The Scavvy King returns from the underhive

It's been a while since I last dwelled in the depths of the underhives of Necromunda. Luckily, I've been given 3 great opportunities to get back to it.

The first one is a little challenge on the Palatine Hive Facebook page, a page dedicated to that wonderful setting that confrontation is.

The second one is the very near release of Rogue Stars, a sci-fi skirmish game by Osprey which just happens to have several common points with Confrontation and which I'm really eager to play with. Oh, the fact there's a competition for the french version of Rogue stars might have motivated me as well...

The third reason is that I've had the luck to put my hands on a rather rare model and few things motivate me as much as putting my brushes on such minis !

Let's have a look at all the guys :

The Scavvy king is quite an elusive model and it's part of a whole range of extremely nice models designed and sculpted by no other than Jes Goodwin that simply got lost in the void between confrontation and Necromunda.

I just can't really understand why they left those aside since they fit so well in the later red era style but GW will be GW I guess...

The model is a tad "flat" (the start of the YMCA poses) but very charming and loaded with details. Unfortunately, the cast I got wasn't excellent and some details weren't exactly sharp while the surface was a little grainy. Obviously, I won't complain much about it as it remained a very pleasant model.

The king's right arm must probably be his trusted shaman. It's been a long time I was considering using this Nurgle champion (Jes Goodwin again) as an underhiver. It's just got everything, the weapon, the gear and the look is just too good.

It was quite nice to play with the skin tones and keep it sober enough to be convincing.

Now here's the first scavvy I've ever owned (must have got it 20 years ago) and which has remain unloved until I gave him a strange right arm and nothing more a while back. The idea of a one-armed duellist slowly grew on me and now I have to say he's one of my favourite. I sculpted him an empty left sleeve just to hint a potential past in the imperial guard or something like this. The fact a one-armed guy using a sword is still alive must be a good proof of his worth I guess...

Now here you have the basic trooper, Mr No Non-sense, using a sawn-off shotgun and cautiously waiting for his opponents to make the wrong move. The model is a very bad recast (only realised afterwards) so poor bits of plastic base had actually been left on the tab and recast with the model (can't think of any better proof than this really).

Once again, since the paintjob was going to be quite rough and gritty, it wouldn't be a major issue.

Now here's our ranger (poor recast as well) because in such hostile environment as the underhive, finding the proper supplies must be the primordial subject.

I've given him bigger arms than he should have on purpose, he's slightly on the mutant side but still closer to the human one. I quite like his sleeveless leather jacket with badges, it gives hims a spot-apoc/madmax look I quite fancy.

Here's quite the odd one in the group, a Marauder scavvy I got for cheap and just simply couldn't left aside dspite the clear change of style with the Goodwin ones. Bigger head, bigger hands and weapons, he's got all the signs of his origins but I like him.

I'm really eager to play these guys. From what I've got from Rogue Stars' rules, every member of your crew is very specific so I tried to push the concepts for each, so they're not just a bunch of average Joes but a real tool box of specialists.

I already have plans to extend the group to Necromunda size with mutants and weird creatures as well but this will be a bit later.
I thought these guys had earned an action pic so I tried to imagine what kind of daily life theirs is...

Scavenging the underhive unchallenged is not an option, by nature or necessity, only combat will determine those who'll get the king's share.

So here we are, with these guys, I'm reaching the 160 painted models milestone which is quite an achievement for my lazy self.
If you love scavvies as much as I now do, I invite you to have a look at my mate Colin's over his blog, he's got quite a fancy gang. ;)

I should have a couple more things done before nativity scenes, Christmas carols on TV and Food overdoses become our unbearable present.