When it came to painting him and his brother, I wanted to go with red, but not bright, Khorne red. A more washed out, Blanchian red. To achieve this on both, I used Vallejo Game Air Charred Brown and Citadel Rakarth Flesh to underpaint my highlights and shadows. On top of that, I sprayed a few very thin layers of Vallejo Model Air Cavalry Brown. After that dried, I added some Lamenter's Yellow via brush as an edge highlights of sorts and as a spot color in random places. For this one, I also painted demonic faces all over the armor plates using Rakarth Flesh and building them up by adding in White. After the Calvary Brown layers, I also went and re-whitened the teeth and some of the eyes. A big thanks to Maxi Costales López and Bill Rowbotham for inspiration on the faces! Finally, I used some verdigirs colored weathering powders to add a "warp" effect to the exhaust, just to make it seem even more unnatural.


For his brother, I drew inspiration from Ana Polanšćak's amazing Varghulf, as well as everything else she has ever done! I spent a lot of time staring at photos of her project trying to distill how she captured such mood in her work. Eventually I realized that everything she did was fundamentally wrong. But, wrong in a purposeful way, and that's where the mood comes from. It's very subtle so on it's face it looks correct and your eyes don't notice specifics, but your brain knows it just is not right.


Now, I'm no where good enough to do wrong on purpose, just wrong because I can't do it right. But, by recognizing that, I can use it to my advantage. I took an old hard plastic goat my kids had lying around, cut and spent several days applying patches of greenstuff to make it more lupine.


As you can see, I intitally wanted much longer ears, like hers, but I couldn't get them to look right. I think my armature wire was too thick.


First I bulked out the face where it need ed and then I added fur. I purposefully didn't worry about making it too correct and just did it to the best of my ability. Both to learn from it and let the natural wrongness amplify the effect I was after.


Painting his was pretty similar to the other one, except instead of faces, I painted lines across the armor plate, but in no particular order. It's not as noticable as I would have liked, I think I didn't take the underpaint bright enough (I stopped at Rakarth Flesh) and I put one too many coats of Cavalry Brown on it. But, the weathering ended up covering up a lot of it anyway.


Unlike his brother, which was only mildly weathered, mostly on the metals (how could demon faces see if their eyes were covered in grime?), this one was heavily weathered. I applied several layers of AK interactive streaking grime, rust wash, and dark brown and quite a few weathering powders as well.