Evilstu's Fantasy Progress 2020

I’ve had some Mage Knight chariots kicking about for close to 20 years from when the game died out locally. Think I ended up picking them up for about $7 knowing they’d be useful later on. I had started converting them slightly to work with a beastman army years ago, so fished one out and decided to progress it to tabletop.

First thing I noted was that it was slightly too long to fit on to a 100mm base. So given it was a cheap plastic kit, I just heated the beasties front leg at the knee with a cigarette lighter and bent it back. Problem solved.

For the base I started off adding some texture with some old premixed Polyfilla which has seen better days (might be about 6 or 7 years old at the time of posting…). Couldn’t get it to stick down to the MDF base so ended up laying it there and coating from the top with PVA. then sprinkled on some reptile sand I’d picked up from a local pet store. This stuff is super-fine as far as granule size is concerned and would probably be ideal for basing at smaller scales, perhaps even down to 2mm.

I then gave a day to dry and then painted over with an umbral brown poster paint. Once that dries I’ll start with painting on a top coat and add static grass  and tufts etc.

Also did a bit of work last night to upgrade the paintjob a little. Still needs more work, including the driver obviously, plus I’ll need to add a warrior to the back.

Have additionally given up looking for a suitable beastmen leader model with a great weapon and instead press-ganged an old Reaper mini in to service as a warleader in the short term. Will probably demote him later on once I find some more suitable character mins…

So with the addition of the chariot and character, I’ll have the core of a 500 point beastmen army ready to go once they are painted to tabletop.