bit of an odds and sods weekend.
so, firstly I got the dogs done:
Donnie is Col. Sumner's (of the Selby 151st) personal warhound.
After the Colonel was awarded the Aquila Imperialis medal for his actions in combat, he promptly removed the medal from his own chest and affixed it to Donnie's harness, stating;
"Without him, I'd have never got more than fifty yards through those trenches..."
Vinz, is Commander Grant's (of the 97th scions) tracking hound.
Of vinz, he was heard to remark;
"Neither heretics nor xenos can hide from vinz's nose. he sniffs 'em out and we take 'em down..."
Donnie was painted in the blue-grey of a great dane. A simple task of basecoating skavenblight dinge and subsequent lighter drybrushes of admech grey and dawnstone, finishing with some extreme edge highlights of admin grey to his muscletone and face.
Also paying attention to blend some skintone into the ears, around the underbelly and mouth areas, as well as under the eyes and his scars.
His webbing is done in my usual black and brown leather with some green added on the 'wadding'.
Vinz was done as a Masteweiler, a curious breed that can often result in what is essentially a giant rottweiler.
vinz's coat was tackled by a simple drybrush of skavenblight dinge over pure black and a very VERY light drybrush of admech grey over this.
The brown was tackled with tiny layered stippling and highlighting of rhinox hide, mournfang brown, xv88 and lastly zandri dust to achieve the desired blended effect.
For a difference to Donnie and to contrast his dark fur, I did his collar red with brass studs and then, feeling he had enough brown on him already, I did the webbing green with tan 'wadding'.
The noses are simple gloss varnish over black.
The eyes were done with zandri dust and black pupils.
Now, most important; Never do white eyes on dogs or horses. It just looks weird. Trust me, just substitute the white with a tan or light brown of your choosing and It'll look normal.
next I fancied something mechanical so I did this auto-mortar for my Filey 87th:
yes, I know I did one before for the 39th pioneers but that was rather blandly painted in the dirty grey of the artillery and vehicles I had done for said force at the time.
This one references the green and black armour of the Filey 87th and I also added some goblin green on the mortar shells in the drum for a bit of 'pop' (any excuse to use that now!)
I also paid more attention to the direction of the weathering on the drum this time, suggesting rotational scuffing.
finally onto something I ordered from Spellcrow:
everyone knows I love me a good barrel and these are no exception. I went for a less rusty metal approach and a more weathered plastic instead.
using stippling highlights and the contrasting weathering I've been doing on the vehicles of late. so yeah, it works on smaller things!
Going for blue water-butt, propane orange and a yellerun for yellowline trucking co. I've more of these to do so I'm sure I'll get around to them soon...
I had ordered some of the blitzkrieg heads that they have too, intending to use them on some kasrkins as reinforcements for my krieg, but alas they came out way too small for my intended use. Guess I may end up using them on regular guard in the future? who knows...
Still as there's not much enthusiasm for the krieger's now I suppose that's not a huge loss
I'll Just have to rethink those stormtroopers now...
Spellcrow are great by the way, operating out of Warsaw, Poland, they offer a great range of full minis and conversion parts in hand-cast resin and are of a great quality and very affordable. the postage was also surprisingly low. they were also kind enough to throw in some random bits in amongst my order. most likely as a bonus for being a new customer. A very nice and unexpected 1+
Lovely guys. but don't take my word for it, go see for yourselves:
https://www.spellcrow.com/
more soon.