Thursday, January 5, 2023

Nicolas' Slaanesh Minotaur Herd

 For many years I have had this idea behind my head...  There is this old drawing of a minotaur by Adrian Smith that have fascinated me since my very first moments in the hobby. I would go back and forth in the 4th edition Realm of Chaos book for hours but always go back to see this page.

And so I began buying minotaurs with the budget I had as a fifth grader... Playing for years the only 2 I had initially bought. Now fast foward 27 years later, happy me sorting through my stuff to find Slaanesh demons for OWAC VI, with the firm intention to expand the demon horde I started the previous year. I had got 3 minotaurs out, telling myself they could be fit for Slaanesh demon princes, after all the original Keeper of Secrets was not to far in style. And I kept digging, going through absolutely all of my boxes to realize I had collected a great herd of minotaurs!

So out goes the demons, for the moment, and now comes the age of the Slaanesh angry bulls!  

And now the army;

1 minotaur lord 290 pts

Lo'Gom the Sumptuous

His origins are mysterious, filled with the mysticism of the tribal chiefs that tells of Lo'Gom stories. But everyone tells about how he came down from the Chaos Wastes and crossed the Frozen Sea by foot. He would have spent days of euphoria, feeding on rotten kraken meat and listening to the songs of monstrous sirens hidden under the ice. The pinnacle of his journey would have been the slaying of a giant ice crab with his bare hands, spreading its claws and cracking the shell of the creature with a mighty headbutt. The gruesome scene that followed captured the eye of Slaanesh himself, who became his guide out of this iced hell with Lo'Gom's promess to repeat his acts of repulsive lust all across the Oldworld.

Over 3 decades, Lo'Gom and his growing horde of beasts have sold their services as mercenaries to all the most vile warchieves possible with the promess of fresh meat and riches.

5 minotaurs 200 pts

6 minotaurs 240 pts

6 minotaurs 240 pts

10 hounds 110 pts

15 Slaanesh Beastmen 165 pts

And maybe...

Keeper of Secrets 0pts

15 beastmen skeletons 150 pts

A lot 

And finally, a little thing that goes "BOOM" in the night for the Overlord  ;)

9 comments:

  1. Great collection of Minotaur's and Beastmen. These should look fantastic painted up! Can't wait to see your progress!

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  2. Those two beastmen with the crab/spider claws bring back some memories! Good luck with the paint, this looks like one to follow - a great looking collection of models!

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  3. Minotaurs worthy of GWAR! Gotta love it!

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  5. Leave some minotaurs for other people! what an huge horde of horny monsters. It is also a cool choice to use the dark eldar lovely-gruesome warp beasts as slaaneshi hounds.

    edit: dark eldar, not backward non-drug-addicted-skymmer-riding elves!

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  6. Interesting project, good luck! Hopefully you will get to paint the keeper of secrets too!

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  7. Yesss! I fell in love with painting Minotaurs in OWAC II, they really are a lot of fun. This project sounds great. Really looking forward to it :)

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