More work on the Cawdor gang today, although it’s something of an odd-and-ends collection. First of all we have Harold, another ganger ready for the crusade.
Alongside him we have this chap from the second Black Crab kickstarter, originally intended as a civilian (either of the underhive, the Mortal Realms or the Old World – perhaps somewhere like Mordheim – he’s nicely ubiquitous). I didn’t want to take away from that by adding anything that would tie him too closely to one particular role but on the other hand I thought he’d work nicely as a Cawdor hanger on, specifically a gang lookout. I can picture him shuffling aimlessly through the dense crowds of a downhive settlement, just some crazy old beggar lost amid the masses. What’s that he’s muttering under his breath? Crazy rantings or prayers to the God-Emperor perhaps? Or is he whispering into a concealed vox, through which he reports everything he sees to his paymasters in House Cawdor?
As a result I painted him in a style which tied him in with my Cawdor gang but not so closely that he couldn’t find alternative employment in the future without looking too out of place.
Finally I decided it was high time I got around to my bomb rats. Long before Forge World released their (undeniably quirky, cool and official – if as ever rather expensive) version I’d already picked up a set from Anvil Industry. Of course a Cawdor gang without bomb rats is like a Goliath gang without muscles so I turned my attention to producing these most explosive of underhive residents.
There’s a couple more underhive crusaders still waiting for attention (in the short term – there’s pure hundreds of them to tackle in the pile of shame but I’m studiously ignoring them!) so I’ll aim to tackle them this week, then take a bit of a break and paint something else.