Far Corfe: Underhive Nomads

The Nomads stalk through the alleyways and backstreets of the Underhive...

 

I've been picking up the random minis from GW's past on eBay that nobody else seems to want for a while now, and one of these was a ganger from House Cawdor that had been hacked about to an almost ridiculous degree by its previous owner.

I think the thing had lost both it's hands and perhaps even its legs too, but I was determined to make something out of it, and so I raided the bits box for replacement parts and ended up liking the results so much that I was soon back on eBay looking for more minis from the same range.

Far Corfe: Widdershins's Corpse Junkies - Improved Mugshots

Messing with Widdeshins's crew or chewing on a brick - both good ways to lose some teeth...

I've dropped a couple of posts with bad shots of Widdershins's Corpse Junkies in the past, but I actually managed to snap some half-decent ones last night, including some of the newer gang members recently completed and added to the crew as well, and so I decided to do another post to catch up on how the gang's developing.

Necromunda 2.0: Wikipedia to the Rescue

After posting yesterday about the Fanatic range of miniatures that was released around 1999 and greatly expanded the range of gangs and hired guns available to players of second edition Necromunda, I did a little digging and found a very helpful Wikipedia page that details all of the sculpts in their unpainted (lack of) glory.

Click here to check it out.

I have to say that it pretty much confirmed my thoughts about this period in Necromunda's history, with none of the miniatures impressing me and the newer gangs just seeming to be fairly banal variations on existing themes.

I mean, if you have Redemptionists, are Choas Cultists really that big of a deal?

Scavies existing must make the addition of Plague Zombies and Ash Waste Nomads just a variation on a theme, right?

Maybe it's just me!

There were also some new characters, such as Cal Jericho, that I'd heard of and then forgotten over the intervening years, as well as a couple of new Bounty Hunters that I'm going to talk about below, as I think that they pretty much sum up the way in which the distinctive character had been bled out of the range by this point.

Fanatic Bounty Hunter #1 - Everybody loves head...