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Imagine you’re alone, deep in the woods, dusk is coming, and somewhere, not too far away, something snarls. And howls…!

This week we’re taking a look at some ferocious wargs – and an important personal announcement at the bottom of the article  🙂

(posted by Dirk)

Since I  had extra long work hours this week, I didn’t manage to paint my warg – fortunately Antonia had fun with trying two different fur designs so you’ll still get two Vogel Wargs  😀

I think this is one of the most useful minis in the core set, considering that (giant) wolves are a “staple monster” for RPG encounters, especially in lower levels. Plus, they are a part of many tabletop armies and in bones, they’re considerably cheaper than most brand versions  😉

The mini itself is nice to paint because of the possibilities for painting fur – the quickest way being base color, wash + drybrush to give a nice looking mini in just a couple of minutes.

Of course our painters gave it a bit more time  🙂

The first one Antonia painted in a classical “grey wolf” style with no hints of brown – a color scheme often used in fantasy illustrations, although real wolves mostly show variations of grey, brown and beige at the same time.

I like the fur pattern; with just a few colors and wet blending you can get a realistic looking fur instead of a one-color-only-wolf as you can see in many armies of miniature manufacturers (won’t tell a name).

 

The second one is  a more “exotic” – inspired by palaeo-art showing ice age mammals, Antonia used a warm grey base coat with a light brown mane and dark spots which remind me a little of hyaenas:

In fact the mini lacks the finishing steps, a soft wash and perhaps lining around the eyes, but I already like where she is going.

 

Jim  sent another example of a “classic” wolf color scheme with variations of grey and black:

I like the overall dark feeling this mini emits. A fearsome stalker for sure. How did you create the color gradient, Jim, by layering, drybrushing, washes, or a combination of those?

 

Arjen sent in a pic-in-pic with a WIP of his warg, which gives insight in his workflow:

He wrote that on first sight the pic might show two different miniatures, but in fact we see two steps of Anjen’s technique to create a realistic fur coloration by layering black, brown and white with drybrushing – a great way to simulate the “tipping”, i.e.the fact that a  wolf’s hairs are multi-colored each, with different colors from bottom to tip. Nice technique, plus the the pic-in-pic idea is a great way to show the different steps of a mini 🙂

This week’s gallery:

 

 

Personal Info: We are happy to announce that we are expecting our first child in early November  🙂

Therefore we don’t know how much time there’ll be left to maintan weekly arcticles – we’ll probably have “Baby Break” for some time and and then switch to a two-week schedule until we manage our daily routine 🙂

Coming Next:

09/19/16 Beastman Champion (Core Set)

Want to participate in next week’s post? Email the pictures of your minis until 09/04/16 to

–>  new address:  MondayMiniature@fantasymail.de  (It’s a .de domain, in case emails are bouncing)

09/26/16 Show me your army/project

10/03/16 Hordlings, small demons/familiars (Add-on, but since they’re small and cheap we’ll keep them in anyway)

10/10/16 Egregis Darkfathom, Dark Sea Priest (Core Set)

10/17/16 Companion Animals – Feline, Hawk, Wolverine, Wolf, Bear (Core Set) -> paint as many as you like

10/24/16 Stone Lurker, classic dungeon monster (Core Set)

10/31/16 Kar Drakir, Reptile Warrior (Core Set)

11/07/16 TBA – maybe Baby break

11/14/16 TBA – maybe Baby break

This entry was posted by Antonia & Dirk Vogel.