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I have heard that standard chaos marines are a little bigger then the death guard marines (GW boxed). Since I already have 7 death guards I am thinking of getting the standard and convert them to get some more shape variation in the army, but I dont want the army do look odd if the standard chaos marines are noticable bigger.

So do anyone have a size comparizon picture or some measurements (hight, width).

/Martin

Assuming you mean the latest release of metal Plague Marines/Death Guard marines, it's not the sort of size difference that would matter.

I have several of the metal bodies with regular plastic CSM arms, and you can't even tell the difference.

I am fairly certain that, when they were making the sculpts for the metal Plague Marines, they used the plastic CSMs as a base and sculpted the Nurgle details over them.

Yes its the latest I release I ment. Thats good news, thanks.
/Martin

You just made me check how big mine are!
I know that these dont have arms/ backpacks yet but I'd say that they are significantly smaller.
Sorry for the bad pics.

Yep thats the plague marines... But I ment the plastic standard chaos marines, that looks like the metal ones, but maybe the metal and plastic ones are the same size. Thanx for posting the pictures.
/Martin

No, those are plastic, just sprayed silver.

Ok, I see.
Seems from the pictures at least that the upper leg part is a bit longer on the standard ones. Maybe a leg-chop can reduce the hight to the same as the plague marines.
/Martin

Sorry about that, the silver spray is probably a bit confusing but they are definately plastic, honest!
It's giving me pretty good and quick results so far.
Shameless link to my CSM army blog.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/225318.page

Yes there is a minor size difference in the plastic CSM & the metal Death Guard,but the real problem,for me at least,comes when you GS the plastic CSM into suitable Death Guard & don't bulk up the metal ones,then the size differance is very obvious.
If you plan on using the metal Death Guard along with plastic CSM I strongly recomend beefing up the metals with some GS.

wow what is a big difference, well the least you can do, is not mix them in squads together as it'll get noticeable.

enmitee wrote:wow what is a big difference, well the least you can do, is not mix them in squads together as it'll get noticeable.

I was thinking the opposite. Mix and match all the way through. Black library fluff always bangs on about that marines vary in size and
proportion, just as humans do.
It's probably more chaotic that way and would probably look fine.

FITZZ wrote: Yes there is a minor size difference in the plastic CSM & the metal Death Guard,but the real problem,for me at least,comes when you GS the plastic CSM into suitable Death Guard & don't bulk up the metal ones,then the size differance is very obvious.
If you plan on using the metal Death Guard along with plastic CSM I strongly recomend beefing up the metals with some GS.

There another way around, cut before adding GS. If the belly is open and stuff is hanging out, its more realistic to first remove the appropriate volume before adding the GS.

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:

enmitee wrote:wow what is a big difference, well the least you can do, is not mix them in squads together as it'll get noticeable.

I was thinking the opposite. Mix and match all the way through. Black library fluff always bangs on about that marines vary in size and
proportion, just as humans do.
It's probably more chaotic that way and would probably look fine.

Thats another way to look at it. Have to giveit some thought.

/Martin

Wow. I stand corrected. Apparently there IS a difference.

Sorry for the misinformation.

I think really what it is, is the plague marines heads look squatty compared to a regular marines head. Gotta remember folks they are kindda melting and stuff

Well I got a nice deal on 2 boxes of CSM (20 models, 22£) + another deal on a bit box on ebay. Gonna kit-bash everything and cut the upper part of the plastic ones to get the hight down a bit. I hope that after some cutting and GS noone will be able to tell them apart, other then feeling the weight ofc.
Thanks everyone for sharing and contributing.
/Martin

well I have both in my army, and i mix them up in the squads.....no one notices any differences.
they should all be different somehow....my goodness some will be fatter, some shorter, some with three eyes, some with half a skull...etc...etc..

it doesnt matter. relax and get painting!

It's quite normal they're smaller, they're rotting away, and getting fatter at the same time.