One of my ongoing personal challenges is to improve my brushwork, specifically my blending. Given the hounds are relatively simple paint jobs I've really pushed that aspect but at the same time I've tried for some stark highlights to emphasise the wasted, rangy looks of the models.
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The Beastmaster himself is where I put the most effort as it is one of my favourite all time Citadel sculpts. He's packed with detail like a cloven hoof on one leg, chaos icons and rawhide whip. I wanted a deep, saturated red armour but didn't want his face to disappear so I gave him a proper Chaotic purple face on his helmet. Goodness knows what lurks beneath...
I'm still two chaos hounds short of the full set so if anyone has these two and is willing to sell or trade let me know!
Thanks for looking.
Cheers,
Millsy
Beautiful work Millsy on some very nice Christmas gifts! I'm impressed with your blending work here, especially on the hounds and on the Beastmaster's horns. I'm often too lazy to do proper blending, preferring a more 'impressionistic' approach, but when I see this kind of work I wish I took the extra time.
I hope you find those last two hounds - it would be fantastic to have a complete set for your collection.
Sorry I cannot help you with the last two hounds.
ReplyDeleteThey all look very good and probably should scare any boney skeleton army. But an ent army would probably just get watered!
Really nice work on these Millsy :)
ReplyDeleteVery nice painting work! These figures are very nice!
ReplyDeleteThese are fantastic, really menacing
ReplyDeleteVery nice Millsy!
ReplyDeleteFabulous work Millsy! Especialy that Beastmaster does look scary. Always love to see those old Games Workshop sculpts. So full of character.
ReplyDeleteExcellent beasties, Michael, I had no idea you were resurrecting the old 'Lost and the Damned' range, you played that one very close to your chest!
ReplyDeleteAny truth in the rumour that they won Crufts a few years back?
Yeah, they took out Worst in Show. :-)
DeleteI have all sorts of mad plans on the go Ev as well you should know by now. My plan to buy less minis this year lasted til about 10:00pm last night. That's an improvement on last year!
Great work Millsy - and Oldhammer is the best!
ReplyDeleteWow, I haven't seen those hounds in a long time! Really good work on them too, I really like the inky black fellow with the back spines. The purple helm is a suprising good contrast to the armor too, excellent work, Millsy!
ReplyDeleteGreat pups - classic sculpts!
ReplyDeleteExcellent! I'm posting a link to this on the Oldhammer in the New World Facebook page.
ReplyDeleteI remember the white dwarf that advertised these! I had some with the dark elf beast master who was an alternate..... Sadly lost to history now, but these are painted really nicely, great blending and cracking armour choices.
ReplyDeleteGreat work Millsy! The style of those old citadel minis is hard to beat! Though sometimes they seem to be costing more than their weight in gold. Darn ebay and the price drive from that.
ReplyDeleteWow, really nice and I love the rainbow of colours used.
ReplyDeleteYou really knocked it out of the park with these guys. Everyone looks suitably psychedelic and terrifying. Keep pushing yourself--you get great results!
ReplyDeleteAwesome lovely to see these again and wonderfully painted!
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