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And now for something completely different. And by "completely different" I mean "closely related to what I painted last month." This month is officially Beastober!



This is a pretty standard Gor. I'm pretty sure he is a Jes Goodwin sculpt, as he has the same massive arms, pouches, and studded belt as so many of his Wood Elves. The nose ring is a nice touch. I gave him an Arcane Armorial for his shield. Naturally, it required some touch up painting.



Another Gor, another Arcane Armorial.



This guy is based on the same body as the guy above. He is carrying less equipment, but makes up for it with those massive guns. Check out those delts-- Gold's Gym must have a branch in the Chaos Wastes.



This guy predates the previous three-- you can tell by how mutated he is. Chimpanzee face (with horns), goat legs, and what looks like crocodile skin on his shield arm. I wish I had more guys from this era, if only to break up the sameness of all those goat men.



OK, I guess I do have a few Ungors in my collection. I'm not sure what this guy is supposed to be-- a monkey? a yeti? He has a sort of skull face, but you can't see it behind the shield. I had never painted this one, which is why his shield boss hasn't been filed down, so I had to freehand his shield design. It turned out well enough, I suppose.



This guy is a dog-faced Korngor. According to the fluff in Slaves to Darkness, dog-men are favored by Khorne, and don't suffer the same discrimination than other Ungor do, which is why there were so many canine variations in this era. For the shields on these last two guys, I attempted a splotchy/pointillist effect a'la John Blanche, but it didn't really work.

As always, a group shot:


Six models in nine days seems really slow. In my defense, I have also been working on some terrain at the same time:



The evil tree is from Grabblecast (they have a thread over in N&R, but the photos don't work). I mounted it on a MDF base from Miniature Scenery, along with a rock made from scrap foamboard, some cuttings from an old broom and some static grass that is almost the exact same color as the base. It will make a nice piece of scatter terrain. Also:



I have a lot of scrap foamboard from the ruins I built a while back, so I've been assembling them as low ruined walls like these. I cover up the ugly joins with O-scale ivy, which also acts as a signifier of age. I plan to go back and add some to the larger ruins as well.

As always, comments, criticism and compliments are welcome.

Great stuff here Josh. I really enjoyed the final run of Knights, Warriors and Champions. You've painted up one of my favourite-ever Champions with the Bloodletter head there, and he looks great. The beastmen are very cool. I (re)painted most of those sculpts myself a couple of years ago, and your take on them looks really nice.
That skull-faced dude is a "satyr" beastman, btw - but I've never seen that Chimpman before. I have seen a few of the other more random beastmen, and have just a couple of them but never ever seen that one before.

Glorious.

That tree looks happy to be here.

The ungors and not ungors look great, such a great time in gaming history. Great work on the shields as well, very well maintained and cared for.

I’ve seen that tree from grabblecast on videos and think it is a great design and you did a great job with a very fall/ winter sort of base to it .

Ruined walls are always needed and ruined foamboard is always available, seems like a match made in heaven.

Thanks, everyone, for your comments. Here are some more beastmen:



I started collecting beastmen almost as soon as I started playing WHFB-- their basic troops had two wounds in 2e, so they were a no brainer. A lot of those earlier models were all sorts of strange, like the chimp-gator guy I posted last week. The models releases with Slaves To Darkness were much more uniform in their poses and such, as you can see with these two. They are based on the same core sculpt, but with significant variation in the details. The Slaangor on the left has brighter colors than the Korngor, but I tried to keep things a little grimy, as they probably don't ready access to laundry facilities in the Chaos Wastes. I tried once again to get that splotchy John Blanche effect on their shields, and once again I failed.



Two more models based on the same pose, but with very different final looks. The Slaangor is a human/fiend hybrid, the Korngor is part fleshhound. I'm quite pleased with the colors on these guys. The pink is nice and vivid, as one would expect with a Slaaneshi model. I opted to paint the fleshhound ruff thing in the same skin tones as the rest of the model rather than the at-the-time-standard bright red.




Finally, to identical, very ugly models. These are probably the oldest beasmen in my collection. SOL has them in the 1988 catalog, along with a bunch of other, very weird models, none of which I own. I originally did their sleeves in the same brassy metallics as the rest of their armor, but they looked too much like Balinese dancers. I went back over them to make them look like puffy-sleeved Empire state troops. Only one guy in this set got an Arcane Armorial. These two have flat, stumpy shield studs, but the other three above have the standard hemispherical mounts. Way back in the day, I would have filed those down and filled the hole inthe shield with putty. Nowadays, I am loathe to do any cutting on these very old models, and with no more transfers with holes in the center, I was force to freehand their shields instead.

Group shot:


I will stick with the theme of beastmen this month. I am tired of painting shields, though, so I will be working on a set of Chaos furies. As always, comments, criticism and feedback are welcome.

Another amazing looking batch of beastmen, Josh. I'm all over these, and if I wasn't on a 40k kick right now I'd be tempted to bring out some of mine to paint them after seeing yours. Actually, I am tempted, but I'm going to use the little willpower I have to stay on the 40k train.

Will you be segregating them into "cult" units as you get more painted? Or at least separating the Khorngor and Slaangor into different units?

Love those critters! Great paint!

Azazelx wrote:Another amazing looking batch of beastmen, Josh. I'm all over these, and if I wasn't on a 40k kick right now I'd be tempted to bring out some of mine to paint them after seeing yours. Actually, I am tempted, but I'm going to use the little willpower I have to stay on the 40k train.

Will you be segregating them into "cult" units as you get more painted? Or at least separating the Khorngor and Slaangor into different units?

Give in to the temptation. You know you want to. Besides, it would only be fair, since all the 40K stuff you and others have been posting made me bump one of the Space Marine Heroes up in the queue.

I have always been a follower of Chaos Undivided, with jut a hint of Malal iconography. I don't have enough cult-specific models to make a whole unit, so they'll just be mixed in.

kestral wrote:Love those critters! Great paint!

Thanks, they were a lot of fun to do, even the bug-eyed dog men.

Beastmen have been moved to the back row (I had a look), so they're a bit difficult to get to, but next time I get past the tubs, I'll pick one or two out.

You know I love the old school beastmen when they are were these crazy hybrids not the generic "race" that they have become. You have made some really nice colour choices amongst these ugly mugs. My Beastmen are going to be way more of the generic mainstream ones unfortunately.

Much more like the beastmen in the WFRP stories - Weird and warped, cast out by their family - not so uniform.

Nice paintwork too, Josh!

Nice job on the Beastmen, I love the fishy one!

You are really knocking out excellent work lately. Real pleasure to see.

Azazelx wrote:Beastmen have been moved to the back row (I had a look), so they're a bit difficult to get to, but next time I get past the tubs, I'll pick one or two out.

I'll be waiting.

Archer wrote:You know I love the old school beastmen when they are were these crazy hybrids not the generic "race" that they have become. You have made some really nice colour choices amongst these ugly mugs. My Beastmen are going to be way more of the generic mainstream ones unfortunately.

Slinky wrote:Much more like the beastmen in the WFRP stories - Weird and warped, cast out by their family - not so uniform.

Nice paintwork too, Josh!

Most of the stuff in the Realms of Chaos books was wacky and over the top, but there were some hints of tragedy in the beastman sections that really brought them to life.

aku-chan wrote:Nice job on the Beastmen, I love the fishy one!

Thanks. I have one more packed away with the other beastmen I painted 10+ years ago. I'll have to dig those out for an army feature.

Camkierhi wrote:You are really knocking out excellent work lately. Real pleasure to see.

Thanks. I've been enjoying there Chaos models, although I am getting a little tired of all the brown.

Great job on the beastmen, really fun and varied group even with some of the same poses.

Revisiting classics... And You did them a great honor with these paintjobs too!

Thanks, guys. It has been fun revisiting these old models. However, I am getting tired of all these browns. Speaking of which:




I re-started collecting beastmen with the release of the 6th(?) edition army book and plastic boxed set. For whatever reason, I decided that they needed demonic allies. Being a devotee of Chaos Undivided from the very beginning, these furies were my one and only option. I even got as far as opening the box and looking at the pewter/adamantium alloy before deciding that I didn't want to spend the hours necessary to pin all their wings. They remained in their box until I started a little CSM force for 40k. This time, I lost steam on the project, and these guys went into the Big Box of Unpainted Chaos Models. After finishing off the previous batch of Beastmen, I decided to bite the bullet and get these guys done. The box came with ten models, but only these three poses. Their weird faces reminded me of vampire bats, so I used a variety of browns (Ceramcoat Dark Chocolate, AP Leather Brown, AP Skeleton Bone). No washes or glaze this time-- only tedious layering. All in all, they took about a weeks worth of 45 minute early morning painting to finish.

About two weeks ago, I splurged on a static grass applicator. Real, professional models cost more than I wanted to spend, and the DIY option is outside of my comfort zone. Searching Ebay gave me a source from China at a price I could afford. It turns out to be just a DIY model like you see all over YouTube, but it works well enough that I managed to finish off a couple of pieces of scatter terrain that have been clluttering my painting area:



This one uses a fallen tree from Grabblecast, a rock built up from scrap foamboard and spackle, some clump foliage, and some straw that I clipped off the broom.

This one is a stone shelter, inspired by a photo from this Facebook page. There are a lot of nifty photos that I want to try to emulate on the tabletop.

Finally, here is a group shot, including the GF9 swamps that I finally finished decorating:


As always, comments, criticism, and praise are welcome and encouraged.

That bit of terrain with the fallen tree looks really nice, Josh. Mind pointing us to the Static Grass applicator that you picked up? It's been one of those things that I'd like to get someday, but low on my list (like all that junk from greenstuffworld that I've never gotten around to ordering!)

The furies look good, and in that scheme they really fit well with the beastmen as well. Like, they could be daemons, or they could just as easily be (as breed of) harpies or even flying beastmen - especially with as much variety as you have with your not-all-gor beastman collection.

Thanks, Az. You are correct about the flying beastmen. That was my original thought-- they would be beastmen with wings rather than daemons. I have never really like daemons in either WHFB or 40K, but I wanted something to fill whatever hole I saw in the army list at the time.

This is the static grass applicator that I picked up. The first one was horribly packaged, and arrived mangled and useless. They guys sent a replacement quickly and with no complaints, so I guess they're good. Much cheaper and a professional model, and much less hassle than building one myself.

I have one last model to share for Beastober-- a bray shaman:



SoL puts him in the 1997 catalog, alongside some nifty command models and some rather blah troopers (of which I have a bunch). I cranked this guy out in about two hours, spread over two days. No washes/glazes, just traditional layering and drybrushing. For his robes and such, I went with a palette similar to the Frostgrave gnolls I posted a few months ago.

I don't have a real theme for November. Instead, I will be clearing out the half-painted and never-started models that have been cluttering up my painting area since at least August:



There are three more beastmen, the heroes that ride the Elven Attack Chariot (minus the wizard, who I painted last year), an Elf boar handler and his pigs, and the Sergeant from the Space Marines Heroes set. If/when I finish all of these, I'll pull out some other random stuff to keep me busy until December.

For December, I plan to participate in Azazelx's "Painting Big Stuff Project" (that might not be the real title). During December and January, I will be focussing on all thing Mythos-- various monsters I got in two RAFM crowdfunding project and in Bones 1, including Great Cthulhu. Here's hoping I come out with my sanity intact.

The shaman is fantastic, well done! Love the colour selection all round.

Looking forward to seeing the elven attack-piggies painted too

Everything is wonderful.

I really love that Shaman model (and most of that particular wave of Beastmen!) You've certainly done it justice! Thanks for the SGA link as well.

Azazelx wrote:I really love that Shaman model (and most of that particular wave of Beastmen!) You've certainly done it justice! Thanks for the SGA link as well.

While I really like the character/command models from this wave, I find the troopers rather lackluster and generic, especially compared to all the weird beastmen that came before.

bbb wrote:Everything is wonderful.

Words to live by, my friend.

Slinky wrote:The shaman is fantastic, well done! Love the colour selection all round.

Looking forward to seeing the elven attack-piggies painted too

Ask, and ye shall recieve:


This is the boar handler, the last of the elven animal handlers. His outfit is ridiculous, even for a 1980's era Citadel elf. I decided to give him black leather pants and a white furry vest like a glam-metal dude would have worn. It doesn't show in these photos, but he has a massive nose ring, just like his pigs:



These guys are tiny compared to the boars that orcs ride. Maybe they are babies? Or else the larger ones are too difficult to control? Either way, there was a lot of empty space on their bases, so I added some flowers to fill them out. Here they are all together:


I also managed to crank out some more beastmen:



Not much to say about these guys, as they are identical to some models I shared last month. Did I mention that I'm running out of old Citadel shields? These guys are using the shields from the now-OOP plastic orc set. I used the boyz to add some variety to my space orks, and kept the shields for the glyphs. It's actually quite nice to be able to use some of the metric ton of bitz I have been hoarding all these years.



This guy has been stripped and repainted a few times. Originally he was an ugly combination of pinks and greens, as befits a Slaangor. Later, he was in blacks and greys, with his original weapon replaced by a giant bone. I used him as a shaman riding this wyvern. This time, he's back to being just a beastman. His axe came from the Frostgrave gnoll sprue (one more bit used, about one billion more to go!), and his shield is another orc shield. The shield is decorated with the beast-Malal symbol that I used the first time that I got serious about Beastmen about 12 years ago.



Finally, the other bray shaman. This model is nearly identical to the one I posted last week-- the only differences being his axe and horns, and all the bling. In FG, this guy would be the Wizard while the other guy would be the apprentice.

Finally, a little battle scene, featuring a little dolmen I threw together:



As always, comment, criticism, and compliments are welcome and encouraged.

Loving these old-school beastmen and elves, Josh. I picked up that Boar handler when I went elf-shopping on eBay a couple of years ago. Never got as far as the Wood Elves since the High Elves blocked me. I should probably try to finish those two HE units over summer this year.

I like both that range of goat-bray-beastmen as a "stable" set - and even their HIPS successors along with the Realm of Chaos releases. Some of the in-between ones, like the Marauder models and the old, old random ones I'm not nearly as fond of, aside from the odd super-cool one. Those really old, pre-RoC ones are very hit-and-miss for me as a range, so you're mixing my favourite two sets with your recent painting.

Wow, look at all the old-school goodness. Quite an impressive haul of classic models. Love the beast master and his wild pork.

Azazelx wrote:Loving these old-school beastmen and elves, Josh. I picked up that Boar handler when I went elf-shopping on eBay a couple of years ago. Never got as far as the Wood Elves since the High Elves blocked me. I should probably try to finish those two HE units over summer this year.

I like both that range of goat-bray-beastmen as a "stable" set - and even their HIPS successors along with the Realm of Chaos releases. Some of the in-between ones, like the Marauder models and the old, old random ones I'm not nearly as fond of, aside from the odd super-cool one. Those really old, pre-RoC ones are very hit-and-miss for me as a range, so you're mixing my favourite two sets with your recent painting.

I started collecting beastmen pre-RoC, then started again with the plastics. That is probably why I'm not really fond of the in-between metals. They aren't bad models, just a sort of lost generation for me.

youwashock wrote:Wow, look at all the old-school goodness. Quite an impressive haul of classic models. Love the beast master and his wild pork.

I never get tired of painting those old elves. It's a good job that I have so many poorly-painted ones waiting to be stripped and repainted!

Love the Beastman Shaman. You do such a great job of natural colours. I have always liked the idea of wood Elf beast handlers. But have never looked into trying to get some of my own.

 JoshInJapan wrote:



Finally, the other bray shaman. This model is nearly identical to the one I posted last week-- the only differences being his axe and horns, and all the bling. In FG, this guy would be the Wizard while the other guy would be the apprentice.

Your browns are very good, distinctive but still going good together.

Funny, I have this little lead guy somewhere in the junk box. Hmm, maybe I should steal Your scheme?

Great work, got a really great vibe going on, looking very natural, yet classic paint.