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I thought about saying this isn't about recasting at all but I think my explanation will well cover that.

I have been thinking about making an entire army from scratch so to speak. I want to train myself to sculpt 28mm (that is the size for WH40k right? I may ask about this later) miniatures for use mainly in WH40k. What I really want to know is exactly what I would have to do in order to be able to play with as many people as possible, while maintaining my own style of army entirely. This project could be seen as a practice run for what I hope to do professionally in the long run. I actually respect the GW design and build team, although I do not know who that would specifically entail (or how to say their official name for that matter ) and I would like to challenge myself by attempting to step in line with their general dynamic while maintaining an obvious separation between my designs and theirs.

So this is sounding complicated now, but I think I got the point across pretty clearly. I am not trying to build some rag-tag force with niche appeal, I want a serious bat to fight (so to speak) aesthetically with any other WH40k GW army. I like the fact that WH40k has some very consistent design work, I would argue that it is a bit willy-nilly and the whole concept is held together by fluff alone. No need to go too much into what I mean there.

The Fremen army that was just put up on DakkaDakka has actually inspired me to think seriously about what I intend to do with this idea. It is slightly vague, but the concept is very solid, and I would like to hear what DakkaDakka has to say about it.

I have a goal to take this to a GW tournament, but I seriously doubt that could be possible. No codex involved BTW, it will be used for "counts as" Eldar most likely.

Firstly 40k is in 28mm heroic. So they are 28mm but a bit more filled out then a standard 28mm mini.

Onto the rest, I think if you come up with some ideas that are actually good, and balanced, you should be able to find alot of people that would play against your new army. If nothing else you can always just make a counts as army for another codex. Granted with that youd need to make sure your squads and such are easily identified and not "well that blob is a demon prince, and that blob is a tank and that blob is a squad of whatevers. Whats the difference? Oh well that one is green, and that one is green....ish"

You get the picture

It's not impossible. For example, an Ad Mech army themed around 'Technology priests' that uses the CSM codex or something.

I really like the idea of doing a Ad Mech army on style alone.

I would want it to vary a bit from the GW style, perhaps a bit cleaner and less mechanical, or more gritty and slightly more chaotic.

Could you link me to some good Ad Mech art? I have trouble finding very much of it, granted I haven't looked that deeply into it.

Go ahead and do it. Just be warned that sculpting is hard.

Protias? Ahh crap I cant think of his name. There is a user on here that made a pretty sweet admech army. Infact Ive seen a few ad mech armies on here that were pretty nice. Google Image search will show ya some nice ness

JohnHwangDD wrote:Go ahead and do it. Just be warned that sculpting is hard.

I was born with iron teeth and hands made of pure focus .

Either way I will force myself to be good at this professionally, it isn't like I can't listen to myself or anything .

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I can also shoot lasers out of my eyes on Wednesdays, and I can shoot napalm out of my butt on Sundays. It is a gift, I admit it.