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Hi, i was watching braveheart earlier and an idea popped into me head(and pride fillin me heart seein so i am scotish on me fathers side), wouldn't it be good to see a guard army on the tabletop fully kitted out with kilts and bagpipes. Well i decided to try my hand at this crazy idea and so put together a couple of ideas for potential conversions.
Ok, 2 of the main ways i could pull this off was to either a) use the cadian models, remove the shoulder pads and create kilts with green stuff, or b) use the clansmen models from the LOTR range remove the upper half of the model add the leather armoured torso from the Empire militia sprues and repaire the kilt were need, also adding the shoulder part of the kilt with greenstuff.

Seem so i dont have any of the clansmen models i thort i would try method a, now the last project i used greenstuff on was for making armour on the sadle part of some empire knights to create some centour hevy cavalry for me DOW army in fantasy, well with pride they realy did turn out very good, well thinking i had just enough skill to pull method a off i put together a couple of prototypes BUT they aren't very good, i'll post some pics up soon.

So i need some tips and/advice so any feed back would be appriciated, thanx.

I saw a really good Ork army in kilts with bagpipes and such, Red and green plaid. I will look for a link.

If you use LOTR parts you cannot play with the models in a tournement. I would suggest a magic marker rolling pin and some greenstuff. Roll the greenstuff flat on some wax paper. Use a razorblade to carefully press the pattern into the kilts. Wrap the model. Done deal.

My advice to you, is to take tha Militiamen, and just add a GS kilt and hack off the arms for the guardsmen arms. just paint the legs under the kilt either flesh tone or white, like long socks. then you can have your very own WWI-II style 40k 'Ladies from Hell' I must say its a great idea....

Or if you want long kilts use the men-at-arms and hack the upper torso off...

Another idea -- use 0.25mm plastic card, dip it in boiling water to make it soft and wrap it around a form made of green stuff to mould it into shape.

Thanx for all your suggestions, please keep them coming.
I was kinda thinking of going for long kilts, the idea of using the bretonnian men at arms never occured to me but i dont realy see how that would work so if any one could explain that idea further could make my life easier.
Again thanx for all the input please keep it coming.

sure ting Capin. if yer looking down the road of long kilts take a look at some of my figs. bear in mind they would be long kilts.

the M-A-As are men with sircoats. these go down juuuuust below the knee. this would save you money in the long I think, and make it alot easier. All ya gotta do is cutt off the body at the waist and you have some long kilts. if the little opening in the front gots ya down, try adding the little bag they have on them...I dont know what its called, but its a brown (from the ones Ive seen) with white fluff on it.

then that should do it...

Zaku 1 cheers for the tip but honourstly i have no idea what ye on about, if ye have a pic to show me then i could have a look.
Again thanks for all the input every body, keep it coming, thanx

There's a neat Warhammer Highland Conversion at this link: 74th Scotia Highlanders

It might give you some ideas.

thanx for that pic its given me even more ideas for me army but as i discovered with me prototypes my skill with green suff isn't at the leval required for that , i'll have to keep it fairly basic.
Again thanx for the input.

I made a couple for an Inquisitor's retinue out of parts from the WHFB Imperial command sprue, but that'd probably be overly expensive for anything beyond veterans.

I thort of doin the same Balance but my local store ain't got them in anymore, once again thanx for all the input and please keep the ideas flowing.

Another idea came to me while i was checking out the battlewagon bits in the warstore, i could use the whfb high elf chariot legs, file down the armour and use that as the kilt and use green stuff for the shoulder part. Would that work.
Again please keep the advice/tips coming and once i get me camera sortede i'll post some picts up of what i have done so far.