Here is a better picture of the slug man to give a sense of how impractical he may be or not be. Not too bad, as he is on a 25 mm base.
The other guy is really just on there for scale.
Current plan is to throw these in with some beastmen who are not your garden variety mix of Gors (aka Broo or goatman). Suggestions are welcome, but no thanks when it comes to safari animals. Northern Old World, please.
Happy new year!
Not much has gotten done here over the holidays. I did spend some time on the blitzers for one of my actually active teams, but they are quite boring to look at... for now.
Meanwhile, the girly-legged minotaur cried out for companions, and I went to work on four mighty warriors of a suitably old skool variety.
These - to those who may recognize them - are not just the snipped gang you might expect. Clearly, three of them are easy (!) snips, but the fourth one is a chucker with a sculpted head/helmet that brings him a bit better in line with the others. The fourth original, with his tentacles, came off as a bit too weak and goofy-looking, so I went this way instead.
One issue that may seem fair to point out right away is the size. These are not small as such, but they are not hulking brutes either by far. They are not even that muscular or V-shaped, nor do they look very wide as one might do when holding the line og scrimmage for a chaos team. I think that kinda fits the minotaur, but hey...
Here is a wip-picture. You can't really see that one warrior is part slug in this. He is, and quite icky, but too small to be a beast of Nurgle.
The long-legged androgynous minotaur got a little of the time I had to spare over the holidays. Jonathan provided the feedback, and a strap for the shoulder pad now helps the bullman man it up a little.
Not seen in this particular picture is the green stuffed improvement to his too neat hair style which has now got a bit wilder down the back.
I am still not sure if I should fur up his thighs. That would mean his furry panties would no longer work though...
A long-legged minotaur with furry panties like MOTU-dolls, almost!
As you can tell, he is a random conversion that just happened as I tried to work off some of the stress from the office and the subsequent xmas shopping. Sawing and cutting followed by green stuffing does the mind good.
He is no masterpiece. Some may hate him for his soft and girly legs, hairless and long. Others may not like the very upright pose, or you may not like my removal of his weapon and sculpting of muscle where there used to be chain. It will all cover up nicely with primer, and I am debating giving him more fur as well.
Vallejo Dark Earth is a nifty paste for jazzing up your bases or dioramas. It says it is a "gritty paste og acrylic resin, pigment and micro particles", and I can only assume that last bit to be the ground bones of enemies. It is what it says it is.
I painted my bases brown first, but you can probably skip this stage if you prime black, brown or grey. These were white though, so I played it safe.
The paste is easily applied without being too messy. I am using an old cheapo crafts brush which usually sees use when I apply liberal amounts of cheapo craft paint to bases. Using a nice brush would be plain stupid, but a knife or spatula, clay shaper or whatnot might also be fine. The texture is like sandy plastic putty, and it can easily be used to hide the slot in the base or weird gaps between feet and base.
One can supposedly make track marks or other cool effects, but I have yet to try that. Letting it dry and building it up or anything like that seems very easy though. Planting grass tufts in it would also be easy, and likewise with battlefield debris etc.
It looks like dirt! It dries in about 45 min at room temperature and looks pretty much the way it looks going on. Basically the next step is to just dab on some spots of glue, flock/grass/tuft and then call it a day, but I suppose one can drybrush it to lighten highpoints, but I did not feel the need or urge.
Seeing as I have other unfinished business, ie two other teams to paint that see action, getting played in the league, it really made little sense to paint these.
They even look familar, because I recently painted abother team, the Rams-looking one, that had the same goats. So no, it was not really the challenge or some sort of mad inspiration.
Am I a Cowboys fan? No, not in the slightest. I have painted these up as Cowboys, because I toyed with the idea with a friend, and then I could not let it go without trying. Suddenly I was halfway through the goatses, and I liked the different look from most Chaos teams who tend to be dark.
The loin cloths were supposed to be silvery, but the mix came out a shiny, and not exactly with a metallic look or sparkle. And of course beastmen wear no helmets, so the silver helm is... their massive belt buckle instead. They like belt buckles in Texas though, right?
The warriors are converted and primed. They will have silver helmets. Promise.
As a favour to my league opponent and generous host of our boardgame antics, I took on the project of supplementing his team of converted humans with a dark elf, a goblin, a skaven, a troll and a minotaur. In return for some free deep pan pizza.
There were two challenges.
1. Keeping cost down. This was a "just whatever you can find"-job, but with a clear focus on getting in some cheap players. That meant conversion, as I obviously have loads of time for that...
2. Matching the paint job. I had one of the other players to work from as a dummy, and I had to try and match his base as well, obviously. This meant that the paint job is not representative of my current level of skill as such, as it involved some cheap and easy techniques that I would otherwise not be using.
That said, these minis should match up nicely with the ones he has, providing him with another team to play, and a unique one at that.
