We’re into month two, and I’m intending to get on the wagon as soon as possible! So I’ve made my first purchase for our Tale of Four Gamers, and keeping in line with the rules we have set out, it’s my commander unit! from the wonderful new Citadel Finecast range. Having already tailor-made an army list that I intend to collect and stick to, I already have a fairly good idea of how my troops should look and how they should be equipped. I decided straight away that my Warboss would have certain characteristics so that he not only looked boss, but was also a monster on the table as well. To that effect, he would have the following:
1: A combi-shoota with a flamer, to toast those pansies in both Dave & Ally’s armies.
2: Heavy Armour so he could still get about nippily and maintain a high(ish) save (Mega Armour is way too cumbersome for a combat powerhouse like the Warboss)
3: An Attack Squig for that crucial extra attack he loses for not wielding two hand weapons (giving him 5 attacks basic)
4: And finally a Big Choppa, for +2 to his strength, giving him 6 Strength 7 attacks on the charge! Take that Darren!
So with the fine details down, I set about buying and converting a suitable model. I give you The Warboss with Attack Squig!
Now he ticks many of the boxes I was looking for: he had the gun, the squig and the armour already. But he lacked a meaty choppa (stop sniggering Ally), and I wasn’t wild about the squig being mounted on the actual model. So two minor conversions were in order, and the finecast resin makes conversion a doddle!
The finecast resin is awesome. Seriously, it is one of the best things I’ve seen happen to Games Workshop since they started the plastic kits as standard back in 3rd Edition. It’s light, easy to manipulate and joins together like a dream. It is ludicrously detailed (these photos do not do the sculpting justice!) amazingly clean and easy to tidy up, and surprisingly tough, the chaps at GW obviously learning a few tricks from their colleagues over at Forge World. Getting the squig off the hand was literally a matter of a small twist and minimal filing. Now the Warboss looks like he’s bellowing commands and pointing to the target, and I mounted the squig on a seperate base, luinging over a space marine helmet!
I fashioned a Big Choppa out of a wheel strut from the Warbiker Plastic Kit and a regular Choppa Blade, making it into a rudimentary (and thoroughly orky) broad axe. Sticking it to the Warbosses belt and he was done. I’m abstaining from painting him right now, as I’m still not entirely sure how I want to paint up my Orks, although a QOTPA Themed colour scheme is very, very tempting!
Thanks to Bolter & Chainsword for their awesome model painter, check them out!
- Sean ‘Orange & Black pirate Orks? Hell yeah!!!‘ McCarter
