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Pre-heresy era space marines and bits guide; a guide for bits and models
Topic Started: Aug 1 2010, 05:55 PM (1,976 Views)
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just thought i'd throw together a list of weapons, bits and models which fit a pre-heresy themed model or army.

included will be GW, FW and non GW stuff, hope this hopes at least one or two people

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feel free to add your own models or suggestions, these suggestions are more for bits that can help rather than green stuff advice.

GW: the problem as with bits for most GW stuff nowadays is how hard it is to get certain bits, but you can always use bits website like bitsandkits.co.uk

first of the obvious ones

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from the collectors range we have
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the obvious and ubiquitous Corvus (beaky, wamble, pointy,), from a number of sources, it also appears in varieties in the Dark angel, space wolf and Black templar boxes/ http://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/bmz_cache/0/0...age.150x149.JPG

the latest marine plastic kits ahve more variety which can help so much, such as the blood angels, i will lsit the various heads and exampoles of the kneess and torsos which can help as well, the maximus head for example is a nice edition if nto rather difficult to get hold of

the followwing are all from the Deathcompany box

Crusader style head
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Maxmimus style head
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greave type legs often par of the corvus Armour
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more greave legs
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chunkier looking chest plate resembling the Mk3 armour (more on that later)
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these are all from the Black Templar sprue
this sprue has lots of nice chunky chestplates and some excellent heads and crusadey type stuff.

crusader helmet (1of2)
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crusader helmet (2of2)
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Maximus style helmet, very good piece if you can get hold of it, especially as it has no chapter markings making it a universal piece
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collard chest piece
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collard and tabard (3 types of these on the sprue)
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corvus style chest piece
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from the Dark angels vets and ravenwing sprues

Corvus Beaky with Dark Angel insignia
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Crusader helmet with Dark angel insignia
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Dark Angel Veteran MK6 Shoulder Pad
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Ravenwing Adeptus mechanicus Torso
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Generic space marine bits (various sources, assault, tactical, command and devestator squad)

CHAMPION CRUSADER SHOULDER (command squad)
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MK6 CORVUS STUDDED SHOULDER (various inc tactical and assault squads iirc)
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HERESY TORSO
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PLAIN TORSO
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ASSAULT TORSO
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this master of the chapter model is very effecting especially with some weapon swaps.
not the best picture ever, but comes with with ornate corvus armour (the righ pad is completely smooth save for battle honours)
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space wolves
smoothe type pads the space wolves use.
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these type of chainswords although more barbaric than most represented by space marines can add an archaic touch to your marines
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Chaos Marines
many of these will need more work than say a normal marine bit but can offer very interesting possibilities.

khorne bezerkers are one of my favs for this their bulky armour reminds me a lot of the mk3 armour (see fw section for some new examples of these the arms from the zerkers would look very good on these and would allow some very very nice asasult conversion).

here is a quick selection of khorne bezerker bits that work really well.
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Other chaos marine parts can work well because of their gauntlet type and some other heads etc...

chaos bolt pistol
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again weapons can work very well.
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these 2 heads work really well as heresy style ones
this one is from the chaos marine squad box
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this one is from the vehicle accessory sprue.
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space marine venerable Dreadnought
the helmets from this model are brilliant.

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Forgeworld stuff

any of the brilliant space marine venerable dreads are perfect! (sure most people have seen these but hey always worth reminding people they are there)

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specific marine bits

Although Raven Guard bits are fairly heavily moulded, but are very very good pieces, its a real shame the moulding is so heavy i'd personally love the back packs.
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now we get onto the really exciting new FW stuff....mmm tasty

MK3 armour, this stuff is really really cool, and works with pretty much with all pieces.

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quick show with some weapons, it works really well.....
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here is the items that are on the sprue....
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new Pre-Heresy bolters again very very cool
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Pre-Heresy special weapons
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Non GW stuff

Chapter House
http://chapterhousestudios.com/webshop/
We'll start with the big player in this Chapter house studios, these guys make some serious epic bits and are of high quality, most of the items are in metal but some are in resin. I will say this now that these are well worth the pick up.

they have a whole section devoted to heresy era bits
http://chapterhousestudios.com/webshop/com...&category_id=26

here are some of my favourite examples.
brilliant mkI power armour shoulders

http://chapterhousestudios.com/webshop/com...&category_id=26

Banded style which fit right in
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Here is one of their pre-heresy jump packs on one of my own blood claws
they can be found in the heresy section
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This great lil rhino conversion pack is in the vehicles accessory section and looks sweet, not seen any painted or complete pics yet but if anyone has any feel free to post

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max mini eu
http://www.maxmini.eu/store/

These guys make a smeg tonne of stuff, however they do have a couple of pieces which stand out and can be very useful for those people looking to make some pre-heresy styled models.

first off are the steam knight helmets, great for mk1 type armour
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great closed type helms, mostly only going to be of use to some ultramarine players and emperors children
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another slightly different type of jump pack which would quite well as pre-heresy if you want some variety.
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set of large shoulder pads, which fit perfectly on terminators which looks really good as pre-heresy era shoulders
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added after it was finished

also the legs of chaos warriors like the ones below, are perfect for archaic style space marine pwoer armour

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some early wip examples of my own army

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