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I think it’s the background and tree, but you last Nurgle pic has a real Christmassy vibe. All Reds and Greens and Bells! They look awesome though, a real horde of slathering death!

That is one incredibly generous friend! New on sprue must go for a pretty penny. I hope you keep us well informed on progress.

 gobert wrote:
I think it’s the background and tree, but you last Nurgle pic has a real Christmassy vibe. All Reds and Greens and Bells! They look awesome though, a real horde of slathering death!

That is one incredibly generous friend! New on sprue must go for a pretty penny. I hope you keep us well informed on progress.

Thanks gobert! And you're right, Allen Blount IS a very generous friend and I'm very grateful to have him in my life.

If you didn't get to experience them in your youth, let me introduce you to one of the greatest sprues GW ever made!


The giant rat in particular was always a favorite of mine, but these 4 little gribblies were a great bargain combo of fantasy creatures.

They took way longer on moldline removal than I would have expected, but it's time to get some paint on them!


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Got a test snotling done, whaddya think?

I had some contrast paint I wanted to use so I used the recipe from the painting coach, which is plaguebearer flesh shaded with biel-tan green.


I thought it made for a nice bright skin tone. Any thoughts/changes before I finish the rest of them?

I mean he's just a snotling but I gotta start somewhere...

That’s a great looking snotling, I say go for it! The Contrast paint works well even on these relatively simple sculpts. You’ll be done in next to no time if you stick with the Contrast. *buckles up for the ride

I’ve found the old stuff I have is much harder to clean mould lines from. I guess that’s part of the improvement in the moulds over the past millennia. Saying that, some of the new stuff is so detailed it’s hard to spot them until you get some paint on them

Well I can't go against your advise gobert, so I'm sticking with that snotling skin! Yeah the moldlines were a little silly, but I wonder if that isn't a little difference in the plastic, it seems slightly more brittle on the older ones.

Got a test rat and bat done, thoughts?



The rat was super easy, guilliman flesh all over followed by gore grunta fur.

Ratty looks good. I’d probably have gone for blacks, greys or dark browns. The bone colour helps with definition, but I think it might be a bit stark against the black.

Agreed on the old plastic, I wonder if it has just aged or whether it was always like that. My old brain can’t remember what it was like Back in the day

 gobert wrote:
I’d probably have gone for blacks, greys or dark browns. The bone colour helps with definition, but I think it might be a bit stark against the black.

Better? Darker still?

That is a very cool gift you got there for Christmas and already making a good start. I like actually both bat color schemes, maybe use them to get some variety into them. Excited to see more of this set painted!

"Just a snotling..." Famous last words.

He looks good, as does the rat. I like the second bat over the first, but agree some variation would be cool.

Yep, I like him better. Viterbi’s idea of mixing them up would be good, maybe throw in some more colours, like Black Templar and do some mixing for variety?

Nice to see you back! Raising a glass to generous friends.

Love the snotling and the rat, I like the darker toned bat myself, and if it wouldn't drive you crazy having a mix of colors as suggested above would be really fun.

Viterbi wrote:That is a very cool gift you got there for Christmas and already making a good start. I like actually both bat color schemes, maybe use them to get some variety into them. Excited to see more of this set painted!

I think the idea of a variety of bats is a good idea, it is a fantasy dungeon after all!

youwashock wrote:"Just a snotling..." Famous last words.

He looks good, as does the rat. I like the second bat over the first, but agree some variation would be cool.

Yeah I think the slightly darker bat works better, so I'm glad I was talked into darkening him up.

gobert wrote:Yep, I like him better. Viterbi’s idea of mixing them up would be good, maybe throw in some more colours, like Black Templar and do some mixing for variety?

So it turns out you get your wish, I have a black templar bat in the works! Maybe next update...

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Nice to see you back! Raising a glass to generous friends.

Love the snotling and the rat, I like the darker toned bat myself, and if it wouldn't drive you crazy having a mix of colors as suggested above would be really fun.

Good to know there is such a concensus on the bats lol! Time to go off the deep end of bat colors...

Got the snotlings finished, just waiting on decent weather to clear coat them.


Finished off half the rats as well, a few different shades of brown, black and grey in there along with albino rat!


Went total fantasy vampire bat for the second one, I really like it.


Taking ideas now for crazy bat color schemes!

Nicely done! Love that albino rat. That vampire bat is evil-looking!

the snotling's awesome and so are the bats.

your friend has the right man for the job of some good old retro models

Ok, I take it all back... they all need to be Vampire Bats! He looks great, but I think the rats proved the variety works well. Cool idea on the albino, and it has red eyes too!

Great renditions of some fun sculpts! The rats are a fav of mine (as I have a few) and I think they have aged very well

Thanks for sharing

Lovely work on the different rat furs and cool to see both differently colored bats next to each other. Really cool contrast between old school vampire colors and more natural bat.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Nicely done! Love that albino rat. That vampire bat is evil-looking!

Thanks! I am pretty happy with Mr. Albino rat.

Not Online!!! wrote:the snotling's awesome and so are the bats.

your friend has the right man for the job of some good old retro models

Well I certainly wanted to attempt to do them justice. Appreciate the kind words!

gobert wrote:Ok, I take it all back... they all need to be Vampire Bats! He looks great, but I think the rats proved the variety works well. Cool idea on the albino, and it has red eyes too!

Thank you! You'll probably love this update then

IGtR= wrote:Great renditions of some fun sculpts! The rats are a fav of mine (as I have a few) and I think they have aged very well

Yeah they're a classic. You've seen mine, show me yours!

Viterbi wrote:Lovely work on the different rat furs and cool to see both differently colored bats next to each other. Really cool contrast between old school vampire colors and more natural bat.

Thanks, I took that idea and ran with it!

First up, the rats are all finished. They don't photograph well on the sticks but I was happy with the color variation on them.


Last rat that I did was greenish, kind of like a plague rat from Clan Pestilens. I really liked him, so I figured if I can do a plague rat, why not....


.... a plague bat! Also pictured, classic black bat. Boooorrring!


Then I went crazy and painted a Tzeentch bat and Slaanesh Bat.


And then we have two big brown bats to keep me from making a metallic bat or something.


I figure the chaos bats can each have a little extra rule, like Tzeentch bat can suck magic out and the Khorne bat can cause critical hits. What's that, a Khorne bat you say?! Better get back to painting!

Loving the unexpected bat variety - and hells yes, Khorne bat is mandatory!

More neat critters! Love the fancy bats.

Boss Salvage wrote:Loving the unexpected bat variety - and hells yes, Khorne bat is mandatory!

Yeah, have to round out the pantheon!

youwashock wrote:More neat critters! Love the fancy bats.

Thanks! They've been fun to paint.

Khorne bat was pretty easy, just waiting on the temperature to improve so I can clear coat everything. After that he's gonna get dipped in blood for the blood god.


Reddish brown bat and Albino bat.


The whole colony in flight!

Great updates MegaDave! You were right I love the variety in the critters, I certainly wasn’t expecting bats to so openly show their allegiance! . After Vampire. At, I think Reddish Brown and Slaaneshi bat are my faves

These bats look great as a swarm, there's the right mix of "normal" bats to special bats. The god-affiliated ones are definite MVPs though, I like Slaaneshi a lot but the Tzeentch or the Nurgle are my faves.

gobert wrote:Great updates MegaDave! You were right I love the variety in the critters, I certainly wasn’t expecting bats to so openly show their allegiance! . After Vampire. At, I think Reddish Brown and Slaaneshi bat are my faves

Yeah the process was a little chaotic, but I think they all turned out great. Glad you like them!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:These bats look great as a swarm, there's the right mix of "normal" bats to special bats. The god-affiliated ones are definite MVPs though, I like Slaaneshi a lot but the Tzeentch or the Nurgle are my faves.

Hah, the Tzeentch bat I think is my favorite. Glad everyone talked me into doing different colored bats.


Since I can't spray anything due to the cold, I started working cleaning off mold lines. I had to stop because they were making my hand cramp something bad. There was a ton of flash all around those minis!

Those are some classic minis, the barbarian and the wizard are surprisingly detailed for their age too. I know what you mean about getting cramps cleaning mould lines, I’ve been breaking my Elves in to batches as my hand gives up after about 10 minis! I hope the weather breaks to let you get some priming done

The multi-colored bats are so cool, amazing job, the colors all work really well. Already excited for the rest of the box, I'll echo gobert in hopefully better weather to get stuff primed!

gobert wrote:Those are some classic minis, the barbarian and the wizard are surprisingly detailed for their age too. I know what you mean about getting cramps cleaning mould lines, I’ve been breaking my Elves in to batches as my hand gives up after about 10 minis! I hope the weather breaks to let you get some priming done

The weather finally turned nice so I was able to get everything based and primed, so I am in a good spot if it starts raining a lot!

Viterbi wrote:The multi-colored bats are so cool, amazing job, the colors all work really well. Already excited for the rest of the box, I'll echo gobert in hopefully better weather to get stuff primed!

Thanks!

Managed to get all of the spiders done, they weren't too bad at all. A little drybrushing and some shades, and job's a good 'un!


Decided to get a shot of all the critters in their natural habitat.


Now I've only got 43 more models to go to finish the box.


What should I work on next?

A funky batch of creepy crawlies! The red eyes work well on all of the colours too. The whole bunch of critters are amazing together. As for what comes next, I vote you keep going up in stature and do some gobbos next

Love all the different colours, especially on the bats. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the rest!

Awesome group shots of the critters, and such a great execution of the multicoloured approach to them. I struggle to paint things with the same paint schemes, and am firmly of the view that animals/creatures should not be uniform, so am a huge fan of the approach and the effect!!!

Thanks for sharing

Those spiderlings look great. Also kind of adorable. The blue ones stand out to me as really striking, like some Avicularia. I like gobert's suggestion of going up one more in size!