Converting Grimdark Troopers

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Published 2024-06-12
Some people have asked about the miniatures I use for the boxdark Bretonnians. So the idea here is quite simple. I will just sit down and go through a few of them and explain what bits I used and why.

All of the (previously) Bretonnian Men-at-arms troopers are very simple conversions. Swap a head and plug an arm. Or just tilt the head. Together with a dark an rough paintjob that will take a unit surprisingly far towards the Grimdark vibe.

There are bits from all over the place but the absolute main source is the Bretonnian starter box for The Old World combined with a second hand purchased sprue of skeletons. Just the type that will probably be readily available as it is a part of the Tomb kings of Khemri starter box.
Other sources includes Empire flagelants, Flesh eater Ghouls and obviously also the Citadel box of skulls.

In my view it is the most fun part of the entire miniatures hobby, regardless if it is The Old World, Age of Sigmar or 40k.


0:00 Intro
0:57 The unit
1:14 Skeletons
5:39 Grimdark goons
10:30 Skeletons in Bretonnian helmets
14:53 Command group
23:00 A coherent Grimdark unit
23:54 Why your conversion matters
All Comments (4)
  • @Svengar
    Great effort mate. I really like your conversions. You had a good eye for where the parts come from. Where you pegged them as zombie parts they were. The original plastic zombie kit has a lot of charm albeit there are definitely good parts to the new sculpts too but I really liked the flexibility of the kit you have used parts from At a future date I would like to do a vampire counts army (beyond the minis I had already from the old Warhammer fantasy days) and I would definitely like to mix and match the Bretonnian men at arms minis with zombies and skeletons The monk you did would also work really well as a necromancer For the knights you could also use the men at arm heads with skeleton/zombie part heads. Also some of the new foot knights have the open visors and you could file off or cut out their current faces and replace them with shaved down skeleton/zombie faces Not sure if people are selling spare heads on eBay but surely it won’t be long until they do…also I suppose you could just buy a kit and add them to your army
  • @Matt-md5yt
    glad you did this kind of video my friend, hope you are doing well. :)
  • @Matt-md5yt
    horn Blower reminds me of Darkest Dungeon. played that video game recently again