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So I have recently started an IG army. I'll post the list somewhere else, as all that matters right now is how to model them. I'm running a mech-vet list, about four squads of vets in chimeras with stormtrooper backup. I believe the theme I'm going with is a hostile-environment world's PDF, I've bought two cadian boxes and a command box, so I could get the juicy bits found within, but I'm struggling with the meat and potatoes of the army. My issue is that I strive for uniqueness, but I don't go so far as to sculpt my army from scratch. I've thrown a lot of ideas around in my head and a few things have stuck with me.

1. I love these heads http://puppetswar.eu/product.php?id_product=121
2. I really like the Bretonnian Men-at-Arms bodies, especially with the above heads.
3. I'd rather like to stick with mostly GW product, headswaps are about as far as I want to go.
4. I don't like the look of traditional gas-masks that most people seem to like on their IG

Now I've seen some conversions with cadian arms+Bret bodies. They either involve hacking the sleeves off of the bret bodies and slapping cadian arms there, or tie-hacking the cadian arms INTO the bret sleeves. I'm okay with either, but I think the second idea looks better. Those sleeves are badass. So my issue is this: I like the Bret bodies, but do these heads offer enough uniqueness to really apply them to the whole army? Would I be better off just using bret bodies with the default heads/cadian heads? Or would something better work in place?

And how would I model bret-stormtroopers? Will my bret bodies+arm-swaps limit the amount of customizability I have in the army as far as poses and such go?

WOW your right those heads are sweet. If you find yourself in need of more melta guns or plasma guns the metal ones GW sells are easy to use with the grenade launcher bitz.

Just a tiny fluffy adjustment; PDF's normally die in swathes to a rough breeze, so if you're adamant on the PDF thing, conscripts and platoons would be more fluffy. Vets and stormies make more sense for a true, deployed IG regiment.

I'd use those heads for the Stormtroopers. It would make them stand out enough to be recognizable, and make them look more formidable than the rank and file troops.

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