The latest Gotrek and Felix novel to be released as an audiobook, Giantslayer, came out late last month and I was pretty excited to listen to it as I’ve been thoroughly enjoying them so far. The stories are fun and the voice actor does an incredible job. This felt like a good time to paint up the titular characters!
These models are almost 30 years old now (released in 1993!), and sculpted by Michael Perry (one half of Perry Miniatures, and sculptor of many great GW models). They have the classic flat pose of the era, but are really nicely detailed and were tremendous fun to paint.
While not trying to do anything like paint to a display standard, I wanted to spend a bit of time on these and do some detailing I might not in my usual army standard. This included some attempt at forcing light and shadows on the metallic paints (TMM for the initiated!), and toning the faces with some reddish hues and stubble.
Here’s a close up of Felix’s face to show the extra work I put in the face
Stubble on Gotrek’s shaved sections of head
For the basing on these I used some old GW resin basing bits, designed to fit on the old standard 20mm square bases from the Warhammer pre Age of Sigmar era.
I thoroughly enjoyed painting these models, and am really pleased with how they turned out considering they were painted on and off over the course of a week. I still haven’t finished the audiobook, but so far so good and I look forward to them releasing the rest of the series! In the mean time I hope to have these hit the tabletop at some stage in the future. I went on a collecting spree a few months ago for 6th edition Warhammer books and found one of the old annual collection of articles that contained the rules for Gotrek and Felix to be taken as Dogs of War (effectively Mercenaries/Allies). I now have the models painted up and the rules to field them!
Lair of the Lagomorph 