cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45080592

Blood Angels conversion ideas

A few months ago, I caught a neighbour throwing out a huge collection of 40k and fantasy stuff. Naturally I asked them not to do that, but give it all to me.

I went from having a couple of squads here and there to owning several armies. Thankfully a lot of the fantasy stuff was unpainted, but the blood angels army I got was pretty horribly painted.

I am planning stripping the paint off and repainting them. The only problem is, is that I find blood angels quite boring (both lore and paint scheme).

I was wondering of there was a way to convert them to something else other than the classic chaos conversions.

Also, it would be nice to keep sculpting to a minimum, since I have about 30-50 various infantry units, 6 boxy dreadnaughts and 4-6 tanks.

I was thinking legion of the damned or sons of malice but I’m open to any and all suggestions.

  • saplacatEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I built some Legion of the Damned terminators from Blood Angels models and many parts fit quite well.

    photo of 3 painted Warhammer miniatures, black terminators with flames and bones

    • Logh@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Those are brilliant! Love the flames too. Green stuff?

      So rare to see Legion of the Damned, might end up doing this.

      • saplacatEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        Thanks! Yes, green stuff. I can dig up a WIP if you’re interested.

        I love LOTD! Wish they still had proper rules.

        • Logh@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          That’d be great, always looking to learn something new. I was even thinking of getting some blackest black for some sections.

  • Apepollo11@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    Pick one of the weird chapters that appeared in the old Rogue Trader manual.

    I’m currently painting a squad of Mantis Warriors. I like that for a chapter who’s colour scheme is muted green, the snipers have a completely different colour scheme of bright yellow with tiger stripes. Top tier stealth.