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Inspiring SDF-1 Bridge Officer





Mississippi

For my birthday a month ago or so, my eldest son unexpectedly got me the Custodes codex (my first, and currently only codex for 8E). At first, I wasn’t going to run them (I already have 400+ power armor models, why do I need more?), but was intrigued by their toughness and low model count.

I just happened to have some Stormcast from a failed attempt to entice my son to play AoS, so rather than run out to buy some expensive Custodes models, I decided I would use the stormcast models in their place. Fast forward a month, and my ‘Custode’ Army is now entirely composed of Stormcast models (with no conversions, just a unique paint scheme) - my favorite is the dracon-riders for the jetbikes, so far.

I’ve contemplated doing something similar for my Imperial guard with my Dust/Bolt Action model’s, but haven’t quite pulled the trigger on this.

Have ya’ll done anything similar with your armies, and what substitutions did you make?

It never ends well 
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut






Los Angeles

I used Dark Eldar, Eldar, Wood Elves and Lizardmen kits to make an Exodite army. Everything was proxied except for some Wraith constructs, and it remains one of my favorite armies from a pure assembly/planning perspective.

Proxy armies can be a hell of a lot of fun to work on.


What sort of IG/Dust/Bolt Action concept did you have in minds? Some of the Dust walkers would be really cool Sentinels!
   
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Mississippi

Yeah, a lot of the Dust walkers as sentinels would be fun - though I think the US walkers look more appropriate for 40K than the German ones. I feel like you could possibly pass the American striders as Leman Russ or Chimera variants:

Hot Dog - Hellhound
Steel Rain - Manticore
Mickey - Leman Russ

Might be able to get away with the American Six-Shooter as a Whirlwind for Salamanders or Dark Angels...

I'd like to try using the Prinzluther either as a Chimera or possibly Taurox:



And some of Dust's soviet vehicles look like they would be good matches for a Basilisk, Hydra, or Griffon. I actually got a couple IS-5 on sale that I had intended to use as Basilisks - but the models are more Baneblade size than Chimera size.

From Bolt Action, while the vehicles are too small, I have plenty of painted-up American and German troops (60 each so far) - they'd be a shoe-in replacement for Cadian infantry.

Also, not long ago I was consolidating some 40K boxes and discovered on-the-sprue dark eldar from the 3E(?) starter box. As I started to cut them out, I realized they could be proxied in as banshees, dark reapers and even striking scorpions.

It never ends well 
   
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Denison, Iowa

I, like you, have used many Stormcast models in my Custodes force. You'd be surprised how little you have to convert them to be relatively unnoticeable from an actual Custodes Guardian from a couple feet away.

About 40% of my Custodian Guard are actually Stormcast. I picked up a bunch of Easy Build ones from the starter set for less than $2 each (used model case) and rounded things off with a handful of multi-part Stormcast I found in my FLGS bits box. There are PLEANTY of left-over arms in the Custodian Guard box. Put some Custodes Helmets and plumes on them and they totally look the part. I found the storm shields help hide their AoS origins very well.


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 Stormonu wrote:
Yeah, a lot of the Dust walkers as sentinels would be fun - though I think the US walkers look more appropriate for 40K than the German ones. I feel like you could possibly pass the American striders as Leman Russ or Chimera variants:

Hot Dog - Hellhound
Steel Rain - Manticore
Mickey - Leman Russ

Might be able to get away with the American Six-Shooter as a Whirlwind for Salamanders or Dark Angels...

I'd like to try using the Prinzluther either as a Chimera or possibly Taurox:



And some of Dust's soviet vehicles look like they would be good matches for a Basilisk, Hydra, or Griffon. I actually got a couple IS-5 on sale that I had intended to use as Basilisks - but the models are more Baneblade size than Chimera size.

From Bolt Action, while the vehicles are too small, I have plenty of painted-up American and German troops (60 each so far) - they'd be a shoe-in replacement for Cadian infantry.

Also, not long ago I was consolidating some 40K boxes and discovered on-the-sprue dark eldar from the 3E(?) starter box. As I started to cut them out, I realized they could be proxied in as banshees, dark reapers and even striking scorpions.


My FLGS had a closeout on Dust items a while back. Although I have yet to convert it, there is a German airplane with a giant autocannon that was a prime candidate for a Lightning proxy.

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I also have a stormcast counts-as 40k army. (Does everyone? ) Mine are a touch more heretical though.


I got a blight war (35% off local game store’s Black Friday sale) for the nurgle daemons and received a blood and thunder for Christmas. I didn’t feel like starting a stormcast army, so I kit-bashed some reinforcements for my Slaanesh daemons army instead.

Edit: painting isn’t completely done, but here’s a few more pictures:
Spoiler:

Dark apostle


Jet pack sorcerer


Jet pack chaos lord

5 more CSM


Possessed


Noise marines


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Denison, Iowa

Dang, those look smooth. I'm a bit surprised the marine arms fit so well. I really like that missile launcher dude.
   
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Georgia

I'm heavy into proxy/converting because I always try to go for a very specific look or theme and sometimes the GW models just don't cut it. For example, I run a knightworld IG regiment, my heavy weapon teams are mixes of Kromlech and Victoria miniatures, vets and sentinels will be from the Anvil industries "Daughters of the Burning Rose" model line, my ogryn are converted dystopian legions teutonic knights, and my Leman russes will be Mortian battle tanks (once they arrive), all just to make them fit a certain look. The big thing with permanent proxies (for me atleast) is making sure you can tell at a glance what something is at a glance as thats the only real big complaint I've ever heard on the matter. Even my AoS army does this but to a lesser extent As I use skeletons and zombies from Kings of war as I like the look of them.

Vorradis 75th "Crimson Cavaliers" 8.7k

The enemies of Mankind may employ dark sciences or alien weapons beyond Humanity's ken, but such deviance comes to naught in the face of honest human intolerance back by a sufficient number of guns. 
   
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Denison, Iowa

 Ir0njack wrote:
I'm heavy into proxy/converting because I always try to go for a very specific look or theme and sometimes the GW models just don't cut it. For example, I run a knightworld IG regiment, my heavy weapon teams are mixes of Kromlech and Victoria miniatures, vets and sentinels will be from the Anvil industries "Daughters of the Burning Rose" model line, my ogryn are converted dystopian legions teutonic knights, and my Leman russes will be Mortian battle tanks (once they arrive), all just to make them fit a certain look. The big thing with permanent proxies (for me atleast) is making sure you can tell at a glance what something is at a glance as thats the only real big complaint I've ever heard on the matter. Even my AoS army does this but to a lesser extent As I use skeletons and zombies from Kings of war as I like the look of them.


I agree with the "tell at a glance" rule. If something looks the part so well that you'd never know if you weren't told that's a good proxy. I have a sniper model from VOID that's been doing duty in my Catachan army for 16 years. Once painted in my army's color scheme I've even been able to slip him into games at GW stores without the staff figuring it out.
   
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Mississippi

Those converted Stormcast are pretty awesome.

My son is currently underway converting the Khorne guys from the Sigmar set to 40K CSM. He's only done two so far (the guy with the hound-thing and the banner-bearer), but you wouldn't be able to tell what with the bolters and whatnot he's added to them. (Me, I'm too buried in minis to do more than just build the Stormcast as-is with a unique paint scheme, but I'm also hoping to actually be able to use them in AoS games as well as 40K games).

Now for other armies, I have done some modifications to make other minis fit my army; for example, I'm using Dreamforge's Keilerkopf transport as a Taurox and my current guard infantry are Wargames Factory greatcoat minis.

I guess I'm not so much converting models as much as I am pulling in 3rd party models for other games. Still, curious to see what sort of things everyone else is doing, so keep sharing your custom jobs!

It never ends well 
   
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Potent Possessed Daemonvessel





Why Aye Ya Canny Dakkanaughts!

My two current armies are respectively completely and mostly converted. I have a Custodes-Guard army which is fully chaosified (lots of spikes, skulls and fire) and a World Eaters army with Blood Warrior Berzerkers and a lot of converted Space Marine models.

Having brilliantly painted armies are nice but I personally prefer playing someone with something unique and interesting as an army, I'd love to play a Stormcast Custard army!

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All the while, my opponent is furious, throwing his codex on the floor, trying to slash his wrists with safety scissors.
 
   
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Using Inks and Washes





San Francisco, CA

I have a big box of Imperial Guard infantry, all nice and painted up. And a Red Blok AT-43 army. Some of the Red Blok dudes would serve as stormtroopers (scions or something, they're called now?) and while the AT43 walkers are a wee bit small, they'll serve just fine as tanks and artillery

I play...

Sigh.

Who am I kidding? I only paint these days... 
   
 
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