15mm Beach Boyz Surfer Dudes

 

Previously I mentioned how I was inspired by the excellent 40K Ork's Beach Boyz army that featured in a Gamesnight battle report on YouTube. One unit in particular that, when I saw it, I realised that I must have similar troops of my own for was the Surfer Boyz.

These are basically a bike unit, but on a forcefield held breaking wave. The field permits the rider to surf on land as well as water. The wave itself gets held within that stasis field in a continual surging motion. The wave perpetually cresting and breaking without dissipating until the field is turned off.

Given that my 40K equivalent forces are in 15mm scale, I know I would have to do some kit bashing. And now, after much searching and consideration as to how this will be achieved, I can finally show off the first prototype.

This lad is a 15mm Troublemaker Space Orc from Vanguard Miniatures. The jet engines on the back are from Agents of Gaming and are torpedoes from one of their miniature lines. The surfboard is from eBay and is a replacement surfboard for a Hot Wheels / Matchbox car.

Finally, the wave and the base were 3D printed using the 0.4mm nozzle on my Bambu Lab A1 FDM printer. The wave and the base were different STL files from Bambu Lab Maker World. I stretched the wave STL out for about 30mm x 50mm in order to make it more in the shape of a breaking wave tube. The base is a 60mm x 35mm Oval base.

After gluing the two parts of the base together. I lightly dry brushed the wave with white paint in order to bring out the wave features and make it appear that foam was forming on the wave crest. The surfboard itself was then super glued to the top of the wave.

These dudes come in a unit of eight. So, the first is done and now I know it works, the rest of the unit will follow.