Da Green Horde

It's may, which means it's Monster May(hem) , so of course I had to join in and paint a monstrous miniature. As teased in my last post and correctly guessed by Dave, I chose to paint another one of my Squiggoths. The model is a Gnawzilla from Kromlech, a large chunk of resin, that's beautifully sculpted and quite fun to paint.  The painting process was quite simple, the Gnawzilla is mostly skin and armour. The skin was done using Orruk Flesh base coat (over black, which worked quite well), followed by diluted Ghillie Dew Speedpaint and drybrushed Ogryn Camo for simple highlights. To make the armour more interesting, I painted some metal plates in red and added Dirty Down rust effects as well as some decals and checkers.  The howdah is magnetised, so it's detachable and the model already had holes for the magnets which is pretty neat. Since the mini is meant to be used in WH40K, I decided to make some adjustments by adding wooden planks and animal pelts to make it better...

I recently finished another conversion - a combination of the Orruk Megaboss and the Blood Bowl star player Varag Ghoul-Chewer. I had to chop off the iron jaw as well as the beast skull on the pauldron of the Megaboss, the rest of the conversion was quite straightforward. All I had to do was swapping the head and putting the ghoul trophy of Varag on one of the pauldrons. I quite like the result, the kits work really well together. Additionally, the head with the large tusks has the same style as the new Ardboyz (Black Orcs), making the boss a fitting leader for them. A fun detail is the impaled ghoul/zombie, who somehow seems to still be alive (undead?), I imagine he regularly tries to free himself. Varag Ghoul-Chewer must have his name for a reason, so I guess he not only sees the ghoul as a trophy to intimidate his foes, but also as a snack.   I've also started working on my entry for this year's Monster May(hem) , here's a little teaser on what's to come: