Lord Asvaldir Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Working on a project for my Word Bearers army, want to add some chosen and my idea was having the squad stick out by wearing black robes. I'm thinking holy warrior monks sort of look, but evil, with the most dedicated marines marked by robes. My first thought was using the Dark Angels veterans squad, just use the bodies and use chaos bits for the rest of the model, just ran into one issue-the imperial iconography on some of their torsos. Way I see it my two options are 1) hacking them off, using green stuff to fix up the robes-which I'm not very good with but maybe worth a try. 2) two of the torsos actually have no icons, but given I want 8-9 chosen that means buying a lot of veterans, and getting those bits of ebay usually gives you a random torso which eliminates that option. Could still do it, just more pricey. So just wondering is there a better alternative I'm missing? Maybe some other robed marines out there that would work better. Also general ideas/pointers that you guys might think will make a cooler chosen unit are welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucien Eilam Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 It takes less than a minute of scraping with a sharp knife to neatly remove the icons from those Veteran torsos. Even less for the one where the icon is on the robe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectricPaladin Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 It takes less than a minute of scraping with a sharp knife to neatly remove the icons from those Veteran torsos. Even less for the one where the icon is on the robe. FTW Games did a blog post about removing icons. Check them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantomzero17 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 IIRC Black-dagger is usually pretty reasonable when it comes to emailing them and asking how many of a specific random bit they have and ordering that. You just have to include the comment in your order afterwards and email them again about it after ordering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mactire Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I thought Dark Angels were robed Chaos Space marines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walpurgisnacht Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 ^ this ^ A buddy of mine converted the DV Dark Angels to Night Lords by some head swaps and painting the robes as flesh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectricPaladin Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 ^ this ^ A buddy of mine converted the DV Dark Angels to Night Lords by some head swaps and painting the robes as flesh. I converted the DV Dark Angels into Exorcists, myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
incinerator950 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 IIRC Black-dagger is usually pretty reasonable when it comes to emailing them and asking how many of a specific random bit they have and ordering that. You just have to include the comment in your order afterwards and email them again about it after ordering. They're very good about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castellan Cato Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Check out anvil industries. 90% sure they do robed legs, torsos, and also have sweet hooded skull heads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Asvaldir Posted October 31, 2014 Author Share Posted October 31, 2014 Thanks all for the comments, sounds like I can get what I need from black dagger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtle Discord Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 If you plan on doing a lot of detail shaving, consider a razor chisel designed for the job. I'm sure you can find them other places for the same (or better) prices, but the 4mm Plastic Modeler's Chisel that Micro Mark carries is a good example. I was getting some other items from MM a while back and tossed one of these into the order. I haven't used it much, but it's great for getting a really clean removal that doesn't gouge the surface if you are careful. Some future project ideas will no doubt make much more use of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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