Metamorph Proxies

[hopewell]

With the launch of the Cult this is really playing into my want for a Nid 'gribblies' army. With Cult rules fitting how I see Nids should run.

Rules aside I'm considering running a few Metamorph squads in a Cult/Nid list, yet an seriously reluctant to buy the Metamorphs box. £4-5 for a model worth ~is absurd.

I have been considering proxying in either Genestealers or Termas, how have you guys been tackling this issue?

[mattblowers]

I bought a few boxes. The claw is what you want. You can buy them cheaply from Spellcrow and put on acolytes.

[hopewell]

See, this is why I always come back to the hive. Amazing! Cheers Matt.

Having read the codex and confirmed online, the claw makes the most sense. I'm still not sure what to base them on as buying 'cheap' Acolytes involved buying and splitting DWOK boxes, which I'm already about to do for the third time haha

Alas, these seem autobuy!

[hopewell]

While these appear in the post, what are people's thoughts on running Genestealers with Rending Claws, one of these arms and a spinefist? Technically WYSIWYG but a more appealing base if you ask me with the Genestealer.

[warhammer39999]

Those spellcrow arms look fantastic.  Personally, I went with claws from Daemonettes:

I chopped the wrist/forearm off each model and replaced it with a claw from the demon model.  See a work in progress shot here:

[riotearp]

Feb 11, 2017 12:18:01 GMT mattblowers said:

I bought a few boxes. The claw is what you want. You can buy them cheaply from Spellcrow and put on acolytes.

Just saw it now that you also recommend them. They are great arent they? ^^ Imho the best bits for the claws i like them also over the tiny original claw.

[hopewell]

I have ordered a few sets of these myself, just not sure what to base them on now. I will mock up a Genestealer with one when they arrive and see..

[mattblowers]

Feb 19, 2017 17:31:06 GMT riotearp said:

Feb 11, 2017 12:18:01 GMT mattblowers said:

I bought a few boxes. The claw is what you want. You can buy them cheaply from Spellcrow and put on acolytes.

Just saw it now that you also recommend them. They are great arent they? ^^ Imho the best bits for the claws i like them also over the tiny original claw.

Yeah, they are awesome. Someone on here gave the tip and I ordered immediately.

[kazetanade]

Anyone have an idea how to model them clawed metamorphs using Neophyte models? A single retail box gives you a tonne of heads, getting the claws from pleasure knight, but can't figure out how to make 3 arms for the DWO Neophytes. If we could, DWO gets like double value.

[No One]

kazetanade said:

Anyone have an idea how to model them clawed metamorphs using Neophyte models? A single retail box gives you a tonne of heads, getting the claws from pleasure knight, but can't figure out how to make 3 arms for the DWO Neophytes. If we could, DWO gets like double value.

Depends what arms you're missing - claws, warriors or acolyte boxes (should have heaps of spare clawed arms). Wouldn't give enough to fit out an entire DWO I don't think, but I think you can get something like 10 spare claws from the aco box. Also seen someone use stealer 'hands' rather than the rc, but while it sort of worked, I don't think it would fit with the normal acolyte aesthetic (his was entirely converted skaven with the 'hand', so it all fitted together fine).

Pistols - possibly some spare from acolyte box (any mining weapons, hand flamers, banner). Or you can turn the autogun into a pistol with a bit of sniping, though I don't know how many you'd be able to easily pose (I made 4 up pretty easily by swapping the only left handed guys lasgun onto a right handed model, and the inverse. But making more, I think you'd probably need to do something a bit more extreme to get around the 'arm over body' posture).

[blackrainbow]

Feb 17, 2017 19:17:50 GMT warhammer39999 said:

Those spellcrow arms look fantastic.  Personally, I went with claws from Daemonettes:

I chopped the wrist/forearm off each model and replaced it with a claw from the demon model.  See a work in progress shot here:

These are the arms I have laying around in abundance, great idea.

Also, welcome to the Hive.

[hopewell]

Those Daemonette arms look spot on, great shout. My claws still haven't arrived from Poland so I can't even mock anything up.

Just need these to come to fruition so that I can finish my 1,850 Nid/Cult list and playtest larger games!

[hopewell]

They arrived..! Mock up inbound.

[hopewell]

Can't seem to edit posts in Tapatalk, so triple post ahoy!

Thoughts..?

[blackrainbow]

Need more side shots as I can only vaguely put it all together in my mind.