Aha!
These two chaps are broo (the OG beastmen) from Citadel's RuneQuest range, which were produced under licence between 1982-3. The inclusion of 'Chaos Beastmen' in WFB 1st ed. was, of course, so you could use Citadel broo miniatures in your armies. Bryan Ansell certainly did (see Warhammer Armies, 1988). When Ral Partha acquired the miniatures licence in 1984 it brought the end to one of the finest beastmen ranges ever produced. To be fair, the same year Citadel launched their C38 Chaos Beastmen range, the first range sculpted by Trish Carden, which is chock full of weirdness and features some absolute classics.
I couldn't find the sculptor credited anywhere (they did a really nice job on these). But certainly one of the reasons that the Citadel broo are a notch above the Ral Partha range has to be because they were based on concept drawings by Big John B.
EDIT: The Perry twins sculpted this set (thank you to Hobgoblin over on the Lead Adventures Forum for the info).
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| Broo concept drawings by John Blanche, reproduced in Heroes for Wargames (Paper Tiger Books, 1986) |
Painting-wise, I've not done anything too fancy. The grey skin tones are a tip of the hat to the bestmen hordes featured in the Mighty, Dark-Winged, Avenging Lord of Chaos' Mighty Avenging Chaos Army in Warhammer Armies.
Awesome!!
ReplyDeleteThe Broo are proper beastmen, just how I imagine them.
The later GW ones, especially the newest ones just look like cloned steroid taking goats.
They all look dull and samey and meh.
Great work on great models!!
Ah, thanks Mike. I'm with you there. There's a fair few goat and ram boys in the range, but there are enough tentacles, ape heads, extra heads and birds feet to keep it properly chaotic. And the sculpts are knockout.
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