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...

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 ...

 My first entry for Swordmaster's #MonsterMarch6 painting challenge is a warbeast for my boglars (swamp goblins). The model was originally a toy tortoise that I converted by sculpting a bigger jaw out of greenstuff and buidling a howdah using chopsticks. I actually built it around Christmas 2019 if I remember correctly, but didn't finish painting it. As the theme of the challenge is based around monstrous models, I decided now's the perfect time to complete the project. The project was heavily influenced by Thantsants' War Tortoise , who also used a turtle as a mount for his swamp goblins. I tried to paint the model similar to the World of Warcraft Steeljaw Snapper , which was the pet of my orc hunter ages ago. Lorewise, I see it as some kind of tortoise-squig, which was tamed by the Boglars and named Dursquiggo . I tried to give the base a swampy look by adding some swamp tufts by Army Painter, lichen from my garden and Agrax Earthshade Gloss.  The bits on the howdah ...

Squiggoths have always been some of my favourite Warhammer creatures. The official sculpts are great (if somewhat expensive), but I've been wanting to build one from scratch for a long time. The miniature I'm presenting today was built in spring/summer of 2017 and is still one of my favourite projects ever. A lot of great custom-built Squiggoths can be found on the web. Some use existing miniature kits as a basis (e.g. War Mumak, Stonehorn, Stegadon, Maw-Krusha), while others opt for the cheaper option: toy animals. Viable creatures include dinosaurs, elephants, hippos and rhinos. Another toy that is often used is the Star Wars Reek, which looks quite similar to a Squiggoth even without any modifications. For my conversion, I decided to use a toy hippo, as hippos have quite an orcy appearance and I did not want my Squiggoth to look too reptilian. After some research I found a great sculpt that was large enough and made from durable plastic: Safari Ltd. Wildlife Wonders Hippopo...