#Chaos space marine conversion how to#

As for the models themselves, I went on eBay and bought a bunch of bits to replace explicitly loyalist pieces on the minis (torsos and backpacks mostly and occasionally heads, basically anything with Aquila and/or purity seals on it). I'll admit it's a bit more effort than the author makes it out to be but it works. I inherited a bunch of loyalist marines from a friend and am currently in the process of stripping the paint with simple green following this guide. > Come up with your own loyalist force from scratch, decide that it was either 1: from a system that was consumed by the warp tear and went traitor, or 2: was caught on the wrong side of the warp tear, and in attempt to survive while cut-off from the imperium, went rogue. I could have decided that my army was a traitorous offshute of the Imperial Fists or the Iron Hands for example, and it would play around the same as an offshute of the Iron Warriors. >pick a current loyalist faction, and decide that your legion is a traitorous offshute of that legion. My army is a splinter force of Iron Warriors for example. >pick a classic traitor legion, and decide that your legion is a splinter force of that legion. I've got the impression that this bunch is going to look far better than my old army since I'm starting from scratch with a clear concept.ДЄs far as fluff for homebrew chapters goes for traitor legions, you've got a couple of good ways to go about it. I've been mixing the MkIII marine armor and Chaos armor to get the look, and I've got some instructions as to how I converted everything in some imgur galleries. I've got to say, having brand spanking new minis feels fantastic. However since then I've given the whole army away (as a result of the dark age of 6th edition) and I'm now starting fresh. I added a 'new' consistent color element to models that already had wildly varying color schemes and it was juuust cohesive enough to work. To get the 'look', I had added some spikey bits to the regular marines, battle-damaged everything to show the fatigue of being lost without proper supplies (and to mask how many times I had repainted everything, how poorly they were originally built, etc), and I only partially repainted. As a result I would run it as either Chaos or Regular Space Marines whenever. I'm a big fan of converting minis, and my previous army had hopped back-and fourth between Chaos Space Marines, and vainilla Space Marines (when they had the 'create your own chapter' rules).Д®ventually I decided that my whole chapter was a rogue legion (rather than renegade), originally imperial, was lost in the warp, and was not permitted to rejoin. Now I know at the end of the day its a matter of painting what you like and most people are cool with it as long as you aren't a jerk, but I'm curious what the fluff has to say about it. For loyalists its easy, you pick a paint scheme and just say you are founded from whatever original legion you like (or like the rules for), but I haven't seen as much fluff about this happening with the traitor legions.

#Chaos space marine conversion how to#

I'm curious what peoples thoughts are on the various options as well as advice on how to pull off doing either a partial of full conversion (how to strip paint, how to convert marines to chaos, etc).ДЄlso, what is the fluff for home brew chapters traitor chapters. I could A) keep my Salamanders and just get all new minis, B) convert my Salamanders to 'Fallen' Salamanders by keeping the color scheme and adding spiky bits to some of the unpainted / primed models, or C) I could say screw it and strip the paint off of everything and try and pick a fun traitor legion to repaint / model them for. I find myself at a bit of a crossroads, however. Now, with the seemingly improved allies rules in 8th, I'm thinking its time to start adding in some chaos marines to give my daemons a little fire support. Later I switched to Daemons and found it much more enjoyable. Like most new players I started with the space marines and eventually had a small Salamander army going. When I first start 40k, I did so with the Assault On Black Reach starter set.