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So many moons ago I saw a Bretonnian/Guard kit bash army in White Dwarf. It was fantastic and well beyond my skills so I never tried it. For some reason I remembered that army a while back and started playing with the conversion. I did a google search and found the army was created by Dave Taylor. I also saw several others have made Genswick armies so I am giving it a shot. I decided to use the entire Cadian arm instead of trimming it and attaching to the Bretonnian. I think it will give me more options giving my limited conversion skills. The friends will be a Blood Angel allies detachment. No special reason, I just ended up with a ton of Blood Angel bits. So with a tip of my cap to Dave Taylor, here is the start......

That's pretty cool! I like it!

Thanks six. And it's nice to win the ACC again isn't it! Go Noles!

Oooh, an oldie yet a goodie! I really like the conversion style that you're doing, it looks really simple yet effective. I think that the only thing that I could say critique-wise is that you may want to try out a spot colour, as the colour scheme is really dark. Maybe a small amount of bright silver or gold on detials like Eagles and such.

Looks great! It's awesome to see really different IG stuff.

good start, i like the missile type deal. Will be following around here.

Looking good. Not triming the arms looks fine to me One suggestion with the missile launchers, extended the launcher rail sticking out the front/back it doesnt look quite stable to me, thats the only critique, looking froward to seeing more infantry and the tanks if you plan on doing any

Young Logan

@Brotheralexos- Thanks, simple conversions are the best I think. As for the spot color, I'll give it a try. I want the infantry to look very common like the Bretonnian men at arms. The officers will be kitted a little better.

@Rotgut- Thanks, glad you like them.

@panda- Glad to have you on this one panda.

@Young_Logan- Yeah, missile launchers are still very WIP. Right now I'm just trying to build a suitable carriage. I see some really cool, kinda archaic, heavy weapon conversions around here. I want a wheeled gun, but one that looks a little more modern.

I have some time today to paint so I may be able to post some pics. Thanks for all the comments gents.

1. This genswick troops requires a considerable knifeworks, i've saw that many 'body' sets had integrated upper right arm.

right?
2. And why you choose gun-carriage Rocketlauncher unit instead of bazooka? if you decide to use gun carriage system on Rocketlaunching unit. then it should also have multiple launch rails instead
3. Do you plan to use HB too?

@Lone Cat- Yeah, considerable knife work. You have to trim the arms and shoulders off the Bretonnians then dry fit the Cadian arms. No trimming on those luckily. I haven't decided about the missle launcher yet. I was just trying something new. The carriage is pretty close to the way I want the other heavy weapons. I plan to use the heavy bolter with a little modification to make it an autocannon.

And with that, the platoon command squad is finished. I haven't decided exactly how I am going to build this army yet, platoons or vets or what. No flyers though, don't think they fit.

Of course! they're too antique to fly. they'd better have Landship heavy supports instead. Do you think that Leman Russ is too small for them? meow.

Well, we will see. I plan several Leman Russ tanks. Interestingly, the bodies are WFB which look slightly smaller than IG. This, in turn, makes the BA allies look larger. So they may appear more to scale with GW fluff.

I just ordered a box of man at arms and an imperial battleforce cause I had the exact same idear. I only had one problem about wich wheels to use for the heavy weapon teams, so wich do you use?

I use SM bike wheels. But I'm not sure it's all that good. When I finish those weapons I'll post some better pics for you to check out. Also if you google genswick rifles you will get a bunch of pictures and ideas.

hmm very cool. Should do some kinda fortress on wheels type deal.

When you said aircraft I had a vision of Ground Attack Pegasi. Well exeuted conversions by the way.

These look pretty damn fun

Well, I do appreciate the fortress on wheels idea. I think a Baneblade is in the future. And I do appreciate the comments, glad everyone seems to be liking the army so far. I finished half of the second infantry squad. This rounds out the basic platoon and Im going to start on weapon teams and veterans. Gonna see how SM scout arms look on these guys. Why not, right?

lovely work. the basing is in need of work. that is all.

I'm going to put some grass on the bases to spice the up a bit. I finished building the BA allied squads. Need to post the pics.

MUST POST TheM PiCS SO i can LOOk AT FOR REASONS

You wouldn't be planning on making a guide, would you? I am thinking of adding some sappers to my IG army and I love these guy's designs.

@Happygrunt- Well, not enough to it for a guide but I just got a new box of Men at Arms and will post some WIP pictures. Its really nothing more than sawing off a few shoulders. These do have the perfect sapper look.

@Panda- Here you go, and I cant believe you got 2 more squiggoths!

This is the first allied BA assault squad and the rest of the Genswick platoon. Pics are really bad, I was in a hurry. The bald dude is my Harker. I used SM scout arms and plan to do the same for the vets. Im also going to do his eyes when I get a trustworthy brush, maybe Santa will help me out with that......

I love this kitbash! Great work!

This is just my opinion, but I think you could have done the Harker kitbash better. Its a good kitbash, but I don't like the head you used. His arms are all muscular and hes thin, but his head screams chubby. :/ just my opinion, though.

Man, I love Genswick Rifle conversions!

 Brotheralexos wrote:
This is just my opinion, but I think you could have done the Harker kitbash better. Its a good kitbash, but I don't like the head you used. His arms are all muscular and hes thin, but his head screams chubby. :/ just my opinion, though.

I sort of agree with this. Head doesn't bother me but the arms look weird. If you cut the heavy bolter off behind the hands, you can put it on catachan arms and gs the gap pretty easily. I think they'll fit closer to his body and make the bolter look heavier.

Looks good, Harker looks pretty bad ass. I remember doing the same thing with the Bret peasant models, but I didn't manage to pull it off. Well done, by the end of it I'm sure you'll have a very memorable army!

Regards,
Howie.

@Hmelrose, howie, pretre- Thanks for the comments guys I really appreciate them and am glad you like what you see.

However,

@Brotheralexos and Almarine- You guys have fair points. I was hoping he would look bigger than he does. The arms, while a little out of scale, does give me the muscle thing I want. The head does look chubby. I had hoped the big arms and bald head would give him a meat head vibe. Seems he looks chubby. Ill look at swithcing heads. A helmet may also add size, at least the appearance of it. Thanks gents.

Merry Christmas Dakka!

Found some time to finish the platoon. Here are a couple shots. Chubby Harker is in the background, Ill fix him when I start his squad. Thats next.