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Hello, brothers! Fear not, I haven't given up on my "Minutemen-style" Guardsmen but I was distracted for a bit by having to get an army together for a tournament (for another game system) and we're still dealing with renovations. I'm about to have my kitchen opened up to the open air while they install a pair of skylights. Not looking forward to that, to be honest. Anyway, the other game system is, of course, Warlord Games' Bolt Action. 28mm World War 2 Historical gaming? What's not to love? Anyway... I have a ton of the plastic sprues laying about and I had an idea for an experiment so I took some of the beret-clad heads available on the British Paratrooper plastics and stick them on Astra Militarum bodies. Here are the results of today's playing around: http://i68.tinypic.com/30idj6v.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/9tingl.jpg http://i67.tinypic.com/rlgcpt.jpg So what I've decided so far is that the heads are maybe a little too small... which is funny because a lot of B.A. players compain that the plastics are 'too close to GW's 28mm Heroic Scale' for whatever reason. Anyway, I have an entire starter army box on the way and I should have it early next week and I definitely want to experiment with those plastics. It's for Warlord's British 8th Army and each sprue of plastics has four different types of headgear and enough of them that I'll have a ridiculous amount of leftover plastic heads. The thing about this 8th Army plastic sprue is the types of heads on it: there's six wearing the Brody-style helmets, there's six wearing 'highlander caps', six with turbans and beards (to represent Sikhs) and six with crazy traditional Indian headgear. I'm curious to see what the 'Cadian' plastics will look like with turbans and beards. They also released a Commonwealth set which is basically the same sprue except for it's got four entirely different heads on it... including some slouch hats, some sun helmets/pith helmets (I don't know the official word for them), some in berets, and some in some kind of knit cap. If maybe these experiments of mine work out this could open up a huge new resource for kit-bashing with the plastics.