More March Muties

 Despite being insanely busy at the mo', I still managed to hit my goal of finishing off a few more Oldhammer Citadel beastmen before the end of the month.

Age before beauty and all that: I've finally got around to basing the Fiend Factory FF68 Goat-headed Ogre (1982).

The next two are from the C27 Chaos Beastmen range sculpted by Trish Carden back in 1985. I was particularly pleased to pick up 'Kiss of Death' late last year and hope I've done him justice.

While there are a load of ram-headed beastmen out there, 'Axe Wielder' is probably the first lamb-man I've come across.

Finally, this is 'Merd', a CH4 Chaos Beastman from 1987. 

He needed a shield so I raided the bitzbox and grabbed him an uruk shield from Ragnarok Miniatures. 

All-in-all, I don't think March has been too shabby for painting beast-people. 

Hopefully more soon.

March Muties

Kicking off March with a batch of Oldhammer broo and beastmen.

I also daubed a few of their buddies in fits and starts over the winter.

From left to right we have: 

CH4 'Braksh'(1987), blister pack RuneQuest Broo (1983), Box 4 (v2) 'Broo' - these are the ones with the swappable heads (1983), Box 3 (v2) 'Attack of the Broo' (1983), Box 4 (v2) 'Broo' (1983), C27 'Cloven Hoof'' (1985), Box 4a 'The Broo!' (1983), blister pack Broo (1983). Phew!

One reason Citadel were able to pump out so many broo in a relatively short time was the canny reuse of body sculpts with new heads (and in some cases reused heads with new bodies). This particular body was used again (with modifications) for Cloven Hoof from the C27 Chaos Beastmen range. 

That takes me up to 20 refurbished '80s broo/beastmen. I couldn't resist taking a progress photo of the herd so far.

Having ranked them up, one thing that occurred to me was the basing looked a little off. I think the mossy tufts looked OK individually, but I'm not sure I like it en masse. I think I'm going to pause basing anymore beastpeople until I've investigated some alternatives. Which means this poor chap will have to wait a while longer. He's a Fiend Factory FF68 Goat-headed Ogre (1982). He may well be the OG beast-guy!

There's plenty more odd-bods in the painting queue (I've got another 20-or-so reeking of Dettol and ready to go). If I can colour in another 4-5 this month I will be well chuffed.

Cheers

Grashak Kra Lives!

It's not been the most successful Orctober. I had a chunky Citadel Fantasy Tribes orc bruiser prepped and ready to go, but he just didn't get a look in. I've been completely distracted painting beast-persons. Here's my output for the month:

The minis are predominately RuneQuest broo, from various boxed sets and blisters.

The guy who sold me these three told me that they use to be part of his dad's warband from when they played together back in the '80s. He said the the guy in the centre was the warband's leader; a nasty piece of work called Grashak Kra. I absolutely loved this. I tried to match the colours of the original paint job (most of the paint had flaked off, but there were patches of colour to use as a rough guide) and he shall be Grashak Kra in my games too. I was also stoked to acquire Four Arms (on the right). It's one of the few times where I've tried to pay more than the asking price! 

I had wondered how the Perry's had managed to knock out such a large range of broo for the blister packs in such a short space of time. Now I've got my hands on more of the minis I can see their canny reuse of sculpts to build the range. The torso in the centre is from an earlier iteration of the broo where you had a choice of heads. In this case, two new unique heads were sculpted for the blister release.

I've also painted a couple of beastmen from the C27 range. The fellow on the left is Fang Head, the slotta version of a miniature from the original pre-slotta C38 Chaos Beastmen range, which famously launched the career of Trish Carden. The little guy on the right is Face Maker. I have other C27 beastmen in the stripping jar where I also have a broo that was used as a base for the sculpt. 

So, what started out as a bit of a pallet cleanser has escalated quickly. I've really, really enjoyed painting these. I also feel that I've finally hit on a tabletop standard of painting that I can replicate reasonably quickly and that I'm happy with. I think I'm going to attempt an old school chaos beastmen army. 

For starters I aim to paint 2x units of 24 beastmen each with full command. Obviously, I would need a fair few more than this for a WFB army (which would be the goal), but even if I were to stop there that would still give me 4x units of 12 beastmen for Dragon Rampant or 6x units of 8 beastmen for Midgard. That's the first milestone, anyway.