Necromunda thread - Nov 7: a few more Scavvies WIP

[Spooktalker]

I've been meaning to come around here and share my Necromunda stuff. Mostly so far I've been active on the fantasy boards but Necromunda is one of my oldest and dearest miniatures kicks. Today I've got my scavvies for display shown for the first time but I also have a couple other gangs that have been floated around the web before but you might be interested in seeing them all in one place.

These were done ~2006-2007 but I only recently got around to taking proper pictures of them.




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Mutant with the "exposed brain" mutation, an idea taken from the Inquisitor Sketchbook. It's heavily converted from a Gorkamorka orc.

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A converted Marauder Miniatures scavvy. I took a dremel to the head, hands and feet and resculpted them nearer 28mm proportions. I like how the the bat-winged skull on the hat turned out.

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Another converted Marauder scavvy. I replaced the head with a plastic chaos marauder one and gave him a new pistol and a scratch-made maul.
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This figure is a chem-grunt from the Vor: The Maelstrom Neo-Soviets line. It's stock except I switched out the tubing for a length of tire wire. The weapon can be either a flamer or some kind of toxic hose.

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The scavvies' leader. Thanks to a reader of my blog I've got an ID of the figure. It's from the Kallistra sci-fi range and I think it's sculpted by Bob Olley. It had a spear gun originally and I added the hat and mask. The hat is a nod to Ian Miller.

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[Spooktalker]

A mutant converted from a Mark Copplestone sculpt for Grenadier's Future Warriors. The head is sculpted from scratch and the weapon was replaced.

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Another mutant sculpted over a Gorkamorka orc. Plenty of GW figures have no neck but for some reason it looks really wrong to me here. Good thing he's a mutant so I can say I intended him to have the "no-neck" mutation. In my head I call him No-Neck Joe after a character from an animated short of the same name.

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A mutant converted from a Gorkamorka digga (human). I gave him a tunic and sculpted the head from scratch. This guy has gills, handy for sneak attacks from the sump.

[Spooktalker]

Here are some shots of some of the conversions. The first one is a before shot of the Marauder figure and you can see  how funky the proportions are. Pardon me for the bad pics. I took these back in 06 (before I painted them obviously) and my photography skills have improved since then, perhaps even more than my sculpting skills.













I say a more about these in this blog post:
http://belchedfromthedepths.blogspot.com/2013/11/scavvies.html

And if you want even more pics, try flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spooktalker/sets/72157635496820685/

[aggro84]

Those are amazing on so many different levels.
I am in awe sir!
  

[Mason]

Top drawer, in every aspect.
 

[phreedh]

Spooky, I knew your painting was off the charts but wasn't aware that you were such a talented sculptor too! Very, very nice work!

[zizi666]

Top drawer, in every aspect.
 

+1

Can't wait to see what's coming up next 

[beefcake]

Very cool, your sculpting is amazing. The scavvies were my favourite outlanders gang (then I sold them  )
Gotta get me some scalies again!!

[rob_the_robgoblin]

Awesome, great concepts and wonderfully carried through to the end!

[Suber]

Woow! All of them are amazing! Applause!!

[Tomsche]

Very cool looking gang, really capturing John Blanche's grim style, even though I ain't a fan personally of his art style

[Jonas]

That is one awesome looking warband!!!  Thanks for sharing

[Diakon]

 
Those are amazing man. Love Scavvies and this is one of the best scratch built warbands I've seen. I'm a big fan of Blanch style mini-painting too and you've got that spot on. Will there be any more mini's added to this gang? How about some plague zombies or a big-ass Scally? 

[Bergil]

That's great. Love the conversions and paint jobs.

[styx]

A+ work! Necromunda has always been close to my heart!