Bogrit's Beastgrabbaz have entered the mines beneath Embergard seeking signs of the huge troggoth, Trugg. Their leader, Borgit Wolf-Killa fancies himself as a hunter and uses his mates, Snagz and Hobblin' Dregg, as bait.
His real trump card is Uglug, a troggoth who dreams of growing to massive size, although the grots' spiteful tendency to keep him in cramped spaces has the opposite effect. The warband is rounded out with Rigg and Shamm, who pretend to be Uglug's pet squig.
Miniature Review
Borgit Wolf-Killa is the leader of the warband, but maybe the least interesting model in the set. He holds a large yellow shield, has a large fur clock and is stood on a large rock butooher than that he's not too different to any other grot.
The real standout of the warband is Uglug, a baby troggoth I think pretending to be a wolf. He's quite simlar to Mollog, bt carries a large basket seemingly full of squigs. It's a great sculpt with a lot of character and I love the two snotlings on his back.
Rigg and Shamm are great, wearing a squig skin pretending to be Uglug's pet. It's a really nice pose with the spear and one of them being higher on the rock. Snagz and Hobblin' Dregg are also great, having snotlings with them to flesh out the scene a bit more and give them a lot more interest over a standard grot.
Painting Techniques (Grots)
Skin
Eyes
Yellow Armour & Patterns
Cloak
Wood
Leather
Rope
Steel
In some cases I then used Dirty Down Rust.
Copper
Painting Techniques (Squig Skins)
Squig Skin
All highlights are applied as a glaze. I also used a 50:50 mix of Wild Rider Red and Kislev Flesh between using the pure colors to help blend them.
Gums
Pink horror is applied first, then a 50:50 mix of Pink Horror and Kislev Flesh, then a final 50:50 mix of Pink Horror and Pallid Wych Flesh.
Teeth
Claws
Eyes
Painting Techniques (Troggoth)
Skin
Carroburg Crimson was applied as a final wash over the lips.
Wolf Skin
Stems
Painting Techniques (Mushrooms)
Stems
Purple
Red
Blue
Base
The cave is made from corkboard and the ground was covered in a texture paint. As with the squig I gave everything a shade with Nuln Oil to darken it right down, then highlighted it back up with Dawnstone and Mechanicus Grey.
I then applied a mix of flocks, rocks, tufts, flowers and leaves grouped below by company:
Games Workshop
Geek Gaming Scenics
Army Painter
Gamers Grass
AK Interactive
Finally I painted the outside of the base.
Roundup
These guys came out great. I kept to the same palette I've been using and I'm glad Uglug matches Mollog really well. I've been trying to bring more yellow into my grots but other than Borgit there wasn't much chance to do so in this warband. There is so much going on in the rest of the pieces though they didn't need it.
