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So I am going to make a Salvar Chem Dogs Army and I need some opinions on what types of gas masks to use. Heres a photo with a large variety To make it easier.









I will model the top 10 results.

I said 14, but i think a mixture would look best as you have put... and so in that case i also like 16... 5... 11

and 18 appears not to be wearing one, and 19 looks like he fell right out of a slipknot tribute band

18 only has a mouth piece. I like 13.

Hasn't No. 2 put his on upside-down?

Five and eighteen.

Hard to tell what's goiong on in number 5, but that doesn't stop it from looking cool.

The guy under 18 is hardcore. Who need facial proctection?

Two IS interesting.

However, since it's a Savlar army, I think you should use as many different kinds as you want.

Ignoring the ridiculous context, I think these masks look wicked too:

I like 9 and 16. Revenge of the Bagheaded people!

The 2 and 9 masks are to use against hilarious gas, right?

Dependent on your needs:

Easy(er) to make: 8 9 16

Aesthetic (personal, obv): 3 thru 7

Spookiness 15 12

yea 15 and 12 are creepy.....

I love that picture on the bikes its so funny!


I plan on sculpting 2 sprues of 5 heads to get some nice verity.

I'd say 3.

Unless you are particularly dedicated to sculpting gas masks, you should consider using the Kolony heads from Pig Iron Productions.

West wind miniatures in the UK sells a line of miniatures called secrets of the third riech. They sell their SHS seperate head system. They have heads with masks very similiar to 14 and 8 plus other styles.

Kilkrazy wrote:Unless you are particularly dedicated to sculpting gas masks, you should consider using the Kolony heads from Pig Iron Productions.

I would also recommend this course of action, the heads are relatively cheap and they look IMO superb on cadian bodies (there are two example pics at the bottom of my signature link). But if you have the determination to model masks for an entire guard army then more power to you!

but they're only little plastic men, why do they need masks??? kids these days, its all about 'image' for them.

Gas Masks are inherently insanely ****ing frightening. They strike fear into the hearts of the other team (apart from is they're Chaos, or Tyranids, or Space Marines, or Nazi Zombies, or Tau, or Orkses, or Eldar/Bad Eldar.)

I like them all.

~sA

Where do you find these pictures? Or perhaps I should ask who posts things like this online in the first place?

Also I have to second kilkrazy, the pig iron studios heads are sweet.

Creepy is better.

Although, I'm not sure that the poll is going to tell you the best thing to do. Make sure that you have some good variety in your heads.

I really enjoy the modeling side of the hobby, so just going out and buying pig iron heads seems like a cop out to me. I would rather buy RTV Silicone and Resin and mass produce my own heads.

Clthomps wrote:I really enjoy the modeling side of the hobby, so just going out and buying pig iron heads seems like a cop out to me. I would rather buy RTV Silicone and Resin and mass produce my own heads.

I admire your creativity and I wish you luck. I have seen friends of mine try to cast mass amounts of small parts. It is a messy and time consuming process. Be sure to to post picks of all of your finished IG.

If I recall my fluff corectly, savlars scavenge their equipment, so I say just do em all, it'd look sick!!

So I am going to start sculpting tomorrow (during football )


Should I make the neck packs or give them tanks on there backs?