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Verrotwood creatures

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It's been four months since I last worked on my Verrotwood project, but I've made up for it lately.  This month I've built another cult ( here ) and knocked out a trio of creatures.  The Greater Reanimated (undead) was a  simple kit bash.  The body is an Oathmark Elf with the arms and head from a Frostgrave Cultists sprue (the bits from my one sprue have gone a long way)!   The Madman was even simpler.  He's a Mantic Games Ghoul, with a Victrix Viking head.  I've had a couple of these ghouls lying about for over 12 years so it was good to use one.  The Victrix head is beautifully sculpted/rendered and with the massive beard works very well for a forest dwelling nutter.   The final figure is Baba Yaga, a 3d printed miniature from Clay Cyanide I got off eBay the other year.  It's a superbly detailed miniature but I went very minimalist with the painting.  I wanted to use this figure as a ghost or apparition, so I just painte...

Verrotwood - The Uncoiling of Beiysss

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I recently finished off my second cult for Verrotwood - they are The Uncoiling of Beiysss. These were very simple kit bashes.  The bodies all came from the Frostgrave Male Wizards from NorthStar.  I'd got a frame of these free when I pre-ordered a certain weird First World War rule set last year.  The arms are all from the Frostgrave Cultists set that I had lying about from years ago, when I'd made a group of Old West cultists using arms from Great Escape Cowboys. The spear wielder has Wizards arms with Cultists hands and spear grafted on. The Uncoiling are the faithful who worship the Great Serpent Beiysss.  They believe that by following this entity they will gain power over the other Cults and be embraced into his coils in eternal life. The cult favour edged weapons dripping with serpent poison.  They prefer to close with their enemies but concede that they need some ranged capability hence the crossbow equipped cultist. As with the Wisentii  I used lar...