Wild Wargs

My sneaky finish with 3 and a half hours left in December - 6 Wild Wargs, based over the course of the day as I was determined to get something finished this month!

I picked a very simple scheme for the Wargs which is almost entirely drybrushing / washing. The main areas of the wargs were very quick to paint and the only areas which took time to paint were the mouths and teeth, which were fiddly as they're not very well moulded. Once I decided on the paint scheme I reckon these were about 10 minutes a piece to paint.

There was quite a lot of prep work on these though - the metal warg riders had legs to attach and gap-fill and the plastic dismounts have some very obvious lines in their fur and a peculiar lack of detail on the rear of their backs. I probably spent about 20 minutes per warg green-stuffing but I think it was time well spent as it makes them look a lot better than they do out of the box. Thankfully fur is fairly simple to sculpt, and very forgiving of mistakes!

There aren't actually any Wild Wargs in my Mordor Army list, but these six will serve as dismounts for the Mounted Orc Trackers. I've also painted the six mounted wargs, but not their riders, so they'll hopefully be finished in January.

Wargs

• Basecoat - Abaddon Black

Fur

• Heavy Drybrush - Dryad Bark
• Medium Drybrush - Mournfang Brown
• Light Drybrush - Balor Brown (top half of warg only)

Mouth

• Tounge - Memphiston Red, wash Agrax Earthshade
• Teeth - Celestra Grey, wash Agrax Earthshade, highlight Ulthuran Grey
• Mouth - Bugmans Glow, wash Agrax Earthshade

Flesh

• Face - Stormvermin Fur, wash Nuln Oil, drybrush Stormvermin Fur
• Legs - Drybrush Strormvermin

Bases (as per Morannon Orcs, but with added slate chippings)

• Stirland Mud
• Drybrush Tyrant Skull
• Add Tufts (Warpainter Scrub Grass small / standard tufts)
• Paint Base Rims Steel Legion Drab
• Paint Rocks Mechanicus Standard Grey, drybrush Administratrum Grey, drybrush Celestra Grey