Starting Imperial Knights army.....with Eldar

[kingpram]

Hey Everyone,

I'm thinking of starting a low model count army as a change of pace to my tyranid collection and Imperial Knights seem perfect. The codex has just dropped and I've heard it's balanced enough to be treated like any other army and less "Power gamer-y". I'm pretty much looking for models I can spend a lot of time on converting, posing and painting with extreme detail. Having said that I'm not a huge fan of the models so I pretty much want to make a proxy army of Imperial Knights with Eldar. Using the Knights codex/rules with Wraithknights as Imperial Knight variants and Wraith Lords as Armigers.

The Eldar models will be amazing to paint and I think an army of 3 Wraithknights with a handful of wraithlords  (1500-2000pt range) will look amazing on display/on the board. I'm just not sure if it would seem really odd or if people wouldn't mind. Would this be allowed tournament wise? ( I plan on modelling a lot of imperial symbols and making a back story to explain the models)

So I guess I'm asking the hive if they can see any flaws in this idea and if the concept would annoy them as an opposing player in  casual or competitive games?
I believe the models are about the same height as my suggested eldar counter parts and I'd be converting them to the point where they can be distinguished as Castellans, Wardens etc  Clearly indicated before and during games to avoid confusion.

Thoughts?

Oh, and if anyone has an Imperial Knight/ Wraithlord or Armiger/Wraith Lord please let me know how they scale up side by side. or their rough height in cm/inches

- kingpram

[mattblowers]

IK base is significantly larger than WK (which is just a FMC base). The big issue is that you are going to need use the actual guns if you proxy to avoid confusion.

[kingpram]

Buying a different size base should not be a huge issue as long as they are around the same size height wise. Getting all the gun options could be tricky, I could try kitbashing/sculpting the Eldar weapons with assorted bits to look more like the IK guns. I'm not sure if that would kill the sleek eldar look which is my main draw towards the WK model.

[mattblowers]

I guess it all depends on the environment you want to play them in. In most competitive environments you need to be WSIWYG with the weapons, if it's just having a laugh with your mates it willl be fine.