Squiggoth Stampede - Brutgoth

For Keith's annual Monster May(hem) challenge, I decided to paint a Mountain Brutgoth from Shieldwolf Miniatures. I got the model a few years ago from a Kickstarter and thought that now would be a good opportunity to finally get it painted. The Brutgoth can be seen as an alternative model for the GW Squiggoth, albeit for a fantasy instead of a sci-fi setting (Shieldwolf also produced a sci-fi version, the Steelgoth).

The model is a big chunk of resin and a great cast with lots of detail, although some gap-filling was necessary. The painting took a lot of time mainly because of the size of the model and my choice of primer - I opted for black, but should have gone for white in hindsight since painting yellow on black took ages. It was also one of those moments when I wished I had an airbrush, it would have saved so much time.

The howdah was a lot quicker to paint, since I primed it in white and used Contrast paints. The same goes for the crew, which are two Mountain Orcs also from Shieldwolf. Since I didn't like the original heads I replaced them wth Savage Orc heads from MaxMini and Kromlech. The crew is not glued in place so they can be replaced by any other miniatures - the Savage Orcs don't fit the style of the beast anyway in my opinion even if they were packaged with it.

To make the large flat metal areas more interesting, I decided to paint checked patterns on the shields (in combination with evil sun/ogre face icon bits) and added some ork transfers on the armour plates.
I really enjoyed the basing as well and quite like the outcome - it's a really large base (160mm) and allowed me to put lots of stuff on it.

Since I love Squiggoths and own a couple of them from different manufacturers (and even built my own a few years back), this will be the first in a series I call the Squiggoth Stampede. Let's see when another Squiggoth will join this one - I reckon it will take some time since I'm planning to paint some smaller (or rather regular-sized) miniatures in the near future.