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Hi all,

I'm currently planning a rebuild of my first Imperial Guard army. The first time around, I built it as a mashup of Catachan and Cadian pieces. The Catachan heads were key to giving it flavor- I loved the yelling, the mix of cocky sneers and stoic expressions, the mohawks and flattops and bandanas.

For the rebuild, I plan to use Victoria Miniature's Arcadian line as a base. Unfortunately this makes Catachan heads no longer an option- what was acceptably beefy on a Cadian torso is just comical on Victoria's slightly more realistic scale. So away to the conversion bits market I go. But nobody seems to make head swaps with the signature Catachan flare. There's hats and helmets of every nation, plenty of beards or wild hairstyles, and enough gas masks to outfit an entire siege regiment, but little luck with bare heads, clean shaven, with bandanas and a variety of fun expressions.

I've checked Maxmini, Puppetswar, and Mad Robot and found a few that could be acceptable, but always with some issue (either scale or flavor-wise). So my question is: does anybody have suggestions for where I could get heads that have Catachan style, but in a slightly smaller scale appropriate to Victoria Minis?