Realm of Chaos – Citadel Brayherd Beastmen Gors

Realm of Chaos - Citadel Brayherd Beastmen Gors

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.

Realm of Chaos - Citadel Brayherd Beastmen Gors

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.

Realm of Chaos - Citadel Brayherd Beastmen Gors

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.

Realm of Chaos - Citadel Brayherd Beastmen Gors

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…

Realm of Chaos - Citadel Brayherd Beastmen Gors

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…

Realm of Chaos - Citadel Brayherd Beastmen Gors

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…

Realm of Chaos – Citadel Chaos Warhounds #Monstermarch7

Citadel Chaos Warhounds

My next batch of models are a set that I started over 10 years ago. I distinctly recall sitting on the floor of the lounge room of Howard Street, assembling these models and trying to cut off some of the extra protuberences of their horns to make them look less… well.. shit.

Citadel Chaos Warhounds

The plan at the time, was to use them as Warg Proxies in Lord of the Rings SBG. (now Middle-Earth SBG). As I’d long left WHFB behind, and KoW’s rules were only a pamphlet in a box of disappointing plastic Orcs and Elves at this point in time.

Citadel Chaos Warhounds

I had then intended to use my can of what we called “the dip”. Something I’d used on a small group of Tyranids in our previous rental in Carlyle with the assistance of a hand drill. Just paint in the base colours and the dip would take care of everything else, bar the final matt spraydown and basing.

Citadel Chaos Warhounds

For whatever reason, I got distracted and that never happened. Instead, these models got loaded into a KR Multicase and came along to the next stop and then… nothing for almost a decade. I guess I must have taken them out and based them at some point, but it wasn’t until recently when I accidently found them again in that case and decided that I should finish painting them.

Completing these models at this stage was then just a matter of knucking down wih the “get’er’done” mentality and powering through them. Individually they’re nothing special, but they look reasonably good as a group – which is the point of them, really.

Citadel Chaos Warhounds, Reaper Miniatures 50153 Berkeley Zombie Survivor

When I found them I did decide that the upcoming (at the time) Monster March would be the ideal bit of motivation to get them done, since Swordmaster is always quite flexible in his approach, and every year someone is painting a regiment for WHFB/9th Age or Kings of War. Here Berkeley provides scale – I figure a bunch of 40mm-based critters composed of spikes, teeth and claws that are twice the heft of a human should count as monsters, right?

Citadel Chaos Warhounds, Chaos Beastmen, Chaos Beastman Shaman, Chaos Minotaur Lord

At this point, I’m very unlikely to use them as Wargs, as I now have a whole bunch of actual Warg models – so they’ll instead be used to bump up my slowly-growing Beastmen warband – either for skirmish games, AoS, or (eventually) a KoW “The Herd” army (once added to a MDF multibase rectangle or three). As such they also count toward my broader painting goals for 2023!

Citadel Chaos Warhounds

I do have some metal Chaos Hounds to get painted eventually. They’ll require a bit more work to rebase onto something other than the old-school ugly rectangular horse bases they’re on right now, so not something I’ll be working on anytime soon…