Mushrööm Klöwds latest drummer.
Although the miniatures have had an appeal since their release, it took me until late least year to finally get a set of Goff Rockers painted. While I was quite pleased when I finished painting those disciples of rock, Mushrööm Klöwd was still missing a few things, a drummer at the very least.
I could have used a fantasy orc musician to turn the Klöwd into a four piece, but I wanted to use an ork model, rather than an orc model. I sniffed around the various forums for an old Rogue Trader era ork drummer for a while, but to no avail. So I reluctantly coughed up for one on Ebay.
Life Expectancy: three gigs.
The musician model was designed with a number of different percussive instruments hanging about his person: a frying pan, a piece of corrugated iron, an Imperial Guardsmans helmet, that sort of thing. Thats fine if the model is to be used in a regular footslogger capacity in games – which it will also be – but it isnt stadium rock enough for when the green guy moonlights with the Klöwd. So I decided to throw together a very simple drum kit out of some pieces lying around.
The drum kit was made from a wheel from Ramshackle Games, a pair of model oil drums that were stuck to the display base of a Batmobile toy that came on the front of a magazine, a tiddlywink, a Tau shield generator, a paperclip and an old RTB01 marine helmet (added for a little retro cred).
While the this sub-project could easily be declared finished right now, I plan to add at least one more model to the line-up in the not too distant future. That is, unless someone reading this can point me in the direction of a sci-fi 28mm ork miniature with a keyboard or keytar/gitboard, in which case I will add at least two miniatures to finish these guys off.
Face Melters
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2014, Bigdogz, Mushrööm Klöwd, Orks, Rogue Trader, Sci-fi, Waaghstonbury |
sho3box 
Awesome pretty much sums it up 😀
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Thanks Mikko. As goofy and peculiar these guys are, I do have at least two different plans to get them on the gaming table soon. Its going to happen…
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Great!!!!! I need these in my life.
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Im glad that you like them AMAHT. Even better news is that the Goff Rockers are currently available from the GW website and for relatively little cost by GW standards.
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1130426
So there is nothing stopping you from getting your own miniature ork band together :).
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Awesome. Good idea and better execution.
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Thanks wachinayn. Adding the drum kit didnt take long, but adds a fair bit of giggle factor I think, so it was worthwhile 🙂
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Awesome rockers. Have you thought about customising the Blood Bowl orc cheerleader as a groupie?
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Thanks axiom 🙂
I have painted the old BB cheerleaders for use in my DreadBall games. I doubt that I will paint any more of them, but I do reckon that these ladies will appear at at least one MK gig 😀
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They look absolutely fantastic together.
It amused me that I picked up that very same drummer for exactly the same reason some months ago.
But my Goffikk Rokkerz are still sat in my lead pile waiting to get a lick of paint.
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Thanks stygianheart.
I have another pair of models left to add to the Klöwd before I declare them finished, before they end up Arcade Fire sized.
The rockers are a bit of a strange aside from painting more regularly equipped orks, but I have loads of vanilla orks already anyway. I did manage to get a game in using the band over the weekend too, which made it all seem a little more worthwhile 🙂
Make sure that you post a link here when you get your rockers painted.
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[…] then I have made additions to the line up, with a drummer and kitbashed drum kit and a Töör Bus joining the group before I brought the band to the Bring Out Your Lead/Oldhammer […]
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This is defiantly the best use of Goff rockers! lol . Awesome Dead Kennedys reference “MK” , and the beak Marine crash cymbal is very cool and last i like the radioactive detail sticker on the drum! Good stuff! hope you find that key-tar player .
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I’m glad that you like them von gut en boom, The Klöwd have been a lot of fun to put together.
I’m still on the lookout for a keytarist. Some day 🙂
Thanks for the encouraging feedback!
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