'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.

[Keith]

Bloody wonderful! Throw in some Dark Elves and your nostalgia looks very similar to mine 

[syrinx0]

No! No close ups! Someone recently said I have an impressionist style of painting. Translation: it looks shite close up because my eyes are going bad with age.

For 105 your really not doing badly. 

Seriously though, I think your closeups would look much better than many of ours no matter how you have slipped.   

[Cubs]

Okay, now this fella really is a labour of love and another one of my own. He's a Nick Lund Chronicle Orc Wolf Rider, back in the days when Orcs rode wolves and Goblins rode boars (well, Runequest Trollkin rode tuskers, but it's much the same). He was my only wolf rider back in the day and died ingloriously in every battle he ever foolishly fought in without causing a single casualty to my reckoning - once being brought down by 3 Dwarf cannon crew who threw stones at him (S1) as he charged in to combat. That was a low point.

The model was a pig to paint in fairness, with horrible vintage casting causing lumps of miscast metal all over the place, the odd Nick Lund details cropping up unexpectedly, the deep deep eye sockets on the Orc and the deep fur texture on the wolf. I took ages to get the colouring on the wolf just right, with lots of repainting and washes to get the final effect. I'm not a fan of the odd snouts the Chronicle wolves seem to have, but actually it's painted up fairly well and now that it's all done they're a handsome enough couple. I may leave him on his own for a while as a homage to his past service.

[Severian]

Fantastic work as always. Marvellous colours on the wolf!

[Hobgoblin]

He's splendid! Tremendous work on rider and mount alike.

These are still the best wolfriders ever made, I reckon - for all their anatomical anomalies and general lumpeness. For all that their snouts are a bit odd, the wolves just 'read' right to me: still broadly wolf-shaped but big enough to be terrifying.

The riders are oddly intermediate between the small Chronicle orcs and the later, bigger ones. But they're really menacing. Actually, I think they're probably the best miniatures around for Runequest Tusk Riders (something I've been puzzling over lately) - but it would be the purest heresy to mount them on boars!

[Grumpy Gnome]

Magnificent work on both the rider and the wolf.

[Elk101]

That really does look excellent, well worth the effort.

[James Morris]

I think this is your best yet.  The life you’ve got into the wolf’s face is unnerving.

[Citizen Sade]

They’re not to everyone’s taste, but I’ve always loved Nick Lund’s Orcs and Hobgoblins anyway and your painting really brings this one to life. They might be rough and ready but they always look like they mean business. Anyway, top daubing 👍

[Cubs]

Thanks guys, very kind. It wasn't until the matt varnish went on that the fur on the wolf looked okay! Up to that points, he looked too shiny and with me holding the model during painting, it got smoothed over in places and the paint was wearing off. I had to add more dark grey before spraying.

I think this is your best yet.  The life you’ve got into the wolf’s face is unnerving.

Funny how just that small area of the wolf's face kind of dominates the whole thing by drawing the eye straight away? The Orc's face is pretty much obscured and the natural brown shades throughout forced me to get something eye-popping somewhere. I wanted the mouth to look very red, with a glistening tongue and I'm happy how it's worked out.

[Thew1]

Amazing, the wolf looks like it's actually salivating

[Cubs]

Amazing, the wolf looks like it's actually salivating

Just little spots of pure white, to make it looks glistening. Effective innit? Like most everything else I do, I nicked it off someone else's hard work.

I have to say, I have new respect for anyone who paints wolves (or anything else I guess) in their natural multi-shaded hue. It's bloody time consuming and frustrating trying to get exactly the look you're trying to copy.

[Swordisdrawn]

Superb. The wolfs pelt looks so realistic!

[thebinmann]

That wolf is amazing, what to paint mine? Different rider though....

[Cubs]

That wolf is amazing, what to paint mine? Different rider though....

Hell no! Not after what I went through.