New Batch of Mutants with Some New Bits

I ordered a couple of boxes of GW Ghouls to add to my small mutant unit.  I had 10 and got 20 more which I finally got time to start on yesterday.  I've found some other bits for these guys by digging through my Necron sprues.  I'm using the spines from the immortals on some of them.  I trim them down and then bend them to fit the curvature of the ghouls hunched body.  I think it looks pretty decent and will look better once I add the additional wires and what not.










I'm in need of additional Skitarri heads and Necron spines.  I'd also be interested in rust stalker arms and hands from the two different builds.  If you have any to part with let me know!  I'd gladly buy or trade for them.

Thanks

Expanded Mutants

So I really wasn't liking the direction of the mantic ghouls for the mutants.  They were just too plain looking and the variety of poses was very limited.  I raided my brothers bits box and 'borrowed' all him skitari bits and start hacking.  This is what I wound up with.  A more techno/mutant theme which I really like.  I'm treating them as archaic dilapidated combat servitors. 

 

 

For the mutant champion I decided to convert a chaotic tech priest of sorts.  Using bits from my brother and the chaos cultist champion I hacked this fellow together.  He needs some clean up work and some green stuff work but for the most part he's done.

I enjoyed making these mutants so much I decided to scrap the mantic ghouls and ordered 2 more boxes of GW ghouls.  I plan to add an enforcer to the unit and I am thinking of using a scylax or something similar to represent him.

Back to Work - Fun with Mutants

It's been a BUSY last 6 months.  We decided to move which meant doing a lot of work on our house to get it ready to sell.  Looking at a lot of houses to find one to buy.  We ended up closing on the 18th of Dec and had to be out of our house by the 20th.  Endless to say it was a mad rush to get everything done.  Plus we had the holidays, bdays, anniversary, packing, unpacking, sort through countless boxes to find things, doing a lot of work on the new house etc etc etc.  I built a few models but nothing note worthy, just kits purchased and assembled.  Some nice kits mind you but no conversions, painting or scratch building vehicles.  I assembled a bunch of word bearers, squad of ashen circle, squad of world eater rampagers, skull cannon, some primarchs, iron hand bikers and some other things.  However, last night I started doing a little converting.  I cleaned my garage Saturday and found some of my missing hobby boxes.  I've been wanting to make some 40k mutants for the renegades and heretics but have just not had the time to do it but last night I gathers some bits and worked on a few just to get an idea oh how they would go together.  All in all I like them.  I think they have a decent scifi/40k feel to them but also look like mutant freaks.  I need 40 or 60 mutants; I can't remember which. At least I am off to a start!

These first two started out as Mantic ghouls.  I added a Victoria Lamb head and a Secret Weapon backpack.  One of them also has a Catachan laspistol.  Simple conversion but still looks pretty decent.  I didn't get a picture of their backs but they have Cadian pouches and canteens and the one on the left has an antique flintlock pistol in case his laspistol runs out of juice.

This next one, I like more, started out as a GW ghoul.  I replace the head with a head from Secrect Weapon then drilled some holes in his back to add the chem-injectors; or whatever they are.  I may put a sphere on the top of them; depends how it looks.  I also chopped off his hand and gave him a claw hand from the Mantic ghoul set.  He's got a tasy treat tied to his belt in case he get hungry in the heat of battle as well.

They still need a bit of clean up, such as mold lines and what not but all in all I like the way they came out.  I think a big mixed unit of these will look sufficiently different from the renegade guard and conscripts that you will recognize they are something else.

What do you think, do the bits mesh well and provide a suitable look and feel to represent mutants of Nurgle?

Thanks for looking!

Now that my move is done I hope the make more frequent updates.  My hobby desk is getting put back in order so I should be good to go!

One of My Favorite Traitor Guard Units

This is one of my favorite units.  The bits go together so well.  The arms and legs are from Victoria Lamb and the torsos are, of course, FW.  They are not complex by the Vic bits look so good with the FW bits.  The arms and legs are from the Penal Legion squad so they have shackles around their hands and feet, chains dangling from them, some are missing their shoes, etc.  I'm not sure why I painted them completely different from every other unit.  I guess just to be different.

Lost and the Damned Mutants

I was scratching my head for a bit trying to figure out how to make some decent looking mutants for my Lost and the Damned list.  I searched for bits to buy but there really weren't a whole lot out there.  So I just took lots of stuff I already had and cobbled together some mutants.  I reasoned that they didn't need hands since they would surely die on the battle field.  So I took to chopping their hands off and replacing them with spikes, blades, clubs, flails, etc.  I used lots of bits from lots of companies and various kits to threw these guys together.  They don't all match but that's okay, you can't expect a bunch of mutant freaks to have time to co-ordinate their outfits.  These guys don't even have hands for crying out loud! :)

I made a few guys into chaos 'arco flagellents' in case I want to run a radical Inquisitor Lord.  I already have the model just not all of his posse after I liquidated some stuff.  Here they are though.








Here's the whole gang from the other figures I painted up for this merry band of degenerate freaks.  A few blokes were hiding out when I took the pic so its not quite the whole gang but pretty close.  If you look closely you will see a flamer or two.  Mutants can't get a flamer but I thought I may use these guys as conscripts or renegades as well so I might as well model and paint up a few flamers for them; just in case.

Counts as Ratling Snipers

In my burst of painting mutants and zombies I threw in a few other units that needed to be painted but I just hadn't done it yet.   One of those units were my counts as Ratling Snipers for my traitor guard.  They mashed together from all sorts of bits; Empire Free Company, Ungors, Kroot, Catachan, CSM bits, SM bits and lots of other misc items.

The guy holding is gun standing up right is the boss.  Ratlings don't actually have one but I wanted to make a model as if they did.

Gors as Lost and the Damned Mutants

I wanted two units of 30 mutants plus a unit of 30 zombies.  I decided to be lazy on the second unit of mutants and just use Beastman Gors.  I had contemplated some alternate heads and arms but monies a but tight so I didn't want to spend the money on it.  I already had these figures laying around.  I need to get 10 more though.

I still need to convert the mutant boss as well.




 


Here's a pic of the whole herd together thus far.

Maxmini Plaguebringer

I picked up the Maxmini Plaguebringer when I ordered the Rotten Puppets. He's a great figure! I love all the detail, the pose, very menacing. He would work great as a herald of Nurgle or a Nurgle lord. This pic shows him with the traitor guard and the rotton puppets to give a good scale pic.

Maxmini Rotten Puppets

I picked up some Maxmini Rotten puppets to see how the would work as nurglings or lesser daemons. I rally like them, they have a lot of character and a variety of sizes. Here's a couple of pics with traitor guard to get an idea of scale.

New Chaos Renegade Militia troopers

I plan to run these as either veterans or storm troopers. Probably just veterans as their guns don't really look like high power hellguns. The legs, torsos and heads are from Maxmini and the arms are from Forge World.

Links to Bits:
Greatcoat Legs
Combat Armour Torsos 
Neobrit Trenchers heads
Renegade Militia Weapon Arms
Wasteland II Bases

Mock ups of new arms

Here are some guys I threw together with various bits I had laying around. I just wanted to give some idea of the scale and how they looked.