Post by Nick P on May 12, 2014 8:06:41 GMT -6
Hey all! Its blatantly apparent that my nascent Wood Elves army won't be ready for BitS, mostly because GW is out of stock on everything that I need for the freaking army. Turrible.
To that end, I've decided that I probably don't want to use the old metal warhawk rider models anyways, since they're dated looking and, you know, metal. Which sucks.
I'm putting out the feelers to see if anyone has any cool ideas for how I could convert some of these bad boys for my army - I've tried to find cool models at other mini companies, but nothing really seems like its the right size or aesthetic, or if it is they're made of metal again, which I'm trying to avoid. I'm trying to keep each unit of 3 in the $60-70 range, to reflect what it would have cost me to make the unit out of GW models in the first place.
Ideas?
To that end, I've decided that I probably don't want to use the old metal warhawk rider models anyways, since they're dated looking and, you know, metal. Which sucks.
I'm putting out the feelers to see if anyone has any cool ideas for how I could convert some of these bad boys for my army - I've tried to find cool models at other mini companies, but nothing really seems like its the right size or aesthetic, or if it is they're made of metal again, which I'm trying to avoid. I'm trying to keep each unit of 3 in the $60-70 range, to reflect what it would have cost me to make the unit out of GW models in the first place.
- I've thought about using the Teradon box and putting wood elves on top, but that's not all that creative. If my greenstuff skills were better, I'd be all over making them feathered and sweet, but I don't want to fuddle around with that too much.
- Another thought I had was using the Hobbit eagles - but they look a bit too big, and I planned on using them as my actual giant eagles anyways, so I don't want to have the same model run double duty throughout the army.
- My final thought was using the Swiftfeather Roc from the Skycutter chariot model - it looks to be smaller than the giant eagle, and it looks like with minimal conversion I should be able to make it feel more wood-elfy, and where the chariot attaches to the back I should be able to model a plastic warhawk rider from various other wood elf bits.
Ideas?
