Goatboy’s Weirdhammer 40K: 5 Awesome Minis For Conversions
Goatboy here with the top 5 40K minis to convert into something crazy. Let your inner Mekboy shine!
These would be models that are driving a desire in my head to build out a complete army out of to generate some kind of mental theme. If you haven’t figured it out yet this is most likely a desire to create some kind of Chaotic bit of energy to drive my hobby soul that is currently – a bit stuck.
I used to be known for making the Space Goats army. It had me take a ton of Beastman heads, throw them onto Chaos/Marine bodies, and then build upon my brand as the Goatboy of 40K. It was a lot of fun, I played a ton of 5th-6th edition with it, and kinda miss those days. I don’t know what changes for myself, but at some point I lost some of my conversion edge.
I personally think it was when GW stopped letting me take 6+ Daemon Princes in an army – a little bit of my chaotic Goat-heart stopped. A part of me died a bit then and saw a lot of my Daemon Princes leave my house, go out in the world, and become someone else’s problem. Still that desire to convert up a whole new army is there and today I want to talk about the models that keep whispering to build something new. A giant traditional part of Warhammer 40K hobby going back decades is conversions, so here’s some insprirations to let your inner Mekboy get down and dirty!
5. AoS Orks Brute Ragers/Weirdbrute Wreckkaz – “Orky World Eaters”
Man if I didn’t already have a World Eaters army I would have gone full bore into a Chaotic Ork army stuck on Khorne planet in the Eye of Terror. These guys look so dope, would work well as Eightbound/Exalted Eightbound, and would give me the brutish look I would love to paint up. You could add in some horns on the heads, add more chains, and just go to town. Ohh, if only I hadn’t already invested in so many Eightbound. This kit just screams KHORNE at me and I keep saying no to even trying out a single unit because I know it would consume me.
4.AoS Slave to Darkness Chaos Chosen – “Evil Custodes”
I keep wavering between doing the Muscle Mommies Custodes army, with a bunch of Sororitas heads, and a fully Chaotic version using AoS Chaos Chosen, gun bits, and a whole lot of black paint. These models are pretty cool and they have a really neat weapon to that I can slap some guns to and create a WYSIWYG style version with proper Custodes loads outs, a middle finger to the Emperor, and a desire to make anything chaotic.
3. AoS Nighthaunt – Every Model They Got – “Haunted Necrons”
I keep thinking a cool Necron-themed Nighthaunt army could be neat. Yes I have seen some people use parts of it in their armies but having a full force of these techno-ghosts just sounds cool. I also know it would drive a competitive friend nuts to see it so there is a desire to be a troll to their conversion thoughts. I just like how floaty they look and thought – adding some weird mechanical stuff would be pretty cool to look at.
2. Ork “Gorka-Knights” – “Chaos Knights or Imperial Knights”
For years, I’ve thoughts about smashing a bunch of Ork stuff, some Knight stuff, and creating this hodge-podge of Grots running giant monsters of death. Or just going full on Mechanical Warbosses running amok amongst the tabletops. It feels like such a cool army thought to create some Ravagers, Lancers, and whatever else to create a truly horrific assault monster bit of nonsense – all Orky-ed up. I am hoping we see an updated Chaos Knight book at some point that finally drives me to do this as I complete my cycle from competitive player to hobby monster.
1. Ad-Mech & Genestealers – “Bio-Mech Tyranids”
This is always a back-burner idea as I don’t have a Tyranid army currently so it would piggy back off of something existing. I remember seeing some back in the day and thought that would be pretty cool to try and build up some kind of Blanche-like bit of techno-gribblies nonsense. You would have Ad-mech cables, lights, jammed into all kinds of tyranid monster bits to just go ham on an idea. I think it ‘s a tough one to pull off, but the results could be phenomenal. I wonder once I slow down with some commission work I go ahead and try something with a Genestealer or two and create that hybrid of steel, cables, and alien cunning.
Which one should I try first? Any of these inspire you?
