Turnip28: Building Brutes

I wanted a unit of Brutes for my Turnip28 regiment, and I also received the moldmoldmold book from my good pal Gage (@noclearcoat), after flipping through it, I thought I'd try and use these brutes as an opportunity to do an "artist study" and recreate some of his style in there. My idea for this unit is they are some sort of Frankenstein creation using root and parts from dead soldiers and animals that get pulled into the mud.

It started off with 6 different similarly sized minis:

These minis are from all over, I just took them right out of the box where I keep my "bodies" which I use as the base models for my bashes. Then I did some greenstuff and bead work on top of the minis:

The wires stickin' out is speakerwire, figured it might look kinda rooty at the end? Anyway next I filled out some arms and crammed some dirt in here and there to fill gaps and build chunk.

After this was the part I was nervous about. moldmoldmold talks aabout using a "concrete concoction" in his book, but doesnt explain what it is. So I mixed plaster, concrete patch mix, and my Readi-Base™ dirt mix. I figured I'd give it my best shot and see what I got.

I wasn't quite sold on them immediately afterwards... but I let it dry, and hung tight, hoping it would be ok.

After priming them, thinking they might be a bit much, I was pleasantly surprised that they do look like monsters made from root and dirt. 

Now onto the Snobs!