Welcome to Senex Puerilis: The Scrots of The Terra Damnata...

I've been following other people's blogs and reading them obsessively for a few years now, many times I've thought to myself that I should start a blog of my own to encourage me to get more modelling done and finish projects that I've started.  The obvious thing to do? Start writing Senex Puerilis of course!

About this time last year I started what I thought at the time would be a small Warhammer 40,000 project, a little allied force for my main army which would take a month or so to build.  Drawing inspiration from everyone's favourite nomadic droid dealers- the Jawa, I settled upon a force of robotic orks, cobbled together from the scrap and wreckages that litter the periphery of the Terra Damnata.  Not content with just a few clunky robots i knew i had to have some tanks too to add a bit of fire power and mobility, and maybe even a few larger robotic constructions further down the line.  I mulled it over for a while, and came up with a concept that would work and a set of official rules which would match the models so i didn't have the less than enviable task of writing up an army list that everyone thought was fair and balance.  The rules would come from Imperial Armour volume 8, and with some careful unit selection i was able to ensure that no green flesh would be visible within this 'ork' dread mob list.

 

 And thus was born the start of my Scrot army.  Over the next 3 or 4 months i slowly built up a full squad of 10 robotic orks (ok, so full squad is a bit of an over statement, i went for the bare minimum legal size unit) along with a full squadron of 6 Scrot Tanks, The Boss Scrot and his dogsbody assistants- the Lesser Scrots.

 

 

Admittedly, none of these are the best photographs ever but they serve to illustrate the ideas and army in question.  The models themselves are a real mixture of bits- Kromlech, Forgeworld, Games Workshop and a whole heap of scratchbuilt elements too.  All 3 of the Lesser Scrots were completely scratch built from plasticard, and large parts of the Scrot Tanks were scratch built too.

 

 In terms of in-game use, the Boss Scrot is a Painboss with cybork body, boss pole, powerklaw and 3 grot orderlies.  He leads a squad of Spannaboyz who also have cybork bodies, and they are backed up by a squadron or Grot Tanks.  This makes it all very easy for opponents to keep track of and it's a relatively beefy little force.
Since getting to this stage i've suffered a little bit of robot burn-out, but they will get more additions as and when the motivation sets in...