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Title says it all.

I'm playing in a campaign starting soon. My opponents think I'm going to be playing Van Saars, but I want to play Scavvies.

Original Scavvy minis are horribly expensive on eBay, so I'm looking for alternatives and haven't found anything suitable, even on Yak Tribe.

Any pointers?

http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/kolony-ferals-c-3.html

The Kolony Ferals from Pig Iron could make good rank and file Scavvies, as could the Chaos Cultist models.

Some good zombies here if you're after something different:

http://www.lead-adventure.com/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=49

This fella would need some conversion work but could be a good base for a Scaly

http://www.coolminiornot.com/376540?browseid=14234481


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Saw those earlier, probably best I've seen as a proxy for Scalies.

Agreed the Pig Iron Kolony Fereals are a great and affordable set of minis, especially given you can customise the heads etc.

The scalie is going to be difficult. It is too small to convert an orge, so perhaps convert a Ork Nob, possibly using a ferlal head from the above set. The only other models I can think might fit are Mantoc Orgres which are smaller than the GW equivalent.

May not be perfect but will sabv you a few bob on the minis

If you want to use GW minis, why not AoS Ghouls for Scavvies and AoS Zombies for plague zombies?

Here are 2 conversions I made a loooooong time ago (7 years ago! Should probably get them painted haha)





Both use the GW ghoul kit as a base.

I just bought some "28mm" Macrocosm Diggers off ebay, to give me a Squat squad for Space Hulk (yeah, don't even try to picture that in your head). Nice models, probably great for that game. About 3/4ths the size of GW's 28mm scale Squats. Moral of the story is matching scale between manufacturers and their games is dicey.

Find some cheap undead plastics on eBay and give them a new lease of life.

Zombies or thralls or whatever it is vampire counts used to herd around the battlefield.

How about the upcoming Genestealer Cultist models?

Yeah, but what if someone came up with a genestealer cult "gang" or something?