The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Voodoo still a to-do

So I've been jumping around between projects sort've at whim, just doing whatever I feel like. It's sort've nice, though a bit unproductive.

A while back  I started out with the concept of a bunch of shoota boyz that would follow my voodoo-themed Warphead around, and I felt like it was one of those things I should finally get around to doing, so I started working on assembling a couple more of the ladz.

To fit with their shamanistic leader, all of the boyz got wannabe wooden masks. However, I'm also trying to keep other details mostly consistent across the models - all of them have loincloth-type lower bodies, and where possible (meaning, as many as I had) I used shirtless or relatively bare upper torsos. These are the sorts of details that'll stand out more on the painted models, but don't really show well on gray plastic, so I didn't bother wasting a lot of time photographing each individual boy. However, I did snap a couple shots of the group I have done so far.

There's one boy with a Rokkit lurking among that squad's numbers, and by the time I hit 20 I expect there to be a second. The main reason for this is that I find there to be nothing funnier than a Warphead deepstriking a bunch of gitz with rokkits behind enemy armor. Suck on that, Leman Russes!

Once I hit the 12th boy in the squad, I felt like making a Nob. This was mostly just because it's the right size squad to get crammed in a Trukk, and for no other reason. Still, I had to scratch my head a bit because I had a bunch of pretty good options available to me as far as the 'savage boyz' nob went.

After struggling with choosing a proper Nob body for a while, I stumbled upon the plastic runtherd body from the new(ish) grots kit, and I really liked him. The only problem I had with the body was that while larger than your average boy, he's not quite nob-stature. However, the tried-and-tested solution of plasticard spacers under the feet helps give him a little bit of extra height over his surrounding boyz, and his extra-big-and-impressive-but-not-quite-as-big-as-the-warphead's-mask helps clearly set him apart as 'da git in charge'.

 

A size comparison with a boy from the squad:

I obviously wanted to give my Nob a power klaw, but I thought the image of a vicious, iron-gobbed squig fit the 'savage/feral' profile of this squad a bit more thematically than some electric snippy bitz. Hopefully the average Warhammer 40k player won't give me too much guff about using a barely-restrained snappy squig as a counts-as power klaw!

A last point to make is that the Nob'z banner actually has a bit of wood grain texture carved into it, but that's not entirely evident from these pictures due to the difficulty of getting white-on-white details to photograph nicely. I have a feeling paint will make this whole squad look a lot snappier.