I was leafing through the collected Nemesis the Warlock the other day and came across these boys. Now there's a vision of beastmen on the charge. And led by a chaos sorcerer to boot!
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| From Nemesis the Warlock (2000AD Prog 248, 1982). Art by Jesus Redondo. |
If you've no idea what I'm going on about, Nemesis the Warlock was a serialised strip in 2000AD written by comics legend Pat Mills. Nemesis is an alien chaos magician leading a rebellion against a fascist human galactic empire (the dudes shown above are the 'goodies'). It's always been my assertion that this strip's influence on 40K's Imperium of Man is second only to Dune. And whilst my favourite art in the series is by Kev O'Neill, I think Jesus Redondo knocks it out the park with this panel.
Earlier this month I pulled out the painted broo and beastmen that I've been working on for a similar group shot. Because, why not?
The unit is made up of 31 x 1980s Citadel Miniatures + 1 Heavy Metal Hordes musician. This is close to the halfway point for the beastmen and I'm pleased with how the project is coming together. I have a handful more beasties currently at various stages of being coloured in, but this month has seen some serious DIY shenanigans here at Castle Anthrax and miniature painting has been in abeyance. I've got some real crackers in the painting queue, though, so hopefully more soon.
Cheers all.
Woah, now that is a proper chaos beastman horde! So many unique figures in there. I’m looking forward to seeing the second half of the chaos critter project as you complete them.
ReplyDeleteThat’s interesting about the possible influences on early Citadel figures. It’s kind of cool how many sources inspired them in the early years.
Thanks Pattus. I'm not a fan of monopose chaos (it's just not chaotic), and it's been fun picking up various weirdos from the old ranges to build this army.
DeleteI was thinking about 2000AD's influence on early 40K fluff, but actually, as so many of the folk in the studio were fans, the artwork must have influenced sculpts beyond the licensed Judge Dredd range. Whether there was any conscious influence on the early beastmen I'm less sure (the broo seem more Moorcockian if anything), but Trish Carden was certainly fond of a Cursed Earth mutie.