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I was thinking of painting up some Sisters but I don't like the bald head and topknot look; is there anything in the fluff which states that they must have their hair in this fashion?

I'd like to model them with regular ponytails, maybe also use a few Statuesque Miniatures heads too in place of the originals. Even bald headed would look better!

Dude its your minis and your order of Sisters. Do what you want.

in combat they would all be wearing helmets anyway.

Some of the artwork from Horus Heresy: Collected Visions has variations on the topknot look.

The artwork for the Silent Judge doesn't appear to have a topknot at all.


Presumably the Sisters' hair isn't actually their real hair since... well you can't make a big bushy ponytail with an almost entirely bald head.


Different Orders and Spire Convents have differing practices, so I don't see why some wouldn't have more conventionally normal hair.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
Some of the artwork from Horus Heresy: Collected Visions has variations on the topknot look.

The artwork for the Silent Judge doesn't appear to have a topknot at all.


Presumably the Sisters' hair isn't actually their real hair since... well you can't make a big bushy ponytail with an almost entirely bald head.


Different Orders and Spire Convents have differing practices, so I don't see why some wouldn't have more conventionally normal hair.

Thanks, that's very helpful!

Top knots seem to be popular among some....

Why by the emparor why?

Sister of silence, abaddon. Leman russ 30k special termies. And others...

A wide range and all seem to like top knots.

And yes. The SOS hair. Is kinda like a foot or so tall. It's probbly not real.

The emperor loves head ornamentation. You can take the boy out of the bronze age, but you cant...

 jhe90 wrote:
Top knots seem to be popular among some....

Why by the emparor why?

Sister of silence, abaddon. Leman russ 30k special termies. And others...

A wide range and all seem to like top knots.

And yes. The SOS hair. Is kinda like a foot or so tall. It's probbly not real.

Because GW never figured out how to model decent hair that could fit universally with their models' armour, so they said 'screw it' and gave everyone the same ugly top-knot.

 Fafnir wrote:

 jhe90 wrote:
Top knots seem to be popular among some....

Why by the emparor why?

Sister of silence, abaddon. Leman russ 30k special termies. And others...

A wide range and all seem to like top knots.

And yes. The SOS hair. Is kinda like a foot or so tall. It's probbly not real.

Because GW never figured out how to model decent hair that could fit universally with their models' armour, so they said 'screw it' and gave everyone the same ugly top-knot.

Yeah, that does sound like the most likely reason.

 jhe90 wrote:
Top knots seem to be popular among some....

Why by the emparor why?

Sister of silence, abaddon. Leman russ 30k special termies. And others...

A wide range and all seem to like top knots.

And yes. The SOS hair. Is kinda like a foot or so tall. It's probbly not real.

I'll tell you why top knots are so popular. Humies are just jealous of our hair squigs, dat's why.

Or the orks picked up a lucrative trade some unspecified time ago.