Our First Guest Poster: Rosco!

Lady (you know which one you are) and Gentlemen. I present to you the work of a good friend of mine from ages past, currently residing in the misty swamp of the west country: Mr Rosco Packman!
Dude is an immaculate painter and premier modeller/converter/scratch builder. He has given me a selection of pictures of his current projects, which should hopefully stimulate and inspire some creativity and ideas.


I think I speak for all of us when I say, Ross mate you need to give us your terrain pieces! :P


WARNING: THIS IS A LONG POST WITH LOTS OF PICTURES!!


Ross:
WIP Scratch-built watchtower - Built using scavenged snack tubes, cardboard and plasticard, as well as textured plasticard, leaf flock and resin doors from Antenociti's Workshop (www.antenocitisworkshop.com). GW parts used include various elements from the Watchtower kit, Dreadstone Blight, the Vampire Counts zombie sprue and old Empire state troops kit.
Detachable base and some other detailing still to come, hence why the ivy doesn't reach the ground yet.

 
WIP GW Watchtower and completed stone walls - Basecoated using Humbrol 'Sea Grey' spray acrylic, Highlights achieved through progressive drybrushing using GW Fortress Grey and Bleached Bone, before a liberal drowning with GW Devlan Mud. Pre-varnish detailing on walls involved GW Scorched Grass static and Woodland Scenics 'Light Green Bushes' clump foliage.

 
Chaos Warhounds - The only completed-to-tabletop-standard unit actually finished for my Chaos mortals army. My aim here was to create two cohesive units from the various generations of Chaos Warhound miniatures available. Included here are the current, ever-so-slightly dreadful plastics, the previous white metal incarnations, a fairly old scorpion-tailed hound from 4th/5th Ed. WFB, and the 1995 version of the Scyla Anfingrimm miniature (I stole the idea of including this critter as a hound-proxy after seeing it used as such in an issue of WD in the mid-200s). 
In terms of the colour-scheme for these hellhounds, I was looking for a quick, cohesive and naturalistic look, with spot colours provided courtesy of the brighter tones used for the numerous mutations and gribbly bits. As with many other painters I'm sure, Devlan Mud wash holds a special place close to my heart as a foolproof way of supplying natural shading to most colours, and it was no different here. 
A number of minor conversions are present on the plastics, predominantly stemming from the fact that the models are not great. 
While I'm aware the capricious Dark Gods are capable of moulding the living flesh of their servants as they see fit, I think that horns or secondary mouths coming out of hound's ear canals look dumb, so I took steps to either reposition or remove any appendages that might disrupt their hearing


Ross Packman