Assault Terminator Conversion

I managed to polish up a few terminators over the last few days.  I used forgeworld black templar shields and wanted them to have something a little different to a thunder hammer, so one of my friends suggested that I could make a "Thunder Lance" - having the same rules as a thunder hammer.  The result is below, a very easy conversion, but I hope it looks fairly effective.

An assault cannon term for my regular footstompers

Librarian Conversion

Recently bought an Empire General kit, mainly for the purpose of getting the raven for one of my rune priests, but as it turned out, I gleaned a few extra parts for my librarian that I have been thinking of doing.

My inspiration for the hand design came from Migsula's phenomenal Crescent Guard Librarian http://www.pbase.com/migsula/image/56544363 .  Just an amazing piece of work that entire army!

So anyway, I've nabbed the cape and sword from the empire general kit, the torso and legs from the new death company kit.  Still need to work on the very poor, impoverished psychic hood - but a little green stuff should sort that out.

Comments more than welcome!!

Assault Squad with no Jump Packs

Anyone have any thoughts on running an assault squad without jump packs?  I thought that the 35 point discount on a transport could make that very worthwhile.  I think that after I made my decision to go codex marines over black templars, my initiates outfitted with assault gear could be used as non-jump pack assault marines.  Free rhinos or drop pods sound pretty attractive!

Assault marine - I put some damage effects on his chainsword.  Pretty crappy though.  Anyone have some pointers on how to make a chainsword look really weathered?

Still deciding on whether or not to give this guy a power sword.....

Black Templars ditched for Codex Marines

Over the last few days I've really been thinking about what units I find to be the "coolest" space marines.  After reading a little on Stelek's Sternguard (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/218863.page) and playing some Dawn of War on PC - I've decided to abandon my Black Templars and run with a generic codex list.  So many cool things, Sternguard, Librarians, Thunderfire Cannons - just awesome. 

So as a result, I've decided to remould my Templar "wing" of my army into a normal codex marine one.  I'll have to make a few units of Sternguard at least, i've decided that I'll use the Dark Angel veterans for this purpose.  Below are a few images of some i've nearly finished.

I'm making markings on the rear of the shoulder pads as to which squad they belong to.

Also experimented on purple purity seals, rather than the red for something different.

The Sternguard Sargeant with Power Sword and Combi-Melta

More Progress

Work has resumed, so there has been precious little time to get blogging.  However, I have managed to finish up 2 terminators and 5 marines.  Will post images of them soon.

I've also decided to ditch the Black Templar army that I have and change it for a regular codex army.  Reason being is that I wanted to have a few more librarians that I could convert, as well as a few squads of Sternguard.  This does mean i'll have to rejig the fluff - but ah well... I have a few ideas rattling around amongst the cobwebs up there so, we'll see how it goes.

Stay tuned!