Where do modelers get the pre-heresy style Space Marine heads, like what were used in the Warhammer 30,000 BoLS codex? Are you carving them out of the "armour through the ages" marines?
Where do modelers get the pre-heresy style Space Marine heads, like what were used in the Warhammer 30,000 BoLS codex? Are you carving them out of the "armour through the ages" marines?
I just had a discussion with Bigred about this, yesterday. I am doinng a pre-Heresy SW army. He showed me the kit they were using, it is the FW Red Scorpion Upgrade kit.
http://crazyredpraetorian.blogspot.com/
http://theflylordsofterra.blogspot.com/
There are some gems spread across ranges. The best bulk buys are the Red Scorpion kit from Forge World and the head set from maxmini.eu (but they make even FW delivery look speedy!).
Across other GW sprues, there's 1 on the Black Templars, 1 in the Iron Warrior Metal upgrade kit, Khorne Berserker heads with the ears removed, Chaos Space Marine heads with some cutting work.
Heck, you could use Bretonnian knight helms like I did below:
That actually looks really good.
very nice whitehorn! well done
i concur with re-modelling chaos marine heads, i mean, you can't get much more pre-heresy than the armour from the heresy itself...
Conscription in the Lucky 88th
http://lucky88th.blogspot.com
I'll have to look into that bretonnian head conversion, as I have several spare helmets in my bitz box. Is the studded shoulder pad from the chaos sprue, or is it just gs dots on a normal shoulder pad?
Zou get the studded shoulder pads in the marine boxes or zou can convert the studs with small pin heads.
Drill some holes and cut of the pin heads so that the shorter pin fits in the drillholes.
SO zou can ad studs easilz all over the armour.
That particular pad, typical of me, was the whole am from the limited edition White Dwarf space marine you got for the subscription. I like butchering rare models
The whole model was:
Bretonnian helmet front.
Berserker legs.
Red Scorpion chest.
White Dwarf marine chain sword arm.
Regular plastic marine bolt pistol arm.
Studs were added using lots of layers of pva dots using a cocktail stick.
There's a horned chaos marine helmet that looks very nice without horns - for artificer armour or the likes of Salamanders/Death Guard. I used it on my PH-spin Vulkan:
If you like something a bit more stylised, I used this same head on all my jetbikers to make them look a bit vicious:
Berserker heads minus the ears:
Berserker helmet with Maxmini crest:
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A S S is censored? Bah!
Apoc masters of the[...] pack has 1 chap holding a very nice Mk3 helmet on his fist. It's a ballache to cut off though, but:
The Iron Warrior heads look great for PH Terminators:
Hope these help you with some ideas and sorry for picture spam!
Thanks for the info. Those Zerker heads look nice!