Today in Gargant news...

This week I have been busy with life so I haven't done much Warhammer. But one thing I have done is looking over all my Mega-Gargants and Mancrushers and given them all individual names. I've had the names for a little while, but I had not decided what Gargant had what name. So this weekend I sat down with the lot, looked at them and wrote their names under their bases. Like I think I have said before the names for all my Sons of Behemat is the British common names for types of Fungus. The same type of names I use for my Gloomspite Gitz army, where all my Goblin characters have names like that. I had originally planned to name the Trolls like that too, but I think now that the Trolls should get some other kind of names to show that they are totally different creatures even though they are in the same army.

It is not the first time I do things this way, as my Sylvaneth Charachters all are named with the Latin name for different kind of trees and bushes. But the Sylvaneth are sort of higher beings, so I found it fitting that they had sort of "High Gothic" names (basically Latin), while Gargans and Gloomspite Gits are more down to earth simple beings that don't have so many fancy words so the Latin names would not work for them. Also it gives them a little more comedic side, and especially for the Gloomspite Gitz I find that very fitting. 

The coming week I plan to assemble some Squats or Leagues of Votann, and continue painting my Sons of Behemat army. I also plan to work on the backstory for my Necrons and Leagues of Votann. 

I have decided that my Necrons are from the Tang Dynasty, and that their king is Sherek Khan (Shere Khan is the big bad tiger from The Jungle Book, but I felt adding the k at the end made it more oriental). The Tang Dynasty is really from Chinese history, and was a very "successful" dynasty for about 300 years from 618 to 907 AD. The Khan is more Mongol I think, but this is not really historical so I allow myself that "adaption".

The Leagues of Votann army will either be called The Valiant Veteran Alliance of the Valiant Veteran Conglomerate, I haven't quite decided what I like the most yet. I think I need to see how the other Leagues that has these words in their names are organized and then decide how I want to organize my League and use what suits that best. I guess they could be an alliance, as I plan to paint them as similar as possible to my Necromunda Squats so they could certainly be part of the same alliance. 

More update on the gargants

This weekend I have finished building and priming the gargants for my Sons of Behemat army.

The status now is one Mega-gargant completely finished, but as I want to use his base for King Brodd, I need to paint up a new base for him. I have placed a fence on the base so I need to paint that, but apart form that the rest is just filling the base with Stirland Battlemire and Stirland Mud, then drybush with various greens and paint the rim. Maybe put some grss tufts on there as well...

I also have a finished Mancrusher, he is glued to his base, and the base is done. He is slightly modified with a pegleg, the only gargant with that. 

Then there are King Brodd and two other Mega Gargants standing primed and ready for pant, and two more bases with some fences on them. 

That leaves 14 Mancrushers where 6 are partially painted with skin and pants done and 8 are just primed.

It is going to be a huge paintjob but a good thing with itis that there are many large areas to paint so it is not as fiddly as smaller models. I am very hopeful getting the army painted in time, so I will just have to work on and see what I can do.

From Squats to Gargants

From buiding a unit of Squats I have moved on to the gargants of the Sons of Behemat. 

A few days ago I finished building King Brodd, and today I primed him and the base. The base will be used for my first (and only) finished mega-gargant as the base that I made for him will be used for King Brodd.

Today I have built the other new gargant, the Beast-smasher. He uses some of the same new parts, among other things the handle on his club. When you see it held in one hand, you see how long it really is.
The good thing with the way he is hoding his weapon is that I didn't have to fit the other hand like I had to do with King Brodd. So there was no need for greenstuff for this figure. I have also made a base for him, but it is rather simple with just a fence between his legs that he is walking over, so I will try and see if I can make something more of it before it is time to add the texture material on it. The only thing missing on the mega-gargant himself is to add the bird somewhere on him. I sort of forgot that today, but I am sure I will find a good place for it when I sit down to work more tomorrow. I fixed the hand with the weapon to the arm, but to get the arm to stick to the body I needed to keep it still for a long time so I managed to make sort of a cradle and got it in a position that let it dry properly.

I sat down again tonight and was happy to see that the arm had attached like it should, and decided I wanted to build more, so I started to assemble two mancrushers.  I have decided on their weapons and assembled all the parts to get them ready but I need to glue the weapon and the arm they are holding it in to the torso. Also I need to assemble and glue all the stuff I want them to have like an extra club, some food and/or drink and other things I have added to my other Mancrushers. Hopefully I will fix all of that tomorrow so I have two more gargants to add to the unit in the not too distant future. 

This means I have four more Mancrushers to build, and I will need to take some time to think about a few conversions for them to make them tand out as all the Mancrushers have the same poe with only a few selections with arms and heads. 

I might try to make a club as a weapon, or maybe make antother pegleg or someting to make the Mancruher stand out a bit.