[Archive] Heavy Armored Hobgoblin Riders

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Hobgoblyn:

I’m not very good at conversions, though I have been working on human->hobgoblin conversions primarily using Bretonnian peasant models and goblin warriors heads (I snip off the hats so that my hobgoblins can have hats).

I returned to the project after my year abroad and my half year back. I completed a unit of 15 warriors (I know, useless in battle :frowning: But, they work for ‘example’ in my upcoming Hobgoblin Army Book) and I have my archers and my wizard all set up to paint.

Oglah Khan wolfriders cover most of my rider needs, but now I need to tackle task of finding human models that I can replace the heads for in order to create heavy armored Hobgoblin riders.

I see three possibilities, so I’d like it if people could weigh in and tell me which  of the three would likely look the most Chinese/Mongolian if painted in a different color scheme than normal and also which of them you think I’d have the easiest time converting. The three possibilities I see are Dark Elf Cold One Knights, High Elf Silver Helms and Brettonian Knights.

I’m almost leaning towards the Cold One knights because they are relatively cheap ($22 for 5?!) and if I have to have extra mounts I think I’d prefer raptors than horses. But since the pictures GW no longer offers pictures of ever piece that comes in the set on its site, I can’t know if they’d fit appropriately.

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Kera foehunter:

i think the dark elves, would be cool it give them a more evil looking armor

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Zanko:

I totally consistent with Kera!

Nothing more to remark!

:hashut

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Hashut’s Blessing:

I have a 6th edition cold one knight as my hobgoblin hero :wink:

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Maul:

Look at hoard_*_bits store on ebay, . He breaks things down with pictures pretty good so you can make the pieces out. One possibility might be to use chaos hounds as the mount and bodies from Brit knights.

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Loki:

Has to be the dark elves the models rock and they are very easy to convert

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Willmark:

Easiest way to do it is with goblin wolfriders. Use the [[BFSP]] goblins, it’s what I did and it’s effective. Check my blog or the Image galleries for photos.

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wallacer:

The current Brettonian models are too big to make good Hobgoblins.

High Elfs would be better but I don’t think they’d look quite right, although you could probably convert them to make them look appropriate.

Of the 3 choices I agree with the prior posters that Dark Elves are probably the better option.

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starscream:

how about the Oglah Khans wolfboyz DOW unit? they are wearing quite a heavy armoured suit, especially compared with regular wolfriders?



still available via mail order.

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Hobgoblyn:

Well, I am using Oglah Khan’s Wolfboyz as my light armored cavarly.

I decided to go with the Dark Elfs for now and up-size their mounts from normal wolfs to Chaos wolfs.

I realized how badly sized the wolf are for Hobgoblins after getting the LotR Worgs to use a Hobhounds and seeing that they actually outsized the wolfs. x_x;