Converting chaos warriors

[Sunde]

Since Krell is supposed to be a former chaos servant, I was considering taking some chaos warriors and converting them into skeletons or grave guard for my army. I'm a little curious as to if anyone has tried this and where I should begin because I've never really converted anything and would like some guidance on where I should start.

 

[TMS]

I think your biggest problem will be to fit the chaos warrior models on to the smaller base sizes that the VC models use. Also, heads from the newer skeletons and grave guard might be a bit small, so you might want to check out the older 6th edition skeleton heads that were a lot larger.

 

[Thontos]

I tried making chaos warriors into grave guard once before. The problem is they don't fit on a 20mm base, their capes are too big but can be cut down. You could try making a unit where every warrior is staggered on his base so they can fit together but they won't be standing shoulder to shoulder anymore and will give you a bit of a fun time having to line them up every time you set up the unit. Also the new skeleton bits are a bit small but the old heads are large enough to work, I've made my wight kings out of chaos warriors since just one over sized model doesn't cause too many problems.

 

[darkmark]

The new AoW chaos warriors might be useful, but I still think they're be too big.

 

[untitled_musketeer]

Forgive my ignorance since I am not a gamer, but could you put them on a rank base (essentially 5x25mm) and get round the problem that way?

I also concur with the suggestion of 6th edition heads. They might be more to your liking.

 

[Mad 'At]

Or you could place the warrior on every second base in a check pattern, thereby giving them the extra space needed and giving you twice as big unit for the same number of models. Fluff wise you could just argue that undead chaos warriors a so brutal that their stats are better represented by two Grave Guards instead of one.

Conversion wise I can only agree with what has previously been said, go for 6th edition heads, you might even be able to use their hands on some of them.

 

[Theerteen]

Ouh, I'm glad that I found this thread..in google I was thinking about exact the same thing, using the standard chaos warriors for GG. Even if this thread is very old, did someone try this successfully and would post a picture?

 

[Adam_Barrow]

There's a pic out there where somebody fit them on 20mm bases. It took a lot of squeezing, corked up raised bases, and marking the order they rank in to make work. I can't seem to find it, or I'd link you.

 

[Mad 'At]

I don't know if this is the post you think about Adam, but if you scroll down a bit and you can check out a warrior unit on 20mm bases made by MasterSpark.

 

[Adam_Barrow]

That's the one, Mad 'At. Cheers. Looks like I imagined the cork bases.

 

[BloodbathMcGrath]

Not to say cork bases would hurt
They might give some more room -what with the capes and stuff WoC sport now.

 

[Burnanation]

I decided to use a couple of chaos warriors as wight kings. There wasn't any trouble fitting one into a unit of skellies or GG.

You might have to do something like I had to do with my black orcs. I had to rank them up, place them on their bases, and then glue them to make sure they would fit together, THEN label the underside of the base 1, 2, 3,... so I would know the order.

 

[Santawraith]

Glad to know I am not the only one who does that burnation.