Like the title already said. I need help and inspiration. I´m working on a Chapter Master Tu´Shan conversion for my Sallies. Here´re some WIP pics.





Now to my problem. I wanna make a Terminator Squad as his bodyguards. But a normal squad would be boring so i decided to give them the pre-heresy armours of the few survivors of the Dropside Massaker on Istvaan V. I´m not sure how to convert the collars and front torso. I had done some PH SW termies in the past (maybe the one or the other still may remember them) but i was not pleased with the collars and torso. Some pics of your PH-Termies or a tutorial would be very helpful.

I would try the GW method of using a Black Templar front torso and a termie back.
You see it alot with the Belial conversions.

You may also want to consider getting fine scale modeler chain and instead of the leather tassles that hang off the shoulderguards you can make em out of chain kind of like what I did here

Very nice, BigWill. Chaos torso..... hm, that´s also an option. The Black Templar torso is also an option. Thanks, Brother.

I think Ron at ++From the Warp++ does it best: Pre-Heresy Terminator Tutorial

Ron uses bare heads in his, but if you use this method of chopping up terminator heads, then remove the jutting jaw and cut away most of the back of the head, then you can slot the helmets into the collars:

Thanks a lot, Itkovian. The first Tutorial is very helpful. The one for the helmet i had known already.

Try this place, they have some cool ideas for charaters

Thanks, great finding. Just add it to my favorites.

Thanks for the help guys. Here´re some pics of my Chapter Master and the first of his "Honour Guards"

Hot Dang!!! I'd say that those are coming along very well

Looking very nice.

Wow! Really impressive Terminators, and Salamanders to!

Of course this does mean the rest of your army will have to be up to the same standard :P

Nice :D

Very nice indeed... I bet those scaled pads will be a pleasure to paint!

A small update. I´m working on the Banner of the 1st Company. I try to GS the Icon of the 1st Company
Here it is:



And here are some pics of the others



C&C welcome

Might I ask why you've used Tyranid skulls, sorry, unconverted tyranid skulls on your banner?

Out of interest how have you done the heads and bodies of your terminators???

The tabarded bodies look like BT upgrade sprue bits, and the Termie helmets look like the wedge-shaped cataphractii conversions in the Tutorials section... right?

Cause they are genestealer skulls. That´s trophies from the fight against the ´stealers of the Monolith of Ymgarl. Those badboys are not for a pre-heresy army. They are the bodyguard the the actual Chapter Master. They wear the armours of the few survivors of the Dropside Massaker.
And yes, Shroudfilm got it right. That´s BT bodies and for the helmets i used the tutorial from the tutorial section.

Really like how coherent and themed the group looks as a whole. Great converting there.

I sooo like the robed terminator idea, it's so simple yet so effective! especially the neckarmour combined with the converted helmets looks very cool. i'll definately use this idea for my upcoming PH dark angels!

I kinda figured it would be a current 40k army since the Chapter masters name is
Tu'shan,and that's the current one in charge of the Sallies nowadays,plus he also
was in the 3 war for Armegeddon.

A small update of the banner.

this man appears to be able to sculpt :blink:
get im'!!! :D

nice work man