I decided to make the plunge into Hordes, mainly thanks to a free boxed set gotten at Adepticon and the fact that the wolves of Circle Orboros make a nice change of pace from the marines I'm incessantly working on. Got some help with a list from some helpful dakkanians, so I have a plan. So, I thought I would do this blog to help keep me motivated... though I'm really hoping this will be a fun and relaxing project.

My list:

eKaya and Laris (+3)
Stalker - 10
Pureblood - 9
Feral - 9
Total - 25

I have a Feral and the Forge World event-only "Skin Wolf" which I'm going to proxy as the Pureblood. The rest is on order (and probably arrived at the shop today). I decided to start with the skin wolf as I've really been looking forward to putting this really cool figure together. Unfortunately, it was a crappy, flashy cast that didn't quite go together right. Nothing I don't expect from GW but I was hoping for better from FW. After a couple of hours of de-flashing, filing, green stuffing and base-modification... I finally got it ready to paint.

So here we go... one Pureblood, coming up!

Pureblood counts-as looks great!! Also, my bad on the list format- it is correct as 25 points, but I put down the Pureblood as 10, when it's actually 9

This is going to look sweet and be few models to paint, so should be perfect! I also think it will be very beginner-friendly and fun to play

Will be watching this thread to see how you progress on this fun project!

Another fine Gitstravaganza!

Glad you made the correct choice, ie Circle!

Interested to see what visual direction you'll take these.

Fixed the OP.

@Vit: Me too! I'm not going to kill myself on them, but we'll see what I can come up with. Hopefully something interesting.

Just not DARK dark brown... too much of that on the wolves in most people's Circle, imo.

In the wild, they come in such interesting colors, why wouldn't they in Circle packs, too?

I know the studio scheme for the Pureblood is white, though- hence that always being my favorite . The old metal PP sculpt of it is amazing, as is the Skin Wolf you're using for it.

I plan on doing him white. Not sure about the others yet, but I'm fond of silvery grey wolves. Might be a tough color to pull off though. Will have to see.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with these guys. I dob't know much about Warmahordes, but I like Privateer's models, and I suspect I would choose Circle, too, if I played. Should be very interesting contrast to your Orks and MW.

That's my hope. Actually put a wash on the white painted pureblood this morning... not much progress, but at least it's something.

Lol, and Subbed.


I was going to ask in your Mantis Warriors thread which faction you were painting, clicked on the P&M Blogs link, and saw this thread.

I'm kind of excited to see how you paint your wolves. I know Byronic has a nice little write up on how he painted some Thunder Wolf Cav, looks more natural than some of the seas of brown you see with Circle, but to say I'm excited is an understatement.

To be honest I'm not quite sure myself... which has contributed to the delay. It would be easier I think, if they were just wolves... but these are all kind of humanoid/wolf hybrids, so I have skin as well as fur to deal with...

I was just thinking that I need to do some research on grey wolves, maybe that will give me some inspiration.

Another promising thread to follow, its always nice to take time out on a few different models without any pressures.

I'll be watching

Thanks Gir. Going to be a very busy week, but perhaps by the weekend I'll have something substantial to show.

Expanding your horizons too I see... well, I will be following with interest. I've never checked out Hordes, so I'll live vicariously through you

So far I've only played two turns... and that was with someone else's army... but it was really fun. Very different from 40k. They say it's basically "a card game with miniatures". *shrug* If so, at least it's a fun card game with miniatures. I seemed to pick up the strategy easily enough, it's remembering how to do all the little bits & when that I kept tripping over. Then again it was only two turns. I'm sure I'll get better with time.

Gitsplitta wrote:So far I've only played two turns... and that was with someone else's army... but it was really fun. Very different from 40k. They say it's basically "a card game with miniatures". *shrug* If so, at least it's a fun card game with miniatures. I seemed to pick up the strategy easily enough, it's remembering how to do all the little bits & when that I kept tripping over. Then again it was only two turns. I'm sure I'll get better with time.

I play Warmahordes all the time, and I don't quite see the card game aspect... It's a strategy game... just like with other war games and with card games like magic, etc... It's about the synergy and combos you can make, lol

So, the critter has been on my "painting mind" lately, I just haven't come up with a good approach yet. Right now it's white with a pale wash... oh, and I had to go fix a pretty major mold line that I missed, that took some doing. Think I'm going to just blend the skin down but I'm unsure whether I should go to a very pale brown or pale grey in the recesses. I'm thinking grey as the skin remaining on the "skin wolf" I will endeavor to paint up as actual skin... I'm afraid if the take the wolf-skin to a pale brown the shreds of skin will lose their impact.

Thoughts?

For the skin, do you want to paint it as human skin? If you want pale skin - which I think is what I would go for - you might start with Rakarth Flesh/Deneb Stoen then wash it with blue or purple to give it an unhealthy palor. (Check out Ron Saikowski's Dark Eldar tests.) if that's the case, I think washing with the fur with a pale wash would go well. (I'm not sure what you would use for such a wash, though.) If you want the skin to be more "alive" ("human"), then you might wash the skin with Reikland Fleshtone (Ogryn Flesh?) and then do the fur in a brownish wash. (Reikland might be too "alive" for what you want....)

Now those skin wolves are what the Thunderwolf Calvary concept should have been!

It will be interesting to see how you manage the typical two-tone color of a wolves fur.

Thats a very interesting idea wyomingfox

wyomingfox wrote:Now those skin wolves are what the Thunderwolf Calvary concept should have been!

Yeah, I actually had a (not entirely original) idea for Bran Redmaw along these lines, before the Skin Wolves came out: VC Crypt Ghoul + Thunderwolf head. I think it would come out pretty close the Oroboros wolves. I even bought the models, alas....

Well, when I first read the First Space Wolf book on Regnar, they mentioned a fully transformed wulfen that literally towered over a Space Marine (quite different from the 13th company models GW sells). So I imagined they would be roughly the size of a tyranid warrior. So when TWC came out, I thought to myself, what other large creature on Fenris would have a profile of 4/4/5/5/2/4/8, rending, beast, and effect the morale of nearby wolves...a wulfen as depicted in the first book in the Ragnar Trilogy.

Equipment/wargear could be represented by runes (for the 3++ save) or cybernetic implants (for a Powerfist).

Then I thought...why the heck didn't GW go that route!

I was tempted to do so myself, but unfortuantely, GW didn't produce any large plastic werewolves that would be tourneyment legit. And of course now they finally came out with Thunderwolves.

Gitsplitta wrote:So, the critter has been on my "painting mind" lately, I just haven't come up with a good approach yet. Right now it's white with a pale wash... oh, and I had to go fix a pretty major mold line that I missed, that took some doing. Think I'm going to just blend the skin down but I'm unsure whether I should go to a very pale brown or pale grey in the recesses. I'm thinking grey as the skin remaining on the "skin wolf" I will endeavor to paint up as actual skin... I'm afraid if the take the wolf-skin to a pale brown the shreds of skin will lose their impact.

Thoughts?

Pale grey all the way!

Progress. Skin and fur are mostly done... mostly. Skin shades to blue, fur to grey. The "human" skin just has the base coat. Lots more work to do but at least I have a start. Also I've picked up eKaya & pet and the extra Warp Wolf... so I have all the pieces of my 25 pt force.

Oh, interesting. I voted grey because I thought he'd be ALL grey... will definitely make it more complex having the brown strips of flesh on there.

My first instinct is "Don't do it!" but I had the same thought with your gold tycho, and I think you've got a much better "painter's eye" for where you plan to take it! And since that worked out so well, I bet this will, too

The red brown skin peelings are currently throwing me for a loop as well. Not sure what you plan on building it up to. A more bleached bone color would probably go well with the greyish blue flesh.

It relates to what I see the figure as. I see the figure as some kind of werewolf just after transformation, with bloody, torn bits of his human skin still clinging to his wolf form. In other words to me, the color of the wolf and the color of the skin have nothing to do with each other as they are effectively from separate creatures.

There's a lot to do yet that should help tie thing together, including the basing. Hang with me and we'll all see where this goes together.

Gitsplitta wrote:Hang with me and we'll all see where this goes together.

Will do

Very nice take on the shapeshifter pup, channeling a bit of An American Werewolf in London vibe.

One of my favorite horror films.

Yup. Best expected/unexpected surprise ever. I shall be teaching it next year

If you paint that skin wolf like something out of a horror movie, Gits... that will be amazing, and rather intimidating- I can't really sit through even rather tame horror movies!

inmygravenimage wrote:Yup. Best expected/unexpected surprise ever. I shall be teaching it next year

What do you teach, Graven? Film? I ask because I'm a teacher, too, and I'm always curious when people say they'll be taching fun/interesting films.

Sorry for hijacking your thread, Gits.

Don't apologize Yb... it's the occasional hijacking that makes the thread interesting.

Besides, we're talking about one of my favorite films!

There's quite a lot of teachers on the boards, I notice; filbert's a physics teacher, for instance.
I teach English (middle/high school equivalent) though I do a fair bit of Media as part of that: this year my seniors did Psycho and Let Me In (along with Catcher in the Rye and Strange Fruit, amongst others); horror's a good genre to focus on as the markers are so explicit. Plus, it grabs the students so that they can engage with critical analysis in a way that seems meaningful to them. Also, a lot of my kids this year were doing drama so there's reasonable amount of overlap in terms of lighting palettes, mise en scene etc.
I'm thinking of doing Rear Window as the main movie next year; I'm sorely tempted to do Blade Runner again, but it was wayyyy over their heads last time around (although next year's lot are a generally more able class).

And THAT (Blade Runner) is my absolute favorite movie of all time. Actually just bought a copy of the "final cut" for my iPhone. Woo-hoo! Blade Runner on-demand!

Can I hang out in your class 'Teach?

Technically, I teach History, but I work in a humanities department and get to teach culture. I taught Blade Runner a couple of years ago in a Cyborg Culture course. It's one of my favorite films, too. My students loved Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Great book. I've been thinking about a course exploring Philp Dick, Stanislaw Lem, and Kobo Abe....

Hmmm, so if the skin wolf is jost post-transformation, will there be bits of blood/ gore around the edges of the torn skin?

Looks like a pretty amazing model, a pity it was a bad cast.. I had the same with my boarding marine but good old FW had kept some back, so I got a replacement for mine.

You did a great job straightening it up. I look forward to seeing how this goes, as a SW player it could give me inspiration for my TWC.

With regards to Wyomings earlier comment about wulfen, I would also love to see something really dynamic and impressive to represent the wulfen. Its actually a pity FW canned or have gone back to the drawing board with their concept model of Bran Redmaw shown at Games Day.. they had planned to do Bran as 2 models, pre and post transformation on 40mm bases, but just couldnt figure out how to go about doing it.
The Wulfen would be about Space Marine size or slightly bigger (maybe termi sized on a 40mm base, after all there are not many minis that give you d6+1 rending attacks, beyond maybe stealers or SC 's).... bear in mind when William King wrote the first Space Wolf book, GW may have been between dex's or something, but he started as an initiate and then a scout (the first encounter with Madox), scouts arent full marines and I cant remember off-hand but he may just have had his first gene seed implant, (the wulfen helix from the blood drink they have) so wasnt matured and as gig as a normal marine... will have to read it again to confirm though.

Anyways back on topic, I have never seen the hordes stuff, so I will be watching with interest. Nice Skin wolf

Progress!

Oooh very nice! Looking realistic.

I resisted the urge to put a tatoo'd heart with "MOM" on the inside on the skin on his left shoulder...

Gitsplitta wrote:I resisted the urge to put a tatoo'd heart with "MOM" on the inside on the skin on his left shoulder...

Yeah, but when he reads it, it would say "WOW"!

Seriously, though, it's starting to look kind of... creepy.

Well, that's the idea. I think I'll work on the belt and wrist bands next before I go back to detail the face. Anyone have any suggestions for the color of the claws?

Gits, you've won me over once again, and I've changed my mind- this looks absolutely fantastic with the direction you're taking it. Objection withdrawn!!

The dark red edge of the flesh really makes it work, I think.

Best of all I got to use my favorite highlighting technique on the flesh. Easy and very satisfying... wet blending. Just layer after layer of translucent versions of the varying flesh colors... they blend naturally as long as you go from dark to light, and the end result is very dynamic.

I used to do my Mantis Warriors this way, but pragmatism made me switch to the airbrush (which also does a very nice job but isn't as intrinsically satisfying for some reason... perhaps it's the "mechanical" vs. the "human" element).

I think for flesh like this your wet blending is perfect, and an airbrush might not give as good of an effect.

Is the fur going to be a different shade than the bare skin of the wolf?

Technically they already are (slightly)... it just doesn't look like it. My intention is to have him all white, but I may have modify that. But for now, I'll continue along my path and we'll see how things develop. In any case I'm unlikely to change the color of the skin as there's a lot of work in it already.

I should have qualified what I said- I basically meant if you were planning to make the contrast greater than it is or not. But it looks good as-is, too!

What is next for him, then?

Ah, well then the answer to your questions is unequivocally "yes". I've been pondering that actually. I need some clear definition between the skin and the fur. Just haven't sorted it out yet.

Next is the belt, drape and wrist bands.

I think a bit more contrast to the fur would work well. But that could change once the other bits are painted.

I don't disagree wyfox... just kind of a quandary as to how to accomplish it. Right now it's white with a Vallejo "pale wash" and then dry-brushed white over the top, so theoretically its pure white as the highlight. I could take some black wash and spot apply it in the deepest recesses, then go over each hair tuft and hand paint it white. That would really crank up the volume but would be a serious amount of work. Perhaps worth it... but something that needs careful consideration before jumping right in.

The fur does look pretty dirty though, which is not what I'm after... the white re-paint would address that to a degree. Alternately I could re-paint all the fur is something like SW Grey and then bring it up to white... but I'd rather not go there yet as that would entail a serious effort & that much paint would start to cover up detail.

Its probably the unfinished base thats throwing us off.

That said, i tend to reserve white for the very finest highlight, on the extremities, i find if you use too much white it can make a model look unfinished sort of. Just imo.

That's very true Vit. I often put the basic colors on my bases long before the model is actually finished just for this issue. I haven't done it here yet because I'm toying with changing the primary colors from my 40k "standard"... I want to do the rocks in red, like you'd find in the SW of the US.... and have picked up some special grass that's different from the grass I normally use.

Yet another thing that's "new" about this model that gives me pause.

Wasn't this supposed to be a "relaxing and fun" project?? I suppose starting a blog about it was probably not very "relaxing and fun" conducive...

Hahaha you need to take a nice relaxing break my friend.


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The red rocks sounds ace.

Heres a pic of the skin wolves by fw in case you havent seen em yet:

OOOh..... those are very cool!

Aren't there some kind of wolf beasties in the Space Wolf army? (besides Thunder Woves) Perhaps if someone was running a Luna Wolf army these would fit right in.

Hell id be tempted to run those as TWolves! Just ignore the rider and represent them, they could be mutated wulfen!

God damnit Gits, i dont need more ideas!

They would make awesome T-wolves... you could just model any special weapons on them (they're hooked hands are naturals for weapon holding). You could have boss dude riding the wolf on all fours, with the other wolves acting independently. Or just model the boss dude as one of the wolves and use some GS to make him a little more bad-*ss than the rest.



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OK, for those of you who are scratching your heads about my interpretation of this model.... WM got this for me from FW itself...

whalemusic360 wrote:

Forgeworld wrote:Many are the dark and nightmarish horrors that the Ruinous Powers have visited upon the world, yet few are as strange as the Skin Wolves of legend. The witch-curs’d and Chaos-tainted men and women afflicted with this gift from their unholy gods bear a mutation that does not show as a stigmata of the flesh, but instead lurks in the blood, a slumbering beast to be roused by dark sacrifice and unspeakable ritual.

When this horror is unleashed, there is no mere transformation from man into beast; instead a great humanoid wolf-thing bursts fully-formed from the body of the human. Lean and half-insane with Chaos-tainted hunger, the Skin Wolf is so-named for the scraps and tatters of flesh and chunks of gristle that cling to its hulking frame; all that remains of the human form it once bore. Only once battle is spent and their voracious hunger sated will the transformation be reversed, the flesh of the Skin Wolf collapsing into a pallid and terrible mass from which the human must tear itself free.

So... it appears I'm on the right track. Tip 'o the hat to the FW artists for nailing the sculpt so that even a neophyte can sort out the imagery.

Gits speaking of theses wolf like creatures could you do a size shot with yours and a dreadnought and a marine, pleaseeeee.

I could use these in my Dark Wolves army as either a Mark of the wolfen guy or do some serious converting into a contemptor/dreadnought.

The two on the right look very user friendly in vits pic from FW.

No problem Gir, send me a PM in about... oh... 7-9 hours in case I forget. Unfortunately it'll probably be 9 hours before I'm anywhere near my models.

Thats no probs Gits I'll be all tucked up in bed by then

GiraffeX wrote:Gits speaking of theses wolf like creatures could you do a size shot with yours and a dreadnought and a marine, pleaseeeee.

I could use these in my Dark Wolves army as either a Mark of the wolfen guy or do some serious converting into a contemptor/dreadnought.

The two on the right look very user friendly in vits pic from FW.

As per your request Gir...

Hmm, I would say, black or a black brown for the claws.... I think that once you get the belt and chains done to add a bit of contrast it will come together really nicely.

The skin and fur are so very close, i especially like the greey around the eyes, are you going for a gold yellow colour for the eyes or a grey blue colour?

Maybe put a slightly darker line in the shadow where the flesh meets fur, like you did with the white dreadnought helmet, or possibly add a tiny bit of flesh colour to the white flesh to warm it up a bit, not to be so blaatantly noticeable, bit a tiny hint of a difference.... almost to compliment the difference between the draped skin and the fur, hope this makes sense.

Some of the eavy metal/ best painetrs have one colour they use or mix through their palette so that all the colours have tie together and it gives it a notural coherency.

Very nice work on the Skin Wolf so far. I've got two sitting at home, waiting to be built... taunting me as other things get in the way.

Cheers Git's I think they may be a bit big to use as wolfen.

GiraffeX wrote:Cheers Git's I think they may be a bit big to use as wolfen.

About right for Thunder Wolf Calvary though

Very true but they are already covered by using Juggernaughts for my Dark Wolves.

You can actually give Mark of the Wulfen to Thunderwolf Cav. I thought using a model like this for that purpose.

Thats true, but would you trade D6+1 rending attacks for 4(or up to 6) possible rending attacks?

Saying that it would make for a very characterful model

Sorry for no updates guys. I'd planned on painting last night, but instead spent nearly 3 hours on the phone with iTunes customer support, with session #2 to follow today once I find a good wy-fi spot. I'm kinda jazzed about painting so expect a battery of updates across my blogs over the weekend. Have a ton of other things to do around the house besides painting, but I promise some painting will take place!

Finally had the combination of time and energy to get some painting done. Leather, armor, "mystic scar" and a bit of flesh I'd missed before (on his right wrist). Also painted the base in hopes of giving you a better idea of the finished look. I need to paint the rock but my wife and I are having a debate about it. I say red, she says no... it'll be too much red. So it's on hold at the moment.



I do need your help though. I have no idea what color to paint the loin cloth. Any suggestions would be most welcome!

Paint the rock red, just offset it with some 'cold' basing materials.

Id probably go with some kind of khaki type colour for the cloth

As in tan khaki or ovive-drab khaki?

I meant tan, but olive drab works too, might not match with the green youve got already though

I'm allergic to olive drab... and khaki in general, but I'll keep an open mind.

For the rock question, I'd put a tinge of red into a more natural color to hint at the theme color. Maybe a red-brown, or a red-grey.

I was thinking red like the natural rocks in the desert SW... like this.



or this...

Gitsplitta wrote:I was thinking red like the natural rocks in the desert SW... like this.



or this...

Okay, I see, I see. Looks good then.

I can see where Mrs Gits is coming from as it could be a lot of pink and red on the model, have you considered something like this?

Or a grey granite with pink flecks through it, you could use some red on it for blood spatter or lichen maybe?

I could easily do grey rocks... but then I always do grey rocks... guess I was hoping for something a little more interesting and out of my normal processes.

How about black rock?

A good suggestion. The molded rock actually looks like slate (which is a dark grey/black).

I like the gold and leather, however, the green is throwing me off. Really like the raw chaos scar.

I like Arakasi's suggestion. I've been trying to imagine how the red would look with the white wolf, and it's been difficult. i think it's mainly just my own assumptions about albino werewolves ( ), which, for some reason, I associate with northern climes. The red rocks remind me of Arizona, which, IMO, has different wolves... or coyotes. Werecoyotes? I'm sure you'll pull it off, Gitsplitta, either way; it's just my opinion. Looking forward to what you choose to do.

wyomingfox wrote:I like the gold and leather, however, the green is throwing me off. Really like the raw chaos scar.

Green and gold are clan colors, so they're pretty much set. Thanks on the scar... thought about that for quite a while before tackling it.

Yellowbeard wrote:I like Arakasi's suggestion. I've been trying to imagine how the red would look with the white wolf, and it's been difficult. i think it's mainly just my own assumptions about albino werewolves ( ), which, for some reason, I associate with northern climes. The red rocks remind me of Arizona, which, IMO, has different wolves... or coyotes. Werecoyotes? I'm sure you'll pull it off, Gitsplitta, either way; it's just my opinion. Looking forward to what you choose to do.

Your ideas are spot-on about the red rock as the pics I posted show. The white timber wolves of the north and albino wolves are completely different things. One is an adaptation to a snowy environment, the other is a genetic abnormality rendering the animal devoid of pigment, so in the latter there is no connection to environment. Also keep in mind that I'm painting him to the basic scheme that PP set out themselves so that the already proxied figure is recognizable for what it is.

Gitsplitta wrote:

wyomingfox wrote:I like the gold and leather, however, the green is throwing me off. Really like the raw chaos scar.

Green and gold are clan colors, so they're pretty much set. Thanks on the scar... thought about that for quite a while before tackling it.

While theyre the studio colours, there is absolutely nothing stopping you from painting them however you want.

It seems to me that warmahorde players are a lot more reluctant to deviate from studio schemes, both in painting and conversion.

Perhaps that because WMH is designed as a tournament system, and as such... making units readily recognizable yields the most consistent, least argumentative tournament play.

I actually like the green, gold and white, so it's easy to stay true to the established scheme... and I want the figure to be recognizable for what it is, both to me and my opponent.

I think you should do Blackpool rock

I do like the red desert rock though

I should add, the reason I suggested black is that it will contrast nicely with the lighter colouring of the miniature, while at the same time, not drawing attention away from it. For this reason, I would keep to black or a very dark grey. Just don't overdo the highlights

I think that's a great suggestion Arakasi... consider it accepted.

Very dark blueish grey would be better as black would dominate the model and draw the eye away from the rest of the model (IMO). Some autumnal shrubbery over parts of the rock will also help keep the eye on the model

Arakasi wrote:I should add, the reason I suggested black is that it will contrast nicely with the lighter colouring of the miniature, while at the same time, not drawing attention away from it. For this reason, I would keep to black or a very dark grey. Just don't overdo the highlights

Glad you're going with something along these lines, Gits. A red desert rock just does NOT say "circle" or "werewolf" to me . Nowhere to hide and jump out from, these guys I picture coming from woods and the like.

Finally snuck a little bit of painting time in early this morning. Just enough to get the rock painted.

Roughly 2/3 Vallejo "black green", 1/3 "black" base coat over white primer (which gave some nice highlights).
Then a dry brush of the "black green" which brought out the green a bit.
Finally a black wash to deepen the shadows and temper the green.

While the image may look blurry here on the blog, it actually isn't... zoom in from the gallery view and you'll see it quite clearly.



I like it. Not my standard grey rock... which is what I was after.

Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there!

Nice work, Gits! I like the rock. I think the green-black does add an interesting quality to it.

And Happy Father's Day to you!

Nice job; maybe could do with some very gentle codex grey highlights around the edges? or indeed as loose drybrush generally, to give some slate veining?

Good idea. I don't want to do a general highlight as that will lighten the whole thing up... but some lighter layers would do nicely.

The black rock fits the models nicely

Getting there, Gits

Nothing like a little threadcromancy (at least it's my own thread).

As part of my ongoing crusade to tie up loose ends... I finally finished my skin wolf / pureblood!

Good lord has it really been 4 months since the last update??



Hope it was worth the wait.

Are you going to continue with your Hordes adventures? Possibly try out Warmachine?

Oh yes, I haven't given up on it... just have to wait it's turn for other things with harder deadlines. Be nice to get the army finished by Adepticon so I could do some pick-up battles in my free time.

And as proof... here's the next project. One Feral Wolf, built and ready to go!

The Skinwolf looks good, glad to see an update Gits

Yeah it was worth the wait Git's, looking forward to the next one.

Thanks gents! I do love that skin wolf model. If I played fantasy I'd be all over 'em.

Lovely work, the touch of green is an elegant pop. The raw edges of the skin are probably my favourite touch though.

The best part of that skin wolf would be if he had a couple of normal Circle figures with similar markings... a little before and after action

I'm kind of proud of the nails actually. I looked at one of my cats that has white paws and used his nail color pattern as the example. I do like the torn skin though... and the eyes, which don't really show in any of these pictures. I've been watching how Ifalna does the eyes of her squigs and they gave me some ideas I wanted to try out. Think I'll add a touch of red/sepia wash at the inner parts of the ears to give a little distinction there too.

I love the contrast between the light wolf and the dark base

Thanks Arakasi! It does provide a bit of drama to the piece.