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Warriors of Harad for Imperial Guard Conversion; has anybody done it?


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Any idea of scale issues?

they're Too small.

Lord of the Rings models are in a "true" 25mm scale. 40k models are in 28mm "heroic" scale, with exaggerated proportions. Wouldn't work at all.

they are too small so your kind of fethed but try on one of your models to see if it works first.

Unless! you made a lasgun really small looking, id say its pretty difficult.

@Ghosty - so don't use GW lasguns. I used Hasslefree rifles on my Guard and they are much smaller than lasguns (so much so they almost didn't fit the Cadian arms).

I say give it a try and see what happens

I think it will work if you justify it in the fluff.

For example, they could be from a low gravity world, so they do not develop to the size of other humans.
Or it could be that they are recruits of a young age, say around 14-15, rather than the more mature recruits from other worlds.

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Actually Potato, it would have to be in a high-gravity world that they don't grow very big. But yeah, the scale is off, but it certainly isn't impossible with the right bits.

You could use their heads maybe with some green stuff.

Thanks for the feedback. I don't really have a lot of LOTR experience. The scale issue may well make it a bit silly, but the sculpting would be right on. I can see them using bayonets and working out well but if they're gonna be significantly smaller than guardsmen then It probably will not work out the way I'd hoped.

I thought about makeing Tallarns out of LoTR figs at one point, but if you take plastic Cadiens and stand them next to any LoTR figs, you will see that the scale is waaay off. It sucks, since so many of the LoTR figs and bits would be wonderful for conversion, but I guess someone didn't want you to be able to use WH fantasy minis to represent LoTR models, or some such. Point is, the scale is realy too far off.

I can never remember how physics work. Stupid gravity

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