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What do you guys use for your IG (Cadian) Veterans ? Do you modify normal Cadian Shock Troops ?

I used the Forge World Upgrade Pack with Respirators to give them all gas masks as well as some really cool kit. They also all have skulls on the shoulder pads. I might have a pic in my gallery of them if you look. Found em' sorry its not a good pic.

My entire army is converted out of plastic cadians, with all of the models being distinguishable by pose or equipment or whatever. I can (and do) use them all as veterans.

Edit: oh and I forgot. I also bought the fw veterans with shotguns, and cadian respirator sets. They were very good. Especially since I spread them over 40 models.

I've two vet squads in the works, both of which are made from normal Cadians, each with the 'vox-caster'/respirator-thingy head and the addition of backpacks from the HW sprues. I had thought about mixing Catachan bits in, but my logical side thinks they haven't survived as long as they have by shedding their armour, so why would they start now?

On the whole they're different enough to be clearly identifiable at a glance on the table as vets rather than regular troops, but close enough to the rest of the army to not to look out of place (other than the fact they're currently bare-plastic grey...)

my old ones have lots of Necromunda arms (from the Orlock gangs) and heads from Mordhiem (guys with beards etc for that grizzled look).

My new ones will be Blood Pact using Maxmini bits aka -

I think i'm gonna use forgeworld pack and maybe change the color of the shoulder. Mine is white with the army sign in black for the cadian troops and i'm gonna paint them black with army sign white for the veterans.

I use these for mine

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:I used the Forge World Upgrade Pack with Respirators to give them all gas masks as well as some really cool kit. They also all have skulls on the shoulder pads. I might have a pic in my gallery of them if you look. Found em' sorry its not a good pic.

Nice yours look great too. I especially like the extra sensor sight thing on the side of the lasgun.

how many resiprators do you get with forge world kit, and what do you get

1McArdle wrote:how many resiprators do you get with forge world kit, and what do you get

Mine just have shotguns, heavy weps and a sergeant bastonne conversion.

I went the simple route and use Kasrkin as Grenadier Veterans.

yeh, i wanted kasrkin but I hate metal, so trying to convert shock troops

I`m working on some veterans for an CoD campaign. They all have shotguns and I use greenstuff for the extra armour.

The FW kit for Resps comes with 10 heads (all with Resps) and loads of other nice bits. Heres my squad of Vets.

If you want an inexpensive and good looking solution, just mix in a few Catachan parts. Every soldier hates wearing his helmet, and soldiers on an extended patrol usually take them off to hear better. The two outside guys here are examples of that.


Dan

I've just gone with the regular route for the Veterans using the Forge World upgrade packs. A little modification with some plastic kits, add a little flavour, and they look great!

genius wheres the helmet with the goggles from?

Looks good.

I just used pig iron heads for my vets. Mostly because they look good and are cheap.

shakey787 wrote:genius wheres the helmet with the goggles from?

The FW Shotgun Veteran kit. It comes with all those heads in his photograph.