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Heyo

I'm building an exodites themed counts-as craftworlds army and I have been looking for a while into making something I could run as war walkers.

What I need is something roughly the size of a war walker, with a physiology that would sell the speed and relatively low resilience and lack of natural weapons. I use pretty much all of the large Seraphon dinosaurs as Wraithlords or Wraithseers, and a high elf dragon converted into a giant pterosaur as a grav tank, for reference. So I'm thinking of something akin to an ornithomimid or oviraptoran (the linked image is actually a papo toy that would be pretty perfect if it werent monopose and looked pretty boring in a unit of 3). I don't want feathered dinosaurs either, because they don't fit into the somewhat pulpy aesthetic dictated by the Warhammer dinos I already have. I am however willing to convert something if anyone has ideas what models could be hybridized into something decent, like maybe some nice long legs could go a long way towards converting Idoneth deepkin eels into dinos.

Secondly, I was also considering making some support weapon platforms, for which I would need dinos with a low profile that are about big enough to fill out a 60mm base and carry something of the size of a vibro-cannon/shadow weaver/d-cannon mounted on its back that also doesn't look particularly disposed toward fighting (fyi, the salamander and razordon are too small for this purpose, they already look overloaded with a guardian heavy weapon).

Googling "dinosaur miniatures" only took me so far, so I'm hoping someone might happen to know something that would make a good basis to work from.

If anyone has any ideas I'd be thankful.

Tamiya do dinosaur model kits, not sure on the scale though. Airfix used to but appear to be out of production.

I've seen those before, unfortunately, none have the right size.

Reaper miniatures recently had a pile of dinosaurs in their latest kick starter and because they are bones material they are cheap (and I must say I like this new "black bones" material, definitely holds more detail.

The Blacktooth Terror (T-Rex) is probably too big but their Carnotaurus might be a good size.

https://www.rpglocker.com/index.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=24599&zenid=ioog3apnc0ehb4hinhq85u9lu5

Not everything from this kickstarter is available through retail yet, but shouldn't be too long.

Schleich dinosaurs?

https://www.schleich-s.com/en/GB/dinosaurs.html

Crispy78 wrote:
Schleich dinosaurs?

https://www.schleich-s.com/en/GB/dinosaurs.html

Schleich and Papo seem like reasonable alternatives. Fairly accurate and scale isn't too wildly huge.

Yes Ive looked over both schleich and papo. Except for that one papo oviraptor nothing quite fits the size requirements though (except, incidentally the Schleich oviraptor, but feathers).

Schleich in particular also tends to make dinos that look a bit too soft and cuddly next to the warhammer minis.