Plastic Chaos Obliterators Conversions

Check out my plastic Chaos Obliterator conversions! I made these using Black Reach Terminators from eBay and a plethora of heavy weapons and technological bits from all manner of Space Marine and Chaos Space Marine sources.

There were inspired by Paul Scott's plastic Obliterator conversions from his Death Guard. Then I went to town and bulked them up even further.

The process is surprisingly simple. Just start with the Terminator body, a chaos marine head and the back half of the Chaos Marine gunner from the Chaos Vehicle Accessory sprue.

Cut the top of the stumpy bit inside the terminator body out, then the back half of the Chaos Marine gunner should be able to glue neatly in place. Not before you trim a Chaos Marine head and glue that in place first of course.

Then you take a Multi Melta and Plasma Cannon from the Space Marine Devastator box and trim the Terminator arms back to the elbows until you create a flat surface to glue each gun and army together.

Then you glue the arms in place.

Leave the whole thing to dry solid and you've formed the basis for your Obliterator conversion.

Now you can start filling in the gaps and bulking up the model with more and more bits. Be sure to trim any spare piping and little technical box shapes off of whatever you can find in your bitz box. They're great for plugging gaps and layering up detail to make these Obliterators much bigger and bulkier than regular Terminators.

I'm very fortunate to have access to so many bits, thanks to James buying so many Devastator boxes over the years. He certainly wasn't going to use all those Plasma Cannons and Multi Meltas!

I couldn't begin to list all the bits used in these conversions, but buying a couple of Black Reach Terminator boxed sets for £10 each (+£2 postage) on eBay was certainly preferable to paying out £14 per Chaos Obliterator. Seeings as I needed 6 of them, that would have cost me £84!

Instead I only spent £20 + £20 for an extra Devastator boxed set. So £40 in total. Although each of these did take 3 hours to build up in layers of bits.

You've no doubt noticed that I'm steered clear of the 'fleshy bits' usually seen on Chaos Obliterators and stuck to technology instead. It's much easier to jam bits of piping, tech and armour plates over any gaps rather than filling them in with green stuff.

These are really messy conversions, but they did get much better as I went along. So I'm sure that someone with a little more patience and care could create cleaner, more uniformed Obliterator conversions of their own.

But if you've got a bitz box that's overflowing with heavy weapons, why not give this kind of conversion a try? Because once you've got the basis sorted, sticking bits on and building up the model is relatively easy!