I’m still working away furiously on the Chaos Knight but at the moment there’s not a whole lot of progress that particularly merits showing. Instead here’s a freshly completed kitbash of another of Necromunda’s dramatis personae; Freikstorn Strix. An exile of House Van Saar Strix is a genius who, unwilling to allow his body to succumb to the cancers and radiation sickness that plagues his people, has rebuilt his bodysuit and body alike to his own specifications, adding new cybernetic components to replace his limbs and organs as they wasted away and failed. Yet machines wear out fast in the underhive and Strix must constantly search for replacements, cannibalising them from dead foes or earning creds as a bounty hunter with which to buy the components he needs.
He first appeared in the Book of Peril and as soon as I saw him I knew I wanted him to come soaring through the upper levels of Ironhouse on his winged jetpack, looking for new victims and allies amongst the tangled streets below. Just look at how imposing he is!
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As of the time of writing however no model has been released for him so I was left to think up ways to kitbash my own. Inspiration struck with the release of the Adeptus Mechanicus Pteraxii, which gave me everything I needed to turn a Van Saar ganger into the legendary bounty hunter – and at a fraction of the likely price of the Forge World model.
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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Image may be NSFW.
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Of course this means he now joins Gor Half-Horn and Grendl Grendlsenon the shelf of shame, the two bounty hunters I’ve already kitbashed my own versions of but have yet to paint. Probably time for me to crack on with those – just as soon as work settles down a little…
