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Hi, Dakka. Now, what is the strangest proxying you have ever seen? I would have to say the time when an 8-year old tried to convince me to let him use a sprue for a Space Marine Commander.

Old school Proxying rule: "Any painted and based Skeleton is an acceptable proxy for any non-vehicle model."

We called it "Jack Skellington".

That would've been a kid using invisible Mycetic Spores. When I told him he had to have a model to represent them as they had a statline, were worth KPs etc. His response: "Well there's no model for them so I don't have to use one until it comes out."

Can't argue with that logic...

I'd have to say the strangest proxies I've ever seen (at least virtually in this case) were in this thread...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/409236.page

Pieces of paper cut outs to represent Night Scythes...

I played against a guy who was using tyranids, most models consisted of a few components of the models on bases with some old school de warriors chucked in for something.

Couldn't remember what any of the damn units were I was fighting lol.

Heard of someone using coke cans and such for drops pods also.

Lol. I guess I cannot complain too much about weird proxying. I once proxied a Servo skull as a naked Chaos Lord.

Strangest I've seen would be Dark Angels representing daemons. Azrael is a greater daemon of Khorne? Oh... crap. Says a lot about what was thought of the fluff though, heh.

Was it an all Khorne-army?

3 3-packs of day-glo condoms, stuffed with cotton wool and with the ends snapped around spare 25mm bases, to represent Flamers of Tzeentch...

More a slaanesh thing imho..

LOL! Mind if I put that in my sig?

I've seen someone play with legos at GW to represent a Master of the Forge with Conversion Beamer.

Feel free

One of my more surreal games..

Nerd-gasm anyone

I played against a guy who tried to pass off a bunch of Yu-Gi-Oh cards taped together in a vague pyramid shape as a Monolith. It was our first game. I also used to run a plastic cup with a stormbolter glued on it and DROP POD written on the side as, you guessed it, a drop pod.

Small bong as monolith but that was in a friendly game.


I know i've seen tons, I mean TONS, of neon dollar store toys with a few guns glued on trying to pass as ork vehicles.

I once proxied a plastic toy reindeer for a Trygon, that managed to destroy two Leman Russ tanks in one game! My friend refused to play against that model ever again after that!

On a side note, the plastic reindeer could poop out little black jelly beans...

Jihadnik wrote:
On a side note, the plastic reindeer could poop out little black jelly beans...

Then it should have been a Tervigon!

Jihadnik wrote:I once proxied a plastic toy reindeer for a Trygon, that managed to destroy two Leman Russ tanks in one game! My friend refused to play against that model ever again after that!

On a side note, the plastic reindeer could poop out little black jelly beans...

I actually have one of those...

You mean aside from all the Tyranid players who were spamming carnifexes one day and the next they were all

"Oh, the ones with heads are Tervigons, and the ones without heads are mycetic spores."

"What?"

Oh well, I can't say anything, most of my battlewagons are WWII half-tracks.

Uhmmm From a game today....
Sorry for akward angle

Chicken= Carnifex
Axe = Drop pod
warriors = genestealers

-Loki- wrote:

Jihadnik wrote:I once proxied a plastic toy reindeer for a Trygon, that managed to destroy two Leman Russ tanks in one game! My friend refused to play against that model ever again after that!

On a side note, the plastic reindeer could poop out little black jelly beans...

I actually have one of those...

Ba ha ha! I thought I was the only one, was it a wacky christmas present?!

Jihadnik wrote:

-Loki- wrote:

Jihadnik wrote:I once proxied a plastic toy reindeer for a Trygon, that managed to destroy two Leman Russ tanks in one game! My friend refused to play against that model ever again after that!

On a side note, the plastic reindeer could poop out little black jelly beans...

I actually have one of those...

Ba ha ha! I thought I was the only one, was it a wacky christmas present?!

Is there any other way to get one?

The worst I've seen were pieces of expanded polystyrene(styrofoam) that were cut into "proper" base sizes and used as warriors of chaos. Just blank white foam bases.

Lol! Did you allow it?

It was a friendly game with people who didn't own any fantasy armies so yeah. I was teaching them how to play to see if I could garner interest in it locally.

Before I bought my bloodthirster I used a can of Tough Actin Tinactin as one. I thought it was appropriate as I was facing orks.

Acardia wrote:Before I bought my bloodthirster I used a can of Tough Actin Tinactin as one. I thought it was appropriate as I was facing orks.

lol fungus

Ogryn wrote:Was it an all Khorne-army?

I believe it was

-Loki- wrote:

Jihadnik wrote:I once proxied a plastic toy reindeer for a Trygon, that managed to destroy two Leman Russ tanks in one game! My friend refused to play against that model ever again after that!

On a side note, the plastic reindeer could poop out little black jelly beans...

I actually have one of those...

I have one of those too And I still use it.

I once used a remote control VW camper van as a proxy for a Looted wagon with boomgun...

Made for an, interesting, battle, until my friend took the remote control off me...