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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.