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Dragon Rampant, Ironclad Miniatures, Martians, Nurgle, Painting, Reaper Bones, Steam Wars, Warhammer 40000
After attempting a set of figures that made me feel I was accomplishing something complete, and which managed to focused my aims towards a set goal, I next attempted to get some of the more bitty bits off the paint queue.
These Reaper Bones were started in August 2017 when I was trying to get a worm based Dragon Rampant force together. They were planned to also proxy in as Beasts of Nurgle as I do not like the official GW figure for this unit. I picture the intended Beast to be an oozy, slobbery puppy that bounces, almost accidentally, over its victims. I find the GW sculpt to be more ‘scary clown slug’ than my own imagined image.
These are not perfect for my needs either but closer than any of the GW sculpts (past and present). By god there are a lot of teeth and eyes though… A fast and less than careful mornings painting, with plenty of slime to cover any smaller details I did not want to spend time painting. Job done (Nurglings for scale).
The afternoons work was also quite fast and dirty. Unit sizes in Steam Wars are either 5 or 6 men so, a while back, I decided to have a shuffle about with the units and added a few more Sanwar infantry, of various types, to my existing 5 man units. I got as far as I usually do (undercoat and base semi-started) then stopped. Now was the time to put it all to bed, as all they needed was belts, weapons and skin finishing before a heavy sepia tone wash and a bit of base painting.
I suspect that painting the bases on these guys took as long, if not longer, than the rest of the work they got.
At least its another few figures that can now go back into army boxes, happily finished and ready to use. Clearing space for other half finished projects to join the painting queue.
Steinberg Shed Space 
You’re making good progress on your forces. I like those Reaper models as well and agree with you about the GW Beasts of Nurgle. I understand they are supposed to be “cute” in the fluff and all, but I’d rather they not look horribly cute or cutey horrible but instead more like the Reaper ones that are all mouths and teeth!
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Nice to see I am not alone in my opinion. The need to not make them look too horrible is one thing. Looking cute or funny is just not a Nurgle thing in my book.
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Indeed, I feel the same. I wanted to ask, are those two different sculpts or just slightly different perspectives of the same sculpt? I was thinking of picking a couple up at some point soon and only saw the one sculpt, either in metal or bone, on the Reaper site.
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Only the one sculpt sadly and, with that many teeth and eyes, probably too much of a pain to try to convert a second to make it different with green stuff.
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Terrific work. Those I-Can’t-Believe-They’re-Not-Beasts-Of-Nurgle look good in a crazy way… so many mouths and teeth that I’m almost not sure what I’m even seeing. The Sanwar infantry look great in a very different, understated way. I’m a sucker for a gas mask on a miniature.
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A gas mask maketh the man… Or something like that 🙂
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Haha … absolutely. Especially when you are out in the desert for awhile and your own sweat and Nurgle welds it permanently to your face!
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Looking good.
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Very nice- love the Sanwar- have thought about using those scults as the basis for Necromundian Ash Waste Nomads.
Cheers,
Pete.
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They are perfect for any of those roles.
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