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Hello Dakka,

I, the hobby butterfly that I am, recently started an Imperial guard army that I love to pieces. It's nowhere near finished painting-wise, but thats kind of a good thing...

I've always had, no matter what army I was collecting at the time, a soft spot for all things Chaos. The obvious soloution would be to collect a chaos-orientated army, be it 40k or Fantasy (the last of which I tried, and didn't really enjoy). Chaos space marines don't really appeal to me that much, as their too mainstream for me, but the one chaos army I've always loved has been Chaos Renegade Militia. Though not an official army, it's a cool looking one I'm thinking of converting my current, Emporer-hugging guard into some corrupt scions of chaos, whilst playing them as a counts-as regular guard army.

Now, the Forge World stuff for this army is awesome, but very expensive (It would cost £43 for a fully-kitted 10 man squad of guardsmen!), so I've decided to go for a much cheaper and still cool alternative:

http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/hd1-kolony-rebel-head-sprues-p-15.html
http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/hd13-kolony-feral-head-sprues-p-17.html

These are made by Pig Iron Productions, and at £4.50 per 20-head sprue, I think there pretty damn cool Anyway, I wanted to ask for any other (preferably cheap) modelling alternatives for Renegade Guard, and any modelling advice you Dakkaites might have to offer.

Also, any paint scheme ideas would be awesome, though I have a rough Idea already (as well as the cult they originate from):

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Shriven

Thanks, all!

Not to be rude, but how did you get £68.50 for 10 guys? The arms and bodies plus plastic guardsmen costs £43 for 10 (which is still pretty darn pricey considering it's only £18 RRP for 10 Cadians!)

However more to the point, I've seen some wonderful kitbashes from using the Cadian/Catachan kits with WHFB Chaos Marauders/Warriors for chaosy bits.

Adding heads is entirely up to you though and what you think looks best, I mean it's chaos! They probably have a hat that changes shape every Tuesday because of Tzeench

Ahh, my mistake, that was the cost of something else (I've been online window shopping)

Your right, though, £43 a squad is pretty pricey, especially with guard!

I've got some spare marauder bits hanging around, I could give that a go

Loving the hat idea as well

How are you planning on doing the respirators?

Well, of the heads I've just ordered, most of them have a respirator or mouthpiece of some form, but if you mean the tank on the torso, I'm not gonna bother with those