I have been working on creating WYSIWYG special characters out of my existing space marine minis. I have already decided that if I was ever going to use a walking Chaplain in power armor the upgrade to Cassius is so small that I would use his rules. I happened to have an older Chaplain with a bionic face so all I need was the combi-flamer. Here I combined a normal bolter with the barrel moved up and ammo clip on the side with a sawed off flamer. The axis of the flamer is slightly off but I think it will work. It should look better once the paint hides the stress marks from the cutting and I drill out the barrels.
The gun looks too big to be at arms length, maybe use an arm with a 90' bend so it is held closer to the body? Good gun tho.
ReplyDeleteI will try that. It does look a little big since it has the extra length.
ReplyDeleteYou've not some really nice conversions here, that are simple but so effective because of it. I look forward to seeing how your army grows.
ReplyDeleteVery nice custom job on the model - and I like the touch of the side mounted bolter clip on the Combi Bolter!
ReplyDeleteI had this exact same idea. Traded for this particular chappy, it's just in the mail. My combi-flamer just uses the old hand flamer. Great minds think alike and fools seldom differ.
ReplyDeleteI took Siph advice and moved the gun to a bent arm. Still looks pretty big. I also did the base coat of black on it which does hide a good deal of the imperfections. Probably paint the gun up tonight to see how it looks.
ReplyDeleteI've had my Cassius converted for a while now. Exact same model, I just used an old hand flamer so the combi-weapon doesn't seem too big. I'll try to get pics up.
ReplyDeleteI thought about using the little hand flamer but it did not have a nice distinctive flame guard. I also still need to update his picture with the new arm pose.
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