If you look at my skaven collection, I figure I have around 20,000points before magic items and only minor unit upgrades. From these points I can put on the table anyunit except for a Warp-grinder. As theseare horrible I don’t feel bad about it. This doesn’t mean however that I can make any list, as some of theselections I am limited in what I can put on the table. For QCR 2012 I had built and painted 20 nightrunners when I ran 2 units of 10. Manyof these night runners had since been taken for use as gutter runners/shades. But 2 units of 10 is not enough, and so Idecided I needed a few more. I took anight runner box I already had in my ‘stash’ and added another night runner boxand 10 clan rats. I then mixed up theparts, added a few extra slings I had from previous night runner boxes, shookthe whole thing up and ‘presto’ 6 units of 20 night runners.
If only it were that simple.
To fill in those 50 models, I added a few others I hadpre-assembled. A couple of years ago,and in the time since I have tried to keep an eye out for the clan rat/nightrunner models as they are of an older generation. This project used up a good portion of thosemodels, at least the ones that haven’t been soaking for over a year to bestripped.
Over a week I clipped, cleaned and in general got the night runnerparts ready. I also begged, traded andbummed various bits from my friends and club mates for the conversions I had inmind. What I wanted was lots of lights,lanterns, candles, etc. And yes did itwork. I actually have a few left overfor expansion to the project.
In order to have a more fluid unit, and to not have to deal with thedreaded ranking issues, I decided to not actually put 20 guys into my units of20. I decided that 14 gave a good amountof fluidity to the units, while still leaving enough differences in base sizesto pull wounds off as needed. Every unitgo one 4x1 I had stashed from some of the early boxes of these clan rats, one40mm and three 2x1, which I created over a few days with various kinds of glue(super to hold, plastic to firm up) and then contour putty to fill in thegaps. Hopefully once painted they willlook like 1 base without that much difference.
I have included a few pictures at various levels of assemble. I was supposed to go to a tournament thatday, but as it was a 2 hour drive each way and they told me it would probablyhave less than 5 players I decided to skip and go with this instead. I feel I would have gotten farther, fasterbut my house decided to have a sewage issue and that ended up taking a goodamount of my attention. I didn’t sleepwell Saturday night, so early Sunday I was up and finishing the project.
I figure I will start painting them after I return from Adepticon.
These two pictures are close ups of the units. You can see the 'stashed' rats already assembled, or mostly along with my additions on non-20mm bases.
just slings and torch conversions
Completed
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