It’s been some time since I last completed any Beastmen. Too long, I’d say. So following last month’s Chaos Warhounds, I decided to get some more of the actual Beastie McBeastmen painted, and so had a root around in the twelve tubs I keep under Marounda’s computer desk for these – a sextuplet of “Rescue” models that I had purchased secondhand off somone at some indeterminate pont in the past.
These ones I had rebased, cleaned up (a bit – I found more claening that was needed), clipped off their square based and even spray primed Beasty Brown. And then left them sitting there for who-knows-how-many months until I decided to pluck them out a few days ago.
For the paint, I more-or-less followed the same scheme that I used last time I painted some models for this little force. I’m not at all fussed that the skin-fur on these is different to the last batch(es) – I actually prefer it that was as it gives a little bit of variation between the individuals once they’re all mixed together while keeping them looking overall unified.
I enjoyed the freehand on the banner, cribbing the overall iconography from the battletome, but turning the skull into the centre of a chaos star in a move that I’m almost totaly sure than nobody else has ever done in history, and then copying some runes from that Runestone that I really need to knuckle down and complete…
What’s next for the Beastmen then? Well, not more of these Gors anytime soon, I can tell you that much. Next month is Monster May-Hem (hopefully) so that might offer a suggestion as to my intent. On Gors, however – I did pick the final 11 other (unbroken) plastic “rescue models” out of my “Beastmen” box, and I intend to clean them up, rebase them and then give them a base-coat spray so that the next time I become interesed in doing some more Beastmen, almost all of the friction between inspiration and actually getting to the painting painting will be pre-taken care of…
After I paint those, I’ll be done with this kind of “quick and easy” work on rescue model beastmen and I can get back to the metals that I care about a lot more…
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Excellent work rescuing these models mate, I like the fact you’ve varied the skin and fur, it breaks up the monotony of the same colour and has a very natural feel to it. The banner looks awesome, and can’t say I’ve seen any one else do that symbol like that.
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Thanks Dave – they’ll look better of course once they’re part of a larger group, but it’ll be a little while before I feel like I’ve got enough of them to warrant a proper group shot! 🙂
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Hello there. Ive recently dug out an old mini I was given 30 odd years ago. Ive asked a few 40k people and some of them told me it could be warzone. Ive pestered a few warzone nerds on ebay for an identification but have been left wanting. Are you the warzone nerd oracle of my dreams? And if not can you pass the photos of it to a few of your associates/forums please? Anyway please let me know if you would like to join my quest lol. Il email you pics if you get back to me. Much love from Northern Ireland.
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I might be able to help – then again, I may not have any idea! Feel free to post it up somewhere like on Imgur. If you really want to almost definitely find out what it is, post it on the Dakka Discussions part of this forum with a “please ID this Warzone mini” header and you’re pretty much assured to have some knowledgable person ID it for you…
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/forums/show/7.page
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Thanks for getting back to me. I did all you suggested. Fingers crossed. Here is the Imgur link
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I did what you suggested, fingers crossed. Heres the mini
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Found it. It’s a Praetorian Stalker.
https://gabbigames.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/warzone-oscura-legione-parte-2/
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/mutant-chronicles-warzone-1858147169
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Well, you told us that something we would like was in the pipeline… and you didn’t disappoint! They are the same plastic gors D is painting (but much slower). We are happy to see that they have been rescued and that you have taken care of them. The brown/black/cream colour scheme works well, and gives me (D) an opportunity to see a different version from the warmer brown tones I’m using. Just one remark: the skin banner has the same colour fur as the gors, and this means that there was a big showdown within the herd, which resulted in a lot of skinning and yielded a lot of skin to make this unit’s banner, with plenty of room for your lovely freehand!
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Thanks mate! I’m glad you like ’em. I see you also picked up on the little easter egg I added in there! Very observant! 😀
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Awww, it’s like your running a Beastman sanctuary of sorts, giving those mistreated Beasties a better life 😊
Love ‘em mate 🤘
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Haha thanks Alex. Hopefully I can get the rest of these rescue models done before too long, anyway!
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Wow, these are definitely awesome, I love the skin and fur, what a great job!
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Thank you! Glad you like ’em. Now I have to prep the next set, though.. 😮
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I really like the color scheme on these. I probably said that the last time I saw them but its been a while and it really is true! 🙂 The freehand looks top-notch too. Its always a pleasure to see you paint some Warhammer, mate.
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Thanks mate! I’ve got a bit more Warhams on the go right now, so there’ll be more tomorrow and then possibly not too long afterwards…
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Nice set, and I love the banner!
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Thanks Nicolas! 😀
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That banner is great, lovely design
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Cheers! 🙂
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These are brilliant! 🙂 Don’t need to say more!
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Thank you, John! 😀
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Wow, it feels like it has been a long time since you last painted the beasties. These look great and I agree that a variety in skin tones if going to look better in the overall unit.
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Yeah, it’s like my Dwarves and Chaos Dwarves – not really using them for anything actively, so despite liking the model ranges a lot there’s nothing really driving me to get a bunch more of them painted at the moment…
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Lovely! You’re bringing me back to the nostalgia of my early days of blogging about GW Beastmen.
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Thanks mate! I’ve got to get the next batch cleaned up and rebased so I can spray and maybe base them to be readt for the next time I get beatman-enthused. 😉
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Lovely paintjob! Your freehand work immediately stands out, and the skintone looks very good. I also get an odd kick out of the sharpened bits on the banner pole, I think the colors are spot on!
I’m glad to see some Warhammer models from you again, though I can well appreciate why you’ve been painting other models lately!
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Thank you, for reasonably quick models they turned out pretty well. I’ve got a few more Warhams almost done (3/5 so far, hopefully the last two finished in the next couple of days) but the ones I’m working on feel pretty overloaded with detail models without being amazingly interesting… 😮
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Really great looking beastmen, and that banner rocks!
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Cheers mate! Hopefully I get some more of them done this year! 😀
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Wow! That banner(beast)man is impressive, lovely work mate.
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Thanks! I’ve got some more banners to come, though not in the next batch of these, sadly as the other rescue banner was broken, and I’m doing faster-batter right now… 😮
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