Puppy Love - Showing off my Snarlfangs

Hi everyone,

Just a super quick update to show you pics of my Rippa's Snarlfangs. Yes, I know I've been down on them due to their questionable morality and generally reckless conduct; but I'm sure we'd all agree we know people like that, and they're often fun to be around.

I really enjoyed painting these guys. I started with a light undercoat of Army Builder Skeleton Bone, light enough to let bits of the grey plastic show through on the wolves' coats, which provided a lovely amount of contrast. Apart from the leather bits, and faces I basically didn't touch the wolves again - just an extreme white coat up top, and a Seraphim Sepia wash on their footsies.

Other than that, most of the colours are fairly basic. I'm a big fan of the self-highlighting properties of Doombull Brown. It's basically like a Contrast paint if you put it over a light undercoat.

The metals were a base of Doombull, followed by Balthasar Gold, a wash of old Ogryn Flesh, and an extreme highlight of Runefang.

One area that I've always struggled with is basing. I'm not quite sure why, but I can almost never motivate myself to do anything more than the minimum necessary. With these guys, I figured I needed to go a little bit further, as the bases are quite detailed Fortunately I found this tutorial
http://www.tinyworlds.co.uk/blog/painting-rocks-step-by-step/?fbclid=IwAR0ksieGQsx2AP0dVl0qAOWnGkz2JiywGNyuv7B3dQof03nl7vhqONIZMsc which turned out to be really easy to follow, and I think the results speak for themselves:

The results speak for themselves, and they say "Snakes don't move like that"

The gang romping through the Forsaken Lands (aka Animus Forge)

Stabbit showing his rodeo skills. Ride 'em Wolfboy!

Struggled with the lighting on this one.... I blame Dibbz

Rippa showing off his Shield and pizza-sized spidey-friend!

Mean-Eye sporting a sharp new haircut! I cut the plumage off both he and Stabbit. No one can be more coiffed than the Boss!

Anyway, I hope you like them. Now they're dressed up, I'm going to take them to a tournament this weekend. It's a bit different. Hosted by Warhammer Bendigo, the tournament will only allow cards that have Faction Symbols or come from the Core boxes. That might sound a little weird, or even not fun, but it's designed to be as accessible as possible for new players. I'm going to sleeve up a couple of extra decks, just in case anyone wants to play but doesn't have any Underworlds Stuff yet.

I'll let you know how I get on.

As ever, feel free to drop me a line on Facebook or below.

CheersRowan

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