Yakcomp Brainstorming Thread

[Ben_S]

Stealing an idea I just saw in the Original Necromunda group on FB...

90s style...

Something identifiably harking back to the 1990s. This doesn't simply mean bright colours and Goblin Green bases (though that might be a bonus), but a model incorporating one or more 90s references, such as a Windows 95 computer or Britpop, etc.

 

[Aulenback]

1995.

events: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995

fashion: https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1990-1999/

tech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Products_introduced_in_1995

Just for some inspirations.

 

[MusingWarboss]

Stealing an idea I just saw in the Original Necromunda group on FB...

90s style...

Something identifiably harking back to the 1990s. This doesn't simply mean bright colours and Goblin Green bases (though that might be a bonus), but a model incorporating one or more 90s references, such as a Windows 95 computer or Britpop, etc.

I think it could be opened up to post-war 20th Century style.

Just imagine a 70s style Goliath with Afro hair and a medallion…

An Escher in swinging 60s style… etc.

 

[Stoof]

Inspired by @SuboptimusPrime moving house:

The No-kit Kitbash

Build a model for your game of choice using no parts from a model kit.

So cocktail sticks, cardboard, plasticard, greensuff/putty, bits of toys - all good (bits of sprue also OK as they are not *parts*).
No parts of a kit which had numbers/specified in instructions, were specifically printed as model parts, or have been cast from model parts.

Terrain is the obvious choice for this, but it'd be good to see what people can pull off with just junk & putty.

Some fairly poor examples from my youth (although the Bottlehawk is disqualified for using the rear top doors of an old Rhino/Chimera):

 

[SuboptimusPrime]

It's nice to see my suffering made into art.

 

[MusingWarboss]

Little Shop of the Body Snatching Killer Tomato Triffids!!

Make some alien plant life, make it weird! Make it stalk unsuspecting passers by!
The Underhive needs to stock its hydroponic domes, the tunnels need mold with personality (and eyeballs) and the Ash Wastes needs sentient bushes! Etc.

Then give it some basic rule ideas (can move, catch people with its tendrils, fire spores, Sings terrible songs that drive you to despair, etc) - you don’t have to come up with statlines or the like, just simple examples like I bracketed.

Best entry becomes a scenario feature in a future TribeMeet campaign. (Wasn’t expecting that last bit eh?) The basic rule ideas can then be… err… ruleified.

 

[Stoof]

Best foot forward
There's a terrible lack of footwear in the underhive. Build a shoe shop or cobbler for your chosen setting.

Bonus Yakpoints* if your merchant only stocks right or left shoes.

(*Bonus Yakpoints are worth three times regular Yakpoints. Due to rampant inflation, Yakpoints are worth 0.0000003 votes).

 

[Biggle_Bear]

Might have been said already but

soldiers on parade.

 

[Stoof]

Raiders!
Build a marauding raider, or something worth looting, for your chosen setting.


That would be an ecumenical matter.
Build a model whose calling is to matters of the soul - it could be a cleric, fanatical cultist, or entire cathedral complex.

 

[Biggle_Bear]

Was cavalrymen a comp theme once or was it just a suggestion on the brainstorming thread?

 

[Hobo86]

building beasties:
personalise an exotic beast / servo skull to match your gang or champions;
a servoskull with a mohawk? a giant rat with chem-injectors? a cybermastiff lugging a piece of your opponents gangers around? a filthy cherubim?

Timmy, from the olden days:
(using contemporary miniatures) depict a gang member, creature or npc present in the '95 setting not included in the current setting;
brats, ratskin, pitslaves, the old nomads, scavvies, orks, named bounty hunters, mad d'onne, Karloth Valois, ... ?

 

[Punktaku]

I don't know how many people are on instagram, but this one is based off our own @mutantmodifier's work over there.

Heavily Mutated and Modified: Create a force of minis based on anything but official models. Official bits and pieces may be used, but the majority of the mini should be anything else: Doll parts, chess pieces, putty, LEGO (blasphemy, i know).

 

[Punktaku]

On another thread, this was suggested.

Because GW got distracted by the latest shiny
Create a model of one of the many, many characters and gang members that received stat lines but never got an "official" model.

 

[Ben_S]

Inspired by several recent losses (Diogo Jota, Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan):

In Memoriam.

Build some kind of memorial to a lost individual. It could take the form of a look-alike figure in a setting of your choice, a shrine, or whatever else takes your fancy.

 

[Punktaku]

Inspired by our tireless mods:

Another Temu Bot Dies: make some type of robot out of junk, that’s been wrecked as a scenery piece of some sort. Bonus Yak Points if you include a victorious mod who vanquished said bot.

 

[Hobo86]

I agree with the idea, but can we make it more 40K?

a superstitious cawdor luddite trashing a 'heaten' servitor or servo skull?
an inquisitor chasing a joakero ?
an ashwaste nomad chasing down a servo-skull?

 

[Punktaku]

Sure! Why not? That’s why this is the brainstorming thread.

 

[Biggle_Bear]

I think now is a good time to declare that I don’t want a vote on the next project on account of being the fastest. That was just a goal to make sure I get it done and to stir up the pot a little.

If I get a 1st, 2nd or 3rd place I have a theme in mind. But… should we pass it to the next person or maybe just take the last entry from the brainstorming thread as of the close of the comp?

 

[SirFrog]

Time marches for us all - make a model in an unexpected time state - a juvenile monster most commonly portrayed as ancient? An ancient old mercenary, or the wizened old remains of a once-mighty gang leader? You decide!

You don't belong here, do you? - create a piece of something that is VERY clearly out-of-place in its setting, but is adapting! A character from another franchise having to fend off the horrors of Mordheim? Perhaps an Astartes having to come to terms with a VERY different Emperor, yet forced to adapt to have a shot at getting home?Maybe just a wayward Eldar reluctantly wielding an autogun once the ammo runs out just to fend off the bloodthirsty and near-sighted Goliath invasion who saw their getup and flagged them as Escher?

 

[rustedchrome]

The Tourist Trap - See the World's Largest Ball of Yarn? Bottomless Hole? The Mystery Spot? What kind of oddity could pull travelers in to pay a few creds to gander at?

The Action Hero - Bring a movie, comic book, or other heroic character into a fantasy or sci-fi setting, or vice-versa if they're already part of that trope. Batman running with Enforcers? Robin Hood and his Merry Orlocks?

Offering Free Home Delivery - Did a Big Box Delivery Service make it to the 41st Century? Grox Pizza, there in 30 Jiffys or it's Free! Build some kind of futuristic delivery service, truck or delivery person.