So recently, I’ve been thinking about Necromunda. In particular, I wondered whether I ought to dig out and paint my old Orlock gang. I do have a painted Necromunda gang in the form of my Spyrers, but they’re a bit odd, and it would be good to have a regular house gang painted as well. I also considered doing another gang, in which case House Escher would be pretty much the only option. Most of the models for Necromunda were sculpted by Gary Morley and Michael and Alan Perry (with a few contributions by Aly Morrison and Colin Dixon), but House Escher was sculpted by Jes Goodwin and, although I also love Michael Perry’s Orlocks, I think the Eschers are probably the best-looking sculpts of the range. They’ve got a cool, vaguely cyberpunky look to them. In addition, the Escher weapon lists and skill tables give them a significant bias towards close combat, which would make them quite different from the Orlocks, who lean more towards shooting.

Unfortunately, GW don’t sell the complete range of models for Necromunda any more. The basic boxed gangs are still available, and you can get extra gangers (although you can’t order individual gangers, just three selected at random) for some gangs, but the alternative heavies and leaders aren’t available at all any more. This is annoying even if I don’t start a new gang, as I could really do with an Orlock with flamer to round out my starting gang. I used to use a guy with a converted melta gun, but I put that together quite some time ago, and it’s not really up to standard any more.

So, off to eBay. I now have on order an Orlock heavy with a flamer and an Escher with Heavy Plasma Gun.

Of course, painting priority still goes to my Epic Titans. I have 3,775 points done so far, and I hope to get up to 4875 by the end of the month. Eventually, I hope to get the army up to 8,500, but it probably won’t be until some time in the new year that I get it to that stage. That said, it would be good to get some Necromunda stuff done in between the Titans, if only for a bit of variety.