Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Death Watch detachment

And construction of the Kill Team Detachment has been completed (You know baring the possibility that I want to build a Death Watch Dreadnought just because I can, or I have that Land Speeder I could build. And a Storm. A little speedy transport wouldn't be unwelcome for a Death Watch team).

Anyway. 20 Death Watch marines with a watch captain:
A space marine Death Watch detachment comprising 2 squad with a captain made up of members from the Space Wolves, Black Templars, Imperial Fists, Crimson Fists, Aurora, Ultramarine, Iron Hands, Blood Angels, and Dark Angels chapters lead by a Watch captain.
A space marine Death Watch detachment comprising 2 squad with a captain made up of members from the Space Wolves, Black Templars, Imperial Fists, Crimson Fists, Aurora, Ultramarine, Iron Hands, Blood Angels, and Dark Angels chapters lead by a Watch captain.


 Placed in command of the detachment is a Death Watch Captain:
A Death Watch Captain Model based around a converted Pedro Kantor Model
 Each Squad is lead by a Sergent. In this case, both Sergents are from the Ultramarines Chapter.
A pair of Ultramarine Sergents lead the respective Death Watch Squads

 Covering the heavy fire part of the detachment is a Quartet of heavy bolter armed marines:
4 Heavy Bolter armed marines provide the heavy support the rest of the detachment needs.
4 Heavy Bolter armed marines provide the heavy support the rest of the detachment needs.





As with all Death Watch Kill teams, the detachment is comprised of Marines from various chapters. Here we see the 4 Fists (2 Imperial Fists, 2 Crimson fists).

2 imperial fist marines alongside 2 crimson fist marines
2 Imperial fists along side 2 Crimson Fist marins

 2 Blood Angel marines:

2 Blood Angels serving in the Death Watch
2 Blood Angels serving in the Death Watch
 The members of the Death Watch detachment who come from the Aurora chapter
a pair of Aurora Marines serving in the Death Watch
Aurora Marines serving in the Death Watch
The Ultramarines have 3 Brothers serving this detachment:

a trio of Ultramarines serving in the death watch
a trio of Ultramarines serving in the Death Watch

 While the Dark Angels have likewise provided capable team members

The Dark Angels have provided able bodied marines for the Death Watch
Dark Angel Death Watch members


The children of the death world Fenris, always eager for a fight, have provided members to the detachment:

2 Space Wolves in the Death Watch team
2 Space Wolves in the Death Watch team

Honor bound to destroy those that would endanger the Imperium of Man, the Black Templars have a presence in the Death Watch.

   Honor bound to destroy those that would endanger the Imperium of Man, the Black Templars have a presence in the Death Watch



With the cold methodical logic that makes them so dangerous, the Iron Hands provide fire support for their Death Watch Brothers:

With the cold methodical logic that makes them so dangerous, the Iron Hands provide fire support for their Death Watch Brothers


I use very simple conversions through out the entire detachment to keep it as uniform as a Death Watch can reasonably be. Mainly part swaps. the Iron Hand marines are good examples of this as I use the torsos and one set of bionic legs from the Iron Hands upgrade kit for the pair of them.

There were only a hand full of 'free form' conversions through out the entire detachment, and by free form I mean I didn't simply decide to use a different part to accomplish the effect.


This Sergent is the first example. I use a pin in the left Wrist to angle the sword outward to signify him declaring a charge.
This Sergent is the first example. I use a pin in the left Wrist to angle the sword outward to signify him declaring a charge.
I angled the wrist to tilt the chainsword forward, as he signals a charge.


Another example is basically every one of the Heavy Bolter armed marines.

The right shoulder of the Heavy Bolter set up has the ammo belt coming right across the edge of the shoulder pad meaning the shoulder pad is actually one piece with the ammo feed and a couple cables. So I couldn't pop on the shoulder pad of the respective chapter. I had to literally cut away the old shoulder (minus the shoulder for the Black Shield mind you. He can just be a flat shoulder pad). I then had to use should segments from other arms (I used the shoulders from the tactical marines for reason I will explain in a bit) to replace the upper arm and then added the shoulder pad to that effectively rebuilding the bit with the chapter iconography.

Through out the entire detachment I wanted to keep the various little accoutrements and symbols that so characterize space marines. These include:
added a servo skull for decor on this Heavy Bolter Marine

The Servo Skull on this Heavy Bolter Marine

I deliberatly left the strap on from the plastic bolter and attached it the death watch bolter
 The bolter strap on this Iron Hands Marines
 
the space wolf on the right has a wolf tooth hanging from his Death watch issue bolter
The tooth on the grip of the bolter of the marine on the right

The Templar on the left as been awarded a Marksmanship honor
The Templar on the left as been awarded a Marksmanship honor
The Marksmanship honor hanging from the barrel of the bolter on the left.

So, I mentioned I used the shoulders from the Tactical marines arms for replacing the shoulders of the heavy bolters and I alluded that there was a reason for this choice. Here's why:

In the new tactical kit, the hands are built into the bolters while the arms are separate pieces. You attach the hand and arm at the wrist. Nice option for conversions, but in this particular case it created a little bit of a head ache as it means I had to cut out the hands from the bolters, and then attach them to the Death Watch Bolters. 15 times... It gets a bit boring after a while. Anyway, This now means I have 15 arms, that I don't have hands to go with. So I further canalized 4 of the arms to rebuild the shoulders of the Heavy Bolters.

And there we have a 21 man Death Watch Detachment complete and ready for paint.


... you know, I do have all those extra Dreadnought pieces. I might just do a Death Watch Dread.

1 comment:

  1. You have put a ton of work and thought into these and they are really very nice. I am eager to see them painted up.

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