Weirdboy and Beast Snaggas for the Mob

 

More reinforcements for Waaagh Scrivs with a Weirdboy and another unit of Beast Snaggas.

Although I think it's painted up OK, the Weirdboy model is horrible. I feel that I paid seventeen quid for a lump of anonymous resin and then had to carve a Weirdboy from it.

Has anybody told Games Workshop that resin casting techniques have come on a lot in the intervening years?

Anyways, my mob now has a bit of psychic punch and he did ok in the last game.

Also added was another mob of Beast Snaggas, I enjoyed painting the previous mob a lot and felt it warranted doing another.

These are great models, and unlike the Boyz they don't all need to be made in a specific way. For well over half of the models you can swap around the arms and heads.

I took this approach with the Boss I built. This is a really gnarly veteran, missing two limbs, has a plate in his head and another on his abdomen, this is  a scarred veteran of many fights who has been patched up by the Painboyz and sent back in.

I'm still using contrast paints but have been developing a few new techniques, on this ones animal skin, some sort of reptilian cloak, I did Creed Camo over my zenithal highlights, but then went back over many areas to highlight, repainting them in an off-white base then applying a 50:50 mix of Creed Camo and Contrast Medium.

I quite like how that effect came out and I used it on a few of the other models too.

The next trio are the chap with the Thump Gun and a couple of standard Beast Snagga boyz.

Like the Boss, I used a similar technique on the Thump Gun chap, this time from a base of Aggaros Dunes. I like how the rust effects have come out on these too.

For the second trio, I show a couple of custom builds, one with twin shootas and one with twin choppas demonstrating how the mixing and maxing of arms can achieve a bit of variety.

The lizard skin effect in this one did not use the thinned highlight, instead a base of Levidon Blue was 

edge highlighted and these areas reapplied with Talassar Blue

In this final trio, I thought that I should try some stripy pants to see how the Contrast Colour worked with them, it's a mix of Talassar Blue and Iyanden Yellow.

Rather fancy for an Ork, but I reckon he once 'et an 'Arlequin and turned out a bit funny.

These chaps will get their first game in tomorrow against James's Iron Hands, let's see how that works out.