i made from saurus stuff and one cold one cavalry made a oldblood, not full painted but he looks alraedy great, and i found a link for good kitbashing http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=cat1300304&aId=11600007 im gonna get a pic here but maybe tomorrow...
Haha I like that 'Nick's favourite item is the wardrum' that is one of the worst items. GW really love trying to push the unused things in their articles. Anyway, I will be interested to see how your model turned out. Definitely the boxes are pretty well interchangeable, I haven't done too much messing around aside from steg bits for skink units, but they are basically pieces for skinks anyway.