The Rogue Trader Bestiary Part 3: Cthellean Cudbear

So, another one to cross off the list, and this time it's the Cthellean Cudbear that our intrepid trooper can be seen running away from. Serves him right for trying to use an abandoned mine as a toilet, if you ask me.

More after the cut...





To start with, let's have a quick look at what the rulebook has to say about the beastie in question:

And the accompanying illustration for it:

So, a big, shaggy, purple bear, with tufty ears and long claws, no less!

Whilst I was thinking of suitable models to represent it, I remembered I had a ME35 'Beorn as Bear' model (From Citadel's original 80's Lord Of The Rings range) gathering dust in the 'It'll never get painted' pile. So I dug it out, sculpted some ear tufts and replaced the hands with something a bit more vicious, taken from the recent Genestealer plastics set. Then it was just a case of lots of purple paint, a bit of shading and some teeth and claws to pick out.

And here are the results in a bit more detail:

Again, another fairly simple conversion and paint job but I'm quite happy with it, and it'll make a useful random danger on the battlefield. On to the next one!

Links to the Bestiary So Far: 

• Astral Hound
• Astral Spectre
• Enslaver
• Psychneuein
• Vampires
• Warp Entity
• Zombie
• Ambull
• Bouncers
• Carnivorous Sand Clam
• Catachan Devil
• Catachan Face Eater
• Crawlers
• Crotalid
• Cthellean Cudbear
• Dinosaur
• Ferro-Beast
• Genestealer
• Giant Insectoid
• Giant Spider
• Grox
• Gyrinx
• Horse
• Lashworm
• Mimic
• Ptera-Squirrel
• Razorwing
• Rippy-Fish
• Swarm
• Sunworm