For_Chaos
12:57:25 Sat
Jun 12 2004 |
Cool idea! I'd been thinking about something similar in the past, though it never got past that...
I would suggest that you have the struggle between good and evil be between the (surprise surprise!) Brets and Chaos troops!
Now since you'd want to be using bases of the same size (I figure), the use of cavalry would require a lot of converting (to make it fit on an infantry base, the horse would have to be rearing or something...), so you might want an alternative for the knights. I don't think you could get it to fit on a 1 inch base anyways.
Pawns, of course, would be infantry. The king and queen would be tough, I don't know how you could pull it off with brets... for the king I suggest converting a knight on foot with Leoncoeur's head or something like that, and for the queen I would think about using a sorceress' body with the Fay Enchantress' head (or the old Morgana's head if you can find it...). The bishops could be two damsels on foot (since men aren't raised to be sorcerers in Bretonnia)
and for the knights you could use knights on foot (they look good and fit on the infantry base nicely). The rooks would be even trickier - trebuchets are much too big... I was thinking standard bearers would be cool, either as knights on foot or peasants (I'd rather use knights myself)...
Onto Chaos now, the best for a king would have been a Daemon Prince, but since he won't fit on a 1 inch base, maybe use the new limited edition Archeon on foot model, or just any champ foot converted to look like a king (Crom the Conqueror would do the job nicely I find)...
The queen should be a sorceress, I saw someone suggest a daemonette but I feel that would be too 'weak' for a queen, you need a character to fit the role! Maybe something along the lines of a dark elf sorceress...
Bishops would be chaos sorcerers, and for knights you could use chaos warriors (the new models look especially good!)
To follow the same concept as the brets, you could use standard bearers as rooks here too, but if you want something different you could use a variety of monsters (ogres, trolls, minotaurs, etc) if you could fit them onto the base.
The pawns could be either marauders or gors, whatever you prefer!
Now, if you don't want to do an elaborate paint job and use a simple colour scheme, maybe you could use some of the following to vary from the old black and white... after all, black would kind of hide the details of your cool models...
Here are some colour schemes that I've seen in the past: Red (B) and Gold (W), Green (B) and Silver (W), Red (B) and Blue (W), Dark Silver (boltgun metal) (B) and Ivory (bleached bone) (W), etc.
Best of luck with your project, and once you finish maybe you could post a few pics for everyone to see! 
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