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Okay, I don't know if its been done, but I thought it would be cool to put together an imperial guard force mounted in up-armored chimera that look very similar to the ancient roman legionnaire.
The problem is that I have NO idea what bits i could use to make them, I honestly would like to change the arms to have the segmentata armor and shoulders, as well as the heads, but still have them packing las-rifles and grenades. So I turn to you, fellow Dakka(ers?) any ideas on how to acheive the look


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And also to kill multiple birds, could i use the warlord games romans or are they sized to incorrectly?

I was about to suggest warlord romans. Buy one of the starter kits (which are plastic) and go from there. You got rough riders, troops and heavy weapons there

The arms will be easy to get from victoria miniatures as i think they will suit in terms of looks.

The other idea i had was to make a unit from a barbaric world and use warlord games britons to do it

All work, alternatively you could just do a head swap on cadians (or any other humany models with guns) and buy the roman sheild packs and go from there...

Myoriginal idea was to make a Sikh inspired unit, but idecided i didn't like it as much

Do you like nepolionic era themes?


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Or smaurai or anything like that>

Check out here

http://www.perry-miniatures.com/


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So many awesome models, I use a platoons of dismounted french dragoons and they look great. so much detail!

Are the sizes about the same?



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I lovethe idea of a fuedal japanese force, and was gonna use wargames factory if i did

28mm, like all historical minis the scale is more realistic but yes they are pretty much the same. I have a game with them in like 3 hours so I can post a comparrisson shot for you?


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But yes same scale, just a bit thinner like normal people.


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don.mcclain wrote:
Are the sizes about the same?



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I lovethe idea of a fuedal japanese force, and was gonna use wargames factory if i did

Same here, I have plans to do that with the ashigaru box set

That would be rather helpful since i haven't found very many comparison shots



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Maybe get different heads and obviously buy LOTS of las rifles
Which will then be modified

Awesome, you will have to wait though, Ill put them on my blog and post it here for you to see. Ill put them next to a GW model if i can find one, if not ill put it next to a victoria miniature mini (which are identical size to gw)

Awesome, thanks for the assist

All good, custom regiments are the coolest thing in my opinion. If you ever do it let me know and ill put it on my blog, If you go with a samurai asian theme let me know too so I can see what you do for ideas.

May buy a box of Ashigaru Missile Troops so I can get a feel for the scale

awesome. I may do the same as well... Especially with all the flags on their backs it would look cool.

Good luck!

I have some wargames factory models if you want a scale photo of them. Not ashigaru but still.

Buy these heads: http://puppetswar.com/product.php?id_product=203 to make 'em more futuristic


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or these: http://puppetswar.com/product.php?id_product=141



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I like the second ones

I saw once Tehnolog Castecraft Romans with lasguns conversion, but don't remember the source.

Tehnolog? What is that if I may ask without offending?

Russian company that make toys.
They make terrain for export: http://www.tehnolog.ru/product/stroi_nabori.php

And I saw these models

converted with lasguns at some forum

I saw these models they were soft and not so good for painting, but very cheap.

The Warlord Games Roman kits are actually pretty decent if you wanted to go this route. It might be a little interested to mod them but they'd look pretty cool when finished.

Freakazoitt, it's to bad I can't read russian, cuz there seems to be a TON of options for this game that i cannot access because its only in russian

Freakazoitt, it's to bad I can't read russian, cuz there seems to be a TON of options for this game that i cannot access because its only in russian

This is factory site, they usually send all models to shops and not sell directly.

Robogear is 38mm scale robots and small flyers
Bronepehota 38mm infantry
Fantasy Battles 54mm skirmish figurines
Castle Craft 28mm castles and figurines (but figures difficult to convert)
Z.O.D. 6mm (1/300) Mechs, tanks, flyers and infantry
Строительные наборы (Construction kits) - terrain good for 28mm scale. Mostly produced for foreign counties and very difficult to find it in Russia itself
They also have very nice Videoman Alien figurine (but too big for Warhammer)
They have big plans to expand product but don't have resources for it

There are many products, that is exists, but not shown in site, like ruins terrain, cannons,


Robogear Salamander with GW pilot and autocannon, size close to Sentinel


Robogear walker, much bigger than Sentinel


Robogear Condor - 99% feats size of Marines Storm Talon

You could also do it simple and just paint them up in the same colors as the romans, silver armor and red cloth. And maybe greenstuff that thing that sticks out on the back of the helmets and the layered shoulders.

Most historicals, like the Perry brothers miniatures, are 28mm true scale, not the 28-30mm heroic scale. Put together, they look awful. I'd be embarrassed to put them on the table.

For Roman parts, albeit designed for Marines, go to anvil Industries page and have a look see.

the warlord romans are to small to be IG models, I'd suggest checking out www.anvilindustry.co.uk

they have a lot of GW scale roman bits

I hate "heroic" scale, looks messed up. I prefer true scale, not too much difference, nobody notices it in my forces.

It's a lot of difference.

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It's a lot of difference.

They are thinner and more natural looking, but are about the same height, not much difference once they are all on bases and painted.

It's very noticeable.

General Hobbs wrote:

It's very noticeable.

... cool

So what you be saying Hobbs is that warlord games is a no go... what bout other companies like wargames factory, is it also rather noticible?