#justiceforgary

A full year ago, when I started this blog,* I talked about the Servants of the True Emperor, a Mordheim warband that I had just finished. At the time, I said I was done, and I meant it. I mean, as much as anyone ever 'finishes' any project, of course.

That said, there was one of the Gary Morley ghoul sculpts that I really wanted to paint, but hadn't managed to get a hold of him:

Ghoul #12.
Citadel Annual 1995/96, p. 265. © Games Workshop.

His fat little belly, his weird tusks, his giant skull to crush you with. What a handsome boy.

Anyway, I painted him for #deadcember. It's the only undead I'm probably going to paint this month, as it's too hot and smokey to do any real project work:

out wiv some friends

Like his friends, he was painted using Ana Polanšćak's recipe for ghoul skin, with his earrings in bronze and his nipple ring in bone (that last is a bit hard to see in the photos). The sculpt has some fascinating details compared to the others - he's wearing jewellery for a start, but he's also carrying an actual weapon instead of just some old bones and his teeth are far more pronounced, to the point where he has tusks.

I read the weapon and accoutrements as indications that he's retained more sapience than the other devolved ghouls, who are little more than beasts, while the tusks may mean that he was half-orc before his degeneration - or he's touched by Chaos.

In Mordheim, if the band gets That Lad's Got Talent, he looks like the lad with the talent to me.

Reckon I'll call him Gary...

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*Yes, right before my computer perished and I basically abandoned this blog, I know, I know. I said I was sorry.