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Hey all, I've been posting all over the place trying to pull together some ideas for a new army I'm running off the WH codex (yes, I know it's ancient). The army will use no SOB, opting for Inquisitorial storm troopers, and I'll ally them with my marines when I need an extra punch. I'm leaning toward an Imperial Guard kinda look. The question is, what models should I use?

I like the Kasrkin models, who doesn't? The issue is that EVERYBODY uses them. What I was originally gonna do is use space marine scouts with pig iron heads, when I still intended to arm my stormtroopers with shotguns. I had forgotten that Inquisitorial shotguns are still S3. D'oh! So I switched them back to hellguns.

I could grab a sprue of cadian lasguns and pop them on the scouts like George Spiggott did about a year ago
([url]http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/207157.page[u])

Then convert them to hellguns using guitar wire. This is starting to sound expensive, albeit very very cool.

However, with the re-release of the classic stormtrooper models, I'm in doubt. Thoughts? New suggestions?

Why not just do a head swap for the karskin? That seems much easier than converting all the guns. As far as head swaps, you've got a lot of options between pig iron, other GW bitz, etc.

Far as I know the new storm troopers release appears to have been pushed back. You may want to confirm that though.

Tazok wrote:Why not just do a head swap for the karskin? That seems much easier than converting all the guns. As far as head swaps, you've got a lot of options between pig iron, other GW bitz, etc.

If you do, I'll buy/trade the Kasrkin heads off of you.

Hmmmm.... duly noted! I think I've got my solution. I didn't like the guns on the classic stormtroopers anyway. Can you recommend any tools to remove the heads as delicately as possible?

If you're not concerned with saving the heads, then clippers will do the trick no problem. Saving them for some of the poses is very difficult, but I managed it fine on the squad I converted, I just worked real slow in the beheading process.

Here's some old samples where I removed the heads



And added them to these guys

Tazok - can you boost the size of those pics? They're a little hard to see.

Death By Monkeys wrote:Tazok - can you boost the size of those pics? They're a little hard to see.

Seconded. Think my dremel will work alright?