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That does look quite nice... and now we've come full circle. People used to buy Mantic products to inexpensively fix or finish up GW products and now people must use GW ones to fix Mantic heroic scaling. It's the ciiiiiiiiircle of life... I wonder if someone will post one of the armored angels with a head that wasn't shrunken by foul magic.

 warboss wrote:
That does look quite nice... and now we've come full circle. People used to buy Mantic products to inexpensively fix or finish up GW products and now people must use GW ones to fix Mantic heroic scaling. It's the ciiiiiiiiircle of life... I wonder if someone will post one of the armored angels with a head that wasn't shrunken by foul magic.

I will tomorrow night! I found the solution. I could say now, but it would spoil the surprise. The answer comes from GW though. That's all I'll say. Warboss, if you're in the US, PM me your phone number or your email (which is fine world-wide, obviously) and I'll text you the solution so you can consent to the fix. Otherwise, wait til tomorrow for the unveiling.

Lol, thanks. I appreciate the invite but I wait with the rest of the plebs until you get a chance to post it tomorrow. Thanks for taking the time to try and offer a hopefully cheap and easy fix. Or at least as cheap and easy as you can get now that GW has declared war on bits sellers...

Just hope that I don't forget my computer again. Lol. Otherwise I'll have to mail it to somebody to post for me! The model is fully built though, just have a few mold lines to scrape off to make it nice, but the head is a perfect fit and perfectly in proportion. I have a second head idea as well, but currently won't have it to test until next Sunday. The first head comes one to a kit, so I imagine that head will suddenly go into high demand after tomorrow night.

It's the head off Nagash isn't it? Or Fabius Biles bodyguards, about time someone realized the full potential of those diamonds in the rough.

I had been looking to find something which could be used to replace the arms relatively cheaply, and it looks like the GW orc arms will do nicely.

Thinking I might use the ogre arms for extra arms for a troll. Going to have to sculpt or group together some better legs for the trolls though.

Good find on the arms though! Excellent work!

^ Now there's an idea I might roll with, thanks... shrinking the troll arms rather than trying to convert larger legs might be a considerably easier fix... and you get spare arms with the ogres anyway.

Porous like graciously offered to post the picture for me in a couple minutes! Hope you guys like the head swap.

Please time. spell it right dude!

As offered on TimetoWaste's behalf... here is his WIP..

Sorry man-auto correct on the phone is a bitch. Lol. Porkuslime offered. Lol. Whatcha guys think?

It is the non-helmeted head from the pistoliers/outrider box set!

Do you think some of the Free Company or State Troop heads would work as well? (not sure if there are bare heads in there)

Very nice! Which kit is the head from?

 porkuslime wrote:
Do you think some of the Free Company or State Troop heads would work as well? (not sure if there are bare heads in there)

Went looking through my supplies and saw no bare heads, sadly. That was the only bare head I could find in the empire range that doesn't have a beard or mustache. I see a bunch of those heads selling well. The OTHER idea I had, if somebody would like to do a test-check, is a non-helmeted Eldar guardian head. I can post that in 11 days, but hopefully someone else could do it sooner.

Anyone have any ideas for good arm swaps for the Nuns?

I have about 40 of them coming next month.

That angel looks great, was thinking some high elf heads might work well, too.

I'm finding it pretty amusing that GW's 28mm heroic scale parts are actually perfect for truescale on larger 40mm-based minis.

The head definitely works even with the overly dramatic hair blowing in the breeze... it works for a flying armored angel.

You're right Squig, the bare silver helm head will probably work too with an ear shave.

It does look good with a headswap

They look good on Remy's blog
http://remytremblay.sculpture.over-blog.com/

Thanks, glad you guys approve. Always happy to give something back.

Someone had a bretonnian knight beside the angels and I thought that those heads would work well for a head swap. No reason an angel wouldn't wear a helmet.


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 judgedoug wrote:
They look good on Remy's blog
http://remytremblay.sculpture.over-blog.com/

I think this is a case where the restic didn't shrink in a uniform amount. For whatever reason, the heads, which were marginally undersized, shrank a bit more than the rest of the body.

Yeah, it seems that smaller parts are affected by the shrinkage more.

I am thinking of just doing up some hollow cowls out of green stuff like the angels out of Diablo have and putting them on there. Strangely enough, I find the GW head there out of proportion to the skinny arms. Perhaps that's just me though.

I think it's just you. Then again, I'm biased.

I might try the bearded marauder head for that "blessed" look.

Also, I wonder if Scibor's not-Custodes heads would work. I wouldn't mind having more greater daemons of the Emperor to go with my Draigo.

Bald screaming marine heads might work as long as they're bionic-free. It'll look like the D&D angel variant from previous editions that was bald (can't remember the exact name).

Wood elf heads are a bit smaller than other fantasy heads aren't they? Some good options there I'd think.

Marine heads are a bit larger than the head porkuslime used I think, so would create even more of a scale issue with the arms. I think there's a sweet spot just a bit bigger than the heads that come with the angels that will look best, and there will be issues either too big or too small otherwise. Heads with a helm can avoid this issue somewhat.

Maybe paladin heads will work well.

 warboss wrote:
Bald screaming marine heads might work as long as they're bionic-free. It'll look like the D&D angel variant from previous editions that was bald (can't remember the exact name).

Astral Deva

What about unhelmeted Bretonian knights?

 scarletsquig wrote:
^ Now there's an idea I might roll with, thanks... shrinking the troll arms rather than trying to convert larger legs might be a considerably easier fix... and you get spare arms with the ogres anyway.

Would that actually work, what with their giant ...pecs?
And I still demand to see that Reaper conversion! You promised!


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 timetowaste85 wrote:
Thanks, glad you guys approve. Always happy to give something back.

Looks great - what head is that?

It's the only non-helmeted head that comes with GW's Pistoliers box set. Hence me asking for either 2 or 8 in the swap shop. 2 if I only get them as champs, 8 if every guys has those. If I had any High Elf silver helm heads, bowmen heads, or Eldar Guardian heads, I'd try them too before deciding. I'm sure SOMEONE who got the elohi also has those heads lying somewhere, so we need someone to try it and show results. Get moving gents!!

Ahh. I don't have any of the newer range of GW's plastic humans. So human-sized heads like the helmets from the Empire/Demigriff/Brettonian Knights should theoretically also work?

I wonder how they'd look with some of the Grey Knight head options?