I have done so far for my Ultramarines project (bear in mind that this has been this year alone):



It does mean that I need to plan out carefully my next couple of moves as time is running out...

Rhino/Razorbacks

Finishing off my transports for this month are these two Rhino/Razorbacks:



Next up will be some Thunder Hammer Terminators.

This Old Drop Pod

This month's theme overall will be transports but for the Freebootaz November Motivational Challenge (Fast Attack-or dedicated transports for said Fast Attack) I offer This Old Drop Pod:

Bob Vila "Well let's see what Ian is doing over here."
Ian "Hi Bob, well I got this drop pod in a trade and to be frank, she needs some work."
Bob "Tell me."
Ian "Well, for starters the doors won't close and one had a peg break off. Fortuantely or unfortunately depending on your point of view, the original assembler used tons of super glue so she came apart pretty easily. I've fixed the broken door with some brass rod and shaved down more flash than paparazzi convention. The missile launcher had to be removed and remounted but it now spins again. I also stripped off the Black Templar symbols on the side. We'll see what, if anything, I replace them with."
Bob "It looks like you are making great progess. Let's go over to Sam who is working on some models he bought off of Ebay. Hey Sam, I've never seen models painted with house paint before!"
Sam "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! !!"



Five Days Later

Bob "Well this really turned out well Ian."
Ian "Yeah, I had to scrape off more paint, add in some plates to cover some removed iconography and consecrate it with sacred sweet meats but overall I'm pleased with the results and you can't recognize it from the original body."
Bob "That's just great Ian. Now lets see how Sam's attempt to strip that house paint off using sulfuric acid went."
Sam "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH!"

Chapterhouse Product Review and Command Squad

I purchased the Conversion Beamer set from Chapterhouse Studios a while back and mounted it on my Ultramarines Techmarine (which I guess makes him the head guy). Note that I am not going to use this as a forum to rant about their legal issues with GW.

The set came on the sprue pictured below. There was some flash (sarcastic gasp) which anyone who has ever molded their own product will tell you is an inevitable byproduct of the process but their molds went together well and there were no bubbles.



My only complaint is that on their website, at the time I assembled this model and at the time I am making this post, there is no picture of how it should go together. When you understand that what you see is your choice of two different backpacks, assembly is then fairly obvious but it took some head-scratching to finally figure it out and a picture is worth a thousand words as they say.

Here is my assembled product mounted on a recycled techmarine, you will not I used one of their shoulder pads as well:







The kit is flexible enough that you can do a number of poses with it and the resin glued together nicely (as resin tends to do). I did clip off the edges of the servo arm; one of mine was bent (accidentally by me) and any attempt to fix it would have damaged it beyond easy repair. It is a great kit and rather than throw out some arbitrary system or rating I will merely say that I would recommend it to anyone who does not want to do up their own or use the one from Forge World.

Here is the finished product as well as the command squad I knocked out this last fortnight (as the speakers of the Queen's English would say):







And the command squad, not happy with how the white turned out:

Sic-Sic-Sicarius!

That makes more sense when you sing it o Duran Duran's "Notorious." It also dates me.

Anyway, Here is my glorious 2nd Company leader. I actually started him in Virginia and had to put him on hold until recently. Not dispelased with how he turned out but he also represents the current upper limit of my skill. I also demonstrates that this house has no ambient light and I need to remake my photography area becuase pictures keep coming out either way to light or way to dark.

For the Tots Completed!

I actually completed these last week and sent them off:


Las Cannon Teams:

Missile Launcher Teams:


Sabre Defense Platforms:


Rejoyce tots.