Chaos Army No 1: Undivided Beastmen

Thought I’d explain the history of this army, it’s my oldest.
I started it in 5th Ed, the first time there was a distinct Beastmen list. Some of the metal characters and gor command models, the 5th Ed hounds, 2 chariots and 12 of the Minos are survivors of that army. The rest of it was a unit of plastic monopose halberd gors and a metal unit each of bestigor, ungor spears and ungor skirmishers. (Plus 2 Dragon ogres and 12 harpies now in other armies).
When the 6th Ed Beasts of Chaos book came out I re-jigged and expanded the Beastmen as they became my main army. The plastic gors were retired and plenty more models added. I probably hit 200 models painted, easily 3k points plus.
Come 2008 and they went on the shelf. The 7th Ed power books coming out that year plus the loss of my warriors and daemons units (Khorne knights and furies) as the chaos armies were fully split meant they dropped from mid-tier to the basement.
I was looking forward a lot to the 7th Ed book, thinking I’d have a table ready force.
Was hugely disappointed. Overcosted new monsters with no models, a new unit with a single ugly sculpt, Overcosted infantry, I would clearly need more than 16 bestigor but didn’t want to paint any more of the old metals and worst of all I would need to re-base my ungor. Again!
Also the problem that between incompatible paint schemes and generations of models (plastic ungor are twice the size of the metals) I couldn’t combine the gors or ungors from any of my (mixed) beastherd units with any others. This bit I did to myself.
I was quite happy playing chaos warriors at the time and carried on with that for the whole of 8th - so the sad truth is I never even fielded the beasts during 8th - other than One time I fielded a horde of 18 Minos in a 6k warriors heavy Khorne Legion of chaos. Built them specifically to take down Hellebron, cauldron and witch elf horde - which they did.
I bit the bullet and sold off my old metal ungors and bestigor and slowly repainted gors and ungors to make coherent units in the background but without a particular plan.
Since the End Times I’ve done a bit more painting but targeted at Kings of War (bumping the Minos up to 6s) and the ninth age (the 50 model ungor unit). Was good to get the beasts back on the table even if it wasn’t 8th Ed.
I am finally getting some plastic bestigor painted at the moment though and have a bunch of Mierce razorgors to come so (partially inspired by some of the bat reps and list chat on here) I’ll be looking to remedy that soon. Better late than never!

An impressive display of Beastmen! Great job on all of it!

Awesome work, especially the freehand on the banners!

Great army, thanks for posting!

That’s a stunning army!
Nice to read the journey with it. I actually played a lot more with my beasts in KOW 2nd edition, than warhammer initially. I really enjoyed using them in that, though the changes to them in 3rd edition put me off so much that I haven’t played it since!