Today I'm sharing 3 rather lovely miniatures I bought on Etsy a few weeks ago. These guys are the latest completed additions to my Slaves to Darkness warband: Wintry warriors of Chaos who follow Gshtaad, a dark god of my own creation.*
They're from the seller BrakaonBitz and aren't made by Games Workshop, but are instead part of a range called Realms of Mayhem by Beholder Miniatures. The design and print of these guys was so good that within a week of them arriving, I had pretty much finished painting them. Something that anyone who has ever glanced at this blog knows never happens with me.
They are available in various scales, so I went for the 28mm versions, thinking that not all warriors have to be massive, muscled, murder-machines, and regular-sized people could join the fight too – but the sculpts are so perfect, I wish I'd gone with the larger 32mm size to give them a bit of extra 'stage presence'.
Sitting on 25mm diameter bases, they will be joining the existing ranks of my Thugs and Marauders.** If you're a veteran hobbyist of Games Workshop and Citadel Miniatures you may remember Chaos Thugs from the late 80s and early 90s. You can see some of them here and here on The Stuff of Legends. I always felt these (often less well armed and armoured) hooligans formed the first step on the Chaos career path, graduating to Marauders next (some early examples of which you can see here), followed by Warriors, then Chosen and perhaps finally Possessed or Spawn or some other kind of ascended/descended demon thing. Later editions of Warhammer did away with the Thugs, but I figured it would be nice to mix in a few home-grown conversions with my Marauders and bring back some of that crazy variation.
*We all have our demons, right?
**Darkoath Marauders these days tend to come on 28.5mm bases, but I'm really not ready to rebase an entire army for a second time, and I like to have squads and units on consistent bases.
