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Starting this army has been one of those experiences best described as everything clicked together. I've always been a fan of Werewolves, but they aren't really represented in either 40k or Fantasy. Sure there are the 13th Company Wulfen in 40k, the Varghulf for VC in Fantasy, and a Blood Bowl mini, but that's it (and I may be missing something tho!). Finishing the first Gotrek and Felix Omnibus earlier this year I came across one part where they encounter werewolves, and call them the children of Ulric. The second piece of the puzzle was seeing the new chaos hounds. Every now and then I'll see a piece or a part of a model and start to wonder how it would look as part of a conversion. The third piece of the puzzle was my local GW starting up a 4 month paint (building a new army was optional) a fantasy army project with a tournament at the end. This was the final push that made me decide to make this happen.

When I think of werewolves in fiction and film they're fast, hard hitting and tough (only hurt by silver and/or regenerating damage). What this meant when choosing what army they would count as I'd be looking for one with elite troops, little shooting, and not a lot of magic. The army that seemed the best fit was Daemons, and since I mainly play 40k this would be good since I could use the army there too without needing to change a lot. Signed up, got my first batch all ready to go, and bought the army book to pick out my first 500 points (league is building up to 2000). Wow. Daemons are a *lot* nastier in Fantasy than 40k. It's a bit odd to build an army list and deliberately try to avoid most of the nasty stuff.

My general plan for Fantasy will be of a border Empire baron's household that are actually werewolves which I've planned like this:
4 Characters, all heralds
The Baron - Herald of Khorne leads "Greatswords"
Baroness - H of Slaanesh leads "castle staff"
Court Wizard - H of Tz on his own (possibly on a disc or chariot)
Captain of the Guard - Possibly H of Nurgle, BSB

Units
Greatsword unit - Bloodletters
Castle Staff - Daemonettes
Footmen - possibly plaguebearers
Wolves/hounds - Flesh Hounds
Warmachine crew - Flamers (Torch + throwing mortar shells!)
Larger werewolves - Fiends

While I don't plan on doing them for the league, a patriarch/matriarch counting as a greater daemon would be cool as a centerpiece (or two!).

For 40k, they will be what really happened to the 13th company!

On to the pics! The general conversion is a chaos warhound head on a bloodletter body. Yes I know the banner looks like crap, it will be redone, used a different matte varnish than normal and it made them all go a bit dusty, which even after cleaning with an old tooth brush still doesn't come off.

nicely done , keep us posted

Wow they look great , so natural.

Any sample pics of before they are painted?

The pose of the letters really fits these well. Nicely done mate. Share some more.

i like, the banner looks pretty good imo, nice and rough and tattered

I love the warhounds models. Good work dude!

Wow, they look great. I was thinking of a similar concept for a vamp count's army a while ago but I was going to use models from other companies. But your conversions look great!

Fabulous job! I love werewolves there needs to be more in the gaming universe. just so i can paint them all. lol

Good Idea and well exicuted. Keep up the good work. I'm interested to see how the other units will be converted.

My only problem here is that the baron and champion look identical to your other units (other than the barons orange sword).

Nice Job!

Very nice work!

I'm not sure about the Champion and the Baron though - they don't really "pop" the way characters should. I can see how it would be hard to gear them up due to your werewolf theme.

Maybe for the Baron you can put some grey and silver through the mane and upper shoulders. He's going to likely be an older wolf. You could also consider a scenic base for your characters.

Thanks for all the comments! The Baron and champion not standing out enough is really good feedback, not quite sure what I'll do about it yet tho. To help differentiate between units I now plan on using the standards, doing bloodletters with a red background, Plaguebearers green and Daemonettes purple.

Here are some pics of the process, it's fairly simple, just build a bloodletter as normal without the head, clip back ridge and stick on head with GS, layer GS down back for fur and finally finish fur and add the ears. The hardest part for me is getting the ears to look right as my GS skills are average at best. The ones with axes in this pick are part of my Daemmonettes, they all have assorted hand weapons.

At the bottom is the initial concept for a plaguebearer, which will be armored. It still needs a bit more bulking up on the shoulders, back and legs. It's made the same as the rest except I'm using Black Orc arms which are the same size as the bloodletter ones, just thicker.

C&C welcome!

They are some brilliant models there mate.

Look absolutely fantastic! I've always thought a werewolf army would look cool- you've more than fulfilled my expectations.

Well done.

Cheers,

Jack.

I like those alot - very well done, nice theme, great choice of bitz. Looking forward to the other units.

Very, very nice. Simple, effective conversions.

I meant to reply to this thread earlier, I do like them a lot,

What you could do to make characters pop better, is make them have tattered armor pieces, or make them bigger or a different color, I did a wolf model for space wolves like that once, you could just craft a breastplate and hang it around the neck of the character, and not have to re-do the model.

One question that has been eating away at me though... the movement trays... how? Round inserts to movment trays is brilliant, and since I'm starting a Daemon Army soon that I'd like to pull double duty, I HAVE to know.

Kalaris wrote:One question that has been eating away at me though... the movement trays... how? Round inserts to movment trays is brilliant, and since I'm starting a Daemon Army soon that I'd like to pull double duty, I HAVE to know.

WOTR movement trays?

@delemon

nice looking models

statu wrote:

Kalaris wrote:One question that has been eating away at me though... the movement trays... how? Round inserts to movment trays is brilliant, and since I'm starting a Daemon Army soon that I'd like to pull double duty, I HAVE to know.

WOTR movement trays?

@delemon

nice looking models

Naw WOTR movement trays are in ranks of 4, so they are useless to daemon players.

I THINK they are galeforce 9's

http://www.gf9.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=26&products_id=103

If they are, I'm convinced to buy.

Thanks for the replies all! The movement tray is 2.5 of the WoTR ones on a piece of plasticard. Just cut one in half with a hobby saw (GW or similar), then trim both the sides off of one, and one side off the other. I'll be making another for my plaguebearer unit so can take a WIP pic.