Hello one and all!
Now today should be a very special post because it is my daughter, Saoirse's, second birthday today - HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAOIRSE!! But unfortunately she's a little under the weather and we've had to postpone her party so I'll share a party photo with you once we've been able to properly mark the momentous occasion of her second spin around the sun!
So instead, we'll keep things grim and dark and stay within the foreboding confines of the Blackstone Fortress.
Beastmen are destined to become
the outcasts of Imperial society.
They are shunned and are often hunted down
and killed as the Imperium has little tolerance
for any who deviate from the perfection
of the baseline human form in mind or body.
Today we're looking at the Chaos Beastmen.
Like many of the models in Blackstone Fortress, these ones were clearly an opportunity for the sculptor to have a bit of fun delving into the parts of Warhammer 40k that haven't been visited in a while. The models are great, and I tried to make each one a bit individual while still maintaining similar clothing to suggest that they originally came from the same regiment.
I started by getting a little inspiration from the mobile game Raid: Shadow Legends, because whatever about the game itself, it has some awesome character models. The colouring of this guy from Raid helped inspire the palette for Ol' Longhorn, the leader of my ragtag gang.
I started with is fur Ushabti Bone, but then repainted him Grey Seer because I wanted him to be very pale.
In my mind Ol' Longhorn is the cunning leader. He was easy to differentiate from RAMpage - the one with black fur and red spot colour.
But adding variety to the two brown ones was not as easy. I started by painting their horns different colours...
...And used different Contrast Paint skin tones (and subsequently different highlight colours) to diversify them a bit.
As you'll see below, the brown one with curled horns ended up in the more "red-brown" spectrum for his skin and hair, while the straight-horned one became more "yellow-brown". I leaned into this with their spot colours (red and ochre, respectively)
Now let's look at them all finished:
I even gave RAMpage some hazard stripes on his chain sword.
I focused on textures - stippling on many of the cloth surfaces to really emphasize the raggedness of their clothes; adding to their feral image.
Here's a shot of the whole herd together:
I'm pretty happy with how these guys turned out, but let me know what you think in the comments section below.
I'll see you next week on The Art of Caesura!
Reading: just finished Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel) and still marinating on its depth
Listening: Agnes Obel - Deezer Session
Next Week:
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