Warhammer 40K: Conquest Challenge

This is the Conquest Magazine exclusive Primaris Lieutenant, Calsius. Or Calcium as I like to call him.
Anyway… since the marines in this set are supposed to be Ultramarines, the lieutenant has the appropriate heraldry and iconography all over him. Not the ideal for a leader with any other Chapter. A little conversion was in order, but I didn’t want to change the miniature completely from the original.
I decided that a couple of little fixes would solve the problem. I removed the UM icon from the backpack. A little shave with a hobby knife took care of that easily.

Initially I wasn’t going to use the pauldron with the UM chapter heraldry on it, but then had second thoughts. I decided I’d swap the left and right pauldrons and use it as a character feature. As an Easy-Build miniature they had keys to locate them. I shaved the keys off each of the shoulders and applied a good amount of plastic glue, simple!

Clearly this still leaves more than a couple of UM markings. This is easily explained by crafting a history for this new Blades of Vengeance Lieutenant, Calziel. The current DA Codex states of the Blades of Vengeance:

“They aided the Ultramarines Primarch Roboute Guilliman during his Indomitus Crusade, serving with distinction” 

So Lieutenant Calziel served alongside Ultramarine forces, perhaps the big man himself. For his work, he has received awards and recognition from his blue-armoured battle-brothers. What the Inner Circle make of this is their own council to keep… for now he serves well in the position that he holds.