As we are all aware much our beloved range is quickly vanishing from GWs webstore never to be seem again. While some have the dedication, and/ or expendable income to pay well over the odds on eBay, i'm sure for many of us this is not always possible.
I often see many people shunning the idea of using proxies, which agree with the vast majority of cases and can see why it irks some more dedicated players, especially whhen a model is readily available via GW.
But what happens when a model is OOP? how much effort needs to be put into a conversion for it to be an acceptable substiture?
For example. I want to build an Arnor list, featuring Arathorn, and possibly Halbarad. Halbarad has some awesome models and I'm happy to pay a little over the odds for one, however, arathorn is not only (IMO) not that great a mini, but is also pretty hard to come across on Ebay.
Would using an Aragorn miniature, with Theoden's head be reasonable?
If not, what would make it so? A bit of GS chainmail perhaps?
Would some Feral Uruk Hai converted from seige troops with exra hand weapons be okay? its not too fat from the corsair reaver conversions which are very popular.
I would like ot hear peoples oppinions, and also hear how you guys have converted OOP characters/ troops, or how you represent ones with no miniature.
Hope this hasn't been covered a million times before, and i've just realised ive waffled on a hell of a lot, sossy about that, i'll shut up now!
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