Converting and painting flying nuns as Tempestus Aquilons

I have previously converted and painted a bunch of flying nuns as Tempestus Scions, with their jump packs representing deep strike capability. Well now the Scions loose deep strike in favor of the Aquilons. Who also have different loadouts and a different sized base. Sigh. Why do you do this, GW.

Converting squad loadout

I had a bunch of 3d printed extra nuns to be painted up as Scions. I revamped the plans to produce Aquilons instead. First, there's a sniper rifle per squad of 10. And only one plasma. No need for so many plasma guns. Chop off the end, and chop up some Scout sniper rifles.

The sergeants cannot have plasma pistols and power fists, because why should I be able to reuse my models. Instead, I chopped up these two sergeants to wield a laspistol (from the old Cadian kit) and some shiny object they are looking at in their left hands. Both are from the Krieg kill team kit, and they represent the servo sentry remote controls.

I later decided to create one more squad. I used a Krieg laspistol and a Sentinel controller for the sergeant.

And a Krieg sniper rifle on a plasma gunner model.

For the servo-sentries, I found a 3d printed medical servitor, for which I only had the body printed. 

I used various bits for the guns. The volley gun is a chopped up radium carbine.

Cadian flamer.

The grenade launcher is a tiny version of the mortar used for these girls.

Painting the nuns

Look here.

Painting the servo sentries

Prime black, then spray Leadbelcher.

Paint the mini tank bodies and gun casings Black Templar. Flamer end and exhaust pipes Snakebite Leather. Volley gun coils Frostheart. Everything else Nuln Oil.

Finish off with a drybrush of Chainmail Silver.

Basing models

Create and paint cobblestone bases separately: Painting cobblestone. The nuns are mounted on acrylic rods, while the sentries are pinned to the base. Unfortunately I ran out of transparent rods, and I used white rods. These look obviously worse, but they have the benefit that the model can be fully assembled and then primed.

Re-basing old models

I ripped out all the usable models (except the sergeants) from their base. Clean off the end of the rod, then glue it into a new 28.5mm base.

Finished!