As I stated in my last post, I’ve been playing Clank Legacy as of late. One of my friends graciously volunteered to paint all of the models. Foolishly, two of us decided to paint our own though…

It all started with the elf. This poor, unsuspecting model suffered an unfortunate accident—an arm, snapped clean off, leaving it looking more like an unfortunate adventurer who had just lost a battle with a particularly aggressive mimic. Enter my friend Marshal, who took one look at the situation and decided that, rather than a boring old “fix,” we needed something more dramatic. So, naturally, he grabbed a Genestealer Cultist arm from his bits box, slapped it onto the elf, and declared it a masterpiece. And honestly? He wasn’t wrong. With the right paint job, this elf looked less like a tragic accident victim and more like an eldritch horror enthusiast, now fully committed to the cause of whatever ancient horror had gifted him his new limb.

Seeing this abomination—I mean, work of art—inspired me. If we were going off the deep end, why stop at a single, unsettling model? The halfling was just sitting there, so normal, so unassuming, practically begging for some unnecessary but absolutely spectacular body horror. So, with the reckless abandon of a hobbyist who is out of practice but too stubborn to care, I grabbed my hobby knife and a long-forgotten box of Tyranid bits.

What followed was an impromptu surgical procedure that left the poor halfling missing a significant portion of his original body but gaining a particularly gruesome severed Tervigon head as a trophy. Now, I’d love to tell you this was a seamless, well-planned conversion, but in reality, there was a lot of hacking, cursing, and staring at tiny pieces of plastic while muttering, “Well, I guess that’s staying there now.”

By the time I finished, the halfling had transformed from an innocent bystander into a deranged monster hunter, dragging his oversized trophy along behind him like some grotesque victory prize. Was it practical? Absolutely not. Did it make sense? Not even a little. But did it look incredible on the board next to the eldritch elf? You bet.

At the end of the day, I may be out of practice, and my hobby knife skills might be more “frantic gremlin” than “master artisan,” but that’s part of the fun. Clank Legacy may be about deck-building and dungeon-crawling, but our version now has an extra twist: mutant horror-fantasy gone off the rails. And honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way.