Space Marines & the Hall of Fame
If you're a regular reader of White Dwarf you'll be familiar with the Citadel Miniatures Hall of Fame series, where experts from around the Studio choose their favourite model form the Citadel range and share their thoughts on it. Well Adam Troke has collected together the best of those articles so far, and you can read them in: Citadel Hall of Fame. He's even added some extra artwork for you to look at.
As you'll read in the article, John Blanche is constantly impressed by the versatility of the many plastic Space Marine kits. And he's not the only one: everyone here at Games Workshop has at least one Space Marine they've assembled in a characterful pose and stuck on their monitor. Of course some people have gone to greater lengths than others, and used the versatility of the kits to help them explore an area of the Warhammer 40,000 background.
Here are a few that caught my eye this morning:
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Yan Zacks' Roboute Guilliman uses Marneus Calgar's body, which he cut, extended and repositioned with the aid of Green Stuff and plasticard. He then added bits from practically every Space Marine plastic frame and even some Forge World brass etching. Notice the converted helmet taken from a Bretonnian Knight.
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Adam Troke assembled this Space Marine to fit in with a piece of background he wrote for the Cities of Death book. He's used the head from the Space Marine vehicle frame, one of the metal Tactical Squad shoulder pads and a backpack from a classic Scout model. Note the extra magazine Adam has added to the boltgun.
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Kieren Swift converted this Space Marine Terminator into a pre-Heresy Iron Warrior for a campaign weekend at Warhammer World. He's used a head from the Iron Warriors Bitz Pack, a Bretonnian Men-at-arms' shield and some shoulder pads from the Chaos Knight frame.
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James Lister converted a Techmarine to represent a Master of the Forge. The conversion beamer is made from a multi-melta and the 'pincers' from the Techmarine, while the backpack sports a lascannon sight. This model is a great example of how easy it is to interchange Space Marine components.
