The spice must flow, in 15mm.

[Wolfslord]

Because without sword fighting as the main component you have another mythos.

You can't have Sardaukar with guns. That would make them something different. Something cool perhaps, but not Sardaukar.

Elite troops remain elite troops even with guns, otherwise most countries with a strong military wouldn't train such units.

You're going to put tanks on a battlefield and call it Dune???  Shocked  Cry

Why go to all the bother of trying to find matching stuff at all? Just get some robed figures and put them on a desert planet with worms, rather than butchering a perfectly good book.

A little bit respect for personal taste, please. There is a Dune book, a movie and some PC games. I base my Dune tabletop more on the movie and the PC games (played Dune II in my childhood and later Dune 2000). Those had a great atmosphere and for me still feel "dune-y", although they follow the book only loosely. Furthermore I can't imagine a good tabletop closely following the book.

Discussions like this lead nowhere except to show different views and belong more in Warhammer 40k boards, where people digitally scream at each other "discussing" the canon. 
Just name the thread "The spice must flow, in 15m based on the book" and all problems are solved 

[Whiskyrat]

@ Wolfslord. It's your game - me, I'm looking forward to seeing pictures of what you create.

Back on topic.

Critical Mass or Peter Pig may have suitable figures?

Perhaps, something like these or these may work as either Atreides or Harkonnens?

[gloriousbattle]

Just name the thread "The spice must flow, in 15m based on the book" and all problems are solved 

Again, you can do what you like, and I don't think this is turning into a shouting match, but isn't the assumption supposed to be that you are playing a game based on canon?  Otherwise, the Hell with the .45, why not have Gandalf pop up in a King Tiger?

As to it not being playable, that's just a question of decent rules, or were you concerned about something else?

[gloriousbattle]

@ Wolfslord. It's your game - me, I'm looking forward to seeing pictures of what you create.

Back on topic.

Critical Mass or Peter Pig may have suitable figures?

Perhaps, something like these or these may work as either Atreides or Harkonnens?

Interesting ideas, though not the direction I'd go.  I have painted up my figures, now I just have to find the time to upload them.