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Im sure im notthe first, nor will i be the last butif any one has a good idea where to start I would love the help.

Depends on which Captain America look you're after.

If you're going for the newest Captain America look, I'd start with either a Vindicare/Culexus assassin or just a vanilla eldar guardian. These all have the spandex/leather bodysuit look to them that would give you a solid base to start with. You'd really only have to get "swashbuckler"-like legs/boots (calf-high leather with a large cuff at the top) to make them work.

If you're going for the WW2 Cap, imperial stormtroopers strike me as having the right flavor to start with.

For the "chainmail/scalemail" look you'll probably have to scour fantasy models for a torso and boots or do a master-class paint job on the sucker to get the right look to it. There were some artists that did Cap during that era with more of a spandex look to him in which case you could pretty much do the same as you would for the modern Cap.

For all us non-freeandthebrave amongst us, who?

Captain America is a comic book hero (link) He started off fighting during WW2 I belive, and just kinda stuck around after that.

I've been planning on making Captain Cadia based on Captain Midlands (Excalibur FTW) for my IG Army. Just need to buy some Cadians

What scale do you want him?

I think it would be very easy to take the deciever model, file down the flowy ribbons and give him a shield and a couple other easily sculpted peices, slap him on a termie base and make him your Space Marine Captian. ;-)

Hordicant wrote:What scale do you want him?

I think it would be very easy to take the deciever model, file down the flowy ribbons and give him a shield and a couple other easily sculpted peices, slap him on a termie base and make him your Space Marine Captian. ;-)

Had to take a look at the model (I don't usually think of necrons as anything other than skeletal robots), but I've gotta say this would definitely be the way to go (he's even posed perfectly to be holding or even throwing the shield). Good call Hordicant!

PanzerSmurf wrote:For all us non-freeandthebrave amongst us, who?

Your joking? Right? Do they really not have comic books across the pond?

To the OP go on ebay and look up heroclix they have about 150 different sculpts of cap. but I dont think they are to scale.

Griffsnog wrote:

PanzerSmurf wrote:For all us non-freeandthebrave amongst us, who?

Your joking? Right? Do they really not have comic books across the pond?

To the OP go on ebay and look up heroclix they have about 150 different sculpts of cap. but I dont think they are to scale.

your shocked someone not from america doesnt know about captain AMERICA?
think these things through

Yeah, they have Captain Britain(oops, HAD, he's dead thanks to the Skrulls), and in Ultimates, Captain Britain, Captain France, Captain Italy, and Captain Spain(there's one for every nation in the EU, actually).

corpsesarefun wrote:

Griffsnog wrote:

PanzerSmurf wrote:For all us non-freeandthebrave amongst us, who?

Your joking? Right? Do they really not have comic books across the pond?

To the OP go on ebay and look up heroclix they have about 150 different sculpts of cap. but I dont think they are to scale.

your shocked someone not from america doesnt know about captain AMERICA?
think these things through

Captain America is one of the biggest superheroes ever. He and Iron Man are (or were? - Marvel Civil War) the most popular members of the Avengers. His title has been going on for 65-70 years. Not only that. Most Marvel superheroes are Americans, or at least live there. Yet still they're mainstream superheroes worldwide anyway (Spider-Man, for example).

corpsesarefun wrote:

Griffsnog wrote:

PanzerSmurf wrote:For all us non-freeandthebrave amongst us, who?

Your joking? Right? Do they really not have comic books across the pond?

To the OP go on ebay and look up heroclix they have about 150 different sculpts of cap. but I dont think they are to scale.

your shocked someone not from america doesnt know about captain AMERICA?
think these things through

** Cranking up the sarcasm sauce, blatantly so **

It's not our fault you're to concerned about your pounds, your fish and chips and the sunset on your empire not to know about the oldest of the Marvel comic book heroes. There's more to America than B-list celebrities, superpowerhood and plucking your fat out of the Jerry fryer in two world wars.

Besides, did an Englishman ever uppercut Adolf Hitler?

** Reiterating the sarcasm at conclusion of post **

Back on topic:

Picking up some of the old inquisitorial storm trooper might help. A shield out of the fantasy line, if you can find a circular one, might also be another good place to go. Bucky also totes a pistol now.

Platuan4th wrote:Yeah, they have Captain Britain(oops, HAD, he's dead thanks to the Skrulls).

Actually, Captain Britain got better pretty quickly.

For the Record:


Captain Midlands


Captain Britain


Captain America


Captain Canada


Captain Caveman

Is Vindicator seriously called Captain Canada these days? And Captain Caveman made me snarf tea, thanks.

bryantsbears wrote:
the oldest of the Marvel comic book heroes.

Actually, the human torch is the oldest...not johny storm though, the orignal human torch.

I find these comments shallow and pedantic.

*Snark off*

plucking your fat out of the Jerry fryer in two world wars.

HaHa course you did..let me rephrase for all historicly accurate

We let you die for a bit then joined in the 1st world war to look like big heros...ww2 hey britains fighting agen lets help ..but wait! they need gus tanks and ammo to fight and survive! well we cud make a few dollars here lets make them pay for them until at least 2001!

Dont make snide remarks cos you might get one bak
"Hey look americas pointing there gun the wrong way...wat agen!

Topic
I think the deciver is probs the best option and wud look kwl

gd luck

Death By Monkeys wrote:Is Vindicator seriously called Captain Canada these days? And Captain Caveman made me snarf tea, thanks.

Nah, but I enjoy calling him that. I think he is ethier Guardian or dead now, I've lost track of Alpha Flight.

How DARE you forget the greatest captain of them all!


Captain Planet

The Ted Turner version (see Robot Chicken) was the best version of him too!

And as for the Guardian (aka Captain Canada)

per wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_(Marvel_Comics)#Death

Alpha Flight (Sasquatch, Major Mapleleaf II, Puck Jr., and the time-displaced versions of Guardian, Vindicator, Shaman, and Puck) are brutally attacked by The Collective.Their bodies are left in the Yukon Territory as the Collective continues on to the United States. The time-displaced Guardian was later confirmed dead by Sasquatch, while the original Guardian is presumably still on the Plodex homeworld with the other members of Alpha Flight.

The Guardian suit is now worn by Michael Pointer. So i guess he is Captain Plodex now?!?!?