He’s not quite ready for painting, as there are a few details that still need cleaning up or adding, predominantly to the shoulder pads. Anyhow, I figured the conversion is close enough to finished to show it off.

The original concept was to have him in this pose with the shoulder mounted CB and carrying a 2 handed thunder hammer/wrench. As I was building him it seemed a shame to obscure the sculpting on the model with a big weapon held in front of him, this was my main reason for switching to a single handed thunder wrench. I also really like the scanner arm from the (Thunderfire Cannon) Techmarine, for some reason, and it fits the torso nicely.

These two images were central to the concept I had in mind.

Anyway here you go. Pretty sure I’ll be painting him up as a Lamenters chapter Master of the Forge (he’ll be my new forum avatar, and I’ll work his image into the banner of this website too).