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i want to start a cadian army bases on the death korps of krieg... thats because i have not enough money to buy krieg so what colour schemes should i take? .... and i was thinking about the elysian drop troops head.. for some of my guards man...


Can anyone help?

oh not bases but based

If you´re good with GS, you could do trench coats for them.. I´ve tried it once or twice, and even with my sub-par Green-fu, i´ve managed passable results.

Other than that, try keeping the colours dark, so greys, browns, greens are good.

As far as heads, FW does some cadian respirator heads, might check those out..

If you can't find any good heads, I suggest cutting the three 'boxes' off of the Cadian helmet. Then use Modeling Clay to make respirators and change the shape of the helmet.
I have heard rumors that they might make plastic guardsmen with trenchcoats some time in the near future...but that is just a rumor.

actually you don't need to do any green stuff work. Look on warstore for the pig iron near future products and the kolony militia heads. they work just fine.

Onnotangu wrote:this guy is what convinced me to purchase about 140 heads from pigiron. http://www.eternityofwar.com/showthread.php?t=2559

CplPunishment wrote:If you can't find any good heads, I suggest cutting the three 'boxes' off of the Cadian helmet. Then use Modeling Clay to make respirators and change the shape of the helmet.
I have heard rumors that they might make plastic guardsmen with trenchcoats some time in the near future...but that is just a rumor.

CplPunishment - have you tried this? I've wanted to see what it looks like, but haven't seen any pics of finished models that have modified the Cadian helmets that way.

No, but I will now that you've asked
I ready have a trimmed Cadian helmet lying around anyway, so all I have to do is add the green stuff.
This just might be another good conversion for my Last Chancers

If you could, get a shot of it pre-GS respirator, too.

Thanks!

Are you looking to make them look similar to krieg? The elysian heads look futuristic enough that I'm putting them on my Tau dudes.

Personally I'd go with westwind WWII seperate heads(http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/). they do german gas mask heads. then either Cadian bodies or if you can swing it, high elf arch bodies are already in ankle-lengh robes.

For guns you could dragon models 1/35 scale rifles.

Here's a poorly painted example of elf archers with guns.

http://www.pbase.com/kidkyoto/image/53421788

stonefox wrote:Are you looking to make them look similar to krieg? The elysian heads look futuristic enough that I'm putting them on my Tau dudes.

they probably stole it.. . from other guardsman...

i just dont want to have all those men look the same... so some have rebreaters and some dont ( maby imune to some chaos deseases) and ... those elves look ok... xcept the faces... ... and then .... some cadian assecoire sprue... cool...

i think i go for mostly grey and grey/brown ......\
................................................... or is that bad?

Buy some Bretonians. The helmets and legs from the Bretonian Men at arms set. It has been done before, and it looked good. Gas masks wil be hard to model.
Also these guys arent based on DKoK, but rather the British soldiers of WW I, it wil still look pretty good.

....hmmm... ok... I remeber a picture on the gamesworkshop website of a empire soldier with a flamethrower.... that guy looked much on the ww1 british soldiers...

and about those trenchcoats... i heard the rumour too...
.... i thnk that would be the coolest thing ever...

Ahh those were brettioian men at arms heads the one wiht the wide bowl brims.

FishMonk wrote:....hmmm... ok... I remeber a picture on the gamesworkshop website of a empire soldier with a flamethrower.... that guy looked much on the ww1 british soldiers...

I know that army but I can't remember who did it. Dave Tyler?

It was Bret Men at Arms with lasguns but looked very WWI.

I think with westwind or pigiron heads you'd have a really great army. Plus you can get las guns really cheap from BW bitz.

Work in progress-
Making trenchcoats for my Cadians...
With Greenstuff...

If you took some Guitar String, you could also create gas masks for them:

Just push the guitar string from their mouth to their backpack and sculpt a little mask over the bottom half of their mouths.

where do i get guitar string?
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yeah! guitar string... im gonna make my guys guitar heros....

no realy good idea!!!! : )

You can get guitar string at a music shop.

Kyoto,

Those Westwind heads look fantastic, especially the Secrets of the Third Reich Germans with the masks.

must not buy more.....

Stormtrooper X wrote:You can get guitar string at a music shop.

Now that's just crazy talk.

what the pigiron heads look like on cadians. yes these are mine.

are the heads made of metal?

Geez...so much better than the normal Cadian heads. How much do those run again?

From Rattlehead Games (www.rattleheadgames.com) they are about $6 for 20 heads.

I picked up about 40 of the rebel kolony heads for my rebel IG force (P&M thread coming).

Ozymandias, King of Kings

warstore has them as well. it just took a while to get here and I honestly should have over bought more. they are so damn nice I want to put them on my metal models as well.

I can't wait to see how this turns out. I'm doing the same thing with my cadians (sculpting trench coats and using the pig iron gas masks)