Howdy, are there any or cowboy-esc stuff in warhammer

[SvenIronhand]

You might also try kitbashing human-scale minis with Great Escape Games' offerings.

[HeadlessCross]

7 hours ago, Gorgoff said:

I may throw in these:

https://puppetswar.eu/catalogsearch/result/?q=Gunslinger

 

 

Those skull ones go HARD. I wish I had an excuse to use it but it won't fit the aesthetic I have. 

[MARK0SIAN]

You could go with Kill Team for a Magnificent 7 style warband. They could be a human scale inquisition warband or a Space Marine kill team. 
 

Bonus points if you have an Apothecary Feriatum.

[Lysimachus]

We have had one or two cowboy themed Chapters down in the Liber Astartes subforum.

 

The Star Wardens (by @InAction) are the most recent one I can think of:

 

 

[Doghouse]

I think the beauty of a space marine Chapter is the that word 'Star' ties in perfectly to both the nature of 40k being set in futuristic sci fi  and being able to identify more subtly with the star badge so easily recognised as a Sherriff Badge without beating people over the head with it.

 

Something like Silver Stars of Iron Stars would be perfect for any generic space marine Chapter let alone a themed one.

[Sonder76]

On 10/16/2025 at 4:59 PM, Witherking17 said:

 

 

On 10/16/2025 at 4:59 PM, Witherking17 said:

I like cowboys as next as the next guy, I literally live in Oklahoma dude, I got plenty of hats and boots, I'm wondering if there's any faction that has cowboy miniatures or should I just make a fan-made chapter in the imperium. I really like the blood angels and Krieg but if I possibly could play with sum cowboys that would be awesome. But I gotta go protect my home from bandits and forest demons, just sum normal Oklahoman stuff, and then I'm set to wrangle up a tornado or 2 while drinking sum good old jack on my horse with the rest of my posse.

 

Orks are the cowboys of 40k

 

Squigs are the cows

Edited October 18 by Sonder76

[Witherking17]

On 10/16/2025 at 12:26 PM, Jukkiz said:

It all depends what you count as "cowboy" really.
Some models like Admechs pistol bois surely can be counted as one and i´ve seen some conversions with kellermorph wearing cowboyhat

What in tarnation, how come I ain't ever heard of these mounts, these are cool as hell. I'm gonna get sum of these guys made pronto, with sum cool hats too, lost of hats, hats on everyone. Serberys Raiders will be my choice, with sum cool hats, their guns and horses feel just right for my space cowboy'n. May the emperor have mercy on my enemies, cause I ain't.

 

On 10/18/2025 at 3:13 AM, Lysimachus said:

We have had one or two cowboy themed Chapters down in the Liber Astartes subforum.

 

The Star Wardens (by @InAction) are the most recent one I can think of:

 

 

I think they're cool, I might have to use em, but I did find something else too, using the admech raiders and adding cowboy stuff to them, I'm probably gonna put them on a dessert/agri world. 

 

On 10/16/2025 at 7:43 PM, jaxom said:

If you are okay with non-GW parts, Anvil Industries has Western Style Hat Heads and Victoria Miniatures has a number of similar heads (though they're more Australian in style).

I'm gonna buy sum guys but really I was gonna 3d print them (I have no money, no computer, and no printer) and just wait until I save up enough. I'm entirely fine with 3rd party or not even from anyone else.

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

Kellermorph was already mentioned. You can have a female gunslinger in the form of Inquisitor Greyfax. She comes with hat and cloak like Clint Eastwood. Chop off her crossbow and give her either a bolt pistol or plasma pistol.

[Gamiel]

Some Cowboy/Wild West inspiered space marine concepts, originally posted in the Index Astartes: Star Wardens (WIP) thread:

* They protect Agri worlds (or at least try to) and/or try to use warfare that damage agricultural land as little as possible.

* things like bullfighting, bull-jumping, cow-wreastling, rodeo and such is part of the aspirant training/initiation-ceremonies – this do not actually need to be done with semi-normal bovines but it could be other animals like grox, gene-sculpted mega bovines, terror birds, giant sheep, etcetera.

* cowboys were infamous for the loud and violent way they celebrated their pay when they had finished a job. Maybe the Chapter have great, chaotic and loud victory fests.

* looking good was important for many cowboys ones they were back in civilization, maybe they have some impressive “dress armour” or ways to look extra fancy when out of battle, or maybe they cover their armour with honours that gets damaged and removed when they fight and has to be replaced by the serfs after every battle.

* entertainment like guitar-playing, singing and card games was often the only entertainment cowboys had while they herded cows from one end of the prairie to the other so at least some of them become good with it, and you have the old architype of the singing cowboy – maybe the chapter have a musical tradition or one member in each squad is expected to train in music and play during down times.

* while cowboys were not the only one playing poker and the real card players was seldom cowboys (why heard cows when you could make a living at the green table) are card games a classic part of the wild west image. Maybe the traditional card deck symbols are part of the chapter’s heraldry in some way.

* take a look at classic livestock branding symbols and use them as squad markings.

* silver decorations was common among churros and vaqueros, and they inspired US cowboys (to my understanding), and among the gauchos, many of those decorations was more-or-less coin shaped (and sometime actually made from real silver coins). Maybe the Red Riders have something similar? If you are making figures could you use Warcry’s Iron Golem’s “coin mail” (or what it’s called) painted silver as decoration on your marines.

* while it’s the gunfighter we more often think of then the real cowboy when we think Wild West did cowboys know how to use guns (for protection, hunting and often because they were war veterans) but more important than gun skills for cowboy was the ability to capture and take down a cow/bull for branding, to stop it, or similar, and to heard the great cow herds. Maybe the Chapter are specialists, or have a specialist unit, in capturing enemies/monsters rather than just kill them.

* one of the established lores of the Imperium is that they have a very misunderstood understanding of what has come before. You could have that the Chapter have some knowledge of the Pinkerton Agency and have some kind of markings or an elite group based on the Pinkertons but have misunderstood facts about them so maybe their Pinkerton Elite are all painted pink because they believe that the name Pinkerton refer to the agencies colours.

* since the Dark Angels have some Native American elements (less now than before) could you make a ‘Cowboys verses Indians’ reference by having the Chapter being antagonistic toward the DA.

* many Native Americans actually worked as cowboys and the land was originally theirs so maybe put some Plains Indians inspiered elements in the Chapter. This suggestion and the one above can absolutly be used togheter.

* bowie-knife shaped swords maybe?

* whips was used to heard cows (at least among the stockmen), and the whip is a classic side weapon to Zorro and churros, so maybe power-whips is a weapon the Chapter use.

* as reference to The Magnificent Seven could it be that squads are only up to seven members.

* since the iconic Wild West hero is a lone man or just a small band of heroes (there is the cavalry of course but they ain’t cowboys or gunslingers) could you have that the Chapter is organised in similar ways to the Iron Snakes, no companies just squads. And/or maybe they usually send only one marine to an area asking for help, and seldom send more than a squad.

* scouts are called ‘greenhorns’ or ‘tinhorns’

* captains are called ‘marshals’ with the chapter-master known as ‘high marshal’

* captains are called ‘sheriffs’ with the chapter-master known as ‘marshal’

* squads are called ‘posses’

* companies are called ‘posses’

* for modelling do I suggest that for unhelmeted heads could you use Necromunda's Orlock heads or heads from Age of Sigmar’s the Freeguild range since many of them look a bit like how people looked back then, or at least how we imagen them.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

Well some of the GSC models have very cowboy like sculpts.

 

the imperium has pretty much any type of culture or society you can imagine in it.

 

want a cowboy/Wild West themed army and terrain there’s at least one imperial world where that would make sense statistically.

add a couple of techy bits to the terrain and it would look just fine imho.

[Machine God]

In the Old Fluff IIRC don't the Deathwing of the Dark Angels have Native American ties.