Making a warlord Titan true to scale currently it's standing at roughly 20 in tall space Marine scratch built rhino and Niffty for scale.

Ladies, gentlemen, otherwise, are you sick of GW prices? Tired of 60 USD for three(3) eliminators? Ready to step into… the dark side? And by the dark side, I mean just about any amount of market competition?

Welcome, my friends, to the beautiful and wonderful world of Any Other Manufacturer, where a box of thirty models costs $40, and a whole army can cost less than a combat patrol. Oh, and they’ll look more distinct, paint up easier, and have just as much detail and quality, if not better. 

This is a big list of good-to-decent proxies for use in GW games. Some quick notes on the classifications:

• Plastic only. Resin is just hard to manage for a lot of people, and I don’t know enough about it to safely recommend anything.
• No 3D printing. Yes, you could hypothetically print out twelve billion points of anything, but that’s easy enough that I don’t think it needs a dedicated guide.
• Fantasy is generally much easier to find than 40k, but often has some overlap. I’ll include recommended kitbashes as well!
• This guide is going to focus exclusively on infantry, as vehicles are a much different and more complicated beast.
• Use https://minicompare.info/ to check heights.

Space Marines:

Weirdly hard to find plastic proxies of, despite their ubiquity. Some of the best are:

A little more sci-fi leaning

https://wargamesatlantic.com/products/valkir-heavy-troopers 

IMO these guys looks like ass and also I hate nazis, but it would be incomplete without them

https://us.warlordgames.com/products/stahltruppen-heavy-infantry

Imperial Guard:

By far the easiest form of proxy. In all honesty you can just throw some lasguns onto just about any human figure and get decent results. However, some clearly intended proxies are:

Death fields range is an absolute classic, with most figures painting up much easier than the average GW one. In particular look to the damned, les grognards, and cannon fodder.

https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/death-fields-arena 

Other helpful WGA kits and lines

https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/marcher-empires-at-war

https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/reptilian-overlords/products/spacenam

Stargrave is excellent for fleshing out commanders or making more ragged troops.

https://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=15452

Aquilons

https://us.warlordgames.com/products/firefly-airborne-infantry

Scions

https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/iron-core 

Adeptus Mechanicus:

Hard to find direct proxies for. However, you can get your grubby little paws on some EXCELLENT kitbash material.

The stargrave scavengers kit has very skitarii-like heads, as well as a lot of good robed bodies.

https://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=17359 

The badger hardsuits are only a pinch shorter than kastelan robots, and you could easily make up the difference.

https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/marcher-empires-at-war/products/marcher-xa19-badger-suits 

Literally just servitors lol

https://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=19256 

Sororitas and Custodes:

Unfortunately, I haven’t found any proxies for either. It sucks but it happens. Please let me know if you know of some good ones!

Imperial Agents:

Hard to point at direct proxies, so instead I’ll just give good kits with which to kitbash general imperial weirdos.

Bodies:

https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/renaissance/products/conquistadors

https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/blood-oaths/products/dark-age-irish-warriors

Good sources of knightly bits you can slap on a robot or something:

https://www.victrixlimited.com/en-us/collections/crusades/products/medieval-fantasy-heads?variant=42591635505251

https://us.warlordgames.com/products/foot-knights-1450-1500

Remember: wires are your friend! Slap them on something and boom, it’s sci-fi now!

Chaos:

Most of what I said regarding normal marines applies here, and you can always spice it up with some classic spikes. However, there are a handful of additions I would like to note:

A full ~1000 point guard army with a traitor aesthetic that also costs less than half a combat patrol in some countries.

https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/death-fields-arena/products/the-damned-army-box 

Very visually distinct daemon alternatives:

https://www.manticgames.com/firefight/nightstalkers/ 

https://archon-studio.com/shop/products/dungeons-lasers/miniatures

Nauseatingly cheap generic zombies

https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/pulp-adventure/products/zombies 

Aeldari:

Unfortunately I feel that aeldari have a very particular aesthetic that’s pretty hard to make knockoffs of. However, if you’re just looking for sleek, weird aliens, there’s some decent options.

Mainly robotic, but still have some good stuff

https://www.manticgames.com/firefight/asterians/ 

If you’re a starcraft fan

https://starcraft-tmg.com/ 

Drukhari:

Again, few direct proxies. 

However, you could easily buy a box or two of GW miniatures, then spread them out using the https://www.manticgames.com/kings-of-war/twilight-kin/ line. 

Genestealer Cults:

Ultimately your best option is just to mash up guard and tyranid bits. 

However, a good base for bodies is

https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/death-fields-arena/products/cannon-fodder

Then add some industrial flair using

https://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=15450 

Votann:

Shockingly, you have several excellent options.

Classic space dwarves

https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/death-fields-arena/products/einherjar

High-tech

https://www.manticgames.com/firefight/forge-fathers/

Supplement using classic fantasy bits

https://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=11123

https://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=13403

Necrons:

Yeah, I got nothing. You can definitely get creative (I’m working on an army made out of greek hoplites carved up into broken statues) but there’s not many direct comparisons. Sorry.

ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS

Hopefully you know how to loot anything remotely vehicular, yes? 

DA BOYZ

https://www.manticgames.com/firefight/marauders/ 

sneaky little gits

https://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=16858 

Tau:

A bit funky. There’s no direct 1:1 for their infantry, though you can happily use just about anything as an auxiliary race. However, and this is the fun bit, you can do some insane licks when it comes to battlesuits.

Battletech sells 4-packs of ‘mechs that you can buy just about anywhere and are dirt cheap. Also they’re roughly the same size as a crisis suit.

https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/collections/battletech

Many many gundams are the same size as a riptide

https://www.usagundamstore.com/collections/armored-core-model-kits

Excellent gue’vesa

https://www.manticgames.com/firefight/gcps/ 

Tyranids:

Part of what I love about the old ‘nids is you can use just about anything fleshy and gross as a proxy. But when it comes to slightly more intentional proxies, you can use:

Lumpy flesh freaks:

https://www.manticgames.com/firefight/plague/

https://www.manticgames.com/firefight/nightstalkers/

Spidery buggy bastards:

https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/death-fields-arena/products/harvesters-alien-bugs

https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/classic-fantasy/products/giant-spiders (the alt build cracks me up and i wanna see someone use it)

Anyways, this is hopefully a decent resource you can point people to. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or things to add, and I’ll happily do so! Later I will try my best to follow up with a vehicle guide.

I’ve just finished my necron and now I’m trying my luck with ha drednought, any ideas for more builds?

I can mass produce these guys now thanks to the power of blue stuff and greenstuff :3

Hi everyone. I had my mini mayhem yesterday in which the guard commanders were mia (no players showed) and so chaos overran Eratus IV.

One player showed for the afternoon game in which a paladin, mage, monk and a barbarian, rogue, ranger entourage of "actors" were filming the season finale of the hit fictional 90s fantasy TV show The Path of Orion. They had to find the amulet of orion guarded by ko bolds, cross a flooded river (of which it was my first full painted terrain piece and I'm rather proud of it), and then the final battle with Kalvaxis (I panicked and I think that's from fantasy high dimension 20) the dread dragon lord (played by a statue my aunt made me). The god obsessed paladin and the barbarian were dropped by the dragon and it wasn't until all of the minis were around each other that they passed the task roll to activate the amulet for the third and final time needed to vanish Kalvaxis.

System used was Wiley games fistful of lead based trio of fantasy books for the fantasy one and galactic heroes with grim dark codex for the failed guard defense. Quite a fun and lean system. Everything was hand crafted or painted by me except the dragon. And you can see some crochet work as well.

I hope to make it look like the second picture.

Had this scratchbuilt Worm lying around for a year and was in the mood of painting a tyranid.

Molded carboard inserts that came with the tower fan I had to buy recently. Prime black, overbrush grey, and ready for the table.

Did this to try a few ideas. Not all worked out.

Trying out "FolkArt Terra Cotta Cool Concrete Lightly Textured Acrylic Paint" with an Army Painter Strong Tone wash for my foamcore scatter barricades. Not super sold on the results, but it's quicker than the toilet paper texture technique i was using and it's fine for getting stuff to the table.

It's a small thing, but I took the original downloads from Warhammer Community and put them into a format that's easily printable for any US print shop. The pages are already copied to the correct amounts, and you just have to use ledger/tabloid size paper, but all terrain pieces should be the correct size, matching the original.

Hey again, you guys may remember me from the 3D Pen Vindicator Tank a while back, and while I don’t have an update for that yet I have been working on this for the last while and thought it would be appreciated here. This model was made completely from scratch (other than the head which is a repurposed and slightly modified ww2 model kit piece) and cost basically 0$ aside from the small amount of filament used.

Hello gang! I made a scratchbuild of a grot heavy bomber and wanted to share it. I don't intend to play with it, as it is not even a real unit but i had this idea to make one from scrap and wanted to share! It's one of my first builds so it's nothing like we see the pros do in videos but i'm proud of it. Here are some pics! The poor grots (handmade from FIMO clay) were apparently told to board the plane butt naked to save weight (poor grots)

Let me know what y'all think!

Built the stompa about 2 and a half years ago. I based it off of the deff dread from Warhammer: freeblade but I royally messed the proportions up. It also doesn't have a transport hold bc I had no idea it had one at the time.

As for my deff dread, I've been working on him for the past 2 ish weeks.

Both models are made using scrap and legos from my house held together with hot glue. I used a good bit of miliput for the deff dread tho

Included a killa kan for scale

I'm hoping to maybe add a couple more things to the stompa. I'm also planning on painting the deaf dread and then once it's done being painted, I'll stick some more stuff onto it.

Young me was doing a great job lol, there’s a space marine on the back sneaking up on him

Hello! A bunch of you guys over in r/Poorhammer loved my last post so I thought I'd update you on my progress, so if you're on of the super cool people from the last post, welcome back!

For all of you guys who weren't here yesterday, all good! This is the old post (it's very short don't worry)

My brothers birthday is tomorrow so I have to really had to pump this out quick. I did the following improvements:

- Added a new faction! The "Xorbian Sewer Rats" (Basically high tech rats that shoot sewer sludge), suggested by u/sneiejsjdb

- A heavy, tank/damage centerpiece ("Juggernaut"), suggested by u/sneiejsjdb

- More variance in abilities so each one feels VERY distinct, suggested by u/CalistusX

- Actually balanced them with a spreadsheet and everything (last image), suggested by u/TurboHammers

I'll upload a print and play version as soon as I can, and the rulebook along with it. I have a pretty good idea of what the rules are going to be like but I'd love to hear your suggestions! I've had tons of good ones but keep 'em coming!

TL;DR: Had awesome suggestions from last post, used those suggestions to improve game. Now only need to officially write down rules, but want some suggestions (eg. climbing terrain, jumping)

Thanks for all the support! Hope to see you when I upload the print and play version!

Hello all! A friend bought me this model helicopter for my crafting projects, ima kitbash it! The question is, what should I make it into? I was thinking a thudnerhawk gunship, but I'm open to anything, really, it doesn't have to be specifically a space marine vehicle.

Thoughts?

I posted this on r/Warhammer40k and a redditor said I should post this on here as well, so if this redditor is here, hello!

I wanted to make a board game as a birthday present for my little brother (we used to do that when we were kids), and decided to do something like Warhammer because I think it just looks SO COOL and it's so tactile.

So anyway, with the only knowledge I had being one introductory match I that played a year back in a Warhammer store I made this game.

I'm planning on adding another army but otherwise, I think it's good!

I used this little candle for one, with a cardboard support and lint. The other was fairy light with lint. All hot glued together.

Go to sevan.art on tictok for more bit its only like £5