Part 5: ScatteredFlesh's Beastmen

A lot has happened since my last post, both in terms of hobbying and this project in particular even if I'm quite late with my part 5. I mean, there's even a part 6 (Niklas amazingly colorful o&g's) out so I'm kind of ruining the chronological order of things in this (kind of half-dead?) blog. Sorry! But as I said, I have a lot to show you, so let's get into it.

I filled out my unit of monopose Gors from all the way back in Part 2 with a command squad. It consists of a Pestigor repurposed as a champion for the squad, as was befitting of his pose, and a kitbashed musician and bannerbearer. The banner design is stolen from an old woodcut piece, I just made the artistic decision to make the goat blue. This kind of sparked the idea that the Thorns of Chaos (as the warband is named) worship this blue goat figure. This kind of ties back to my minotaurs, who have painted themselves blue. The one with the shield is actually a blood bowl figure originally, with an added hand sculpted shield and a 3D-printed brutal weapon, with a hand from the classic plastic zombie kit attached.

The biggest time sink for this project so far has been my chariot I named 'The shit wagon', which is mostly made out of popsicle-sticks. The wheels are hand sculpted and blue-stuff copied, which was then repurposed as a shield for one of the minotaurs above.

And lastly, here's a 3D-print-kitbashed diorama that will serve as a unit filler of some kind. It has a beautiful story behind it. I mentioned my friend passing in my previous post, and Hampus was the leader of the Cheeky Badgers, a kitchen that served the hungry at collaborative events. Now he will serve the hungry on the battlefields of the Old World forever.

Part 6: May - Niklas' Orcs & Goblins

 Man this month went by in a flash! Once again I'm barely scraping by at the last minute, and once again I'm a few points short. This time I painted a duo I've been saving for a while, the iconic Skarsnik and Gobbla! I also managed to squeeze in some mercenary ogres.

Skarsnik and Gobbla were a hoot to paint, especially the red ball of death Gobbla, and I really took my time with these two (a bit too much time it turns out). 

The ogres were a nice change of pace from painting greenskins. The old Marauder sculpts are beefy and just the right amount of old school charm that I like about ogres. I kind of wanted to paint a bit more freehand on their clothes and maybe even give them some tattoos, but I simply ran out of time.

Well, we're nearing the end of the challenge aren't we? Can I reach a full 2000 points next month? I certainly hope so! Until next time!

May points total:

Characters

- Skarsnik & Gobbla (trollhide armour, venom sword) - 250 pts

Regiments

- 3 Ogre Mercenaries (heavy armour, additional hand weapons) - 102 pts

Total: 352 pts