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Hey guys, I wanted to see what you thought about this. I've been wanting to use my older metal dark eldar wyches for something for a long time, i love the models enough to paint them cold, but i'd like them to see gametime in some form.

Let me say that I love CB's morlocks, from their crazy look to their gear that blends well with moderators in the like, i love them and i'm going to get some eventually, the wyches aren't here to replace excellent models. But, i'm wondering if they couldn't see service as additional (and very likely initial) Nomad Morlocks. Here's what we're working with:


Next to my nomads are probably the tallest/largest wych, and one of the shortest/smallest.

I realize that they're of the blockier GW proportions, and they don't necessarily match the nomad aesthetic closely. Each would receive the wrist maya/arachne access point/computer thingie to help tie them in as infinity models. The big gun would go away, but the blades and bladed pistols look reasonably similar to those the morlocks wield, and I might do some conversions to bring them closer still.

Considering older generation infinity models with less ideal proportions than the nicest sculpts have today, would these be terribly unreasonable to bring in alongside the rest of my Bakunin guys? I may never even get to play the game, this is more of a question of aesthetic choice than it is counts-as/proxy. I think the gladiatorial outfits could be explained away as their Ariesta! or artiesta! or however you spell that... costumes.

Thoughts? Could I make them blend in with a little work? Too wildly out or proportion to the others to work out? Remember these are guys who went too far even for crazy Bakunin's standards, big muscle chests and being taller with elf ears could somewhat be explained away with genetic alteration.

Thanks for looking!

I think this is doable. Of course you will run in to your own issues with LoS (taller models being easier to see/hit), and the largest of the wyches are a bit (very if im honest) goofy looking next to the infinity equivalents, but Bakunin are a crazy bunch as you say...you may want to see if you can get the dimensions of the Morlocks so you can see just how much bigger the GW models are.

Just do the usual of asking your opponent, making sure they are aware of equipment etc. and you should be fine. If you dont have any other proxies then that would make life easier....

I don't really have any opponents to ask such questions If i did, i would though. I have all kinds of models i could/would theoretically draft into games if there were any, open minded, players around... but my small town has few gamers and the places within an hours drive are 40k and maybe warmahordes crowds.

I'm pretty sure the morlocks are about the same size as the moderator on the right, and at least being bigger means i'm more like modeling for disadvantage than the other side right

I think i'll have to do the little bit of greenstuff work i was talking about and paint one up, just to see. White armor, elf skin, colorful anime hair, etc.

Thanks for replying

Honestly mate, I think they look pretty grim. Even if you have an explanation lined up in your head, they do look grossly out of scale, none of their kit matches the infinity aesthetic, the heroic scale looks very strange next to Infinity models, etc. Frankly they look like the outdated and never that good sculpts they are.

Not trying to spoil your fun, I would be happy to play against anyone using proxies due to lack of official models. But I think any time you put into painting/converting those, hoping to make them into permament Infinity Morlocks, is just a waste of effort. I would get on ebay or just google and look for some old Morlock models, should only be £5 or so.

 I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:
Honestly mate, I think they look pretty grim. Even if you have an explanation lined up in your head, they do look grossly out of scale, none of their kit matches the infinity aesthetic, the heroic scale looks very strange next to Infinity models, etc. Frankly they look like the outdated and never that good sculpts they are.

Not trying to spoil your fun, I would be happy to play against anyone using proxies due to lack of official models. But I think any time you put into painting/converting those, hoping to make them into permament Infinity Morlocks, is just a waste of effort. I would get on ebay or just google and look for some old Morlock models, should only be £5 or so.

I'm seconding this, the old DE models are pretty poor sculpts in my eyes and look grossly out of place next to Infinity. You'd be doing yourself a favour by not ruining the look of the rest of your dewdz with these abominations!

If you were my opponent I'd accept them as proxies but secretly grimace and shudder when you weren't looking!

I have to agree with DT ^

The old Dark Eldar sculpts are pretty damn poor and to be honest, I really can't think of anything GW produce that would be worthy stand-ins for Morlocks or, indeed, anything Infinity :/

Those Wyches in particular, though, were bad even at the time, what with their features like an infant's drawing of Kate Moss and their Flash Gordon-esque "Ray Gun" things.

The modern plastic Dark Eldar have a few models that would pass as Morlocks, but that's about it.