#chapter champion

[nightscalestudio]

Ultramarines Chapter Champion.

[cam2d]

Brigatti Ingladio, Chapter Champion for my Ultramarines. Fun kitbash, this one!

[paintprog2017]

The next few models to be done for the 29th. Didn't get to do much today but shall plod on tomorrow :)

[trajlo]

Sword champion Scalusus. My latest model to act as chapter champion or company swords guy. He is made from bits from a grey knights pack.

[jakey-beefed-it]

So I started work on a cool conversion tonight. Nerdy, rambly and somewhat image intensive so it goes beneath a cut.

In a squad of Honor Guard there is one particular badass whose job it is to issue and accept any challenges to duels there are going on, so that the commander doesn't get bogged down in dueling. This person is called the Chapter (Legionary, in my case) Champion.

My old champ I had named "Donner Odinson" because I'm fucking original who doesn't like Thor?

I don't... uh... know if Space Marines can have kids (signs point to 'no') but to hell with that, generational stories are fun. So the new champ (since Odinson's moved on to command a detachment of the Legion and no longer has time to stand around next to his Lord High Marshall protecting him from challengers) is named Korva Donnersdottir.

I have really wanted to build lady Space Marines for a long time. The army is (like so many Games Workshop products) a total sausagefest in the worst way (the sexist way). They make (or used to anyhow- more on that in another post) a different army called 'Sisters of Battle' featuring ladies who are very similar to Space Marines in that they're all in power armor and they all shoot the same guns. But they're not genetically engineered posthuman supermen and their power armor has boobs on it.

...Everyone knows why building boobs into armor is a terrible idea by now so let's just move on.

Point is I've wanted them to make plastic Sisters of Battle for goddamn ever now, so that I can go on e-bay and buy up 10-20 plastic Sisters of Battle heads and stick them on Space Marine bodies. Let them be as big and burly and posthuman as the men are, just give them ladyfaces and hair. And for God's sake, solid-piece breastplates that might actually have a prayer of deflecting incoming attacks.

Well, they don't have any plastic Sisters of Battle and I'm disinclined to chop the head off of one of my metal Battle Sisters and hope for the best, so I have been thus far reduced to pointing at my helmeted army and saying "Some of those are ladies" if it comes up.

But last week inspiration struck, as the story of Korva Donnersdottir took form in my head. There have to be, I mused, plastic lady heads somewhere in the Games Workshop line. Probably space elfs or dark space elfs. Perhaps even, I dared hope, without elf ears- covered by hair or something at least.

I searched out the bits I would need.

First, most of a Company Champion. The iconic shoulderplates and breastplate were a must, and I really like the shield. So I had to go hunt one up. E-bay was my friend.

Next, the running 'assault' legs, so that it looked like she had some goddamn momentum going on.

And all my Honor Guard have capes, so I had to find one that would fit/work.

Lastly I would do a quick conversion on the power sword, replacing it with a thunder hammer. Because come on- Donner's daughter. Gotta have Mjolnir.

I searched and searched and couldn't find a helmet in a good shape, nor an elf lady head that didn't have prominent ears or far too narrow of features. And then. Finally, at long last, the 'Dark Eldar Solarite' head.

So maybe the long braid is kinda dumb- verges on the whole 'tertiary sexual characteristics' thing like how we know Minnie Mouse is female due to a bow on her head. But to hell with it, she's a Norse-type shieldmaiden (shield-warrior anyway); practically a Valkyrie, she can have a big blonde or more likely red (given her father) braid. Plus, adding to the dynamism of the model is only ever a good thing.

Clip, carve, glue- voila!