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One of my favorite Fantasy races are the Undead, followed by Chaos and Reptilians. I already have my Lost World Project which tells a tale of Conquistadores, Reptilians, Dinosaurs, and a lot more. And has some Undead in Jungle and or Pirate style in it. My Shifting Sands project is all about Undead, Arabian and Egyptian style Undead. This thread will be filled with my beloved Gothic Undead, Demons, Monsters and all things that go bump in the night. In my Lost World Project I tell an ongoing story, here I will post about all other dark things without coherency. There might be snippets of loose stories to accompany a mini or not... I hope you guys and gals and creatures will like it. Let's kick off with the critters I painted a while ago to get a feel of what is coming. Enjoy! ( or not) Bats and a Murder of Crows EDIT: I will include some Bones and minis. The bulk will be metal and I want to give the project an oldschool vibe/. Preferred minis will be, Reaper, Grenadier, Ral Partha, Rafm, Metal Magic, Otherworld and Early Citadel. The Asian Undead will be from Zenith since I backed the Kensei Undead Samurai KS and will get their own thread. ( Nippon, Land of the Rising Moon) and the Egyptian ones are in Shifting Sands Project) EDIT: Since the 3D printing bug bit me, the bulk will probably become 3d printed now. EDIT - Asked to merge my Undead Threads into one. Now CHILDREN of the NIGHT. This is for all the Ghotic Undead and their friends like Werewolves/Witches/Demons and the Witchunters and Zealots who fight them etc etc.. Eldessa Necromancer Ral Partha Female Vampire Lurien and Aysa Bat Demon

A while back, I picked up a BUNCH of these MTG board games at deep discount. There are some pretty good minis in there. The Shadows Over Innistrad expansion comes with three different werewolves. Since I nabbed four sets, that's a total of twelve general use werewolves for me! I'll do different threads for each sculpt. These were all painted years ago. They were pretty-much quick and dirty paint jobs (base coat, wash, minor highlighting, and a few details picked out). Not my finest work, but they fit the season. This first sculpt is officially the Moon-Blessed form of Arlinn Kord. Group 2 thread Group 3 thread

Here's the second group of werewolves from the MTG board game (see the thread for group #1 for the background on these minis). Officially, this mini is one of the two Kessig Ravagers. I just like using it as a big, beefy werewolf. Group 1 thread Group 3 thread

And here's group three from the MTG board game (again, see the thread for group #1 if you'd like to read about the minis' background). This is the other sculpt for the Kessig Ravagers. Group 1 thread Group 2 thread

Hi: I love my old school minis. Picked this pup up a few years ago, finally got some paint on it. Submitted in RCL Sept 2022. -t edit to add: I finally figured out that this was one of three forms the "Silent Strider" from Werewolf: The Apocolypse game could take. Ral Partha sold all three (Crinos, Hispo and Lupus) as a pack under the 69-024 tag. So, now we all know!

Here is Jean Paul Duchamps, DHL #2139. Small but mighty. Pictured with Tristan Loremistriss (DHL #2050) for scale. And here is Jean Paul DuChamps, DHL #2747. Bigger and badder. And together for comparison.

Great reaper bones mini! I just did a couple of drybrushes and a wash but I am pleased with it! Thanks for looking!

Design ClayCyanide- Vukodlak Fighter 3D Printed on my Elegoo Mars Scaled up 150% to increase the size. Base Resin from Microart Studios. Part of my Children of the Night Project: https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/79298-children-of-the-night-by-glitterwolf/page/25/#comments ***************** When the Moon is full sensible folks stay indoors keeping a silver weapon close. Of course there are always non-believers, that's what the Vukodlak likes most. Tender meat... ****************

Last year PingosHusband, after noodling around Exalted (2nd edition) and World of Darkness rulebooks (Vampire the Masquerade 2nd edition, Werewolf the Apocalypse, Mage the Ascension, etc.), announced that he'd like to run an Exalted game set in the World of Darkness. We, his friends and loved ones, said “What, are you crazy? Have we not long joked about how unplayable and internally inconsistent the World of Darkness is; how its timeline makes no sense and its rules and worldbuilding are buried and often mutually contradictory; how foolish and suicidally incurious the various groups are regarding each other; and how so many of its many tragic angsty world-destroying problems could be solved if only each isolated group got its head out of its backside and actually talked to one of the others?” He said, “Hear me out,” and since we have long experience of his keen ability to run entertaining campaigns, we heard him out. See, PingosHusband has a knack rather like Alan Moore's ability to take unpromising old third rate comic book series and turn them into fascinating multifaceted mythic dynamos, or Neil Gaiman's ability to mine world mythology to create astounding and consistent and multilayered worlds, or James Burke or Kenneth Hite’s ability to take fascinating historical and technological developments and spin them into stories of human interconnectivity or disturbingly deep illuminati conspiracies for game use, respectively. More than once PingosHusband has taken historical oddments, played “What happens if this is taken seriously and assumed to make sense somehow?” and produced some wonderful story or game setting or world. (One of them won awards.) So apparently he did this with Exalted and World of Darkness, getting under the hood, finding the core of what worked and what didn’t, seeing what could be connected to what else and what made sense, what was clearly absurd, what needed tweaking, what could be fun, what couldn’t be possible, why things happened, and who could have done them. He looked keenly at characters, places and situations, saw potential for fun in a campaign, wrote up background, and presented us with an introductory players’ handout. I’ll get to particulars later. The simple version is that the world looks basically like the World of Darkness, except that all of a sudden a tiny number of people have Exalted with memories of the world of Exalted (“Creation”) and powers derived from it. There are five to begin with (the PCs), although more will come soon enough. I have to say, this game has so far been tremendous fun. Our group has been playing together for over thirty years and I have rarely seen all of us this excited about a game. Our teenage / adult children are also involved and we have been having vivid family conversations over meals about history, strategy, and characters. I’ve (of course) been painting up miniatures for the game. I’m having a lot of fun with these too. I’ll put links to Show Off threads when I have them up.

It's the weekend, so you know what time it is... BATTLE REPORT! Along with all the Bones 5 I bought, there was a special on some Zombicide minis that were just too good to not buy. This is one of the many that are in there, and I'm stoked to get this one done. Wins: * Continuing my use of drybrushing and being very successful. Did an overbrush this time to start with a dark brown. Then drybrushed to orange brown. Then lightened up to buff. Worked great! * Saving the last color for last - flat flesh. I mixed this with matte medium and watered it down to kind of filter it and just use it to highlight the base colors. Big win! * Went back around with some nuln oil to darken down just the deep recesses and area between the muscles. Starting to use the washes sparingly and only in very specific areas. Also getting a better grasp on using which wash for what job. * Used Agrax Earthshade to create a transition between the fur and the body. Win! * The fur was the same 2 base colors as the skin, but then lightened up with gray. Then taking the gray up another notch with white very lightly. Then EVEN LIGHTER adding white in peaks and areas near the face. * The mouth is a combination of brown, then a purple ink, then breast cancer awareness pink mixed with a little of that purple to get the tongue. Looks nice and dangerous! Misses: * I had another hard time with the nails on this guy. I didn't want them dark, nor did I want them too dirty looking, so I had to use something lighter. I feel like the grey is a fail, but it blends in. * Eyes were a mix of bone white, gray, and black dot. Not impressed with it. Something ominous and glowing would be better. * Got a little carried away on the werewolf's left ribcage. I was using the drybrush to find the volumes, but thought, hey that needs some highlighting. Wrong. Right above the ribs there's a bit too much buff color. Wah wah. This guy came out great. Even with a few errors in there, I'm super happy with the results and love using the matte/paint mix to blend in. As always - I love and grow from any feedback. Send it my way - I gain a lot from it.

It's the weekend, so you know what time it is... BATTLE REPORT! Along with all the Bones 5 I bought, there was a special on some Zombicide minis that were just too good to not buy. This is one of the many that are in there, and I'm stoked to get this one done. Wins: * Continuing my use of drybrushing and being very successful. Did an overbrush this time to start with a dark brown. Then drybrushed to orange brown. Then lightened up to buff. Worked great! * Saving the last color for last - flat flesh. I mixed this with matte medium and watered it down to kind of filter it and just use it to highlight the base colors. Big win! * Went back around with some nuln oil to darken down just the deep recesses and area between the muscles. Starting to use the washes sparingly and only in very specific areas. Also getting a better grasp on using which wash for what job. * Used Agrax Earthshade to create a transition between the fur and the body. Win! * The fur was the same 2 base colors as the skin, but then lightened up with gray. Then taking the gray up another notch with white very lightly. Then EVEN LIGHTER adding white in peaks and areas near the face. * The mouth is a combination of brown, then a purple ink, then breast cancer awareness pink mixed with a little of that purple to get the tongue. Looks nice and dangerous! Misses: * I had another hard time with the nails on this guy. I didn't want them dark, nor did I want them too dirty looking, so I had to use something lighter. I feel like the grey is a fail, but it blends in. * Eyes were a mix of bone white, gray, and black dot. Not impressed with it. Something ominous and glowing would be better. * Got a little carried away on the werewolf's left ribcage. I was using the drybrush to find the volumes, but thought, hey that needs some highlighting. Wrong. Right above the ribs there's a bit too much buff color. Wah wah. This guy came out great. Even with a few errors in there, I'm super happy with the results and love using the matte/paint mix to blend in. As always - I love and grow from any feedback. Send it my way - I gain a lot from it.

This is the Werewolf Queen bust from White Wolf Tavern, 3D printed.

One of the oldest Bones models in existence: Reaper Bones 77009 "Werewolf", from the 2011 O.G. pre-kickstarter Bones lineup. This mini is also available in metal under the name 02747 "Jean Paul DuChamps, Werewolf". I just got the hankering to paint this one. Nothing special. Oui! Le loup-garou! En garde! 77009 Werewolf Pre-kickstarter Bones Reaper Miniatures Classic, blinding white Bones PVC Sculpted by Ben Siens 40mm base. Available from reapermini.com

A pair of werewolves - I enjoyed painting these, particularly the brown one!

Digging around in the mini zoo and unearthed this pack. Painted them a while back. I thought I did a pretty awesome paint job back in the day, but now I kind of want to repaint them. Must... Resist...Urge... To...Repaint... (Too many unpainted minis in the queue to go back and redo painted ones!)

This was my first time painting two of the same sculpt twice in a row, so I tried to make them pretty distinguishable for table play. I also hadn't realized how much bigger 77464 is then 77009, but I still think they work together and I'm pretty happy with the pack overall.

There are some really nice werewolf models out there, but normally they are huge, sitting on 50mm plus bases (I have a bunch of privateer press ones.), Thank you James Van Schaik for such a nice and realistic sized model.

This is another bogle for Monster Blood Tattoo though it happens to look a lot like an especially large werewolf. First the sculpt: Although fur is often difficult to clean the parting line on this one was largely invisible to begin with. Second the paint: It lent itself to a simple drybrush, but I've gone for such dark colors it doesn't show up in the photo. Third the question: I just glued it to a round base today and can't decide how I should finish the base. It's going to be used in tabletop skirmish games so it doesn't need anything fancy. I just can't decide between gluing on sand and little rocks, applying resin sand gel, or using Apoxie Sculpt to build up the circular base to the level of the stock base. Opinions? Pros & cons?

Here is the finished figure I painted up for my Secret Sophie.

Pinnacle Entertainment Group ran a KS for The Goon Comic RPG. Included in the KS were eight metal miniatures. Despite the unique setting of "zombie noir", some of the miniatures can be used in other genres. I'll be painting the miniatures, starting with Merle the Werewolf. Obviously, he can be used as a generic werewolf, although his eyes are white, not the usual red I use. Bases were made from the OOP Happy Seppuku narrow wooden plank texture stamp, and miniatures pinned with the Army Painter hand drill. With extra paint, I painted some very old Grenadier werewolves, and an Against the Dark demon (looks more like a minotaur to me). Last pic doesn't include the ochre Skeleton Bone, which I used to lighten the browns to add contrast. Merle looks a little sad in that last pic, although that's appropriate for his character in The Goon...

From a good Reaper Bones to a a brazilian werewolf (call Lobisomem) from the amazonian mythology for my Of God and Mortals Army (see this topic on the LAF here) a very simple one, as the werewolf has no tail. Only a swap 's head and the job is done . Just a good head choice with a WH40k wolf

"Even the man who says his prayers / Before going to bed at night / May turn to WOLF when the wolfsbane blooms / and the moon is high and bright." --Apocryphal rhyme DOCTOR. A very pestilent disease, my lord, They call lycanthropia... In those that are possess'd with 't there o'erflows Such melancholy humour they imagine Themselves to be transformed into wolves; Steal forth to church-yards in the dead of night, And dig dead bodies up: as two nights since One met the duke 'bout midnight in a lane Behind Saint Mark's church, with the leg of a man Upon his shoulder; and he howl'd fearfully; Said he was a wolf, only the difference Was, a wolf's skin was hairy on the outside, His on the inside... --The Duchess of Malfi Body horror, puberty, loss of control, loved ones acting out of character, cannibalism, madness, things more savage and bloodthirsty than we thought man or beast could be--it's a rich vein of horror. The further back you go, the more blurred the distinction between vampire and werewolf and witch becomes, but as a general rule what we now consider to be vampires are specifically betrayers of hospitality and home; like de Rais and Bathory, they commit their crimes behind closed doors. Werewolves, on the other hand, are given to savagery outdoors, in the lanes, under the moonlight, in the moors and lonesome places. It is appropriate then, that Julie Guthrie's werewolf 02139, is named DuChamps--of the fields. Here he is, in form much more wolf than man. These two pictures are behind the Spoilers tab because, while Julie did not necessarily have to sculpt Jean-Paul's werescrote and transmogrified lycanthrodong, she did that. She did that for us, because she's a PROFESSIONAL and doesn't take shortcuts. I don't think it rises to indecency, but better safe. Will delete and link if the need arises. Next up. the truly monstrous Werewolf, 77009. Those familiar with the role-playing game "Werewolf!" from White Wolf will recognize this as a Crinos form. Enormous, savage, horrific. This is about a 50/50 mix of Man and Wolf, but with the features dialed up to 11. I had fun painting hair on the smoother human limbs. And lastly, a Nolzur's werewolf I had on the Shelf of Shame. This one is mostly human but with a wolf's head and claws. A note on the full moon: it's just a Nolzur's disc base painted white and poked with paintbrush ends of varying sizes during the drying phase to simulate craters. I may have to do some more of this with discs of different sizes and colors for Spacefuture shots, because multiple moons convey Other Worlds the way zeppelins convey Alternate Histories.

I was told we needed all these lycanthropes for our home brew D&D game... Weve been using the mouslings as wererats. This project has spanned about five or six months. There are a couple more but because they’re ladies whose clothes fell off in transformation- they aren’t pictured. So here they are:

This is the classic Ral Partha D&D set ,11-524 Lycanthropes, sculpted by Bob Olley. These guys have so much character.

I decided to paint him up as a member of the Devil's Advocates biker gang from the 1971 documentary Werewolves On Wheels. Interestingly his hat is very much like the one worn by a gas station owner in the film, save that in the movie the feather was a great deal smaller. The light doesn't reach it well, but his necklace is done in green and purple to depict mardi gra beads. I attempted to freehand the patch design from the film, and other than having no where near enough room to get "Devil's Advocates" on the top, I'm pretty happy with it as from a distance it works. I also knew going in that the placement of his ponytail would make things slightly off kilter. I'm also happy with how the denim came out.