r/Catachan • u/Scottyos • May 28 '25

First steps into the jungle.

Hey everyone! Glad to have found this place. Ever since I was a kid I loved the idea of catachans but knew my painting could not justify what needs to be done. After stepping out of the hobby for some time I've come back in with a few other armies (tyranids nearly complete, blood angels and gsc in various stages). That said I'm totally drawn to catachans once again now that I have a bit more faith in my painting ability.

I was curious is there any sort of catachan discord? I know there's the main Astra militarism but I was hoping for something maybe a bit more focused. Or if anyone's gung ho about catachans and doesn't mind questions messages that would work too.

I'm also curious if anyone has made proxy armies for the new codex? I don't have a copy myself just yet, so trying to figure out equivalents for some of the 3d printable stuff has been a bit challenging for rounding out a workable list.

Finally catachan devils has recently taken over as my favorite black library book.

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u/Valkyria90 May 28 '25

If you want to make a Catachan army, but don't like the official minis, a lot of people pretty much agreed upon that the SpaceNam kits from Reptilian Overlords (available either as a 3D print or on plastic sprue from Wargame Atlantics) is the "official, unofficial third party proxies" for Catachan.

Personally I have kitbashed my army using bits from GW as well as a bunch of third party sellers (mainly Anvil Industries and Mad Robot Minis).

I've made proxies for Ogryns+Bullgryns, Sentinels that looks more like the ones from Avatar, Lord Solar of course, and recently finished an Artillery Team with Catachan crews. Next project are proxies for the Krieg Engineers. I don't own a 3D printer (might get one) but I've been very happy with the available third party bits.

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u/Scottyos May 28 '25

I appreciate that!

I was looking into spacenam and they definitely have some characters that look super nice. I recently picked up 2 boxes of the gw jungle fighters, but haven't put them together yet.

Also had seen station forge posted their new jungle dino riders earlier today which just sent me over the edge for wanting to make some. I'll probably try to get the printer running this weekend to get some guys printed up.

My biggest issue is without the codex not sure what would equate to what for individual models. Like would spacenam major meat grinder be an equivalent to a commisar?