So after completing work on the Lizardmen and Skeletons in my last posts, I fully intended to return to something more historical. How wrong I was!
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| Figures waiting to be painted, can you see the red one? |
Work turned out to be much busier than expected and so I reached out for a bunch of pre-primed Beastmen figures that were lurking in the same box and the Lizardmen I'd just completed.
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| Finished figures |
I'd put these to one side as they were primed in black with an over spray of grey, not my current preference but when I finally had time to devote to some painting the chore of cleaning up flash and priming 20-30 figures wasn't very appealing...
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| Unit from their Right Flank |
Thus, I decided to work with the Beastmen, despite the fact that, many years ago, I'd for some reason painted one of them red, my guess is that they were going to be some sort of Chaos Beastmen horde but this time round I decided to go for some more 'natural' colours.
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| And the same unit form the Left Flank |
Not knowing what the natural colour of a Beastman was, I opted for the obvious, Army Painter Monster Brown!
Monster Brown is a fairly light coloured brown so I also used a bark brown to do all the Beastman fur and hair. I dry-brushed the monster brown with bronzed flesh to give the creatures a kind of semi-human effect,
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| The eight smaller, thrusting spear armed Beastmen |
I opted for a dull red colour for all weapon handles, with steel blades and a brighter red loincloth on each figure.
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| Some of the larger 'Front Rank' Beastmen |
Other details were added as required before using a flesh was on body parts, strong wash on fur and wood etc and dark wash on the weapons.
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| Close-up of Musician and a couple of the larger Beastmen |
The banner was done to represent a Beastman hide with a red logo added. Shields were painted on the sprue and then superglued into place before matt varnishing all.
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| Command Figures (L to R), Standard Bearer and Champion, plus one other |
By wat of change I pre-mixed some fine sand, electrostatic grass, died sawdust ad sponge fragments to apply to the figure bases.
Oddly the set seems to have been marketed as a Beastmen Horde / Herd, this seems t explain why 8 of the 20 figures are significantly smaller than the others. I took this to imply they were 'youths' and I have placed them in the back ranks of the unit armed with small shields and long thrusting spears, so they can join in the fighting from a distance whilst the big guys get in close with two hand weapons each.
That's my theory and I'm sticking to it...
