The Gothic Marine isn't an official armour variant like the Crusade or Thunder pattern armour variants for example, but is intended to allow gamers to either create their own mighty characters or squads of bigger than average marines. Please remember to make any cuts carefully with a sharp modeling knife.
In order to create one of these variants you will need:

A plastic marine torso, head, arms, shoulder pads, weapon and backpack, some GS and the Warhammer Fantasy Chaos Warrior legs.




First off you cut the Chaos Warrior upper body off where the top of the belt meets the torso.



Next you need to level the top of the legs so that the torso doesn't appear too stretched. To do this you need to carefully slice the top off the legs as far as the top of the belt. On the belt itself you have the buckle and the belt strap in the center of this, you need to cut the top so it is level with the top of the belt strap as seen here.



Next you carefully slice the strap off the belt buckle on the front.

Wrap a sausage of GS around the base of the trimmed down CW boot.



Next you carefully shave the tops of the boots down so they are level with the ankle.
Using your sculpting tool flatten the sides of the GS to form the sides of the shoe working the GS upwards.



Fold the GS over the top of the shoe and smooth out using the sculpting tool. You need to make sure that you have a film of water on the surface of the tool for the best results or alternatively use Vasalene. Make you that it's a thin film though so as not to swamp the areas you're working on.



Now you do the same to form the heel of the boot, blob of GS and smooth it out to form the heel.

This is the bit I get PMed about the most so I've broken it down to make it nice and easy.



The GS sausage is added to roughly form the bottom edge of the greave all the way around the boot.



Flatten out the bottom edge of the GS greave pushing the GS towards the leg. Once you're happy that you have a flat edge then smooth the sides of the greave out.
Now you can wait till this is dry before moving on or just continue at this stage.



Finally add a blob of GS and flatten it out to fill the gap above the rim we just created create the bulk of the greave.

Next the torso is stuck directly to the top of the Chaos warrior legs. I've used the Forge World MkIV torso here but it's basically the same as the plastic torso. You may have to cut a nick out of the belt buckle on the leg to get a better fit.
Once the torso is stuck in place you begin to fill the gap with GS.





For the rear armoured plate you add a small piece of GS and shape it into a square. If you are feeling adventurous you can also add ribbing to the backs of the knees.
To do this add a small sausage of GS to the back of the knee and flatten it out. You then press the scultping tool into the GS horizontally twice creating three raised ribs as seen here.



Once that's dry you can add the edges of the leg armour by placing a GS sauage above the ribbing and blend into the armour of the leg.

If you have the bolter arms in place the belt area won't be visable.



However if you have the torso exposed then you will need to do a little work to cover the joint between belt and torso like I have done here with GS, grenades and pouches.



Scale shot with regular plastic marine



Scale shot with heightened plastic marine.



WIP Devastator variants

Thank you sir. That'll help me greatly as I plod along wiff my Wolves. I think for flavor, mine will be the 13th Company...

good good nice too see the final tut up.

I shall have a go.

Thanks much for this tutorial. I look foreward to getting to work on my pre-heresy thousand sons with this. My GS-Fu is a little weak, so that needs some work, but it shouldnt be too hard... I hope.

Great tutorial Doghouse, and huge thanks for the link. :)

D.

This is an awesome tutorial, but I only see one problem:

All the chaos legs seem to be in the exact same pose, does that make an army look too static when its all together?

Looks amazing, Doghouse! How long does it take?

Also, what heads are you using?

MM