While this is good for the battlefield (i.e. 150 points worth of 'more stuff' to throw at the enemy can't be a bad thing), I can see how many folks might think that it's not so great on the wallet.
Fortunately, I still have a number of unpainted guards lying around (and also another sentinel still on the sprue), so I don't really need to buy any more miniatures for a while - but those figures were supposed to get my 750pt army closer to 1000pts - but now that looks very unlikely.
Anyway, regardless of all that, I really like the idea of the new Master of Ordnance advisor in the new codex, though I really don't want to spend almost £10 on a pack of miniatures to get him.
So, since I have a lot of bits and pieces lying around, I figured I would have a go at making my own plastic version …and here's the result:
The body, legs, left hand, and backpack are all from the regular Cadian guardsmen sprue, and the right hand (shown here pressing a button) was from the heavy weapon sprue (which was originally on an arm that was supposed to be pointing out in the direction of the enemy).
The head is that of a space marine scout, and the arms are some really old guardsmen arms I've had lying around for quite some time.
The small scanner/radio thing in his hand is a space marine auspex (I think that's what it's called) with some of the top pointy things removed - and the centre one replaced with the aerial from the catachan radio backpack.
I know it doesn't look exactly like the Master of Ordnance miniature, but I think I will be good enough proxy in most games.
