When I first planned out my little Khornate warband I planned to include a pair of flesh hounds. At the time they’d not long been released and a new models outdid their predecessors with ease. As I was planning to paint up a pack anyway what better opportunity to get started on them than this? However because I’ve been concentrating on other aspects of the warband it’s taken a while to actually get started on the hounds but at last the first one is ready to hunt.
Readers with a head or maths will have noticed that despite my references to flesh hounds (plural) I’ve only actually painted one. The reasons for this are twofold. Firstly I used this model to test out some adjustments to my standard daemonic paint scheme. Although I’m very pleased with the results I wasn’t really feeling the urge to replicate it straight away. Secondly I’ve discovered a small group of bloodreavers which I’d assembled, undercoated and then forgot about. Rather than allow them to slip back into the unpainted pile this seems like a fine opportunity to get them wrapped up too so I think I’ll take it easy when it comes to painting daemonic dogs and take a crack at these barbarians next instead.
Convert or Die 
September 9th, 2019 at 10:04 am
Lookin’ good mate, in fact, he looks absolutely lethal! I like this paint scheme too btw 😉
September 9th, 2019 at 4:03 pm
Cheers – he looks fierce doesn’t he? Of course now I need to try painting some more daemons like this, and make sure I write down exactly how I did it before I forget!
September 9th, 2019 at 12:29 pm
Oh very cool. I really like the look of these. Am already thinking these would look good in a diorama along with a few Hasselfree figures. As if I haven’t got enough to do along comes another idea!
September 9th, 2019 at 8:12 pm
Isn’t that always the way! 😀 They are very cool models, glad you like what I’ve done with him – and I’d be very curious to see that diorama. 😉
September 9th, 2019 at 5:38 pm
I am liking these … the slate blue with the differentiation on the underbelly is quite effective and different than the red flesh hounds one is used to seeing. This one is definitely Pet Quality! 🙂
September 9th, 2019 at 8:18 pm
Thanks Ann – yeah, I’d have a pet flesh hound if I could (although I don’t think I’d be forgiven if it ate the cat…). Glad you like the colour scheme, I’ve tended to do my daemons in slate-grey and/or off-white which I think looks good for any of the gods and helps to tie a mixed force together. Getting the flesh colours in there on the belly really adds something though I think, I’m curious to see what it looks like when I apply it to something like a bloodletter (or even a bloodthirster!)
September 10th, 2019 at 2:59 am
Yeah, that’d be a gig eating the cat. Best stick to loyalists and perhaps followers of Slaanesh. Oh yeah, psykers too, especially the ones that work at DMV or whatever/wherever you get your driver’s license renewed in your plane/country/universe/etc. of choice.
That is a great color scheme and as you say I can see where it’d certainly tie a mixed force together.
September 11th, 2019 at 4:16 pm
Completely agree. The colours give them more of a menacing feel than the red
September 11th, 2019 at 5:53 pm
Thank you. Red can look good on them but personally I prefer something a bit darker, sinister and more natural.
September 9th, 2019 at 10:21 pm
Puppy! Cool scheme, nice to see something leaning more toward black than red for them. Makes them a bit subtler, and like they could just fade out of shadowy corners to spring on whoever they’re hunting. Shame about the join line down the middle of the face, tho. I wish they’d put a crest there, or split the head up differently (one top piece and then lower left/right, maybe).
September 10th, 2019 at 9:23 am
He’s a good boy! (…I think…).
That description of them fading out the shadows is just perfect, I don’t think I’d really articulated it that way until you said it but yes, that’s exactly how they would be 🙂
Aye, the line down the face was a pain. Why do they still do that?! I did my best with it but sometimes they really don’t make it easy. Joining the two half of the head at the mandibles would have made it work nicely.
September 9th, 2019 at 11:34 pm
That is very cool- I love the texture you got into the coat.
Cheers,
Pete.
September 10th, 2019 at 9:24 am
Cheers! It’s a model that just cries out for that kind of detail so I reckoned it was worth it 🙂
September 10th, 2019 at 6:08 am
I’m really liking the scheme as well! Leaving some fleshy red showing is a nice touch, brings certain realism to the model, I think.
I’m struggling to come up with nice khorne schemes other than the default red, it’s great to see that there are others who manage better than me.
September 10th, 2019 at 9:27 am
Thank you! Fear not, I reckon when you find the scheme you’re looking for you’ll nail it! 🙂 Personally I like painting daemons in natural/organic schemes, GW tends to emphasise their unnatural qualities (and I can see why) but I find something a bit more “realistic” just makes them that bit more scary.
September 11th, 2019 at 11:35 am
The paint scheme is spot on man.
September 11th, 2019 at 5:32 pm
Cheers!
September 17th, 2019 at 8:21 pm
Great colour scheme, looks very sinister.
September 18th, 2019 at 1:22 pm
Thank you! I picked that colour scheme about a decade ago now (makes me feel old!) for my original chaos marine army and even though it can be tricky I still really like it. Sinister was very much the vibe I was aiming for – glad you like it 🙂
September 29th, 2019 at 3:45 pm
You’re making me want to paint mine! Love the slate colour you’ve chosen, it works so much better than the usual red.
October 1st, 2019 at 8:47 pm
Well, don’t stand on ceremony for my sake – get those bad dogs painted! I think they’d look amazingly grim and fearsome in your style.
September 30th, 2019 at 8:00 pm
Really nice work here again (I feel like I’ve written that statement a dozen times this morning). The dark grey tones do look really effective on a Fleshhound, and I think the deep red underbelly adds a lot to it as well. I’m almost tempted to paint a small contingent of my Khorne Daemons in a more ashen colour scheme over the shades-of-red I had planned. We’ll have to see when he time comes, I guess.