The Justice Keepers - Dr. Ruminahui's heretic guardsmen

[Bonehead]

I hope this means the challanges you were facing have been dealt with. In the meanwhile, I'm looking forward to seeing how these turn out.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

They come and go, but at the moment I'm doing okay.  I imagine you should start seeing the first finished models in 2-3 weeks, as I can't start painting them until March 1 due to the event.

 

Need to decide whether to paint their skin more like humans or more like actual goats - guess I should start researching goats to see what their different colourations are.

[Tallarn Commander]

A quick internet search indicates goat fur varies widely. So it might be fun to think of a variety of goat fur paint schemes.

 

At any rate, I hope nobody gets your goat. 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Alas, Slannesh will be getting my goats.... but, that said,, he/she always does. 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

It's Warhammer 40K - The Goatening!

 

Anyway, finished my first 2 goats and am pretty happy with them.

 

 

Just realized I missed doing the scars and veins on the 3 sword dude, so I'll need to go back and do those.

 

Here are the other 10, with some of the basic colours blocked in:

 

 

Basically, there are 2 goats of each of 6 different skin tones, of which the above are the second darkest.  I'll be giving them various colours of hair, which I'll work out as I do each of the individual models.

[Tallarn Commander]

Looking very nice! I especially like the skin tone on the 2 goats. Would you mind sharing the paint recipe?

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Thanks and no problem!  Its simply GW's bestial brown with a dark chestnut brown wash (I use a craft paint I picked up cheap - "Raw Umber" from the DecoArt Americana line).   What little highlighting I did (some limited veins on the left model - you can see a tiny bit between the fur and the hand on the front arm) I used skag brown.

 

BTW, I considered doing them in goat colour patterns like you suggested, but the way I'm doing more natural skin tones that didn't really work.  I do intend to make the fur in goatey colours (off white, brown, black, grey) but there really isn't enough of it (or in the right places) to show the mixed colouration on some goats.  Still, at least based on these two, they'll look fine without.

 

Incidentally, I discovered a pet peeve about these models - their hooves.  In researching how I should paint them to look like actual goat hooves I discovered that they don't actually have goat hooves.  Goat hooves are essentially 2 fingers with a bit of hoof at end - this makes for that distinctive pointed goat hoof.  The models instead have unpointed hooves - either have unsplit hooves (horse hooves) or larger unpointed split hooves (cattle).  So I rail at the anatomical incorrectness of my mutant human-goat hybrids! 

Edited March 11 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Bonehead]

First they take our goats' hooves. Next they'll take the goats themselves. After that, what's left? This is how it starts...

Pretending to be deranged can be fun.

Lookign forward to the finished articles; damn good start been made!