On the flipside, these are badass models. How will the heretics know they’re Blood Angels if they aren’t dual-wielding 16′ banners and wearing an entire craft store’s worth of bling?! I talked a bit about the limited uniqueness and posability of the Primaris Infiltrators here on Yore, but these Scouts take that to a whole old level: exactly one bottom half, one top half, and one gun for each model.

A quick trip to Ebay later and I had a bag of Skitarii Rangers heads to convert my Space Marine Scouts with sniper rifles ( paid link). The latter looked a bit too “WWII Germany” to me, and the Skitarii had the added benefit of being hooded - a perfect match for my Scout snipers and their camouflage cloaks. Some Googling turned up two easy options for alternate scout heads: Skitarii Rangers and Militarum Tempestus Scions. I wanted Space Marine Scouts in my army, which posed a small problem: the Scout kits only come with bare heads. My working concept for my Blood Angels army is the Faceless Strike Force, with 100% of the models in helmets.

Space marine scout conversions