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I'm not talking about project armies or one off units, how much of your go to army for 40k, AoS, etc. is converted?

This came across my mind after I unpacked my WE-NL army and realised just how much of it is converted, I have converted:
- WE Chaos Lord (Primaris Captain)
- WE Chaos Lord in Terminator armour (FW Cataphractii Sorcerer)
- 2x WE Chaos Lords with bike (DA bikes)
- WE Chaos Juggerlord (Fantasy Juggernaughts)
- WE Exalted Champion (BaC Chaplain)
- NL Chaos Lord with jump pack (Bitsbox)
- 2x NL Chaos Sorcerers with jump pack (DA librarian + SM Librarian)
- WE Terminators (Cataphractii terminators)
- WE Berzerkers (AoS Blood Warriors)
- NL Cultists (FW Enforcers + Guardsmen)

The only things in this army that aren't converted are the Rhinos and whichever big model I bring along (even then, I have two converted Imperial Knights), and I of course I have a large amount of other conversions in secondary armies, AoS armies, one off models, project armies, etc.

Do peoples primary armies normally have this much conversion work put into them? Most of my mates only have 1 or 2 units that they convert and even then they normally only convert a model if the unit they want to use doesn't actually have a model, i.e. Ork player who converted a Big Mek with a KFF on a bike because there isn't a model for that unit.

What are your experiences? Do people normally have a lot of converted units where you play?

Outside of a rhino my CSM army is fully kitbashed to be slightly better scale. primarus scale has spoiled me

Edit: also my fully kitbashed necromunda team. that one im proud af about.

Eldar? Very very little.

Chaos Space Marines: Almost every single model. But nothing drastic or green-stuffed.

Eh my primary army is Orks, so honestly very little of it *isn't* converted. I don't have a list or anything but I think the most minor thing I've done on a GW model so far has been adding LEDs to my Gorkanaut. Everything else has GS hats/eyepatches, diff arms/heads, some Kromlech bits, or completely kitbashed from other kits and plasticard (vehicles mostly).

My Skaven ended up quite converted in places as well, especially the Plague Monks to both fit the look of my army name (Skrib Nibblers) and because of a plastic glue accident.

I'm now wondering whether I'll get a rather weighted response by posting this thread here; since the people who come on this board are people who are more into the hobbying side of wargaming anyway and are more likely to convert their models.

I wonder if there'd be a different response if I posted this on 40k general...

- Ork Warboss in Mega Armor (Orruk Megaboss)
- Ork Warboss with Powerklaw (Resin Ork Warboss with Big Choppa)
- Big Mek on Bike w/ KFF and Killsaw (Warbike kit, Meganob kit)
- Big Mek w/ KFF (Ork Kit, Meganob Kit)
- Weirdboy (Orruk Weirdnob Shaman)
- Various Tankbustas (Various ork kit bits)
- Ork nob w/ Waaagh!!! Banner (Nob, Battlewagon, Meganob, and biker kits)

In general I'm the only one with a lot of conversions in my local meta. Others may have one or two conversions but not as many as me and my ork army.

For my Tau, very little conversion is going on. For my Guard all of the infantry has head and weapon swaps and all of the vehicles are kitbashed or converted. I also have a small Deathwing force that I've modelled after the Terran faction from Starcraft. That is rather more heavily greenstuffed

Out of 14,000 plus points of Dark Elves, the percentage is probably fairly low. But that still leaves a fairly high absolute number of minis converted....

I only have around 500 points of Inquisition/Sisters stuff built, but 100% of it is converted so far, and I plan to keep it that way for the rest of my force.

For my Blood Angels, there are very few conversions. Most of the force is older models, but I do have a squad of old plastic Space Hulk Terminators that I've slapped on the modern BA Thunder Hammers and Storm Shields along with some Forge World pads as well as a couple of Heavy Bolter guys kitbashed with the guns off a Land Speeder and an old Ork Trukk. Probably do some more parts swaps as I go on. Been looking for decent bits to make a Sanguinor instead of getting the resin one.

My Orks are actually pretty customisation light at the moment. Aside from my Deffdread built from bits of old sprue and an airplane model. Again, if I add more to the army they'll probably be conversions. I do fancy a Warboss from the Orruk one with the dragon skull on his shoulder, and AOS has some nice Weirdboy options too, that's without getting into the realm of vehicles or specialist troops.

My Exodites project, to the surprise of no-one is pretty conversion heavy. The fluff I'm using does allow for stock models, and my first Harlequins troupe and some of the old DE I have will be used as is. Same with the few Made To Order Craftworld guys I got when their Codex dropped, but I'll be making liberal use of the AOS plastic Aelf kits, as well as some less obvious bits, for the majority of units.

100%. My AdMech are weird.

My Predator has the Baal Predator front plate sans BA heraldry and the dozer blade from the Razorback.

My Captain is probably the most converted model I own. The base body is the Space Marine commander kit but the head a tactical squad beakie helmet, the arms are... I don't even remember. The weapons are vanguard vet stuff and I glued on a modified Blood Angels dagger to make a ceremonial side arm sort of deal. Some of the parts he has I can't even remember where I got them from. He's also standing on one of the basing accessories from the Assault marine kit along with a spare Sternguard helmet/old tactical squad boltgun for basing material.

My Sternguard Veterans have a fair few number of conversions that make them look a little less... obscenely blinged? I guess would be the best word.

Bikers. I rarely leave a biker alone because my god is the base Space Marine bike kit a bore. The Sergeants have a ton of customization to make them stand out.

My Tactical Squads usually have other bits thrown in here or there. I used a lot of the spare bolters from BAC as replacements because my original attempts at drilling barrels were uhh... frankly quite terrible.

I also plan on converting up a Kitbashed Techmarine out of the Devastator squad box because the idea of working with GW resin does not particularly excite me.

All of my imperial guard are unique, so have been customised in some way.

admittedly though sometimes that is literally just a headswap, although others are extensively converted.

Must say, my guard army is something that i'm very proud of for this reason

I would have to say that about 70% of my Guard, my largest army, is converted. custom turrets for tank variants, altered core design for tanks, converted infantry platoon sections, tweaked Sentinels..

If magnetized and reposed using putty counts as conversion, then my entire RW is converted.

Out of curiosity, I went back and double-checked my Dark Elf army and was surprised twice.

First, it's up to almost 18,000 points (and will break that mark when I get around to those K-beasts I've been contemplating).

Second, a over 40% are conversions and/or kitbashes. 274 out of 653 models.

The scary part is, I might actually have more Skaven models, but since Skaven are so cheap (points-wise) that the army only totals up under 7,000 points. Nowhere near as many conversions either.

Of my old armies (back in ye olde 4th/5th edition) one was a fully converted Counts as Chaos Mechanicus Army.

The one I'm currently working on is a Plant Marine Army. Basically 'What if the Death Guard were infested with plants rather than plain old disease?' style of thing. So every single model is a custom job, with heavy green stuff work. The Knight accompanying them has trees growing out of it, the Lord is more plant than Marine, most of the Plague Marines (two squards of seven) have limbs, arms, heads and back packs replaced with plants and branches. And all of them are covered in vines. The Daemon Prince has a leg and arm replaced, wings of a Plague Drone,etc. The Daemon Princess is based Alarielle the Everqueen.

...I am dreading getting to the Cultists.

I can tell you how much isn't converted...

Doing an all Grots mechanized force for an event this summer. Everything is scratch built or heavy converted from non-GW models so far. Looking for good alternative goblin models now to push it to 100%
All Dread force for last year's event, 100%
Nurgle'd up Armored Company for the year before's, 100%

Between 5% and 10% of my armies are converted. None of my painted armies lacks at least a few changes.

Cheers,

CB

I only got one army - a Crimson Slaughter Warband. Aside from the troop choices, everything is converted, i.e.:

HQ:
Dark Apostle (AoS Skullgrinder w/ possessed back module)
Daemon Prince of Slaanesh (DP, Maulerfiend legs & feet, bits from Beastrider sprue, tyranid monstrous rending claw as additional arm, Landraider & Space marine bits for base)
Daemon Prince of Tzeentch (Morghast Body & 1 leg, Forgefiend Leg & hoof, CSM Tzeentch Banner, Maulerfiend hind leg armor as shoulder pad, Magmacutters as Back module)
Various Lords (Darkoath Warqueen with Morghast Weapon, double LC Juggerlord & various Marines / Chaos Marines with AoS bits)
Exalted Champion (Vrosh Tattersoul with Morghast weapon bits & Terminator Lord base)

Elites:
30 Possessed (Possessed bodies & Legs, Blood Warrior heads & weapon arms, Warp Talons Weapons & heads.. pretty much anything slightly mutated)
5 CQC Chosen (Wulfen, Warp talons heads, Possessed back modules & Bloodwarrior Axe-Heads to replace the Frostaxes)
3 Mutilators (Easy-to-Build Aggressors, Possessed heads & Weapons, Crypt Horror & Ghoul arms & heads, Chainswords & CSM bits)

Heavy:
2 Vindicator (Vindicator, Forgefiend Ektorplasma cannons as smokestacks, spirit hosts as 'daemonic smoke', Skulls from the skull-kit, Tyranid investation markers as mutations)
5 Maulerfiends (Terrorgheist Body & Heads, Stonehorn Body & head smashed together with Maulerfiend kits, Landraider bits (and entire landraider) as base)
1 Defiler (no other bits, but he's bipedal ala AT-ST)

Transport:
2 Rhinos (Rhino's, Sigmarite Mausoleum buildings & arches ala 'driving chapels', usual skulls & spikes)
1 Dreadclaw (Drop-pod, additional scratch-build arches as struts, Ektoplasma cannons as nozzle's & smokestacks)

got some slightly converted bikes & non-converted Daemons. Daemon Prince of Khorne with Axe is in the making (Ghorgon Body & Head, still looking for legs, Bloodthister Arms & Weapon prob.)

Ork player here so most of my army is thrown together. The boyz mostly arnt, though some are, my Lootas are pretty stock and 1 Battlewagon is a plain jane too, but I only bought that so I had the correct size for others I made