How do you feel about weirdo proxies?

[ArmyC]

I bought a Gundam model to use as an Eldar Revenant Titan. I just couldn't justify the cost of the Forge World model, and don't want to make one out of toothbrush handles.

It cost around $70, and is 12" tall (31 cm). The FW model is 30 cm to the head, so I imagine this one is a little shorter than that, but pretty close.

I intend to use the two rods coming out of his back as Pulsar Lasers. The model snaps together. No glue or painting required. I am not sure if I will paint it or not.

I do want it to look more Eldar. I will have to model the pulsars onto the arms somehow.

Anyway, if I get this thing going, how would you feel if you came to an Apocalypse game, and the guy running it allowed me to play this model as a Rev Titan.

Pretend that the event advertised that titans were allowed, but no mention of "official" models was made.

Would you feel bad, if this thing wiped you off the table?

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[Gooball]

Eldar it up and it'd be fine as that guy said.
Also, ORKTIMUS PRIME


I've also seen one made from an actual optimis prime robot, with bits shaved off and replaced with Orky bitz
As long as the model looks like an eldar titan, it can be an eldar titan IMO

[Dingareth]

As someone who forked out the cash for my Warhound, yeah I would.

[DarkAngelHopeful]

I wouldn't feel too particularly bad. But it may help me if you talked with me about your model and told me the story behind it, because that would make it more interesting to me and I'm pretty sympathetic to people not wanting to spend money on titans.

I play on average 2 big apoc games (12,000 pts per side) a year down at the LA battle bunker with my friends. One game, my friend brought a cardboard box with some toilet paper rolls attached to it for cannon arms and a little cardboard box on top of the big box for a head. It was suppose to be stompa. I lawled at him in a friendly way. Another game he brought a sprayed painted foot ball with some fins attached to it and called it some tower of chaos from the apoc book. I just thought it was funny and inventive. Scratch building or buying something cheaper is definitely more friendly on the pocket book.

So, I guess what I'm saying is, for me, I don't really care about what the model looks like. I know some people wouldn't feel the same way. But just feel it out with your opponent and if they don't like it maybe find someone else to play against?

On a side note, I scratch built 5 thunder bolt fighters with my girlfriend's dad. They turned out pretty sweet and no one said anything about the fact that they weren't forge world.

[Gotthammer]

I'd be fine with the model, but not painting it seems a bit lazy to me - I mean it's snap together!
Having a non-GW/FW model on the table unpainted sticks out a lot more than one that is to match an army, so you'd probably run into more objections that way - people thinking you just slapped whatever together so you could field a powerful unit without putting any effort into it.

[Gnoblar with Pointy Stick]

Insisting that someone buy the more expensive of two options for a freakin' GAME is ridiculous. I think anyone who cares enough to say something during a match needs to seriously examine their priorities.

That being said, effort makes a difference to me. I've seen breathtaking Stompas made from flower pots. If I spent that much time on something like that and some sniffler told me that it wasn't Ok because it didn't cost $100, I would be very hard pressed not to punch his or her lights out.

People have, however, brought things to tables that made me a little irked. One in particular being an Iron Man toy from Wal Mart that had been nailed to a base, masquerading as a Revenent Titan! You wanna put some green stuff on it or paint some symbols on it? Great. But otherwise it's an insult to the 12 hours I had spent the day before building three Pylons covered in Necron runes.

A friend of mine made a Bio Titan out of Sculpey two days before our Apoc game. We had all built things, and presenting them to our game mates is a lovely show and tell and then destroy experience. But if you tape some Tonka toy wheels on the bottom of a cardboard box and tell me it's a Plague Tower, I wont say anything. I'll just avoid you at the hobbyshop.

[murrburger]

As long as it doesn't move three times as fast, with one third the structure points.

Hell yeah I'd let you play that. Any game where you're using a Titan is supposed to be fun, anyways.

[DarkAngelHopeful]

Insisting that someone buy the more expensive of two options for a freakin' GAME is ridiculous. I think anyone who cares enough to say something during a match needs to seriously examine their priorities.

That being said, effort makes a difference to me. I've seen breathtaking Stompas made from flower pots. If I spent that much time on something like that and some sniffler told me that it wasn't Ok because it didn't cost $100, I would be very hard pressed not to punch his or her lights out.

People have, however, brought things to tables that made me a little irked. One in particular being an Iron Man toy from Wal Mart that had been nailed to a base, masquerading as a Revenent Titan! You wanna put some green stuff on it or paint some symbols on it? Great. But otherwise it's an insult to the 12 hours I had spent the day before building three Pylons covered in Necron runes.

A friend of mine made a Bio Titan out of Sculpey two days before our Apoc game. We had all built things, and presenting them to our game mates is a lovely show and tell and then destroy experience. But if you tape some Tonka toy wheels on the bottom of a cardboard box and tell me it's a Plague Tower, I wont say anything. I'll just avoid you at the hobbyshop.

I agree that you shouldn't insist that someone pay lots of money for a titan. I too have seen some stompas made from flower pots that looked great and I gave that friend more kudos for his effort than mine that plopped a cardboard box down on the table. But cardboard box stompa still made me smile because it was so obviously just hurried together to get a stompa on the board. It's one of those situations where it's sooo bad, that's it's good, in a funny sort of way.

I think that's hilarious that someone just nailed an Iron Man toy to a base. I would still have played against him, but I would have chuckled, because that's just funny. On that note, I saw some kid show up to a WFB tournament with 6 plastic dinosaurs and said they were stegadons. It cracked me up. I think stuff like that adds some humor to the game. And laughter is healthy.

[R3con]

As long as it "resembles" what its supposed to be I'm fine with it.

Had a guy bring a BIG hippo statue to a game to be a giant squigith I laughed then killed it =)

[Rev. Tiberius Jackhammer]

I might be a little miffed at first if you just snapped it together out if the box and plopped it down on the table, but I'd still play against it (and probably forget about any miffing after deployment).

If you put obvious effort into it (did the pulsar conversion, based it, maybe added some leftover eldar vehicle bits, plasticard runes), I'd consider it absolutely equal to the forgeworld model.