Slugtongue WIP and a cheeky razorgor

So, something weird happened this week. I went into my local Gw and went and a huge spending spree, picking up things wildly without even looking. I grabbed a necromancer and when I got home wnet to begin chopping him up - only to find a plastic dark elf sorceress inside! Whoops! So after a few days waiting for the new order to come in (plastic necromancers are popular at the moment, who knew?) I finally got my base for my slugtongue conversion.

So, he's a nice easy conversion - feet lopped off in favour of some ungor hooves, a bestigor skull and a troll skull to represent his regeneration save (I've now got dozens of those damn troll heads...).

I extended his braystaff to have a horn to beastify him, and librally chucked some greenstuff fur around again to make him more beastly. Oh, and obviously, I gave him a huge tongue for licking things. I cant sculpt slugs though so a worm would have to do.

He still needs some tidying around him feet but he's pretty much good to go.

I also did a bit of work on another razorgor.

Huskygor Chariot

Evening all, how are we? I finally got my chariot base from GW this weekend so I set about finising off my chariot conversion.

So I decided to convert a plastic orc chariot, but I decided to replace the cute boars for a couple of warhounds. I was a bit sceptical at first on whether the conversion would work, but it actually turned out alright! I might even say I'm pretty cuffed with myself!

I decided the hounds, or "huskygors"as I've now named them, needed something to connect them to the chariot body, so I added the eternally useful "dark eldar hook chain" from the ravager kit and connected them to their rumps. I greenstuffed the taught skin over the hooks too, I figure beastmen are pretty brutal with their livestock!

So, here's my huskygor chariot. Woof woof!

That'll do dog. That'll do.

Herdstone WIP

So, here's what's been taking up my time this week. This is the second attempt - the first melted abit under spray paint (I was aiming for the paint to melt it wabit...but not to the point it actually did!). So this is my herdstone, which needed basecoating manually (which I'm halfway through) and PVA'd up. 

Favourite part, the dog with a bone

It's actually a bit taller than I expected - It fully covers a giant and ghorgon! The chaos star kind of crumbled when I cut it too, so hopefully it may look a bit better when it's fully painted. Or it may not...

I did a bit of research to make sure how bit is acceptable for a herdstone and generally a CD base is what most people go for. I'm quite happy with it so far, let me know what you guys think!



3 Wise Beasts - my plastic lore of beast/wild shamen

Oh hai guyz! I've got a few updates for today from my work this week. I'm not going to lie, I've not got much done , but here's some older...old and new stuff, all together for completeness.

You may have seen my first shamen, the guy with the huge ramskull is my "lead" shamen, by the fact he's my first and has the biggest head dress. He was originally my Mordheim shamen and has the body of the old style plastic beastmen gors from the combo beastmen/ ungor kit. His style was the "base" for all my other shamen.

The other two are from the newer updated gor kit. One is inspired by the "acid blood" mordheim spell from the chaos lore, stating the mage cuts his palm and a gout of steaming gore hits his enemies. I figure that the beast magics are heavily influenced by blood letting and, so I modelled his with his palm cut and a bloodied knife, mid chant. I gave him a greenstuff mask which, to be honest, I'm not 100% happy with.

The final one I threw together yesterday. I started influenced by the shamen picture where a mage is infront of a huge flame. Well, after a wee bit of playing, my final model was totally different. He's marching forward, again with an open hand (the best way, apart from pointing, to signify a magic caster!) mid cantrip, with his bray staff pointing forward at his enemy.

I've put him slightly forward on his base to make him  stand out when he's in the herd. He still needs some greenstuffing...basing...painting...playing games with...but other than that he's done!

Blood in the badlands - campaign markers WIPs

Wow, 4 updates in like 24 hours! And I've been at work 8 hours today!! I'm a mother fricking MACHINE!!!

Ok, well tonight was a cooling out few hours, I've really not been feeling too cracky today and a therapeutic sticky model making evening was in order. These guys took about an hour to get right, including some faffing with clipping and sticking and a little bit of greenstuffing.


Here are some markers for a campaign our club is hoping to run. Similar to blood in the badlands, we all need three markers for our armies. I was told all three had to be beastmen (dashing my hopes for 2 beasties and one daemonette army in a nefarious alliance). So, I went about making tree beastly markers. I've intentionally kept some spare plastic beneath their feet because when I eventually base them their hooves might get covered by sand.

One army is going to be a hoard, That's the hoardy marker, made from epic beastmen. Some had laspistols, which I had to shave off, and replace with various round things.

I'm hoping to base on a "beastzilla" list heavy on big gribblies. As i mentioned, beastmen from epic are a wee bit smaller than warmaster scale, meaning my armies will be smaller than everyone elses. Well, only one way to fix that! My cygor is made from an ungor body, a gor ead with a spawn eye greenstuffed on. I couldn't decide between a cygor and a gorgon, but the cygor was a simpler conversion as I couldn't find a second left arm. I also wanted to have a go at greenstuffing a spawn eye onto a gors head! I put the epic beastmen on the base, pointing him to his next target, since he's a huge blind bastard.

Third is my "portable herdstone" list, which will be spamming the shard of the herdstone magic item. The giant kit has a hand with a big rock and a chaos sign on it, which makes a cracking miniature herdstone.

I have about 10 plastic flags from the planetary empires kit, which I'll be painting in my scheme as well - eventually!

I like making silly models. I hope you enjoy them too.

Wheels of...ricketty wood that would probably set on fire quite easily -WIP chariot

Hallo, more WIPS! This is a converted orc chariot. I didn't want a metal one from GW - metal models that size are terrible to move around and paint, and the tuskgors look a bit goofy. So my plan was to use the new boars as a replacement and make an eniterly plastic chariot.

Unfortunately, the new orc boars were a bit too big, and tipped the chariot itself. The boars which came with the chariot were too small and looked like baby boar, not really fitting for my beast hoard. So I'm compromising with warhounds, they're not the biggest but look much better than the standard likkle boars (who are now in a ungor filler).

As it was an Orc chariot, I had to "beastify" it. First, the riders were an ungor and a gor. I gave the ungor a whip from the corpse cart and the half horns head - technically, the crew is suppose to be a gor and bestigor, but using the "rule of cool" and since the metal chariot looks like an ungor and gor too, I don't think it matters much. The bestigor is a plastic gor with bestigor arms and head. I put a couple of spare minotaur shields on the wheels to make it extra beastly.

The model also didn't come with a chariot base, but GW have promised to send me a free one in the post so that's all gravy.

So, without further ado, this is my converted chariot so far!



As you can see...wee bit too big!




Ungor unit filler, isn't he cute?



Painted Karniforox - Gorebull

So, remember Karniforex? The converted doombull, well, he's BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!

Here he is pretty much finished. Quite happy how he turned out - unfortunately I'm still trying to get a good formula for snow but other than that I'm quite happy, he's tabletop standard at least!

I tried to play down the purple and instead make his magical armour and weapon black as well, with purple being a highlight. This should make him stand out, well, that and his tyranid shoes.

I'm not going to lie, this guy was a bit of a pain to paint. I'm still not happy with the snow, All of my neutral colours all appear too neutral, meaning theres very little definition and contrast and for some reason the inks decided to pool straight away and leave huge puddles on perfectly flat areas of skin instead of coating nicely. Conspiracy! I managed in the end, I've also painted the little flag "wood elf green".

I want to go back later and fix some things, but at the moment it's time just to stand back and leave this dude, as I've got a whole army to get painted and time's ticking on.

Warhalfhorses...a WIP by Steven Spielberg

So, we all know about the horse's head in a bed in Godfather...but where did the rest of that horse go?

Well, here, obviously. Here's the completed plastic centigors I've been working on. I've so far completed 4, with the standard bearers currently awaiting more attention. The standard bearer needed alot of work, so I've held off doing anything on him until I'm happy with the banner he'll have, before going ahead with his greenstuffing.

So, what's changed? Well I've loaded up their saddles abit more with some extras from the Ogre sprues (thank you bits services on eBay...), I figure since Centigors are roving nomadic creatures they'd probably pack up all their gear on their backs! I mean, leaving their kit at camp is likely to be pinched by a cheeky ungor! I've tried to mix it up abit with the right arms from the marauder kit as well - the maruader kit is brilliant! I also put a little more effort into the command units - I used a dark eldar hair extension to try and replicate the mane from the metal centigors.



My WIP flag waver, with the early stages of a goblet!



                            

I can't wait to get some rank and file to bulk up the unit!