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So to cut a long story short a friend is looking to get into frostgrave. He has picked up a warpreist from silver tower to use as a mage and likes the idea of starting a warband based on the stormcast models from age of sigmar. He has asked me to paint them for him (he's not a wargamer normally) but isn't keen on there helmet designs, and much prefers the 1 or 2 of them with bare head options.

Before he splashes out cash on some has anybody got any experience to doing headswaps on them. I can see from sprue pics that most of them have separate head pieces so it should be straight forward, but I know the models are on the large size for 28mm and am worried a normal human head would look out of place.

I've also been trying to think of a good helmeted option as a replacement but am coming up short.

Any ideas?

I am building a warband for skirmishing right now that used bare Space Marine heads, as I think the Stormcast helmets look like Dr. Who cybermen. Usually all you have to do is make the hole in the torso larger to fit the ball joint of the SM head. The hardest part is finding appropriate bare heads without the tech bits around the ears or eyes, or at least ones that are not hard to remove. I tried to make each figure's character fit with the head.

A Blood Angels head, he likes to go to town with his hammers:


This one is actually an Eldar head, I wanted it so I could use it's smaller size to emphasize how he is the more rogue-ish swashbuckler of the group. (Could also fit with the fluff that he used to be an Elf before reforging).


This one uses a Vanguard head. One of the more experienced veterans, he's nice and calm in knowing he's got the biggest weapon in the fight:


This is my first one that was done as a test mini, with an old Space Wolf head.

Thanks for the pictures the size doesn't seem to be an issue, so Time to dig through the bits box for old space marine heads. I always build mine with helmets so should have plenty of spares.

For helmet versions I dug around third party bits sites and found some nice Spartan heads from scribor, will order a set from them.

Hmm either space marines have ridiculously oversized heads or those heads are too small for the body.

They're larger than the actual Stormcast Liberator helms, actually! I actually don't like the setting of the Blood Angel head on my twin-hammers one-I think I made the hole too deep when I enlarged it, and now it's sitting too low like he has a short neck-but it's glued in place so I'll run with it.

What needs to be kept in mind with Stormcast is they have a really tall gorget (collar armor) and giant shoulderpads, which plays hell with their head proportions. I think we are just used to ridiculously oversized Space Marine heads, too.

The Eldar head is a bit too small, but I liked how it makes him look skinnier and more Elven than the rest of his battle-brothers.

The size looks perfect to me, gives the impression of a normal size guy wearing a ridiculously large suit of armour.
The normal stormcast heads are tiny when you think about it, most of the volume is the spikey halo around the head. By the time you consider they then have a metal helmet, the heads inside must be child sized.
The few models that have a unhelmeted option (two that I could see) neither would ever get one of their colleagues helmets on.

That is true. The heads look sunken due to the fact that Stormcast have actually trumped Space Marines for huge shoulder pads, when you stop to realize they actually have two layers of giant pauldrons on each shoulder.

But yeah, my headswap idea came because I don't like pin-headed midieval Cybermen. The fluff of my group is that they has been operating on their own far away from Azyrheim, and with each experience they survive and the more contact they have with survivors they are gaining back more of their old personality, rather than the Chambers who keep getting thrown into the meatgrinder of the Realmgate Wars to be reforged many times, and become more like automatons. So they as a group have abandoned their helms to show they are different from the others.

I guess you could almost say like Rex and the troopers from the Clone Wars series, actually.

Nice headswaps, Aegis. Looking good. I think you succeeded with the thematic idea.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
But yeah, my headswap idea came because I don't like pin-headed midieval Cybermen.

That's almost the reason I picked up a box. I have some dark elves tinkering with dark-magic golems...