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Even after 20 years with GW models, I still convert my models all the time, even from the new ranges. I have a skirmish collection of a dozen Stormcast, who all have headswaps with bareheaded Space Marine heads, several of which had to have the ear-comms removed and a new ear sculpted in so the head would have no tech-bitz.

Lord Relictor with head and staff swap:


I just recently made this custom (albino to add some character) Orc Shaman from a Savage Orc standard bearer I bought as a single at GenCon, simply by cutting down/resculpting the standard:

Yuck, sounds like a control freak who's got a stick up their butt.

Would love to see that organizer's face if I showed up with my Space Wolves, made nearly entirely from an army built as 13th Company back during the Eye of Terror campaign. He'd likely go friggin' apoplectic at models that were 50% Chaos and Imperial, built 100% correctly as intended right out of the box, lol.

Considering the majority of converting is weapon swaps and detail addition (much like the GW Space Wolf Cataphractii video) there' still loads of opportunities for that sort of thing. Hell, I just saw a guy making a barbarian-themed Stormcast army by using Fyreslayer and Space Wolf heads on every figure. That sort of converting is alive and well as it ever was.

And half the old armies owned by people have those smaller bases, anyway. I know I refuse to rebase 100+ Space Marines across several armies, and I have about 15 metal terminators on 25mm bases.