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.

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!

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!

The Ironshod - a WIP besticentigor

Hoihoihoi, how are we all doing? This is a little something I put together earlier today. He's not finished yet, but he's nearly complete.

Anyway, some of you may have noticed, I like to go abit nuts when it comes to modelling. This idea was floating around when I first started thinking about my plastic centigors and I began looking at chaos horses.

I really like the chaos knight steeds, their barding looks so feral and chaotic. However, centigors only get a 4+ save and the huge hulking knight mounts are a bit too powerful. But I still wanted to give him a go, so I decided to make him as a unit filler for my bestigors.

My original idea was a complicated one. Originally the centigor was going to have a bestigor rider, and a chain to his mouth. I was going to say the bestigor had bested the centigor and had him under his control. I had several permutations on this idea (the centigor was protecting a magic weapon that the bestigor had, so followed him around; He was possessed by a bloodletter who was etherically on his back tormenting him, riding him around etc) but, in the end, I just left him as a centigor in huge armour. Why? Well, he's a unit filler - the whole point is to represent 4 figures in one base - adding a rider means the unit filler's efficiency is reduced by one! Plus, centigors don't like being ridden much, and cutting the legs on a second bestigor would just be an addition ball ache.

So, I cut a bestigor diagonally between the thigh and stomach armour. This left a triangle in the groin which fit in the neck hole of the steed. I put an ork shoulder pad on the saddle to protect the upper torso's back. I put the spare marauder shields on the horse's flanks to add more bulk. I used the Gor command arm and head, to add a bit of individuality to the centigor from the rank and file bestigors.

Here he is, I'm quite please with him. I wanted to use as little greenstuff as possible - I'm good at fur, but crap at armour and chainmail!

I put him diagonally on his base, to maximise his footprint. I imagine the other bestigors would give him some person space. He's got a gap on the left that needs covering, but other than that he's pretty complete. His body looks quite far back, but the armour of the horse sticks out quite a way and the upper body is actually in line with the front of the horse and his legs.

So, let me know what you think! Have a happy new year!!

Maste-rebater. WIP centigor prototype

Hi guys, I'm in a proper good mood tonight because the taxman has sent me a rebate for over £1000! Go Tory government!

Here's a little something I've been itching to make for a good few weeks. I ordered a gor kit, and a chaos marauder horsemen kit, to make myself some centigors. I wanted to update the current models by just using plastics, as this would be cheaper and more individual - a proper project!

I ordered these kits an they finally came (no thanks to the interventions of the royal mail, who went the extra mile to try and stop me by not actually telling me they had my packages). The chaos marauder horses had the right "power" look about them, strong bodies and heavy hooves. A few people use the wood elf steeds, whose hooves and legs are very lithe, not very beastman like.

The marauder horsemen also came with throwing spears which solved my next problem of making suitable spears. The gor box has a load of shields which I won't be using, so they replace the tiny buckler type shields the metals have.

I cut an old last edition beastmen at the thighs, and sawed the head off the plastic horse. I put the beast torso one the horses neck, slightly back abit, and greenstuffed the gaps, including a bit of a hairy part where the beast ass joins the bigger ass. I greenstuffed a rough tabbard as well, which I'll paint in a skin texture.

The saddle I decided to keep - and put a barrle from the ogre kit on there - I know centigors probably hate the idea of a saddle as oppressive by the hoo-mons, but I'm sure a couple of clever ones realise they can stack their belongings (and, more importantly, their booze!) on a saddle!

The saddle needs some extra work to make it look less sparse, and I still need to do some more fur on the shoulders and waist, but I'm fairly happy with the results. Should be fairly easy to do on 4+ horses.

Warpigs! - Razorgor WIPs

Well I've rested on my laurels abit this week after my huge influx of views for my WIP doombull. It was included on the blog round up on A Tale of Painters, which was a huge honour for me to be included on such a great blog. You can see the link here, I suggest you all go and look:

http://taleofpainters.blogspot.com/2011/12/tales-from-network-5.html

So anyway, today I've got back on the centigor and made a few more conversions.
I took a huge load of dark eldar boxes back to my local games workshop (who were reluctant to swap them, but did anyway). I swapped them for some more useful chaff, stuff that I need to bulk up my army, like ungor.

Anyway, one of the boxes I got was the savage orc boar boys. A cracking deal - unfortunately they had no orc chariots (grumble) or beastmen chariots (they don't carry metal plastic hybrid's in store anymore...grumble number 2).

One finecast razorgor (or Pumbagor, as they're unaffectionately known as across the intrablags) costs £15. Five boars costs the same.  I have a dozen spare spawn bits to use on them, so I could make 5 in total. I was going to keep two for standard gors pulling a chariot, and 3 for razorgors.

Here's the first two I made. All I've done is add chaos spawn tails and spikes to them, and greenstuff fure to blend them in more. The horns are spares from the minotaur plastic kit, replacing the ears from the orc boars. The one with no eye is ready for basing and painting, the other needs a bit more green stuff before he's ready.

Next to a gor...

...and then next to a mino.

Very simple, and the results are very nice. And, also, very cheap.

Enjoy.

Oh, and one last teaser before I go...lets see if you can guess what it is...