The Vargskyr
Heroes are nothing without villains, so I’m alternating between painting the good guys and the bad guys with my Cursed City box. First up is this big guy, called a Vargskyr (Isn’t skyr some kind of special Scandinavian yoghurt? Doesn’t this mean that an Icelandic or Norwegian version of this game would call this a “wolf yoghurt”? Am I going entirely nuts?)
As with (most of) the other models in my box, I based this one on a square base so they can be used for Warhammer Fantasy and, perhaps one day, Mordheim. In this case I intend to use the model as a Varghulf (which doesn’t remind me of yoghurt whatsoever, but as both “varg and “ulf” are Nordic words for “wolf” that means that a Varghulf is essentially a “wolfwolf” – cute!) for my Vampire Counts army – it’s not a 6th edition unit choice, but useful in 7th or 8th edition. My opponents will just have to imagine it has full wings instead of the little atrophied ones on his shoulders.
I painted the model predominantly with a darker flesh tone and dark grey fur, then as with all my Vampire Counts models I washed it all over with coelia greenshade. Next I added layered highlights to all the areas, usually one layer more than I’d usually apply – I’m taking slightly more time and care with these models than usual.
As the model and its paintjob up to that point were quite homogenous I reckoned the model needed a point of interest, so a glowing effect was added quite simply with a light turquoise onto the eyes, the eyelids and around the eye sockets. This was washed again with coelia greenshade before a small highlight was added again to brighten it back up. Effects like these aren’t really my cup of tea, so I’m quite pleased with the way the eyes came out on this one.
Next update will be here soonish. And now I’m off to find yoghurt, although I couldn’t tell you why I suddenly crave it…
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Looks really great
Thanks Mark