Orks have really seen a lot of new options since I wrote this, as have others! And finally on the zombie/cultist front, Mantic Games do a great range of plague zombie marines: Raging Heroes have a cracking model that could be could as a Nurgle general. The second option I’ve come across is Hasslefree Miniatures range of Grymm. Would prefer to see a more warhound like face and the shield doesnt do it for me. Enough for a sizeable ork army without touching GW. Last update was at 2017/05/30 21:17:46, This message was edited 1 time. The most popular color? Do you hate the whole thing and think I'm a fool for wasting so much time? There aren’t generally huge numbers of space ork alternative models out there, though there are fairly large numbers of passable alternative vehicles. I dig the blockeier aesthetic; more ironclad. They also have some cracking zombies, for Nurgle plague zombies. I’ve never really found any good third party Eldar like models in army like levels. Imperial knight replacement masked skull head is the perfect piece for darkmech, admech or chaos conversions. Your confirmation will be sent to your email address. Here is the Castellan Knight. No basic troops at the moment though. Scibor do some amazing marine style models. My Thoughts On Playing 8th Edition Warhammer 40k, Assembly and Painting – Composition in Practice, Lessons learned from the Salamanders Charity Army, New post: My Thoughts On Playing 8th Edition Warhammer 40k by, New post: Contrast Paints – Maximised! Last update was at 2017/05/30 21:17:23, This message was edited 1 time. Puppets War do quite a good range of conversion bits, much of which is suitably spiky for the forces of Chaos. which has a reasonable range of things, like an enormous cyber spider (scarab) swarm. I will keep my eye on this thread. Not only do they have a really lovely female archon, succubus, and squads of “blood vestals” which are perfect for Wyches, it looks like they’ll be expanding their line in the future too! Do you like the design? Dreamforge Games have a great range of stormtroopers that work well for Tempestus Scions, or maybe as veterans. Can't wait for these to be released! Haven’t gotten to the other items I bought on there, but here’s a post of the demon prince I painted up: Last update was at 2017/06/06 00:13:33, This message was edited 3 times. For Tau, CSM, AdMech, IG figs look at wargameexclusive.com. You can’t beat some of these models for character: Unfortunately, I’ve never come across anything that really works well for these! You need to have cookies enabled to sign in. Suing authors for using  the term “space marine”, a term that predates GW by a significant margin is not exactly great work, for example. Tau is a very unique look – there are some female Tau kits from Zealot Miniatures, but no full squads I’ve come across. The best selection I’ve seen is from Puppets War. Here's the pictures. http://twin-linked-awesome.blogspot.com/2015/10/slaanesh-daemon-prince-complete-so-much.html. At the moment, they do a small number of female officers which are great as commissars or custom commanders. Take full advantage of our site features by enabling JavaScript. These are just my opinions as to what you could use the models for, rather than what they are being sold as – you may disagree, or feel they’d be better as something else. I wouldn't buy one, but that's because I wouldn't buy an Imperial knight, so please feel free to ignore my opinion. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. Decent Valhallans are always a bonus these days, especially if you have most of an army already!