SkavenTide and Beyond
Kitbashing already
I did an engineer kitbash from a Jezzail half body. The sprue gave you the ability to create 3 full bodies and the variety of 4 right hand sides of the body. Bits: Northstar gnoll left arm, Mechanicum left leg, piece of gun barrel as the gun handle, cheese wedge of sprue, Northstar wizard sprue mouse, shortened the barrel of the gun and Greenstuff to fill the left hand side of the body. The basing is from the SkavenTide terrain sprue.
I painted up the mini and was really happy with the outcome.
I had taken the advice of the Age of Sigmar Skaven Players Facebook page on how best to use the extra half of a body and they suggested the Engineer. I looked at the engineer in the SkavenTide box and saw that they had a pet rat, so I leant into that hence the silliness of the cheese wedge and the Frostgrave Wizard sprue mouse.
Jezzails usually have a Pavise type shield held by a clan rat that acts as a musket rest as well. I had hoped that shortening the barrel and suggesting some how that his enhancements and knowledge of warp stone engineering gave him super strength. But as I hadn't improved the muscle look on his right arm or hinted at it in any other way it did look jarring.
On the good advice of Callum Davies (from the forementioned Facebook page), I finished off my engineer with a gun rest. Clever engineer fashioned the rest out of a 40k mechanicum component and a Dark Age Roman sword that pivots, tilts and grips fast over all terrains for well aimed shots.
The final mini has turned out to be one of my favourite kitbashs. Amongst all the Grimdark to come in parts of this force I think this bit of fun will be a welcome lighteners.
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