Revisiting The Beast

The Beast is the model I made for the Scandinavian painting competition The Fang in 2015. I have showed you this model before, but the old pictures are really bad. This model is a nightmare to photograph because of the pose and tentacles. But it's one of my favourite models, so it definitely deserved some photos with a better camera. 

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So far in the new year I haven't been able to post at least a post on this blog every week. I do however post a lot of random WIPs on my Instagram. To keep the blog up to date I've decided to start posting some of these WIP pictures here on the blog as well. Once a week I'll try to post a small update of whatever I'm working on. I'm still going to post large posts of finished projects and tutorials, but these small posts will help me to keep this blog up to date.

Here's the first one! I've recently started painting some of the models I never got around to finish during 2016. This week I've been painting a bit on a new Character for Silver Tower, a Necromancer and his Skeletons, and one of my Bloodthirster Fairies.

I have a lot of unfinished models from last year. If you have suggestions on which ones you want me to finish, please leave a comment.

If you've followed this blog for a while you probably know that I played the first part of the Vortapt IV campagn I'm playing with a couple of friends last weekend. We got a lot of good pictures from the games. I'll post the best ones here when I've looked through them. 

WIP: Bloodthirsters

When the plastic Bloodthirster came out, I didn't really like it. I thought the weapons was too big, the wings had some weird looking chaos symbol scars on them, and they had too many oversized horns. I did however buy one, to give myself a conversion challenge. The Khorne: Daemonkin Codex had just come out, and I needed a Bloodthirster for my army, and started to convert it. I failed, and the resolute became far from a Bloodthirster. I ended up creating "The Beast", one of the models I entered in The Fang 2015. Even though I didn't make a Bloodthirster, the Beast turned out quite good. 

I didn't think much more of it, until Skarbrand (the named Bloodthirster) came out, and I wanted to try again. This time I managed to convert the model into a Bloodthirster that I like. I actually made two!

Since I don't like the wings, weapons or heads, the only thing I needed to create another BT out of the spare parts was a torso. 

I'm quite pleased with how they look so far, and think I managed to make two quite original Bloodthirsters without turning them into something else entirely (like the Beast). What I like most about them, are their heads. I used the heads from FW Hounds of Xaphan, and turned them upside down. The Bloodthisters are blind. The idea is that the wholes that kind of look like eyes are nostrils or ears. I hope they will look less like eyes when painted. 

As mentioned, I'm not a fan of the original wings. I gave them creepy fairy wings instead, taken from Nurgle Plague Drones.