Those Animals: Tame (and weird)

 Couple of things mixed together here!

animals tame (and other)

Alright, getting some things crossed off the list. This lot have mostly actually not sat in the drawer for too long - in fact, two of the models only arrived a few weeks ago! Not too bad. But then again, the Necromunda Wyrd was in the pile for the failed Old World Army Challenge from 2023, so let's not brag.

melty men

First off, some melty men. Like last time's mootants, these are Thunderchild Miniatures. A few layers of yellows, contrasts, washes, drybrushes, glazes, picking out the white teeth and eyes, varnish. Fun and easy. Sorry they're not in the group photo, this is what happens when you break up the painting and photography but not the blog post (also are they even really in the animal theme? eh)

melty butts

I deliberately painted them with a gooey industrial base so I can plonk them as antagonists on any board and they'll look just fine. I love these guys and am glad they aren't languishing in a drawer forever more. Now they can languish in a cabinet! Or a different drawer! yayyy

Orientalism!

This fun little set comes from Eureka. The rest are forthcoming as part of some generic civilians, don't worry. I like it for a bit of colour, even if it is a cliche. I painted the snake as a monocled cobra because the eye motive is going to come up on some other miniatures and to give it a it of character past 'snake'.

Old mate has more-or-less denim shorts and an experiment with a dusky skin tone. I think he came out okay.

eggs

These are from the latest Colony 87 kickstarter - which only finished delivery this month! Wow! So fast! These are painted inspired by cassowary eggs, which are bright green. Uh, I promise the sticks and base are painted differently....

Little Guy

I like to think this thing is actually incredibly vicious, with those long sharp front claws. This is also from that recent kickstarter, so this is one of my shortest turnaround times between receipt and painting. Unlikely to be repeated (although others from this delivery are in the now-undercoated pile...)

kitties

These are phelynx from the 'new' (yes I know they restarted it eight years ago) Necromunda Escher range. I just think they're fun sculpts; here painted similarly as the 'Eavy Metal team have painted the Phyrr Cats. White with pink stripes is a bold look.

The fact that they come with collars implies that these are owned, possibly by Julius Samarkand.

Wyrd Beastmaster (Aly Morrison) and Pals (Trish Carden)

This fellow doesn't quite match the others. He's based for my other Necromunda gangs on the same kind of ruined landscape that I use for Death Guard. As I said above, he was on the list for the failed Old World Army Challenge. While I wasn't quite able to base and prepare anything else in that drawer during the fit of productivity that resulted in these other civilians, I did get this guy ready. And so here he is!

His friends were especially fun to play with...

Beastmaster

I kept him fairly simple, browns and easy tones. I did try to have multiple browns on the loincloth, but they got muddled in washing and I kind of lost interest in doing more. I like the eventual outcome just fine, and I'm trying to get away from getting bogged down. I have a lot of unpainted dudes!

Beastmaster, rear

Great textures on this model.

My favourite detail is that he has a flute. Aly thinks he's funny.

rat

These rat sculpts are so good. Really nobody does it better than Trish Carden. This guy is a mixture of mammalian grey fur and blue-green reptilian scales. Great, great fun.

rat

This one has buboes and sores, one wide staring eye that I did in whites. I can't quite remember what I did for the tail, presumably a thinned wash and Trust The Trish Sculpt (can't go wrong). The rest was painted as for pale human flesh, with some red and purple washes to make him look yucky.

rat

And finally, this horrible little tumorous thing. Human skin tones on his skin, and the rest done as wet, wet bloody tumours. Final coat of gloss varnish on those to really bring it home. Absolutely wonderful to paint.

oops, out of focus. you get the idea

That's it for this entry! Those of you following along on Instagram might have some idea of what's next...