Oldhammer Chaos Knight Conversion

I've finally gotten the guts to tackle the unfinished miniatures from my very first Warhammer army: Chaos. Back in 1992, I started wargaming when Warhammer Fantasy Battles 4th edition was released.  Reading the Warhammer Bestiary, I was immediately enthralled by the Chaos background and the idea of starting a Khorne army.  Unfortunately, there weren't many pictures of Chaos miniatures readily available, there was no Chaos Army book yet, and I didn't have any White Dwarf magazines.  I went to the local Games Workshop in Philadelphia, and was overwhelmed by an entire wall filled with rows and rows of blister backs.  I grabbed the ten-pack blister of beastmen (Marauder Miniatures), and a blister pack of metal chaos knights. The baroque look of the armor was amazing and the metal horses are still some of the best horse sculpts I've ever seen.  When I stumbled upon the classic Realm of Chaos Slaves to Darkness book, I finally had pictures to reference what a Chaos army might look like.  I was always too intimidated to try to paint those knights, though, and those Chaos rules and army lists were really geared towards 3rd edition.  Of course, then the Dwarf army book was released and I was hooked on Dwarfs. My Chaos army collected dust...

Over the years I picked up another Chaos knight on eBay, painted by someone else.  The rider also had 40K legs on him.  Specifically, the feet looked way too sci-fi to fit in with the original two sculpts that I have.

if you zoom in, you can see the boots

 I didn't have good legs to replace it with, but looking at the sculpt I thought i might be able to do a minor conversion of the feet, and cover the futuristic details on the legs with putty.

I realized that had a bag of some of the first plastic multi-part chaos warriors laying around - I never liked those models and had no intention of using them.  Sorting through them I noticed that the look of some of those feet matched the original look of the old late-80s style riders.  So, chop-chop time!  The hobby saw made quick work of the original feet.

...as well as the feet from the plastic chaos warrior.

boy these models were terrible

But the feet matched up perfectly!

look mom, new shoes!

I couldn't be happier with the match.  I'll update this post with the final painted product.