Hounds of Demos WIP

[ShadowSong7007]

So I recently split a box of Sanctus Reach and got the Space Wolf side. I originally thought I would dremel off the viking bits and paint them up as Crimson Fists. After taking a good look at the models though I can't bring myself to do it. They are too good but I don't want to play Space Wolves. 

 

 

So its time to get creative. 

 

1) I have to work around/with the Wolf imagery hence the reason for the name. Hounds of Demos is a chapter GW hasn't done anything with

2) I have always had a soft spot for the Iron Hands/ Sons of Medusa 

3) I'm thinking going with a Celt/Welsh theme

4) I have two color schemes I'm thinking of going with

5) ??????

6) Profit

 

 

 

Color schemes .

 

 

 

[Lysimachus]

Sounds cool, doing a 'wild' IH Successor myself atm.

 

I like the schemes, although the first looks like it's more a Sons of Medusa Successor from the green (which feels a bit unlikely that they'd be used to form a new Chapter, given how they were formed themselves?).

 

I quite like the second one, it's got a definite 'Hound' feel to it. Is it brown or bronze, doing it as a metallic could be a nice way to get the IH feel across?

 

 

Edit: Something else I've done to try and tone down the wolfyness of the minis is to get some regular Tac/Assault/Dev boxes and just use one or two of the SW bits as accents on each model (pics in the last link in my sig if it helps any).

[ShadowSong7007]

 

Think I'll try a bronze and black and see how that turns out. Still jotting down ideas, will try to throw out a (very) rough IA tomorrow. 

[Lysimachus]

Looks good, although I must admit I've never liked the different coloured codpiece/legs look, always looks a bit Superman 'underwear over trousers' to me.

Just a passing thought so feel free to ignore, but if you're doing another test mini, how about trying the colour placement of the first scheme (which I like as it's more cohesive and also easier to paint) with the bronze instead of the bright green?