I fucked up making a custom Lieutenant model today. I'm making a custom model to fit with a squad I'm building for a custom friendly table, essentially he's supposed to work with a Horus Heresy heavy weapons lascannon squad I got my hands on who ride in a lovely Land Raider Proteus, with rules to work in 40K written up. However, the generic squad were ordered unpainted online on eBay, and I didn't have the directions to build them. I didn't have any use for a sword and pistol dude in a squad that's just designed to sit back that far, so I was going to make a final custom model as an officer with a heavy weapon. But when I went to kitbash their Lieutenant (Primaris LT helmet on Heavy Weapon Squad lascannon sergeant), I succeeded in putting him together without his right pauldron, as I glued his arm onto his lascannon before doing that and it was too late by the time I realized.I'm committing to the bit and I'm too cheap to buy a new one and I did assemble the guy so I'm not going to just chuck him, so now I need an interesting lore reason for why this guy might have no pauldron or a small pauldron on the right side of his armor.Maybe it's because he has a special, better relic lascannon and he had to strip his armor on that shoulder in favor of some sort of shoulder-mounted charging port, because it needs to constantly be charged by his armor or it will burn itself out from how powerful and temperamental it is?Just curious if anyone has a fun reason, or something else I could do. Hopefully someone here has better ideas than my tiny little lizard brain.Also, should I give the squad a Techmarine for their Raider or an Apothecary for them?
>>98213336Make it a battle damaged pauldron that was broken by his enemy, maybe a chaos space marine that he has beef with. He never fixed it because he vowed to defeat him before he did as that was the day his closest friend was killed by the same chaos space marine. Replace chaos space marine with any other enemy of the imperium like a daemon or xenos. Just glue part of the pauldron on if possible by cutting it up or you could even just place it on the base if you want to us it as basing material.
Just to offer an alternative to >>98213398, when they released the OG terminators there was a short story where a Blood Angel telephoned into battle wearing a blue Ultramarine suit.>it had been a loan from the Ultramarines armoury decades ago, and (the marine) refused to let it be repainted. Each time the suit's colours had been hidden, the wearer had been killed, and he maintained that the suit knew it was only borrowed. The techmarines had long since given up trying to persuade him otherwise.Maybe he had the luckiest kill streak ever following a malfunction/excessive battle damage and now it's the equivalent of always putting his left sock on first.
>>98213336be honest OP did you whittle these guys out of something
Didn't read all of that but you could>print one out>put lots of green stuff fur over his shoulder to hide the missing pauldron
>>98214329Look at the left side marines pauldron. See that gridlike pattern? Thats one sign of likely being 3d printed.
>>98213336Put a battery pack there or something
