Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (With Silver Bullets)

Day 16 and our advent brings us ... werewolves?

A clockwork orange at the bottom of your stocking.

Were there wolves in the Nativity? I'm guessing they were implied. After all, the shepherds weren't just watching their flocks because they had a thing about gazing at sheep in the moonlight (this, after all, was Judea, not the Rhondda).

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I've been tackling my latter projects by halves, so these two Skin Wolves round off the pair I painted back in September.

"Nobody move! I dropped my contact lens!"

This is the third of the Forge World set - the crouchingest (it's a word) of the pack.

It's a good pose, but take my tip: don't glue it to the base before painting - there's a lot of underside to be reached and it proves a bugger to manoeuvre a brush once the 50mm round is stuck to it.

My, what a big base you have Grandma.

Same painting recipe as before:

• Grey flesh; Dawnstone base, Nuln Oil wash, Space Wolf Grey drybrush, White Scar drybrush
• Torn skin: Cadian Fleshtone base, Nuln Oil wash, Kislev Flesh drybrush, Dawnstone drybrush
• Fur: Dawnstone base, Black Ink wash, Space Wolf Grey drybrush, Zendri Dust drybrush
• Loincloth: Zendri Dust base, Agrax Earthshade wash, Ushabi Bone drybrush
• Belt and cuffs: Leadbelcher base, thinned-Black Ink wash, Ironbreaker drybrush, Tinny Tin highlights
• Tongue: Emperor's Children base, Agrax Earthshade wash
• Blood for the Blood God: bloodily applied.

And yet he cannot whistle.

The fourth member of the pack is a limited-edition model, available from the 2012 Forge World event (or else a daft mark-up on eBay).

The model comes with an alternate left hand - the other one is dragging along a human victim, It's a nice touch, but the clothing is too distinctly 'Old World Empire', which takes away its versatility. So I made the empty-handed version, and kept the victim for other projects.

I'm not sure he's *that* much better than the other three, but it's nice to have another unique model, and there aren't any others. He does have claw-marks and a Chaos Undivided scar on his chest. The howling pose does allow me to trace blood trails down his throat, which I quite like.

Forge World: top breeders recommend it.

Since this one was going to be the alpha, I wanted his fur to be a little different. So rather than the Dawnstone base, I left the White undercoat, washed with Nuln Oil and highlighted from there. Hopefully that makes him appear an older, more senior member of the doggies.

Woof Woof!

That's the monstrous infantry part the warband done (unless I can think of an excuse to get some Fimir in there, hmm). Still waiting patiently for their warscroll (who'd have thought my painting would be faster than their rule-making?), so until then... Crypt Horrors? Minotaurs? Chaos Ogres?

Packing Power

And it's Christmas, so like a cheap cracker, I'm pulling this joke again: