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**Giikbesouw**

Well the title says it all , tell me what you think.

If you want pictures i'll post 'em

**Ailaros**

I've seen a lot of nice conversions done for guardsmen. The real benefit is that they're cheap, and they're a REALLY easy way to get your guardsmen to have different heads.

That said, I wouldn't use them personally. The heads always look too small (especially in the vertical), and I don't personally think they fit onto guard torsos as well as most other people do. Plus, they're metal so you can't do much after-market conversion work to them.

The end effect isn't perfect, but it's fast and easy, which is why they're relatively popular.

**Giikbesouw**

I think the heads and models alike are very cool
A squad of system troopers and a sprue of kolony head and you have some very good looking helghast troopers

**chromedog**

I like them.

I find working with metal to be quite easy with the right tools and skills.

They are an easy way to get different heads onto your models. They are cheap and effective - yet well made at the same time.

Oh and their resin stuff is also cool. Their vehicles have a metallic powder mixed into the resin to give it some extra strength and they do even have a slight metallic sheen.

**Flinty**

I thik they work really well, but then I'm actually using them

The scale is a bit different to the GW heads, but once you've got paint on them I don't think it shows that much. Ailaros is correct that its harder to do further things with them, but the quality is always good. I've gone through about 50 of them so far and have yet to find a dud or a severe mould line.

**Giikbesouw**

I couldnt get my hands on them but as i said when im going to order them 1 sprue of kolony heads and 2-4 system troopers squads( that are 10-20 models between you and me and 20 heads)
all togeter thats 20£ for ten models and twenty heads

**bubber**

Great customer service, but I prefer West Winds seperate heads system as the detail is better IMO.
Also MaxMini does some great stuff.

**JSK-Fox**

I'm gonna get some system trooper heads for my IG.

**Brother SRM**

Everybody and their cousin uses Kolony militia heads on their IG. They're cool, but really overdone. Some of the other heads they've got are pretty cool and you don't see them as often though.

**1-UP**

They're not bad. I tend to think they're a touch on the small side too - like 26mm instead of 28mm or something.

**FM Ninja 048**

could you possibly get some pictires of the differnt troopers next to a cadian, but have the pig irons on 25mm bases as well

and as many of the different heads a possible mext to a cadian one

I've been on the bench about getting some so it would be useful

**sluggaslugga**

wants pictures!

**Flinty**

A bit of a line up here with the Heavy Infantry head

**CT GAMER**

1-UP wrote:They're not bad. I tend to think they're a touch on the small side too - like 26mm instead of 28mm or something.

Yeah but GW can't stay in scale within it's own figure ranges.

Have you seen Pask's muffin hands? They are certainly not in scale to the rest of him...and i like how the same weapon (bolt pistols for example) have varying dimensions from fig to fig...

In fact the GW model ranges are full of scale discrepancies...

The Pig iron stuff is a great source of alt heads at affordable prices and the scale is hardly noticeable imho. Good on them.

As for them being overdone? who cares? Besides, the Imperium tends to mass produce equipment, so it is fitting...

**FM Ninja 048**

Flinty wrote:A bit of a line up here with the Heavy Infantry head

.....

Exelent [spins round in high backed chair drumming fingers]

**Soviet Yam**

Pig iron heads actually look more in scale with the rest of a guardsman's body then the normal GW heads. Ph34r (a member here and a good friend of mine) has a whole army of IG troopers with pig iron heads:

They look really good and are a cheap and easy way of adding a bit more character to your IG infantry

**31rls31**

i like them, but they look funny on the jungel dudes their bicipes of doom take away from the head,but thats just me

**zing165**

I think its great. My IG command squad is converted with some heads and a friend of mines entire IG army is converted with some Pig Iron heads.

**Theduke07**

They're good but people seem to use them a lot. I guess its a good way to not have to paint faces lol.

**FM Ninja 048**

Theduke07 wrote:They're good but people seem to use them a lot. I guess its a good way to not have to paint faces lol.

precicly why i'm equiping my whole army with them, i can't paint flesh to save my life

plus nobody that i've seen yet uses them

**Flinty**

FM Ninja 048 wrote:
Theduke07 wrote:They're good but people seem to use them a lot. I guess its a good way to not have to paint faces lol.

precicly why i'm equiping my whole army with them, i can't paint flesh to save my life

plus nobody that i've seen yet uses them

Seconded

I'm just glad that almost everyone else on these boards seems to lust after the Kolony heads only, leaving the heavy infantry heads to me alone, mwuahahahaha

**FM Ninja 048**

Flinty wrote:
Seconded I'm just glad that almost everyone else on these boards seems to lust after the Kolony heads only, leaving the heavy infantry heads to me alone, mwuahahahaha

soon i will be joining you on the quest of the heavy infantry so watch it or i may steal your spotlight

have you tried the system heads yet or are you purely heavy infantry?

**CT GAMER**

Theduke07 wrote:They're good but people seem to use them a lot. I guess its a good way to not have to paint faces lol.

Why do you think Space Marines are so popular?

**Miguelsan**

Command Squad with colony heads, quick and dirty conversion for a really improved look.

M.

**Flinty**

FM Ninja 048 wrote:
Flinty wrote:
Seconded I'm just glad that almost everyone else on these boards seems to lust after the Kolony heads only, leaving the heavy infantry heads to me alone, mwuahahahaha

soon i will be joining you on the quest of the heavy infantry so watch it or i may steal your spotlight

have you tried the system heads yet or are you purely heavy infantry?

I looked at the system trooper heads, but I think they are a bit too flat lookingfor my liking. The Heavy Infantry heads have nicer proportions, in my opinion.

**zing165**

I think they are called militia heads but i like them the best