I used to collect Warhammer years ago. Some Fantasy and particularly Skaven as a teenager and then 40,000 Tau in my twenties. I didn’t play very often and I don’t think I ever won a single game. I did really enjoy kitbashing stuff though, even if undiagnosed and unmedicated ADHD made it very difficult for me to actually paint things.
I got rid of most of it years ago but I still kept a few bits and pieces and in particular my more unique conversions and seeing as I wanted to practise with my Canon EOS 5D a bit more I thought they’d make good subjects. I was surprised at how narrow the depth of field was at such close range; the a model an inch in front of or behind the ones in focus are blurry enough to lose all detail, but it is a cool effect.
My fireblade, an old metal XV15 stealth battlesuit model with the right arm sawed off and replaced with one from a fire warrior, giving him a plasma rifle instead of a burst canon. The back has a magnet in it so that the backback can be swapped out.My command TX7 Hammerhead is intended as a proxy for Longstrike. It has the cockpit of a KV128 Stormsurge fitted on top and the sensor array from an old vehicle upgrade kit sprue on the front.My Nimh, a bunch of Skaven models kitbashed with parts mostly from Kroot and Adeptus Mechanicus to act as Kroot proxies. The more recent Kroot killteams didn’t exist when I made these so all the clan rats were intend to stand in for a general Kroot carnivore unit rather than some of the more specialised ones that exist now.I had some idea of backstory for the Nimh, though I couldn’t tell you much if it any more. Not just Skaven in space and not just rat Kroot but very much a group of scavengers, cobbling together tools, weapons and cybernetics from any source they could get. Cannibalising the technology of what they kill rather than the DNA.Not very in focus here but I have one chaos hound here that’s intended as proxy for Kroot hounds. I think I have a few more in box somewhere. I could have used Skaven wolf rats but I wanted to lean away from everything being mutated rats and the Chaos hounds remind me of tiberium fiends from Command & Conquer: Tiberium Sun, which I have a large amount of nostalgia for. I’ve always associated some aspects of the Tau, with their hover tanks, walkers and rail guns, with the GDI from that game.At the back some converted rat ogres as krootox proxies. The middle one with the gorilla pose holding the autocannon is one my favourite kibashes. I broke its shins and lengthened them a bit with wires and greenstuff and modelled some more fur on to make him look less stitched-together.The other rat ogre did not get as much as a spruce-up, but maybe if I come back to these and paint them some time he might get some more love.And on the much more fucked-up side of things is a dark eldar grotesque with a rat tail stuck on. Doesn’t really fit with the others.My assembled (but unpainted) horde (hrud?)I quite like the rat using the Tau shield generator as an actual shield. A distinctly un-Tau-like use of Tau technology.And here are some much older kitbashes that I made with a childhood friend just sticking some clan rat parts on some Space Marines. The paint jobs might be crude but at least we actually painted them.I am not sure where that hang glider wing is from. It might not be a Warhammer piece at all.
