So after much tinkering, messing and gluing and the
occasional splash of paint I have now completed my little Warhammer Fantasy
army on a budget (barring two character models which my mate Chris is buying
for the princely sum of £0.48p each from the museum giftshop).
I began this in part as a giant screw you to GW (which is
kind of pointless as they couldn’t care less) but also to see if I could do it
to any level of acceptable quality. I did preview these lovely little creepy
crawlies at the club last week as they shall be my Daemons of Chaos army for
the tournament this coming Sunday and I was a little shocked at the response:
“So guys what do you think” says I all innocent like
“What are they“ says one, “What do they represent” says
another.
“Oh that’s a plague bearer unit, that’s a Beast of Nurgle
and they’re Furies”
Choruses of “I’d think they were all swarms, I don’t get it”
and “where’s the champion and standard bearer” and “you can’t tell what they
are”, oh and this was the best “I wouldn’t play it because they aren’t WYSIWYG!”
So it would seem that there’s a lack of imagination at my
club. I did explain that each unit would have a nice little label on the base
identifying the unit choice, but that was ignored in favour of the general
reply of “it’s not GW”.
Huh?
I really did think this hobby was about imagination however
it would seem that there’s a group out there that don’t want to use it but
would rather have the “official” imagination foisted on us by a corporate
entity aimed at maximising profits for shareholders……….rant rant rant.
Sorry got sidetracked, so without further ado here’s the
finished article
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| The full 1500 pts Daemons of Chaos |
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| Plaguebearers |
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| Ooh look - Standard! |
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| Plaguebearers again |
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| And another Standard! |
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| Beasts of Nurgle |
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| Fleshounds of Khorne |
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| Second unit of Fleshounds |
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| Furies of Nurgle |
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| Nurglings |
And for reference here's the costs:
6 x pack of childrens toy insects - £6
Sheet of 3mm balsa wood - £2.10
Mixed sand - Free
Twigs, moss and flock - Free
2 x Auto spray paint - £2
Uhu adhesive - £0.99p
Old GW paints that had dried up - As I was throwing them I’ll
say free.
So that’s a grand total of £11.09
Hey that's a hell of an idea! I like it very much.
ReplyDeleteShame on those GW fan boys who lack the imagination thats a primary foundation of this hobby in my humble opinion.
I might steal one idea or the other once!
Thanks for sharing
GS (from lead-adventure.de)
Pinch , borrow, steal to your heart's delight my friend. That's why i put them up. I'm a hobbyist and gamer whereas some folks are only gamers and sometimes they don't get it.
DeleteThanks.
These turned out really well Ste, very imaginative.
ReplyDeleteIt really isn't a great stretch of cognitive ability to work out and remember what is what, and as long as the base sizes match up then it should work fine. Even if you had to track casualties with casualty markers...
OK you might not get to compete at a GW run tournie, but for goodness sake, the local club should offer no barriers...
Just as a side thought, at the moment I mostly play FoW, and we often change our lists around to try out different forces, but don't always have the correct troops, so we proxy in other similar troops and let the opponent know whats going on... it really isnt difficult. Again I wouldn't do this at an official tournie, but for a routine 'club game' this should never be a problem...
DeleteCompete at a GW tournie????? Heaven forbid, I get frowned at every time I call in to top up on spray and reply "historicals" to the predictable questioning.
DeleteThanks for the comment!