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Familiars are WAY too tiny to be even Ratlings. You'll struggle for LOS and will no doubt MFA cries!

I'd love to write a new primer, but since 8th dropped I've only ever been able to play my GSC twice, and never terribly successfully. If people want to make a new thread you can go for it, I'd also be happy to copy/paste with credit a new primer or if a mod wanted to pull some forum black magic to create a new OP that'd be fine. This is definitely not "my thread" anymore 35 pages in and it was made for 7th, so it may be time to move on and just transplant the 8th discussion to a better OP.

New Primer is done and posted. Hopefully it proves useful.

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Well done, thank you. :-)

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Familiars are WAY too tiny to be even Ratlings. You'll struggle for LOS and will no doubt MFA cries!

I found a good base: Plague Monk bodies.
They are a bit smaller than normal Neophytes which is perfect but still can pair well scale-wise with other parts from other kits.
Then I'll add Acolyte heads and Dark Eldark Kabalite Warriors arms/guns. I think I can paint and modify their rifles to take on an organic/Tyranid quality. If I have the money I could invest in individual Sniper Rifles and replace the Dark Eldar ones but I'm not sure I'll go that far. Sniper Rifle bits are expensive.

I tried Termagant arms but they are too big for the Plague Monk bodies. Dark Eldar arms can at least be painted to match the rest of my army and not look too out of place. I'll also be adding lots of cork and rocks to make them look like they are sniping from concealed positions.

The whole project is relatively inexpensive yielding 20 Ratlings models for about $80 CAD, which is cheaper than buying the official metal models by $20. I end up with a look I like and who can value that?!