Chaos Marine Conversions (Yet Again!)

I've been running low on Chaos Marine bits, which means that I've had to improvise with pieces from the bits box. I thought I'd put some marines together with whatever I had to hand.

The first chap had a pair of loyalist marine legs, and a body which, I think, comes from a fantasy Khorne knight. His head was from a plastic cultist, and his arms were from a very old GW zombie. The zombie had rather odd proportions, and so the model has rather huge fists. But that's chaos for you.

In order to make the legs a bit more detailed, I found an old bit from the Kroot warriors boxed set. It's a set of blades held together with string (I think) and it fitted the butcher/executioner feel of the rest of the model. I had to trim it down a bit, but it went together quite well.

The second chaos marine had the upper body and left arm from an old metal champion, from the havoc set. I liked the look of the head, with its wires and lenses. I gave him plastic legs and a right arm. Every unit needs a bloke pointing out the location of the enemy, after all.

 Now, it's well-known that girls are not allowed in the Space Marine treehouse. However, it's interesting that some of the new Warhammer Chaos warriors are female. Also, it's established Oldhammer that "face of a daemonette" was one of the gifts dished out by the chaos gods: there are old metal marines with heads like that.

Of course, I don't give a toss about most of the fluff, especially the bits that people get angry about on the internet, so I stuck a daemonette head onto a marine body. I used the metal legs from the havoc spotter above. I placed a bit of cork under one of the feet for a suitably dramatic pose. The arms, shoulder pads and gun came from the new plastic chaos marines. They're really well-sculpted.

I like this model particularly: the small head works well with the big shoulder pads. Some of the shading on her face has been lost in the photo, and I realise that I forgot to paint the strap on her magazine, but I like her.