Thug Life

After painting a unit constituted of different miniatures (I mean no duplicate in the unit and different hair and clothes colours), I'm speaking of the Wardancers, here's again such a unit (with mixed skin tones, hair colours, etc.): Chaos Thugs. The remaining 25 Chaos Thugs in my Chaos army, 20 others were painted a while ago.

Most of them are classic Citadel miniatures from the 80s, they are led by a Chaos Marauder sculpted by the master Jes Goodwin. Five, including the standard bearer, are from Knightmare Miniatures (the Pantheon of Chaos range) and four others are from Diehard Miniatures (note that they also have mounted Thugs!).

Group Shots

Chaos Champions, Sorcerors (and little friends) and Warriors

Here we go again with Chaos minis. No new unit, but characters and reinforcements for existing units.

As I already painted a Khorne Champion some time ago, I decided to paint one champion per Chaos God. Of course, all of them sculpted by the genious Jes Goodwin. 

Then, I'm also adding two more sorcerors, also sculpted by sir Jes, and accompanied by their pets, Chaos Familiars.

Then, we have 5 Chaos Warriors, including a custom-built standard bearer and a musician, that will join my Chaos Warriors unit to round the total to 20 unit members. And finally, two Thugs Archers. These ones come from DieHard Miniatures (run by two ex-Games Workshop staff: Tim Prow and Chaz Elliot) that have a nice range of old school Chaos minis, including Thugs riding horses! (Citadel never produced these).

Champions

Tzeentch Champion:

Thugs on the Hunt

These Chaos Thugs archers will join the 14 others I have painted last year. They are accompanied by a Chaos Hound (that will join the 6 others I have painted last year 😁).

They look as if they were sent by their Chaos Lord to track down some human preys that are fleeing the ravening horde.

Two of them are old Citadel (rare) archers and the others are the well known archers from Marauder.

Chaos Core Troops

I finally managed to put together a band of 20 Thugs. These minis are either hard to find or too expensive now.

This unit is a mix of different manufactors and periods of production. Some of them are even not referenced to as Thugs. But anyway, I find they go along together pretty well. 

The unit is led by a Chaos Marauder (the one with the eagle helm).

Sadly, I didn't manage the matt varnish spray very well. The colors of some of the minis look dull. 😞

Some Misc. Chaos

I've painted two additional minis for my Chaos Thug Archers unit. One of them is a Beastman Archer. It must be the only one produced by Citadel (unless I'm not aware of other Beastman Archers). This is quite strange and frustrating. Anyway, according to the 3rd Edition Armies, Beastmen are not supposed to use bows. 

So, I've decided that he will reinforce the Thugs unit as I don't have enough of them at the moment.

I've also painted a new pet for my Sorcerers: the "Jaw" familiar.

Chaos Thugs

Here comes the second unit for my Chaos Army: Chaos Thugs Archers from Marauder. The pictures are of poor quality. Too much light, their skin looks pale, I tried to correct this but the result is not good 😒.