Shadows of Brimstone: Void Hounds (Monster MAYhem ’21)

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Shadows of Brimstone: Void Hounds

Yet more Shadows of Brimstone again today! This time it’s the trio of Void Hounds that are available via the Masters of the Void expansion pack. I guess now I’ll have to paint the three Mind Flayer/Quarren lookalikes that came alongside the hounds soonish. These were another of my Contrast Paint experiments – with Magos Purple over zenithal primer looking a bit shitty, but being salvaged by successive layers of purple highlighted with Vallejo’s Sunny Skin Tone and satn spray varnish to unify it all with a just-slightly-slick look that takes away from what can be a powdery-looking finish from the drybrush.

Shadows of Brimstone: Void Hounds

As with so many of the Shadows of Brimstone models, they’re far from spectacular sculpts – and while these ones are alright, a quick and effective tabletop paintjob is all they really need to make an appearance in a boardgame. In a pinch, I could run them as random monster-beasties of a dozen or so different types, from Chaos Hounds to Dark Eldar/Drukhari beasts to Blink Dogs (which they sorta are in SoB). They’re not huge creatures, but they seem like they qualify pretty well as “monsters”, and they’re bigger than an orc (as Chainsaw Lass demonstrates for us here) so I’m submitting these for Monster MAYhem, over at the Angry Piper’s Blog – aka Dead Dick’s Tavern and Temporary Lodging.

Reaper Bones 77670: Dire Crocodile (Monster MAYhem ’21)

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Reaper Bones 77670: Dire Crocodile

OK, it’s not the biggest model I’ve painted this month, but this Dire Crocodile from Reaper’s “Bones Black” line still counts to me, as it’s safely larger than an orc. Counts as what? Well, counts as another submission for Monster MAYhem, over at the Angry Piper’s Blog – aka Dead Dick’s Tavern and Temporary Lodging.

Reaper Bones 77670: Dire Crocodile

Chainsaw Lass once again provides scale, while the angle shows the base, with judicious application of Vallejo Mud and some Woodland Scenics water effects. Not sure why Reaper’s calling it a “Dire” Croc, though – it’s size is well within the normal range for Australian Saltwater Crocs…

Reaper Bones 77670: Dire Crocodile

It’s another good example of “Painting Triage”. It’s not the most important model, nor is it the most detailed. It therefore doesn’t warrant my top tier of effort in order to get it painted, but it’s still the kind of model that’s very possible to get looking pretty good with relatively little work. I mean, you can’t even really see the lighter underbelly and under… neck. Some weathering powder added to the croc helps to give that feeling of embedded dirt to the model, while the slight sheen from ther satin spray helps with the slight wet look to this terror of the waterholes and estuaries.