Assembling and Painting
Skaven Regiments

Clanrats play an important role in the Skaven army. These models form the backbone of Core troops and can be armed with shields and either spears or hand weapons. The minimum number of Clanrats per unit is 20, and the Skaven Clanrats regiment set is the box that will get you started. Clanrat Slaves are Skaven captured from defeated Warlord clans who have been pressed into service. The Skaven Clanrat set can also be used to make a unit of such slaves, and in this article, we show you how you can model and paint both of these units for your Skaven army.

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Assembling Regiments

Before painting your Skaven regiments, it is worthwhile to think about how the individual models will fit together within the unit.

Models that form in ranks look much more like a coherent regiment when arrayed for battle. Try assembling your models one rank at a time, starting from the front. You might also like to stand the models loosely on their bases before gluing them to see how they fit together. One way of making sure they line up neatly into ranks is to glue them to regimental bases, which hold four models.

Modeling Clanrat Slaves

To make a unit of Clanrat Slaves, use the Skaven Clanrats Regiment Set. If you have two Regiment Sets, you can split the pieces up to make a unit of Clanrats and a unit of Slaves. As Clanrat Slaves are poorly equipped compared to other Skaven, you can show this by using the less armoured bodies and heads from the regiment frame for the Slaves, saving the other pieces for your Clanrats. If you want to give shields to your Slaves, you might like to leave them plain and not attach any icon to them to emphasize the Slaves being of low standing and only given the worst battlegear.

Painting Clanrats