Muties – Part 2

It wouldn’t be the dark corners of the 41st Millennium without a few muties scurrying around, suffering deprivation, being oppressed, demanding rights and turning dark thoughts to the darker powers that lurk beyond the veil… Some of you may recall that back in April I finally got around to painting up some of my long-planned tribe of mutants, models which I converted over several years based on the Lord of the Rings Goblin models. Here’s a reminder of how they look.

Now at last we have three more, ready to join the tribe.

This one is actually the very first one I made – alongside the chap in the death mask from the previous set – but in the mixed up world of miniatures I only got around to painting him now. He has however had a few tweaks since he was first built, mostly to take advantage of new components as they came along – with the poxwalker tentacle being the most obvious addition.

This one is one of my favourites from the whole group, a very simple conversion but there’s something chilling about him that makes me think of the worst excesses of research conducted unmonitored in crumbling asylums.

A face to give you nightmares if ever there was one!

Here’s a cheeky groupshot of the three newcomers.

And here’s the whole tribe gathered together, ready to spring out upon some unsuspecting ganger or inquisitor.

That’s not all however. Whilst I was about it I also found myself thinking about the other scavenging creatures which might be found lurking in the gloom of the Underhive. Giant rats appear to be the most prevalent form of life on Necromunda (even more common than muties!), and are probably pretty common everywhere else in the Imperium as well, so adding one to my collection of verminous critters seemed like a wise move.

I was also looking through my Chaos Space Marines collection and my eye fell on this old familiar that I painted a couple of years ago. With retrospect I don’t think I did a great job on it so, on the grounds that there’s no time like the present, I popped it back onto the painting desk and gave it a quick freshen up.

And there we have it, a few more verminous scavengers ready to sneak and plot in the deepest shadows beneath the hives. Speaking of which, the end of the month is approaching and I really need to crack on with some Skaven!