What is the Funniest Proxy You Have Ever Seen? - Loofah Tyranids

[Top5King]

I once witnessed Loofah Tyranids in 40k!

 

My friends and I went to a 500,000 PT Apoc Game – it was Xenos/Chaos vs. the Imperium. 

 

This was back when there was rules for the Tyrannocyte but no model for it yet, so people homebrewed models for it.

 

It was the start of the second day – Start of Turn 2 – when reserves were coming in. I noticed someone with a Shopper’s Drug Mart Bag - They pull out multiple loofahs and start spray painting them white in the parking lot.

 

What are the funniest proxies you have seen??

 

Link to video:

 

Link to Images of Loofahs!

https://i.imgur.com/zjJTtba.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/RRHPJvc.jpg

Edited May 18 by Top5King
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[Brother Tyler]

I once saw a deodorant stick container used as a grav tank.

[lansalt]

The different versions of the "Sassy Nurgling Daemon Prince" out there are my favourite:

 

[Top5King]

1 hour ago, Brother Tyler said:

I once saw a deodorant stick container used as a grav tank.

Wow! That’s proxying at another level lol.

 

1 hour ago, lansalt said:

The different versions of the "Sassy Nurgling Daemon Prince" out there are my favourite:

 

great proxy, love it!

[The Yncarne]

Pasta nids

 

 

[sbarnby71]

2 hours ago, Brother Tyler said:

I once saw a deodorant stick container used as a grav tank.

You mean this bad-boy?

[Xenith]

Couple of my faves:

 

Spruecrons

 

And cubes of melted polystyrene as Tzeentch daemons

 

 

 

[gideon stargreave]

The tzeentch one is pretty good I think. Very cosmic horror 

[Lost2Requiem]

4 hours ago, Brother Tyler said:

I once saw a deodorant stick container used as a grav tank.

Showing your age, sir. 

[Urauloth]

4 hours ago, Brother Tyler said:

I once saw a deodorant stick container used as a grav tank.

Did anyone on the B&C make that thing? I wanted to, but I never found the right kind of container.

[Jolemai]

A lot of the current deodorant sticks are too wide. You need a specific type of brand/shape (I may have looked into it recently...)

 

I was thinking of the Cube and Sprucrons list initially too.

 

I have witnessed someone proxying various piles of coins for an entire Kharadron Overlords army though 

[Dark Legionnare]

A buddy I grew up with took plasticard, traced out the old (pre 5th ed refresh) bottom of ravager hulls for his Dark Eldar. He then cut them out, put bendy straws where the three guns would be for range and LoS purpose. They were surprisingly accurate.

Another buddy couldn't get his hands on landspeeders back around 2014 so he made them out of  foam blocks on top of pencils cut to perfect hover-base height, also with straw tubes as weapon locations.

I bet I could still get pictures of the latter if I texted that friend. Let me try.

Edited May 18 by Dark Legionnare

[Jolemai]

15 minutes ago, Jolemai said:

A lot of the current deodorant sticks are too wide. You need a specific type of brand/shape (I may have looked into it recently...)

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

Just messing around during lockdown. Basically, it would be Land Speeder sized now. I still really like the back, but this stick isn't flat enough imo.

Edited May 18 by Jolemai

[Xenith]

14 hours ago, Jolemai said:

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Just messing around during lockdown. Basically, it would be Land Speeder sized now. I still really like the back, but this stick isn't flat enough imo.

 

Needs more plastic spoons.

[Toxichobbit]

Not 40k, but I once played in a WFB tournament where I borrowed a friend's Giant. Said Giant was actually a Homer Simpson statue, slightly converted with an Empire state troop's leg hanging out of his mouth. Giant Homer did fantastic in the games.

 

I've also seen pictures of Sororitas fighting a Daemon army that was made up of rubber phallic shaped objects that are sold under a brand name involving misbehaving fire-breathing reptiles. Somebody worked out how much it would cost and it was more than the 40k army it was representing. I have no idea if it was ever used in games.

Edited May 20 by Toxichobbit

[Brother nathan]

back in those nid pod days i used a space cd for a base and melted a coke botle into it. still have them as never thought they were terrible... havent gotten around to getting a new pod since... will grab a pic later... 

 

The pods... least better than coke can fexes

Edited May 30 by Brother nathan

[Captain Idaho]

On 5/18/2023 at 5:35 PM, Jolemai said:

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Just messing around during lockdown. Basically, it would be Land Speeder sized now. I still really like the back, but this stick isn't flat enough imo.

 

GW scale creep - making our old deodorant and shampoo bottles obsolete!

[Orange Knight]

Wow, this topic is hilarious. Thank you all for the images provided as well.

 

The most egregious proxies I have personally come up against were in an army that included a lot of cardboard cut-outs of pictures of various models.

 

More commonly I have played against armies that have ever shifting squad weapons. It's one of the reasons why I now have a 0 tolerance for "counts-as" in units.

[Sea Creature]

Dude tried using an MtG card as a landspeeder.

[Sir Clausel]

Awesome thread! Havent played with any funny proxies im afraid. 

I keep thinking of this tsolar strip:

 

[Aramis K]

Lot of games with a cardboard Ork dread from 2nd Ed box.

 

And then the flat card battlefleet gothic ships that I think came in WD, and were actually a great looking game... Which I now want to find and print...

 

Edit: WD225, game test rules called 'Spaceship Battles'. Annoyed I can't find any pics now.

Edited May 22 by Aramis K

[MegaVolt87]

There was a HH ruinstorm demons army at an OZ tourney that was just crystals modelled as different demon units,looked good. 

[Evil Eye]

On 5/18/2023 at 2:43 PM, Xenith said:

Couple of my faves:

 

Spruecrons

 

And cubes of melted polystyrene as Tzeentch daemons

 

 

 

I actually love those cubes. Helps that they've been very nicely painted; I'm not sure I'd field a full army of them myself but as a few models in an army/warband they certainly are appealing given how cheap they are to make!

[Daimyo-Phaeron Lenoch]

On 5/22/2023 at 4:14 PM, Sir Clausel said:

Awesome thread! Havent played with any funny proxies im afraid. 

I keep thinking of this tsolar strip:

 

Man, I miss TSOALR. Wayback has the strips but takes like a minute to load each one. Sad times. 

[Xenith]

4 hours ago, Daimyo-Phaeron Lenoch said:

Man, I miss TSOALR. Wayback has the strips but takes like a minute to load each one. Sad times. 

 

They came back under the official banner of Warhammer Community a little while ago, but ended again just as fast. I dont think the author could keep up with the GW demands.

 

I remember another Tzeetch daemon army from ages ago, this was fantasy though I think, which used the old warhammer familiars as pink horrors, and was hilarious: