Week 10: Dog gone

The end of week 10 sees the end of the assembly and painting of the Chaos warhounds (at last). The army list I'm working too only requires 17 warhounds, but they come in boxes of 10 so it seemed daft not to paint all 20. The thought of three poor lonely unassembled puppies was too much for me to bear.

After listening to comments and advice I have elected to give the dog a bone, and an arm to one lucky pup. It adds to the character and helps to distinguish between figures. I have tried to vary the position of the figures in the base to make them appear less uniform.

I am going to claim the extra three figures in my painting points total. After 10 weeks I should have achieved 160 points. These warhounds count as 20 points but that only takes my total to 152. Erm, 8 points behind. Not sure how I'm going to catch that up. I'll have a go at completing the starting number of skeletons next week.

Week 9: Let the puppies run free

Nine weeks have come and gone now, and I'm well on the way to completing all of the Chaos warhounds that I will need for my lists. In the list I have 17 warhounds. This week I have painted another 5 which takes my total to 15 (close but no coconut).

I have opted to omit the horns and greenstuff over the gap. I believe that this keeps the chaps looking more like hounds and less like boars.

I have tried to increase the contrast on both the fur and in the hair over the previous hounds that I have painted. I will leave it to you to decide if it makes any kind of difference.

The colours are Scorched Brown through Bestial Brown to Vomit Brown. The fur is similar but continues to Bleached bone. I have chosen to paint the fur rather than drybrush because I believed it gave me greater control.

Hope you enjoy the puppies and if anyone can spare them a bone....

Week 2: Another 5 warhounds

Ok, end of the second week and I have completed another 5 warhounds. This counts as another 40 painting points (each model is worth its unit strength squared in points) and places me 8 points ahead of schedule. I have a feeling I might need these points in hand at some point.

I have used the same technique on these as on the previous 5 warhounds, but have slightly changed the brown recipe. These are scorched brown to beastial brown, to a mix of dwarf flesh and beastial brown. The fur is further lightened up to include the above mix with

 a fair amount of bleached bone in it.

All bases have a magnetic mounting so that they will sit in the movement trays with no problems. The mounting is just magnetic sheeting that is used for printing fridge magnets off your computers printer. Nice and easy, but not too cheap.

Next week, I'm going for a slight change in pace. I'll have a go at Crypt ghouls. These will fit in both of my Vampire counts lists, that way I can show progress against many lists at once. Double bonus!

Week 1: 5 Chaos warhounds

Week one is over and I have completed 5 chaos warhounds.

This counts as 20 painting points [a model is worth its unit strength squared in points]. This is ahead of the number required to meet the deadline for the year (16 per week). So far so good.

Amazingly this already counts as 8% of one of the Warriors of Chaos armies.

The warhounds required a lot more greenstuff than I would have liked especially at the top of the head. Without this work they would look like they had a massive center parting and a large hairlip.

I have gone for a paint scheme that makes them look a little like boars. This is not intentional, I was just keen to give them a pink nose and it comes out that way.

the camera is one I borrowed off work. I might need to work on my photo skills, there is a lot more variance in colour than there appears in the picture. If I can I will buy a better camera.

5 more warhounds are on the table waiting for completion next week.