Fig Loathing

 I have these 3rd edition plastic Catachans. Two 10-man squads.  Sitting in baggies, wrathful.  Giant penis-knives raised in anger.

I hate them.  I mean, I hate them. They were on the discount rack at Bobe's Hobbies in Pensacola maybe in 2007, untouched and still with the shrink wrap for like 22 bucks.  Not bad for 20 figs!  the upshot, though, is that they are ugly!  They are chunky and look like Stallone and Arnold given some combat steroids and they are just ungainly. The poses are kind of cool and pretty dynamic, but overall I have put off priming these figs for like 8 years because I just don't like them.  I have some great metal Catachans sergeants that I love to pieces - they will probably become the Command Squad, somehow.

They represent legs and resources to make some fun nonsensical conversions, and so they will probably get turned into veterans and the HW teams I made will be saved for use on the board with my Cadians.

Mostly, they will become Genetealer Cult Brood Brothers and Inquisition crew for Inq28; the arms are just that weird that I think they would look at home with some 'Nid heads glued on and at bad angles.

we'll see.  Until I started checking out Pinterest for Inq28 stuff my thoughts on kit-bashing were pretty conservative but since I found and started my first real experiments with green-stuff, seems like the possibilities are endless!

I'll get the camera in gear to show te process of breaking them down, again.

The Shadow of the Hivefleet Doth Approach

2 things (possibly more)

A) I will never ever make a 'Nid army, just because.  I dig the models and even like the fluff, but I'm hip deep in debt and can't drop money on a whole new thing. That said, I love Genestealers to pieces.  Always have, since about '91 or '92 and then Space Hulk on the PC ruined me forever. In my fevered dreams I hear the sound of a Terminator readying for overwatch, and the click-clack of impossibly dense chitinous claws resounding down the corridor until CHUFF CHUFF CHUFF JAM and then static.

2) I do have the time and interest to dick around with terrain and mixing the Armies I have with the GS and termagants from the Macragge set. It's impossibly chilly, now, and I cannot prime nor paint any figures.  My other models are all based with sand, since I'm a cheapskate, so I'd like to keep everybody fairly similar in that regard.  But I think I will mix some sand and tile and junk from the drawers to base the 'stealers I'm putting together, now.  You know, bolts and wire and pipes and such. The Space Hulk GS are almost painfully elaborate and the poses are sort of ONLY ON A HULK (naturally!) but I think I can sort something out.

3) a powerful urge to convert a patriarch - the Space Hulk broodlord is cool, but something else is needed, I think.

4) The terrain/fortifications and special rules of the 6th edition list I'm using scream for a Cities of Death thing