It's been a mad dash rush to get these guys finished but I've had so much fun with this comp. On the few breaks I've taken from painting last night and this afternoon it's been really enjoyable seeing everyone else's entries coming in. Well done all
I've decided to stick with my second idea for a name "The Lurgtoad" as I feel it evokes the right sense of lurkyness and lurgyness together.
Deep in the foulest depths of the hive, where human filth and waste have percolated for millennia the Lurgtoad thrives. They we're an off-world species introduced long ago in necromundas past as a means of waste management, as their digestive systems can break down virtually any biological waste. Their bodies are host to countless deadly diseases and malignant forms of bacteria, and a single brush with one of these beasts can cause a slow agonizing death. However these omnivores have evolved over the millennia to become deadly predators. While they will eat almost any of the hives fauna their favoured prey are necromundas giant rats, which their "lanterns" produce an incredibly pungent smell of decaying flesh to lure. They lurk unseen at the sumps edge or in piles of debris and pounce on prey with powerful leaps of up to 30 feet stunning their victims and devouring them with their many rows of razor sharp serrated teeth....