The Nac Mac Feegle: Bitz Suggestions Please

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**Nightwatch**

I'm looking to start a Nac Mac Feegle Army (for 40k, not Fantasy), anyone familiar with what I'm talking about, your help would be appreciated. Basically I need to find bitz I can use about gretchin size or smaller to convert into tiny bearded kilt-wearing gingers.
So far gretchin are looking to be the most promising but I could use some ideas. I am looking for bare calves (or calfs?), preferably bare chests, hands that hopefully aren't attached to anything and also some sort of head with braids and really wild frizzy hair. Oh yes, and beards. And those wolf rider things from fantasy have really small heads, they don't work, so please don't suggest them.
Too much information? I hope not.
In case no one understands what I'm looking for, I want ideas of any model with the above proportions. For example, I know that a couple models from the fantasy goblin rock lobber fit the bill.
Thanking you in advance
Nightwatch

**brainscan**

Nag mac feegle are pixies? how about converting dwarfs from fantasy and adding WH40k gretchin limbs and weapons? or possibly converting IG rattlings? You could convert some of the night goblins and add green stuff beards. I think a few of the wh40k gretchins have loincloths that could easily be converted into kilts.

sounds a cool idea.

**Reaper6**

brainscan wrote:Nag mac feegle are pixies? how about converting dwarfs from fantasy and adding WH40k gretchin limbs and weapons? or possibly converting IG rattlings?

Trust me, pixies are sweet compared to the Nac Mac Feegle ! Imagine a stereotypical scotsman, temper and alcoholism included, shrunk to the size of your hand but still with the full size temper and lust for booze ! Those little gits are psychotic enough to take on anything, and usually win !

Nightwatch : Great idea, but I gotta know, What are you planning to call your army's commander ? I know he's not strictly Feegle, but Buggy Swires of The Watch springs to mind

**Nightwatch**

I'm not sure what I'm going to call the Big Man yet, but I've got most of my ideas so far.
I was playing around with the codices, trying to figure out which one would work, and landed on orks. So I was thinking about that for a while and realized they wouldn't work either, because they just don't fit. However, I looked around a bit more and realized a feegle is about equal to an ork biker. 12-24" movement is great, feegles are ten times faster than a normal man (grrr no such thing as 60" movement), and ten times stronger too. The strength I can't change but i think the biker statline is great. Besides, there's the scale problem with the model, they'll be up to a guardsman's waist instead of halfway to the knee, so the larger biker bases will create the illusion of size. So, I'm taking wazdakka gutsmek as the big man, I'll think of a name later. Probably a weirdboy as the gonnagle, or possibly big mek with SAG. wazdakka makes bikers troops, so my feegles can capture objectives. Deffkoptas and stormboyz will be feegles riding birds. The rest I haven't decided yet entirely, but I have a feeling that my battlewagons and trukks will be a carnifex supported by four feegles, zooming across the field backwards

**Reaper6**

Lovin it ! I'm gonna be watching out for this ! Almost makes me want to do The Watch as an IG unit ( I wonder if I could use an Orgyn as Detritus ? )

(Also wonder if anyone else has figured out what we're talking about)

**Nightwatch**

possible names:
Hamish,
Artair
William
Brian
Alan Cairal
Keith
Connel
Duncan
Douglas
Fergus
FIngal
Fraser
Lorne
Murray
Neil
ronan
wallace
Clyde?
etc....

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An ogryn for detritus would be perfect.
if you look closely at the weight for the goblin rock lobber (fantasy), its a perfect troll head.

**Reaper6**

Nightwatch wrote:An ogryn for detritus would be perfect.
if you look closely at the weight for the goblin rock lobber (fantasy), its a perfect troll head.

Dammit, getting really tempted now !

**Nightwatch**

I know, but you'd be hard put to make a model for nobby nobbs.

Oh yeah, I forgot: tankbustas: rokkit launchers are now some sort of projectile filled with special sheep liniment, due to the highly corrosive content...
For a short time only: Horace the Cheese starring as a bomb squig

**Alex Kolodotschko**

The Wildmen of Druadan from the LOTR range could be worth a punt?
Just be sure to add some human sized items to the models to make the scale thing work properly.

**Nightwatch**

That's an amazing find! do the things on their neck come like that or do you put them on yourself? they're kind of inconvenient...

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Never mind, looked it up and answered my own question.
darn...metal guys. I would prefer plastic, but thanks, I will look into that!

**Reaper6**

Damn ! Forgot about Nobby...

some kind of Nurgling perhaps ? Hell what about the Librarian, he's a special constable after-all !

Nononononono ! I'm putting too much thought into this ! Curse you Nightwatch !

**Nightwatch**

Reaper6 wrote:(Also wonder if anyone else has figured out what we're talking about)

I've seen a couple people with Pratchett sigs, so I guess they're not online.

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A while back when i was working on my marines I was thinking about making the Librarian as my Librarian, with Rincewind as a familiar (this was back with the 4th edition codex). By the way, Paul Kidby sells little figurines on 30 mm bases and I think the Librarian is one. Its my belief they come unpainted and unassembled, so converting is fairly easy.

**Reaper6**

This thread will really go nuts when they come on I expect

**Nightwatch**

For sure. I should probably rename it, just to add to the commotion.

**brainscan**

for corporal nobbs just take a dwarf.
for angua just take a vampire counts - werewolf

hrm...

what about the luggage?

ps. im a big Pratchett fan... ;P

**Reaper6**

Good thinking, just put Nac Mac Feegle in the title !

**Nightwatch**

The luggage....hmmm...I'm sure there's some fantasy terrain with an old box in it SOMEWHERE. The legs might take a bit of shopping though.

**Nurglitch**

I'd say go for Ogre Gnoblars with Dwarf heads. Or the WFB Goblins and then add Marauder heads, or Free Company heads.

Remember, there can only be one thousand!

/crivens

**Alex Kolodotschko**

What about the luggage you say?

http://www.arcaneminiatures.co.uk/discworld-miniatures.asp?offset=0

**brainscan**

take a 40k ammo box, some spare legs and lots of green stuff and start it that way.

**Nightwatch**

Nurglitch wrote:

Remember, there can only be one thousand!

Yeah, so far for a 1500 point army I'm at about 45 I think. So I've still got 955 left to go!

Looking up the bitz youve mentioned in greater detail.

**Alex Kolodotschko**

Or just buy the one that I linked to?

**Nightwatch**

The Luggage from that store is kind of big though...

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I'm liking the gnoblars, a bit like gretchin but more of them to the box, and all convertable poses, most of the limbs are seperate. They look good.

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I don't see where you're going with the Marauder heads though

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If you ask me, the heads aren't comical enough. I think I'll end up taking gnoblars, reposing them and resculpting the facial features and adding hair.
Oh, and kilts. however, more ideas are welcome.
For example, I'm thinking of taking a battlewagon or two, and some sort of beastie being carried sideways across the battlefield at breakneck speeds comes to mind, but which beastie is more or less battlewagon sized?

**Death By Monkeys**

Okay, not to be a wet blanket, as I'm a big fan of the Nac Mac Feegle myself, but this is a huge task you're looking at here. I assume you're planning to use Ork rules for this, right? Here's the problem I see after trying to convert a Tanith IG army: when each model in the army requires significant conversion and you have to multiply that by a very large number for a horde army (like Orks or IG foot), you've got to be committed to putting a tremendous amount of time and effort into the project.

What about starting a little smaller - like making a Nac Mac Feegle Blood Bowl Team? Or Necromunda Gang? That way you get a feel for the level of effort necessary - and if all goes well, you can scale up production to the level of an army.

**sonofruss**

Reaper6 wrote:Lovin it ! I'm gonna be watching out for this ! Almost makes me want to do The Watch as an IG unit ( I wonder if I could use an Orgyn as Detritus ? )

(Also wonder if anyone else has figured out what we're talking about)

I was lost on the first post damn another book series I need to read.

**Sgt Jelal**

It's a pity that using them as Orks means you can't have the Guild of Assassins as allies. I'd love to see Teatime in the game - after all if he could come that close to killing Santa Claus the Chaos Gods should be a doddle...

**Reaper6**

Sgt Jelal : Now THAT would be an assault phase to watch !

sonofruss : Shame on you, brother. Pratchett was recognised by The Church of the Children of Turtle Pie very early on, and you still haven't read his works ?

**SgtSixkilla**

I'd really like to see this army. Heck, I'd really love to own a Feegle army. I've actually recently thought about it, but decided it'd be too hard, and a bit silly to have a standard infantry base with an Epic size model on top. Would be awesome to have Rob Anybody, Awfully Wee Billy Bigchin, No' As Big As Medium Sized Jock But Bigger Than Wee Jock Jock and all the other Nac Mac Feegles crush the Ultramarines anyway though. Blue on blue action. I know who I'm rooting for.

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Actually, this army could be achieved with just a base with tall grass flocking and a tiny tuft of red hair poking up. Names on the bases for clarity of course. Would also be impossible to hit behind terrain with the line of sight rules.

**Nurglitch**

Filthy stinking little pictsies... love'em.

**Ghidorah**

Reaper6 wrote:What are you planning to call your army's commander ? I know he's not strictly Feegle, but Buggy Swires of The Watch springs to mind

My vote goes to Officer Buggy Swires of the Ankh Morpork City Watch.

Ghidorah