skavtember 2025

[twisted moon]

it's that time of the year again.
do something related to chaos ratmen and post it here in honour of the horned rat. if you please him he may eat you last.
here's my opening contribution, some converted rat ogres:





more details here for anyone interested.
... and with a bit of make up:

 

[Eric]

Those are proper chaotic ratties. Truly terrifying.

 

[ManicMan]

A little bit much and nuglely for my taste but that's fine cause they may have been a special order for the plague monks ^_^ nice work and they are far away from the cyborgs GW seams to like now

 

[twisted moon]

Those are proper chaotic ratties. Truly terrifying.

thank you.

... they are far away from the cyborgs GW seams to like now

yes, the only citadel ones i like are the original jes goodwin models, but i don't have any of those and the lack of poses would also be an issue.
i picked up skrattle at vapnartak many years ago, and that set the direction i went for this pack.

i've now added another five two-handed weapon armed skaven to the clan.



a few more details in my wip thread, should you be interested.

 

[ManicMan]

the 4ed Michael Perry ones aren't bad and kinda more ogre like but 6+ seam to have gone... iffy

 

[twisted moon]

a few more giant rats for clan renj.



the small ones are games workshop and the big ones 3d prints from iron gate scenery.

 

[Brother Meredith]

If I have time before end of the month, will get my (little) BDD02 Giant Rats painted up!

 

[twisted moon]

reinforcements from the slave pits.



more information here.

 

[twisted moon]

some more giant rats.



metal citadel in the middle, plastic games workshop otherwise.

 

[twisted moon]

another batch.



all gw plastic this time.

 

[epicsatsuma]

Base coat
All over wash
Paint the rest of the rat!

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[Mostyn]

Those plastic rats look really good and that paint job looks like it's very efficient too (unlike everything I do!). Obviously I can only apologies if you're taking 4 hours on each figure.

I also love the 'in stages' photo, reminds me of the painting guides you'd get tucked away in the back of rulebooks!

 

[Mostyn]

And on the topic of inefficient painting, below is my offering for Skavtember, who coincidentally has a twin flying through the postal system. This one has been on the painting table for a very long time and I used the motivation of trying out some new colours to actually get on and paint the little ratty one. Some of the colours worked, others less so, and the skin is definitely more purple than I wanted. And clearly layering like this is no way to paint skaven but does explains why I'll never get anywhere near a painted army of ratmen. There's also a surprising amount of detail on these old sculpts which is both a blessing a a curse...

Anyway, I offer up Skewer for the judgement of the Horned Rat.

 

[twisted moon]

thanks for you contributions. good to see some more ratmen emerging from their lairs.
i was on holiday last week so didn't get much done but am working on a bit of skaven-related scenery now.

 

[twisted moon]

this is as far as i got before skavtember ran out on me.



still some sponging and a black wash to go.
thanks to @epicsatsuma and @Mostyn for joining in.

 

[Padre]

I didn't know it was Skavtember, but this game 10 days ago was in Skavtember ... Slaves and giant rats in the centre of the battle line:

 

[Eric]

That's a lot of rats! I should do a proper Skavtember banner and badge for our loyal ratty friends...

 

[Mostyn]

I didn't know it was Skavtember, but this game 10 days ago was in Skavtember ... Slaves and giant rats in the centre of the battle line:
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That is indeed an appropriate amount of ratty goodness. The key question is did you overwhelm the enemies of our lord the horned rat?

 

[twisted moon]

I didn't know it was Skavtember ...

leading the charge from the rear, very thematic.
i got the bell tower finished yesterday.



bouillon and bicarbonate of soda tubes for the basic structure.



the external stones on the lower section are egg box card, and on the top are cork tile. the 'step' between the two sections is also cork.



i used larger rectangles of cork tile around the rim of the lower tower to give the illusion of thickness to the walls and plastered the rest using polyfilla mised with pva, sand, cork dust and talcum powder.



the top bell and frame is from the start collecting skaven pestilens kit and the middle one from a metal screaming bell (although i picked it up just the bell on ebay several years ago).



there's also another little bell from boyes inside the tower.