Well... I am the one. A Greedy beastlord... I'm a greedy man too. So, rescently i thought, why should I pay forr all those extra bits from the warherd box (especially the old one) if you never get to use them? Well, maybe you use a couple of hands for some mordheim brute conversion, or, probably a spawn, maybe you'll even glue some of the ungor heads to your 40k Chaos space marines. And that's it? I decided to stop that waste and clear out the piles of bits I've got on my shelves.
As new gors in Beastmen army became rank and file instead of being skirmishing, and the upcoming Warhammer FB edition encourages making a HUGE blocks of infantry, I decided to make a 5x1 rank unit filler. It seemed especially handy as my already glued and painted beastmen gors, made for a previos edition always have a trouble to make a formation, as I didn't try to achieve the goal of fielding them rank and file then.
Another issue from the upcoming edition is that shields may become more usefull, and good old additional hand weapon is usefull for sure. So, as I really like the look of "overequipped" troops, I decided to make my new gors both with two hand weapons AND shields. I already tried it on my paintin competition-winning warherd. But then I just made them hung with weapons and holding a shield, of vice versa. Now I decided to get some use of my extra bits, which seemed to be useless before. Its a Chaos after all! How can a beastmen suddenly turn into spawn, If he is not preparing for that throughout his all life?
So here is all u need. A file, a bits from warherd box, modelling knife, glue, greenstuff and sculpting tool. A piece of wire is always usefull if you are going to convert alot too.
Now, the work on the beastie. You just cut and glue... Cut and glue,,, Again and again... And again.
If you are using the old warherd box, you may encounter the serios lack of left arms. It is not a problem when you are making just a few models like this, but I'm planning a whole lot of theese guys, so it is vital to get some. You may try to use bits from other boxes, but the goal is not to get new, but to use the existing ones. So here's what I've done: I took the right arm, and cutted away the hand (as it is the most obvios difference between left and right arm) and swapped it to the weapon blade... Or how do you call that striking part of a blunt weapon?
Now glue the "normal" left atop of our "cutted" one... And you get a great three-armed-goat-with-two-LEFT-arms =)
Add some greenstuff
And now it ready!
Note the second face, I'm thinking of painting it "dead"... Or maybe not.
Here is the whole unit filler. Note the importance of wires, as it is obvios now. The guy in the middle is not too heavily converted to make all 5 gors fit onto a 5-men base. Also the base will be painted in modeled in such way that this gor would look "jumping".
Note the use of few other bits- palmless ork arm with pick instead of hand, shield made of plastic card (with skull and beastmen horns. this one used to be my beastlord's shield, but he got a better one) and a spawn's tentacle.
By the way, as this gors look bigger than the normal ones, you can put only 4 for such a unit filler. That was my original idea, but damn i LOVE the look of really tightly packed blocks of troops. They look mightier than those, who have almost an inch distance between the models.
So, i hope this will be usefull for someone. And check this blog when theese guys will be painted!
And no, of course, a few words on heroes. First- the mage. He's made of BFSP slayer, a nail and a skull. As you can see he represents a fire mage, and I wanted him to look like a pyromaniac. Why no clothes? Well, he burned it to ashes of course! GS is included as usual.
