The Oppo: Bonehead's Lost, Damned and in all likelihood Disappointed

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Yeah, the painted picture does make him look more mutated - I had thought those cheek frills were sideburns not flesh.  Still think he would be a good fit for the civvies if they could be painted as hair - if not (or if you chose not to) he'll be right at home in your mutants.  That said, if he does become a mutant, I'll always have a fond spot in my heart for the housecoated rioter he could have been (even if that was only in my imagination). 

 

I do agree that the gas mask on the ratskin is a definite improvement.  I was kind of looking forward to seeing a zombie head on AK guy (to make him a brother of sorts to Shotgun Zombie) even though there is nothing wrong with the gas mask on him.

 

Those old confrontation guys are wild - they are look like generic early 90s figures with a hint of some of the 40K minis of the time... except as they predate that, they are kind of like evolutionary missing links between early generic sci fi minis and design elements that form part of 40K's distinct "look".

Edited November 3 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Bonehead]

Well, ak guy did have a zombie head oringinally of course- but seeing as I cut it off, I figured I'd be best served not just putting another one back on. Largely because I thought I'd have a look and see if any more zombies were out there, now that it's been proven they can be made back into ordinary scavvy-analogues, and it seems that these two that I have are pretty well the only ones you can get. So just as well he's not got a standard head anymore, or I'd be jeopardising my 'no two models may look the same' rule.

And the confrontation lads. Yeah, wild is the word. Some of the all-time skronkiest faces, poses and detailing. Almost all of them have really jutting underbites and a real sneer on their faces. I have another one of those, bathing in meths at the moment, and he's just as weird. They look so out there, they have to fit in somewhere. 

Meanwhile, more green stuff progress:

ak guy now has a collar and the remains of his right sleeve have been more or less made right; it should hopefully look, with paint, as though the shirt's sleeve is missing and his vest (undershirt, I think?) is showing under it. Meanwhile shotgun zombie's first sleeve is on. Dude is looking increasingly like a belligerent mutant and less like a zombie with every stage. 

Rear view:

Not bad going. Shotgun zombie's shoulderpad has been preserved as a separate piece to the sleeve, which should really help tie him in with the more vanilla scavvies. Neither of these two have a large bag at the waist, which is a very scavvy visual detail, so I'll add some.

These aren't the only two. Here's two more:

Our former ratskin is now just another guy in a ragged top and trousers. Jury's still out on whether he could use a tentacle; it might get done just because it's easy, and the more the better. His fat friend and 'ole Shotgun Zombie are doing their bit to add to the obvious mutations, but I think if the nurgle crew really aren't repping it for the mutated degenerate demographic, then who will be? It won't do. Must up the mutation quotient. On which subject, an idea just popped for one of the other ratskins.

Regardless, I'm really pleased with how the hood came out. It makes him look like he's wearing a light jacket/hoodie, which is very different to the original and much more appropriate for the crew's general 'ruined civvies' look.

Fatboy Who-Was-Elf is coming along just great. Need to remember to add a little to the ponytail to make it look less obviously hacked-through, but with that and the other trouser cuff done, he'll be finished. You can at least see in the two shots above that the gasmask tube detail is nicely vanishing under his odd fur jacket.

Here's a quick bit of detail from above on the ratskin and last week's lad in a raincoat; while raincoat man has his neck sculpted in at last, running rat does not yet:

And here's a couple of different angles on the running ratman:

Just a little work on the jacket front to go.

Finally, the other former elf's minor GS work on the face and hair to disguise the elf face:

Hair brushed over ears, as it were, and the sharp cheek disguised with an odd lump, and another one on the forehead for luck. Job done, but for attaching a strap to the bag. Shouldn't take too long. I do like the bag though, it makes me think of olympic skeet shooters, with their slings full of shells.

Ta!

 

 

 

Edited November 5 by Bonehead

[Tallarn Commander]

Excellent work. I really like the dynamism in running ratman's pose. And the chain and mask make him look fierce. Not someone I'd want to mess with on a darkened hab block.

[Gnasher]

I just reread the blog from page 1. I think this my be my 2nd most farourite blog on the forum (my own is #1 of course ). There is a ton of excellent modelling & an abundance of humourous text & loads of good text explaining not trivial technical aspects of the hobby. The electronics & significance of the technical explanations is sublime & humorous with it it too. Plus a ton of really original models.  Well done that man!

 

 

Looking forward to seeing some paint on these twerps & a full army shot (Full steam ahead, make it so Mr B).

 

Cheers

Le Gnash(er?)

 

 

Edited November 8 by Gnasher

[Tallarn Commander]

I come for the humor and stay for the pretty pictures, army background, and technical instructions. 

[Bonehead]

On 11/7/2025 at 8:37 PM, Gnasher said:

I just reread the blog from page 1. I think this my be my 2nd most farourite blog on the forum (my own is #1 of course ). There is a ton of excellent modelling & an abundance of humourous text & loads of good text explaining not trivial technical aspects of the hobby. The electronics & significance of the technical explanations is sublime & humorous with it it too. Plus a ton of really original models.  Well done that man!

Man, you must have been bored for a while to do that again! Reading it as it grows is punishment enough, even with barely a post a week.

Much appreciated though mate. Glad to know it holds up. I do remember, many moons ago, reading through blogs on Warseer from @Apologist, Bungaroo, Tommygun, Elotsip, Captain Brown and others and thinking 'man, these are so inspiring. One day i'd like to do something as big as this'.

Didn't figure it would be the traitor guard/horde of gullible cultists that caught my imagination so much and fired me to 17 pages and a distressingly large amount of money spent, or of all my projects, that it would go for so long. I sort of imagined the RT guard would probably be the one, but here we are.

On 11/8/2025 at 6:14 PM, Tallarn Commander said:

I come for the humor and stay for the pretty pictures, army background, and technical instructions. 

Well, let's hope we can keep the quality up for you!

Been fun. Little bit of modest progress this weekend, a couple more cultists taking shape:

Man alive that bulb is very yellow.

Anyway, the not-ratskin is just a general 'fanatic with a dog on his head waving weapons around;' you know, the everyday kind. The other one is an attempt to invoke one of the Confrontation scavvy sculpts from Jes Goodwin that are functionally impossible to track down due to the silly money involved.

You can see him on the far right of the top image at this link: http://www.sodemons.com/rhrare/confscavvy/index.htm

He's waving an autopistol and chainsword in the image, and also has some improvised armour plates over his coat. I'm not sure what type of gun he's going to get- it's entirely down to what I find in the bits box on the day- but I'm inclined to leave him the bone club- it does feel very nurgly, somehow. Not sure what head he'll get, but probably one of the gas mask ones I picked up recently. I already swapped his left foot. That, a go at armour plates and the head should do as far as conversion for him.

Comrade dog-head is going to keep his head as-is, but the rest of him will be fairly well transformed; more ragged trousers etc.

Think I might have a go at the autogun guy with a similar pose in the image too. Other than that, it might be a good idea to try and swap my fourth remaining version of this sculpt for a different model. Four models based on such a distinctive pose may be beyond my capability to make different enough from each other in a way I'll feel is good enough.

We'll see.

Cheers

 

 

[Bonehead]

Horrible rainy mess all day today; great on my day off after works' been too busy to get any modelling in all week.

I braved the rain to push off down WW and buy some paints. I remain very much not convinced that GW paints are the best out there, but WW is the closest hobby shop to me, and it's nice to check out all the tables and see people's models.

Picked these up:

The beigy-brown is for the nurgle cultists' coats, and some of their trousers etc. The deepkin flesh is, presumably obviously, hopefully the basis for their unhealthy skin. Should do nicely with some glazes of different sickly colours over the top.

The blue was just because I don't have a dark blue. I don't really need a better reason than that, do I?

Right, hopefully this should lead to some actual painting around here at some point...

 

[Bonehead]

Actually did a bit of painting for once. Got a rough basecoat on six cultists. Painting these did not go nearly as quickly as the Immortals, no it did not. Three hours and they're still barely half done. They did look decently coherent when undercoated though:

Went with Zandri Dust because it's close to the main colour I want them to have: a dirty tan. Black and dark red accents, same dark brown as everyone else in the log for the gear.

Next, the basecoats:

Fatboy mcconehead still needs his one boot doing, missed that. Skin isn't basecoated yet- I didn't think there was much point doing that until I've done a bunch of washing on the other areas, bit of drybrushing etc. All the wrappings/bandages are bright white now, but that won't last. it's a start. Not sure if I like them yet.

Colour is certainly all over the place in that shot but you get the general idea.

Laters

[kabaakaba]

that a nice fanatics! This have more soul in t then any latest gw sculpts.