Saturday 9 January 2016

From Millsy - 28mm Chaos Beastmaster and Hounds (40 points)

The older I get the more Oldhammer I get and today's offering is another example of that process at work. This is one of the original Citadel Chaos Beastmasters and seven "faithful" first edition hounds. Glorious sculpts all and ones I've coveted for some time. Thankfully my wife and kids are tolerant of my habit and got Santa pointed in the right direction this year.






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.








Tintin's worst nightmare...
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.

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  1. Sorry I cannot help you with the last two hounds.

    They all look very good and probably should scare any boney skeleton army. But an ent army would probably just get watered!

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  2. Really nice work on these Millsy :)

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  3. Very nice painting work! These figures are very nice!

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  4. These are fantastic, really menacing

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  5. Fabulous work Millsy! Especialy that Beastmaster does look scary. Always love to see those old Games Workshop sculpts. So full of character.

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  6. Excellent 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!

    Any truth in the rumour that they won Crufts a few years back?

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    1. Yeah, they took out Worst in Show. :-)

      I 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!

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  7. Great work Millsy - and Oldhammer is the best!

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  8. Wow, 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!

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  9. Great pups - classic sculpts!

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  10. Excellent! I'm posting a link to this on the Oldhammer in the New World Facebook page.

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  11. I 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.

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  12. Great 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.

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  13. Wow, really nice and I love the rainbow of colours used.

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  14. You really knocked it out of the park with these guys. Everyone looks suitably psychedelic and terrifying. Keep pushing yourself--you get great results!

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  15. Awesome lovely to see these again and wonderfully painted!

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