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Hey Boyz!
I recently posted my 2000pt Inquisitorial Strike Force list and Im planning on doing some conversions / counts as models. But I'm unsure if the bits I want to use will work, as I havent seen some of the models in person.
Basically I'm doing a counts as SM scout squad, with camo cloaks, pistols/ccws, missile launcher. But I want to make them out of Skitarii bits.
So I'm going to use Skitarii Rangers bodies and heads, (camo cloaks?) and the pistol/ccw arms from Sicarian Infiltrators. Problem is, I understand that the Infiltrators are on a larger base. Will the arms be out of scale for the Rangers bodies? Too big maybe?
Also, any ideas on how I could get a missile launcher on to those models? I'm thinking i'll just use the missile launcher from the SM scout kit, but will that look wierd? Will it even fit? It'd look strange having all these admech bionic arms and legs, then just some standard arms on the one guy.
Maybe theres some sort of launcher from another kit that I dont know about that you could reccomend?

Cheers from the Jakman.

I think the arms would look out of place, yes. But I don't think they're so big that a bit of chopping wouldn't make them fit well enough.

As for the missile launcher, you'd have to experiment. Rhinos come with missile tubes so I'd suggest cutting some arms to fit one of them or something. There's no way you'd get non-admech arms to fit in to the theme so you'll have to get cutting no matter what missile launcher you use.

Not sure if this is helpful, but I noticed in the Twitter feed of Darren Latham that he said "Genestealer Cults Neophyte fun fact. They have the same head fitting and arm fittings as the Ad Mech Skitarii. Just saying..."

Skitarii Ranger and Sicarian Infiltrator stuff is in scale with each other. Swapping them around looks perfectly fine The Sicarians are on a larger base size because of their kickass spindly and wide-spaced legs.

I'd agree that the rocket launcher might look a little out of place. I wonder if there are any bits that can be salvaged from the Skitarii kit to either make the base rocket launcher look more Ad Mech, or come up with your own kitbashed rocket launcher.

Oh, and Skitarii Vanguard heads to fit rather nicely with GS Cults stuff, although to get the head to fit you have to shave off some of the back of the helmet and sometimes the little breather thing on the GS Cults torso.



They're my mining guild/closet GS Cult from my spaceport modelling idea

GS Cults heads on Skitarii should work with no modification at all

Just a thought.. but maybe if you took the regular missile launcher, and merged it onto the plasma caliver arms from the Skitarii.. you'd have to measure and cut and test, but it would give you a means to have the missile launcher blend into the design.

You could also consider the Imperial Guard Missile Launcher for the conversion, as there's less you would have to remove in order to start mating it up.