Friday 24 April 2009

15mm Vargr Mercenary Conversion

GZG 15mm New Israeli 'leader' body
with Beast Wolf Head from Peter Pig

Still very much a work in progress. Before you ask.....why yellow combat enviroment armour? Not only did I want to paint something radically different to blue! But it's believed wolves can only sense red and yellow. So, as a Vargr Merc commander, Grav'RR bought himself a distinguished yellow battlesuit. Unfortunately, like his rifle, it's seen better days, better battles.

The head is greyer in actuality than it appears in the photo - probably due to the Citadel Devlann Mud Wash. I still need to sort the Vargr's eyes to my satisfaction though.


His troopers are going to be painted in Citadel Shadow Grey (almost similar to RAF grey-blue), possibly with Black & Codex Grey tiger stripes.

Cheers
Mark

13 comments:

  1. Sweet. I'm going to have to order some of all of the Peter Pig heads. My GZG order can't come fast enough! I need me some 15mm!

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  2. LOL! The mini looks cool but my first thought was that you made the sci-fi wargaming version of ALF. Beware the warriors of the Malmak 54th "Cat Eater" Guards.

    HA!!!

    -Eli

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  3. Seriously though, nice conversion. I have wondered what the Wolf Heads look like. Did you add anything to the head?

    -Eli

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  4. Funnily enough Eli as soon as I had the first coat of paint on the 'wolf' head I immediately thought of Alf. Yes, not quite as lupine as I'd like but it's duffices as a shaggy doggy bipedal alien.

    Cheers
    Mark

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  5. Heh, I thought I was the only one who remembered ALF. Have you considered Stan Johansen's bear men painted like wolves?

    -Eli

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  6. Somewhere I have a FoW panzerfaust team converted to Vargr, with tails. the peter pig heads are really good - annoyingly, a matter of weeks before he released them I used green stuff to turn some AK47 range figs into vargr - they're painted up in a sort of desert camo along with some GZG OUDF to give 2 human platoons and 1 vargr platoon - cf the Merc Co in "Broadsword"

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  7. Hi Eli, Yes I have considered the Johansen bear men but I don't like rifle across the chest poses.

    Mark

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  8. Just have fun with these for now, and ebay 'em off when Eli and I get the Garolff done.

    Real Wolfen in Matrix gear.

    :)
    Michael

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  9. Math,

    Got pics?

    Michael,

    Different sort of wolf men. The Vargr are much more typically space doggies.

    -Eli

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  10. Where as ours are Space Wolves...lol...cool.

    Michael

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  11. I'll try for a pic of the Pzfaust crew but my photo track record is poor - isnt it Mr H?

    "Space Canines" are in general fine by me!

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