Top 10 *Not Quite* 40k Models from Other Companies | 3rd Party Miniatures!

My favorite part about 3rd party models are their names, it's almost an art form, they have to be concise and cover what they're trying to proxy but still stay distinct from their official counterparts

"I will deal with this Ultramarine slime myself!"

You had 10 slots and ignored the Victoria Miniatures Guard regiments in all of them. Very unfortunate.

For anyone considering Artel W models, do keep in mind that the scale of those models is slightly smaller than regular GW minis, which makes them slightly more difficult to paint and might cause size disparages with the rest of your army. That being said the quality and detail of the sculpts is superb, and the attention in delivery and customer support is great. Also, they have some of the BEST Eldar-like minis out there

James Workshop's true crime was hiding the gentlemanly bulges from us

me looking at 3rd part minis just makes me go "oh now gw looks cheap.... now forgeworld looks cheap....... and there goes my money"

Excited shunning techology: "slap this big gun on a lizard and call it low tech!"

That Vindilorian Assassin from Alternative minis is pretty friggen sweet

I love that you have collected almost every chaplain. I have pretty much every squig-related model (including forgeworld), but haven't looked at the range for a while. I recently realised that they released another goblin warboss on a giant squig model, and I was like... do I really need another one? XD Haven't caved yet, but we'll see. lol

I'm a Drukhari player and I've been loving the Void Elves line from Raging Heroes for a mostly female army. Warmachine Cryx models are also great for representing Coven stuff

Not a single mini, but Wargames Atlantic has a number of plastic kits that could easily be used as Imperial Guard. They don't have all of the guard regiments represented, but they can easily provide fodder for Vostroyan, Steel Legion, Kriegsmen, Tempestus Scions, and even Squats. Moreover, their Afghan Tribesmen box can act as serviceable Tallarn of a slightly different flavor, though you'll need to source separately some parts for the futuristic weapons and equipment. (On the plus side, the Afghan Warrior box gives you 40 models for $35, which is a tremendous deal, especially if you want to make use of loads of Conscripts).

Ranging Heroes for Sisters and Dark Eldar/Elves and Creature Caster for Greater Daemons

Bet I could get my Star Wars friends into 40K with that General Grivus model

That Grivus model is my favorite overlord. Spent a good amount of time to make him look perfect. Such a nice model. That same company has a great solution for the extra necron bits for immortals/deathmarks and uses the other set of arms. They also look pretty close to some Grivus guards as well.

3:23 thanks my dude, I've just started a "Inquisition" force that uses GS models, since I'd like to imagine it as beeing a precise and fast strike force and I've been looking for a good count-as-Kelermorph. Welp, looks like I can put that "Techprist with 3 roboarms" idea back in the bits-box

“ Hello there!” “Inquisitor Kenobi”

Have you seen the stuff from Heresy Lab? They make not bad 'not quite' 40k stuff.

Amazed how you keep up this quality

One Page Rules has some amazing looking minis.

Awesome list, thanks for introducing me to all of these great companies!