Necromunda Bacon's Underhive Builds - Conversions A-Go-Go

[Xavier Bacon]

Hey - thought I'd start a thread to collect the gangs I'm currently building. The Necromunda bug has bitten me HARD since I've found two friends nearby are players, and I've been repairing 20-year-old gangs and converting new ones, as well as painting up a set of Wargames Tournaments terrain I splurged on.

First in front of the lens - REDEMPTIONISTS. I had a converted gang back in the day but they were embarrassing lumps of Milliput, despite being monsters in-game. I found 2 sprues of 5 Cultists for £6 in the Bits & Kits sale, and went to work. Not the greatest Green Stuff work you'll ever see but more than passable, I feel, particularly differentiating the duplicates. Hope you like them...

Leader - Chainsword, Exterminator, Meltagun. OTT and badass. Converted from a very old Chaos Sorcerer, I think. The lower half was originally chainmail-esque, and I'd badly Milliputted over in when he was my Deacon 20 years ago. I re-sculpted robes and they look a lot better, I feel. Original wepaon had been snipped off, so I pinned on an ornate chainsword, trimmed it on the back and added the Exterminator.

(Seem to have missed photographing my Deacon with Flamer)

Crusader #1 with Shotgun and Exterminator - small bottle of fuel on the weapon's receiver, with two tubes leading off it. Larger one is the fuel feed, and smaller is the ignition/pilot light feed.

Crusader #2 with Shotgun and Exterminator

Crusader #3 with Autogun and Exterminator

Crusader #4 with Autogun and Exterminator

Crusader #5 with Autogun and Exterminator

Zealot with Eviscerator and Exterminator

Devotee #1 with Club and Autopistol

Devotee #2 with Flail and Autopistol

Devotee #3 with Knife and Stub Gun

Devotee #4 with Knife and Stub Gun

More to follow! I've just hit them with the rattle can and begun base-coating.

Coming soon... Spyrers, Death Cult Orlocks, construction crew Van Saar and some uuggggllly Orlock conversions.

 

[Ben_S]

I'm impressed with your greenstuffed exterminators. I have to say though that, aside from those, they don't look particularly Redemptionist to me. I guess it's the trouble with the DV cultists - they're fairly versatile, but it's hard to break away from them looking like DV cultists. Maybe the paint job will help.

 

[Xavier Bacon]

Thank you! Yeah true, re DV look. I guess I've always favoured less traditional Redemptionist hoods, though, as I hate how KKK they can come across if people don't get it. I'm hoping a go-fasta red paintjob will make them look suitably righteous and less ruinous...

 

[Xavier Bacon]

Sneaky peeks of things to come..

 

[Xavier Bacon]

Can't seem to edit my own posts - odd. Wanted to add that the majority of my Necromunda builds are using eBay rescue models (in particular HORRID Chaos Marine sculpts from a used bitz bag, old Empire Militia, Scout bitz, etc. Only the Cultists have actually been bought for purpose. The rest is me trying to make as much Necromunda stuff for almost free as possible from stuff lying around the house, and have some sculpting fun into the bargain.

 

[Ben_S]

Agreed that the traditional Redemptionist look can be problematic.

The Enforcers and Spyrers are looking great though. I look forward to seeing more of your work.

 

[Azzabat]

Impressive green stuff skills there.

 

[Xavier Bacon]

Thank you! I'm definitely more enthusiast than expert, and owe recent advances in skill to switching to silicon-tipped Colour Shapers / Clay Shapers (plus the Tube Tool from http://beesputty.com/index.php/sculptingtools/tubetool.html for ribbed cables and tubing, a thing of genius).

Colour Shapers are SO much easier to use than metal scuplting tools, and make you a better sculpter after about fifteen minutes practise. They're especially good ensuring for smooth finishes, polishing, and making cloth folds. Even without water they don't stick to the GS and make sculpting fun instead of a peril-filled chore!

I picked up a whole bunch cheap enough on eBay, but the main Colour Shapers I use are Chisel, Cup Round and Taper tips in Firm (grey tip), and Angle Chisel and Taper in Hard (black tip). All Size 0 I think, and a larger Size 2 grey-tip chisel for smoothing bigger areas. The Hard ones help you get sharper edges or poke and prod, and the grey let you shunt, shape, tweak and polish.

The only other tools I use is a dressmaking needle taped to a length of plastic rod, that makes it easier to handle for making small impressions and holes, and my craft knife for straight channels and edging neatly.

 

[Azzabat]

Do you have a link to the company/brand of tool you bought? I've bought sets from 3 different companies now and non of them were any good. The 1st was my own fault as I bought really cheap ones to practice with, the the other 2 were mid range and I was still disappointed with the quality of the tools.

 

[Xavier Bacon]

Mine are all Royal Sovereign UK branded on the handle, @Azzabat. I assume I got from eBay. Looked for links but was some time ago and order history doesn't seem to have them in it.

 

[Azzabat]

Shiny. I'll have a look for them. The others I'd bought were for shaping clay for my Halloween Severed Heads so maybe there is a difference between clay tools and greenstuff tools.
Many Thanks

 

[Xavier Bacon]

Here you go, pic of my workhorse tools. I have a few others but I default to this lot. YMMV.

Colour Shapers seem to be the Firm grey tip ones. Clay Shapers are the Extra Firm black tips.

Hope that helps!

 

[Azzabat]

Yeah, these look nothing like the ones I've been using. = )

Gonna order me some this weekend. Cheers.

 

[xriccix]

awesome stuff dude!

 

[Azzabat]

I managed to find the Color Shapers but not the Clay Shapers (looked everywhere online and in physical stores) so I've ordered a set of the Royal Sovereign Color Shapers. Now all I need to do is order a day with 28 hours in it and I'll be well away!

Many thanks @Xavier Bacon

 

[Xavier Bacon]

Fab! Enjoy them! I found you have to use them to tease and shape more than outright push and prod. Hard to explain but you'll have fun exploring! Make a pokey stick too! (Needle/dressmaking pin sellotaped to a rod or old paintbrush handle) Invaluable tool!

 

[Xavier Bacon]

It's that point when I ruin all my work and inexpertly put paint on things! Decided to keep it simple and just get a few colours on as I've oodles of minis to paint. Base with Army Painter, brief drybrush, Army Painter dip, done. Here's how things look so far:

Must say the more I use Army Painter Warpaints the less I like them. :-/

 

[Xavier Bacon]

Game sidebar: I fielded my Redemptionists for the first time this week and drew a Hit and Run mission, to scrag the water vane of a Delaque gang's hideout. I rolled the max of 6 raiders, and selected Priest, Zealot, two Crusaders with autogun/Exterminator and two Crusaders with shotgun/Exterminator. My lovely weight-of-numbers gang cut down to six!!! Hey ho. My Zealot scaled a tower and chopped down a Delaque before legging it for the target. Everyone else did some shocking shooting and made terrible Exterminator wound rolls and main weapon ammo rolls. I bottled voluntarily as too many people were writhing in the floor or left with just a knife! Great, tense game though! Next time all 11 will hit the table in a ball of cleansing flame...

 

[Xavier Bacon]

Ugh, painting is harrrrrd. One done and dipped as a test, drying now. Pics later, maybe.

When I got fed up of destroying detail with acrylics I raided my bitz box again and made this:

So yeah, Pit Slave gang on the way too! I took a salvaged Space Marine torso, with head still attached, and glued the head into the hip joint of some rescued Ork legs. The I added GS galore and suitable (also mostly reused) bitz. I think this will count as a buzzsaw - no way could he parry with THAT.

Yeah, he's kinda fugly, and the super-close-up pics don't help, but I think he'll look rad when painted up!

 

[hreikin]

iv been toying with a pit slave gang for a while, i look forward to seeing what you do with these