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So I have an IG army whose infantry arm is composed of the Wargames Factory Shock Troops models. Their fluff is that they're hostile environment specialists, so everyone in the army wears a sealed suit (why no, this doesn't have anything to do with not liking to paint skin, why would you suggest that?). I use a Death Korps Commissar, built my own Master of Ordnance, and swapped heads from the Shock Troops set onto any exposed vehicle crew. Now that the new codex is out, I'm really wanting to try out Enginseers and possibly Primaris Psykers, but I can't locate a good model to represent them that keeps the theme of full helmets. I might use the stock Enginseer model and just green-stuff on some goggles to make it a full face mask. But I'm wondering if there are some third-party minis out there somewhere, something along the lines of the Hi-Tech Minis Bio Tech Covenant, that convey the whole techpriest aesthetic with masks (or fully replaced faces). For the Primaris Psyker, I don't have any leads nearly as promising as the Hi-Tech stuff or greenstuffing the existing model. The GW psykers are pretty aggressively bare-headed. Does anyone know of a mini that conveys the techno-mage aesthetic with a helmet?

Does this sort of fit in as either of those?


Little work to completely bring it in line of course.

While the infinity models are super awesome, how do they stack up against the WGF models? From memory the proportions are a bit different and it might look a bit funny on the tabletop.

For your primaris psyker, what about a culexis assassin? Or you could simply use a WGF model with some wires coming from a backpack into the helmet and a staff. Marine librarians use active systems in their armour to enhance their powers, so why not Guard equivalents.

For your Primaris how about this Void Navigator ? The model comes with an alternate gasmask head which you can see on their ebay listing.

It's not a third party model but with a little work you can make this:



With a few bits off ebay, a file, clippers and some glue. Only important part is the sphere, which is a Heldrake leg joint. Any major bits seller on ebay would sell that specific chunk. Then you just get a marine torso and put it on guardsman legs with guardsmen or scout marine arms. Add extra bits to taste.

Thank you so much for the contributions. The Infunity models look a little too smooth and clean for an Imperial aesthetic in my opinion, but thank you for reminding me of the game. I will look through their other stuff for possible use. The Void Navigator is very cool and I could see going that route, but honestly that kitbash is just about perfect. It looks completely bizarre to capture the otherworldly mysticism while still having design elements to tie it to the Imperial aesthetic. The Culexus idea is also fantastic. I might try to do a kitbash involving the head only to make it look more distinct from the actual Culexus, but that's a visual design I've loved for a while and I've been sad that the Culexus is so not worth running ever.