Inspirations: Proxy 40k armies part 2

So last month I did a little post on a forum member by the username of "Uber kroot"... but I found so much by Uber kroot that I couldn't fit it all into one post.... so now I have the continuation of some more proxy 40k armies :).

A Hrud army (LINK)

Almost look like they should be selling droids in a desert somewhere

The paint job certainly takes them away from the Jawa look

Can't beat a bit of steampunk...

OMG there's soooo many of them!!

Tanks too :)

But we aren't done yet....

K'Nib Army (link)

Initial concept

Weapon concepts

Production line

Spiders with... guns?

Spiders with goggles??!?!?!

Trust an Australian.....

I love these guys....

Holy crap!!

Ah warhammer quest had the cutest spiders...

A duel to the death

Wait now the spiders have night vision goggles and missile launchers.... AAAAAAAAHH

This picture reminds me of Dune.....

Such a brilliant idea....

Anyway that's all of Uber kroots threads that I could find, though there are some more random posts and other gems to be found should you go looking, I also didn't put up every picture from the threads so there is more to see should you follow the links.

I was suitable impressed when I first discovered these some years ago, I hope that some of these ideas could inspire you too :).

Have a good one.

WH40k: Touren Avatar

Just visited the Advanced Tau Tactica forum for the first time in yonks, and picked up a post where the Touren Avatar I asked to be done some years back (before I made my own) was actually drawn!! (here if you are interested (the first page has a whole heap of Tau and Aux avatars to use (note some commissioned ones as well so don't use without permission for those)).

Brilliant stuff :), so much more professional looking than my rubbish attempt!!, if I were to find fault it would be that the symbol on his chest appears to be at kind of an odd perspective, but there are a lot more things wrong with my attempt and I used a photograph of an actual mini!! lol.

Thank you Duredhel wherever you are!

WH40K: Tau Auxiliary; Touren

Another oldie for you, and the source of my Avatar.

Around the release of the plastic stealth suits, at the time I was pretty much exclusively playing Warhammer 40k (Tau). I spotted those stealth suits and I immediately thought the legs would fit well on a beastman gor, so I set out to get me a set for that purpose (and some beastmen).

Once the sets arrived I started work.
I decided I wanted to make a noble looking beastman rather than a ferile looking one (after all the Tau already have the kroot). Because of that I didn't use the horns from the beastmen set, instead I used the helmeted Gor head (back then there was only one plastic helmeted head). I applied putty to the hole left after excluding the horns and smoothed it to become the back of the helmet.

Anyway, the important part are the photos so here you go:



The original Prototype Touren, the one that started it all

The guy above was used to create my Avatar, taking a digital photo of him and manipulating it in Photoshop. I always chose white as a predominate colour in my 40k paint schemes.... as someone who isn't very good at painting, this was not a good idea, but there you go it just appealed to me.

With the success of the first conversion I went on to produce 4 more.

I decided that I would use them as space marine scouts in games of Apocalypse (at the time I thought I might actually have more than one game of apoc), to that end I swapped out the carbine for a pulse pistol, much like the one below. 

I wasn't happy with the size of the pistols in the large beastman hands, but that's something I never resolved.

The unit's heavy support, in the form of a rocket launcher.

The unit was unfortunately never finished and languishes in disuse at the bottom of one of my army cases, part painted and mostly without guns.

Originally these conversions were posted on GreyDeath's "Work In Progress" forums (http://z11.invisionfree.com/Work_In_Progress/index.php), one of my favourite forums as there was always some new fantastic conversion to stare at everyday, it's unfortunately much quieter than it used to be but it's still got a lot to give and is updated quite regularly, masses of inspiration in it's archives that's for certain.

In particular conversions by member : "Typhoid_Garry" are something to marvel at (even if he frequently didn't finish his projects, much like me lol)

WH40K: Touren Pirate

An oldie for you, one of the first conversions that I did for an old project that fell by the way side called "Fringe wars".

Fringe wars was basically Necromunda mashed into WH40k. So instead of gangs you were fighting with units from a 40k race. e.g. Necron cultists (humans worshiping Necrons), Genestealer cults, Tau pathfinders, Eldar corsairs, inquisitor units, etcs.

Much like the MODheim project I started making units for a bunch of warbands, the first of which were the Tauren.

I pictured the Tauren as a noble / Honourable  race of non-spacefairers, their planet was however assimilated into the Tau empire. Once assimilated the Touren were given the choice of joining the Tau empire or moving on (e.g. leave their planet). Most joined the Tau empire, some however chose to go it alone and after being deposited onto a commerce planet, made their way in the world as mercenaries for rogue traders or pirates. I only ever finished one non-Tau touren, but I was very happy with him.

The parts used in this conversion were:
Beastman body, beastman head
Space marine scout shotgun (hand removed and handle re-sculpted)

Space marine torso front & Pouches.

OOP space marine scout bike shotgun holster (handle removed).
Catachan jungle fighter sheathed sword & knife plus pocket shaved off of a leg.

OOP Dwarf hand (pointing)

Wire for shades.

Greensutff.

I started to paint him as well but I didn't get very far.

DeathSquads: Squat survivors

The below figures were going to be the 2nd warband converted for use in DeathSquads, there are no actual rules for Squats, I was intending to use them as Chaos renegades, however I still only have 2 of them finished lol.

Converted from Privateer Press Hammerfall High Shield figures, with GW plastic heads (Empire militia and Catachan Jungle fighter), a weapon from Heresy Miniatures and the bolter type thing from Inquisitor (54mm). Plus a fair ammount of greenstuff (and even a little greystuff (pro-create putty) on the first guys shoulders)

DeathSquads: Bloodaxe Orks

Here are the models I put together for use in Death squads:

http://www.deathsquadsgame.com/

BLOOD AXE KOMMANDOS

The models are all converted from Rackham Orc Trackers of the Behemoth, then using ork bits from 40k, warhammer and a few plastic bits from other places.

Ork Nob

Sneaky Boss

Flash Git

2 Bosses

Kommandos