Necromunda 3.0: It's a Proxy Party! - Part 1: Player Hacks

One of the things that makes me love small-scale games like Necromunda far more than those which require large armies is the scope, or some might even say necessity, for making that small gang of miniatures unique.

The new edition of Necromunda's not been out for more than a week or so, and already social media is filling up with shots of the ways in which gamers have chosen to customise the miniatures in the actual game and also to come up with their own alternatives.

Custom Orlock Heavy by James Ewing of The Ewing Workshop

The official Orlock gang isn't even out yet, and already talented sculptors like James Ewing ( The Ewing Workshop ) are creating miniatures like this rather excellent heavy, replete with hand-sculpted details that really make them stand out from the crowd.

Gor Half-Horn Proxy by Bartosz Chilicki of Threefold Brush Studio

Rather than fork out £18 for the official version of Beastman Bounty Hunter Gor Half-Horn, Bartosz Chilicki ( Threefold Brush Studio ) reached for his bits box and bashed together this proxy that, to me at least, looks to be as good as the real thing.

Modular Toy Parking Garage (photo by John Luke, via Facebook)

Even terrain is getting in on the act, with resourceful players spotting this modular plastic parking garage for sale at a very reasonable price on Ebay ( check out the auction page here ), and noticing that, while it was intended for die-cast cars, it could easily be painted up to serve as walkways, gantries and girders that are similar to the ones included in the original Necromunda boxed game.

Multiple sets, painted and joined together (photo by Josh Taylor, via Facebook)

As you can see here, the modular nature of the sets and a decent paint-job really shows the potential of a great hack like this, and with the inclusion of ladders and handrails, it's hard to imagine what else you'd need to add to make this a solid alternative to the originals, and in addition it'll be more hard-wearing than the card surfaces of the 1990's terrain.

So there you have both the miniatures and the terrain covered by gamers recapturing that sense of getting up off of your arse and sorting things out for yourself that used to be almost mandatory in the good old Rogue Trader days.

But please feel free to let me know what you think in the comments below, and come back for part two, in which I'll be taking a look at some of the options available for those who want to stick two fingers up to GW (in a metaphorical sense, of course) and yet still want to be fairly lazy about it and have someone else do most of the hard work for them, as I delve into some ideas for proxies from (gasp) non-GW companies.