I apologize for the lack of a blog post last week. Between the holiday craziness and the blessing of Nurgle one of my children brought into the house, I wasn't up for it.

This nameless mutant is the one of the many denizens that inhabits the bogs at the edge of Ottersricht. Clearly touched by the stuff of chaos, he (she? it?) scavenges every meal, often relying on carrion to eke out a meager survival. And constantly on guard from the threat of the Tallyman and his soldiers. The life of a mutant is not a pleasant one. But something disturbing has been noticed. The mutants of the bogs have been acting with a unified purpose of late. As if someone, or something, was able to control the dull-witted mutants into acting with towards a singular goal. This cannot be a good sign for the people of Ottersricht.

I had not initially wanted to post this model by himself, as I had wanted to finish up a few more and show them off as a group. I even have two more half converted. However, my limited painting time has put a squash on that plan. I was so excited to paint him that I also forgot my rule for painting Ottersricht models of practicing my layering techniques and started slapping paint on him!

He's built from a ghoul body and a beastman head, with fur sculpted around the neck joint. The tentacles are, of course, greenstuff. As a proof of concept, he is the only one that will get a goat head. The rest will get a variety of other types of heads as I have always been unsatisfied with the way GW only depict mutants now with goat heads. My mind harkens back to the days of the Realms of Chaos books and WFRP mutants that were drawn with a variety of bizarre heads. I also feel that the hunched over nature of the ghoul torsos more accurately embodies the malformed nature of mutants in the Warhammer universe (both new and old). I've mounted him, as I will the rest of his compatriots, on the Secret Weapon Miniatures Swamp bases. For the water, I used Woodland Scenics Realistic Water that I've premixed with various blues, browns, and greens and stored in some dropper bottles. I know I keep refering to the "bogs" but I've modeled a swamp. Truth be told, other than a few pictures online and a wikipedia article, I have no real idea what a bog is. But it sure sounds like a swamp but spookier!

The swamp in all it's glory