Cheap Snikky!

The 50 hours trivia marathon is over and I’ve mostly recovered. The house is back to normal and I can spend some brain cycles thinking of the upcoming projects and games. Our local shop is having an 1850 point tournament in early March so I made up a practice list to smash the folks there with (I’m not sure if I’ll be attending or not, yet). There’s been something bothering the crap outta me for a while. About 85% of the games I’ve been playing, either by tournament mission or die roll, have been leaving my Kommando unable to use their infiltration. Maddening! I keep paying the points and continue to watch them slum it across the board like everyone else. I figured it’s high time I do something about it.

I was originally going to replace the kommando squad but I looked through the codex and reread Snikrot’s entry. His ability to be held in reserve and enter from any board edge seemed like a good solution to my problem. Yes, I have to move some points around but I wasn’t too worried as I’ve traded the lootas and kans for some other units. I”ve got a GW Snikrot in the package but I don’t want to rush him in the paint department so I spent about two hours working up a cheap scratchbuilt Snikrot I won’t feel too bad about basically speed painting.

Introducing the Econo-Snikrot…

Yes, I do realize his rippy knives are a little oversized. It’s not intentional, just how it worked out – although a bit comical, I kinda like it. THe basis, of course, is a AoBR nob with some plasticard work, nothing too difficult. The blades of the knife too a little figuring out but as you can see I worked it out.

I may not paint him right away, I’ll play a game or two with him along side Zagstruk nad the new list and see if he’s worth keeping around in this list. If so, I’ll have enough time to paint him before the tourny if I play.

Later!