The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Shades of Grey

Introducing my Grey Knight brother-captain...

He's a fun model. Here's an inventory of the bits he's currently wearing:

• Iron Warriors Head
• Marneus Calgar Legs
• Marneus Calgar Torso
• Grey Knight Terminator Psycannon Arm
• Nemesis Force Halberd (2nd Edition)
• Staff arm from a Librarian in Terminator Armor

The idea for this fellow was actually lifted from Agis Miniatures, where an enterprising soul had already made something similar using Calgar's body as a base. The head is a nice touch, but it looks a little out of place on Calgar's torso, so I decided to go with something a little different. Take a look:

 

He was actually using a Grey Knight Terminator sword arm until I managed to get my hands on the Librarian arm - I felt that his weapon should really be a focus on the model, and that new Librarian certainly has an impressive force weapon, so on it went. The book on the shoulder fits the Grey Knight iconography really well, too, so I can't argue with it.

I took a quick photo of the force weapon so you guys could get a gist of how it went together. It is an outstandingly simple cut and swap, but I think it looks worthy of a Brother Captain or Grand Master.

It's pinned, as is everything else I make, simply out of a neurotic prediction of one day dropping the model. You really can't argue with the extra stability, too, though it's a bit stressful to pin something just slightly larger than the drill bit itself.

There's a couple things to be done on this model before he's up for painting - namely, covering up the remaining Ultramarine iconography on the torso and legs, and filling in the gaps between the shoulder and body. Both of those should be pretty simple jobs, though. The thought to put an SMT LED inside that head of his has occured to me, but the eyes are so narrow that I don't think I could effectively hollow them out to begin with, so I think I'll have to forego it on this mini.