Stormfiends as Talos/Cronos proxies

So I ordered a box of Stormfiends to kitbash into Talos/Cronos and wanted to get some general opinions on it. I'm aware their aesthetic might be a little closer to grotesques, but I don't really like the idea of Stormfiends as a proxy for them.

My main points in favor of the idea are:

  1. The army theme I'm going for is basically Drukhari that search the galaxy for the greatest prey they can find to hunt, creating weapons, armor, and trophies from their victims. Having their coven engines be basically amalgamated patchwerks of hulking beasts rather than the typical talos/cronos makes sense to me.

  2. The skaven aesthetic is very close to the Drukhari aesthetic, I think the equipment the Stormfiends have strapped and injected into them fits really well with minimal conversion.

  3. The models share a base size, so there's no worries of overhang or weird base stuff.

    A few things that stand out to me are that the Stormfiends obviously don't fly like the Talos and Cronos, but I feel fine writing that off as "hey, they're giant hulking monsters, Im sure they can jump pretty far". Also, I don't plan on participating in any tournaments anytime soon, but interest is there and I do worry about not being able to run model I put a lot of time and effort into.

    Anyway, just wanted to put feelers out to see how others in the community felt. Think its a cool idea, dumb idea, any ideas for improvements? I'm open to c&c.