When was the final time Video games Workshop launched a Warhammer 40K sculpt that actually wowed you? I’ll let you know, it was the Kroot Rampager, particularly the one balanced on a single entrance paw. Wow. However since then, there hasn’t been something to get enthusiastic about on the 40K entrance. Therefore I’m constructing my very own weirdos.
Age of Sigmar, alternatively, has been smashing it out of the park. Ushoran rapidly turned my favorite Mortarch together with his grisly delusions of grandeur. Callis, Toll, and their Saviours of Cinderfell are ripped straight out of Mordheim. The Darkoath weren’t all hits, however the Darkoath Chieftain on Warsteed and Hounds of Chaos had been nice. Then we obtained Skaventide.
The brand new Skaven are wonderful throughout the board (other than, in my humble opinion, the Rat Ogors). It even managed to make the Stormcast cool, particularly with the trident-toting Prosecutors. Nonetheless, I don’t play Age of Sigmar. I’ve obtained nothing towards it, however my mates aren’t and the lore doesn’t give me the identical alternatives for sculpting because the weirdness of a grimdark far future.
Should you’ve obtained any suggestions for bizarre AoS lore that I can base armies off, or unusual conversions which may tickle my inspiration, please let me know.
What Is The RatMech?
RatMech is a distinct segment motion throughout the Adeptus Mechanicus gamers in 40K. Teams of gamers convert common Adeptus Mechanicus models out of Skaven ratmen. Many gamers have longed for sci-fi rats for many years, and that is the closest they’ll get. Nonetheless, that’s not fairly proper for me.
My Darkish Mechanicus live robots, accursed creatures of rotting flesh fused to robotic our bodies. Oh, proper, that simply describes the common, ‘good’ Mechanicus. Nevertheless it doesn’t describe their fashions. Mine are imbued with the spirit of Nurgle, beneath the management of an Archmagos with loads of hubris and no regret. As such, I wished to make use of the cool new Skaven sculpts to create some messed-up horrors of the Warp.
How To Convert Skaven Into The Darkish Mechanicus
My preliminary thought got here from seeing the Arch-Warlock, whose gear completely matches that of a Cybernetica Datasmith – excellent to accompany my current Kastelan Robots, who’re comprised of Skaven Stormfiends.
Whereas I used to be at it, I settled on one other character. The horrid hunchback Grasp Moulder turns into a Tech-Priest with minimal conversion wanted. A servo-arm, a Mechanicus-branded axe, and the armoured legs from an precise Tech-Priest went a good distance, and I opted for a head from the Human The Aristocracy Blood Bowl crew. I’m not one hundred pc satisfied it really works, however we’ll see the way it seems when painted earlier than making the ultimate name.
Then I seemed on the Brood Terror. Probably the most thrilling of the brand new releases, I dry-fitted the push-fit elements collectively and set to work with my interest noticed. Arms, legs, and head had been eliminated, leaving a torso ripe for mechanical intervention and an infinite hole on its entrance.
I initially meant the Brood Terror to be one other Kastelan, but it surely’s far too massive. So I settled on one other Sydonian Dragoon, just like the one I transformed from a Warhammer 30K Thanatar Siege Automata just a few weeks again. A traditional Dreadnought leg mounted my first drawback, and a Rat Ogor arm mounted the second. The fitting arm-hole was full of the Thanatar’s mechanical hip joint and topped with a mining laser from the Genestealer Cult Goliath. A few Mechanicus bits to cowl up gaps or flat panels completed the job. Aside from that gaping gap the place the pinnacle was.
As an alternative of looking for one thing in my bitz field – and having already used a Knight Armiger head on my final Dragoon, I didn’t need to repeat the identical factor – I broke out the Inexperienced Stuff. And, as a substitute of following within the footsteps of Papa Nurgle once more, I reached out to a different god.
Tzeentch answered, my mates, and struck me with a bout of vile inspiration. After utilizing tin foil and sizzling glue to fill nearly all of the cavity, I then superglued ball bearings onto the foil and surrounded them with Inexperienced Stuff. Utilizing small sausages and mushy instruments, I rigorously blended two dozen eyelids to provide the impact of an all-seeing abomination.
Use loads of Vaseline in your palms and instruments to cease the Inexperienced Stuff from sticking to something apart from the mannequin and itself.
I’m actually pleased with the end result. The eyes look nice, and a good paint job and gloss varnish will actually promote the impact. And so, I’ve three new models for my Darkish Mechanicus primarily based on the good Skaven fashions Video games Workshop is producing. Now I’ve simply set to work out how you can corrupt the Stormcast with a forty first millennium twist.
