Lords of the Wild Part 2; Your Beastmen miniatures

In the second part of his Lords of the Wild article, Adam Troke pins down Phil Kelly for some tactical advice on using the Beastmen's most infamous characters. Phil wrote the book on Beastmen (if you'll forgive the pun) and his tip for using Ghorros Warhoof is particularly sneaky.

On the subject of Beastmen, we've been sent dozens of emails this week featuring pictures of your Beastmen models. Here's a look at a few of the more interesting ones:

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  Brian Kellecher painted this Beastmen Gor. He decided 'to go for a cold and demonic colour' rather than a fleshy-brown. He wanted to 'emphasise' the horns and hooves, so painted them in a bright bone colour - working up to Skull White for his final highlight. Brian's model is a good example of how you can add a personal touch to your miniatures simply by playing around with the colour scheme.

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  Chris Singleton (the manager of Games Workshop Bournemouth) sent me this picture of the Beastman Cygor he's modelled using the Warhammer Giant. He's added horns from the plastic Minotaurs set and a bunch of other bits from the Gors set. Chris used Green Stuff to model the fur as he wanted to make sure that his model looked more Beastman and less like a 'Giant-with-horns'. Click on the image for a look at the rear of the model.

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  Thomas Millet sent me these pictures of his Beastmen Mordheim Warband. I really like the dark, brooding colour scheme Thomas has used, and the bright patches of snow provide a nice contrast. He's currently saving enough gold to add one of the new plastic Minotaurs to his warband. Click on the image to see another picture of Thomas' warband.

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  These Gor were painted by Otto, who works in the Games Workshop Helsinki. He achieved the purplish skin colour by using a basecoat of Necron Abyss and then drybrushing it with Hormagaunt Purple. He then applied a lighter drybrush of a 40/60 mix of Hormagaunt Purple, Dheneb Stone and an even lighter drybrush of Dheneb Stone. Finally, he washed the skin with watered-down Leviathan Purple.

This unit of Bestigors and Doombull were also painted by Otto. The pile of skulls on the Doombull's base (from the Warhammer Basing Kit) is a nice touch - the big-fella probably gets through at least that many in a morning's butchery. And I do love the fact that the Doombull's axe is larger than the unit's banner.