Proxies or kitbashes for Hoplites

[Xisor]

I was musing on this, mainly as I'm not a fan of working with resin (but suppose I could do with the practice).

 

Anticipating that I'd use Skitarii as the basis, what kits actually gel nicely with them? Has anyone had an eye on doing something similar, or tried it?

[Heliomanes]

The FW kit is pretty simple and nice to work with, and I really love the look of the models, so I'd highly recommend checking out the kit.

Just adding my own experiences/recipie for working with resin, in case you'd find it helpful in any way. Sorry if this is derailing your thread.
You just have to clean it a bit more with a hobby knife than you'd have to with plastic, but resin is softer, so it is easier to clean, even if it needs a bit more of it. I just cut out the bits, clean them, then leave them in a bowl of warm water mixed with dish washing liquid overnight. This will get rid of the layer of coating that keeps the resin from sticking to the mold. If this is left untreated, then the resin can become a hassle to glue and paint, and in worst case scenarios, it can come off in flakes after you have finished painting the entire model. Never happened to me, even though I'm both lazy and impatient with my hobby, so you can get away with a lot - but still you can save yourself some potential heartache relatively easily.

Sometimes you can be a bit unlucky, and some of the spears will be slanting in a weird angle rather than being straight. That's easy to fix. Boil up a cup of water, and put the bit you want to change into the broth. Let it get really warm, then it will revert to an almost pasta-like consistency. Usually it fixes itself, but if you want to manipulate it further, turning regular swords into curved swords and so on, then that becomes incredibly simple. This is actually one of the reasons I quite enjoy working with resin - you can repose things, curve ammo belts, capes and cabling into new positions very easily.

[Stray]

+1

 

Resin is great. You can come to prefer it in time. It's more time intensive, and there's a higher chance of 'bad casts' etc (though FW are great at sorting that out for you), but it's vastly better than plastic when it comes to working with the model in terms of re-positioning, conversions and the like - the more advanced end of the modelling aspect of the hobby.

 

Helio is quite right, and I agree. Personally I'd take a resin kit over plastic all day long, but they do require more time, care, and effort.

[BassWave]

For the spears, combine taser goads with arc pistol bits. For the shields you could use vansaar shields.