laribold:
Hi all,
I’m one of the new Chaos Dwarf bandwagon jumpers who has been rather inspired by the new FW Infernal Guard.
However, not really wanting to pay FW prices I looked on his as something of a challenge and as I really enjoy kitbashing I thought I’d have a go at an Infernal Guard.
Having looked at the pics on the FW website it was clear what the requirements were:
- scale armour ‘skirt’
- plate armour torso
- scale armour upper arms
- plaste armour lower arms
- enclosed helmet
- and beard obviously…
So armed with this new found knowledge I had a think and a look through various bits sites and came up with the following:
The components used are as follows:
- High Elf Spearmen legs
Cut down to dwarf height and to fit with the torso
- Space Marine ‘plain’ torso (http://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/images/SM87.JPG)
Again cut down to make shorter and more squat and with the marine backpack join cut away
- High Elf Silver Helm arms
For the scale mail
- The axe is from the Empire militia sprue (and I’ll probably replace with a more chaotic one but I wanted to get something on there to see if the model worked or not)
- Chaos Space Marine head
The head is the one thing that I had the biggest issue with. I found the chaos warrior helmets a bit small for the torso and a bit small for a big dwarfy head! I really couldn’t find anything that resembled the FW Infernal Guard heads and wasn’t sure what to do until I saw that Chaos Marine head. To my eyes the jaw decoration made it look less like a Marine helmet and the bull horns just screamed “Hashut!” to me.
I’m still thinking that maybe I’ll need to do a bit of green stuff work to make it look less marine-like but I’d appreciate any comments on this.
The beard is made from an old wire brush, twisted and glued together.
Another thing I’m not sure on is whether the feet are a bit too dainty (well they were an elves to start with!) Any thoughts?
I was considering adding some pointed steel toe caps with green stuff as the FW ones seem to have these.
Shield-wise I’m thinking of these:
http://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/bmz_cache/6/6e44145b70763eaae22fb2a8757f1161.image.150x138.jpg
from the Empire State Troops
The one thing that my kitbash IG are missing that the FW have are shoulder pads. Ork and Chaos Knight ones are too big but I did have some Kroot ones and have blu-tacked them on.
What do people think? Is it better with or without the shoulder pads?
So that’s it. I’d really like to hear people’s feedback on this.
All suggestions, comments and improvements will be happily and gratefully received.
Cheers!