Thursday, 13 November 2025

Who Let the Dogs Out!

 Here are a couple of new companies (bases) painted for my Fantastic Battles 28mm Dark Elf army:  Whelp Master with two Chaos War-hounds.  Obligatory sounds effects

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-MK1lLI_zQ

The Dark Elf figures are Marauder Warhammer Fantasy Battle (WFB) 1990 Whelp Masters and Whelp Mistress, and the Chaos War-hounds are also WFB figures made by Citadel but from over a decade later.  The asking price for the original Marauder 1990 war-hounds was just too much.

 

My two bases of Whelp Masters with War-hounds

As you can see the bases still need to be flocked, I will use a mix of brown ballast and green static grass.

I am working on a third base, trying to locate some more Chaos War-hounds to accompany my remaining Whelp Master (this one made by Citadel in 1989s)  that is yet to be painted.  The third set of war-hounds may well be 3-D printed.

 

1980s Citadel Whelp Master

My third Whelp Master will probably look similar to the example bellow, with some purple clothing / trim added when I finish painting him.

Citadel Beast master, not my painting

As noted earlier, unfortunately the original War-hounds / Chaos hounds that came with the Whelp Masters (shown bellow) are selling for very high prices on eBay so I opted fir  substitutes, Citadel metal Chaos War hounds from around 2003..  Frankly my substitutes look more vicious anyway!

 

Citadel Whelp Master with Chaos War-hounds 1989

Marauder Dark Elf Whelp Masters and War-hounds 1990

My Citadel metal Chaos War-hounds 2003

 The Fantastic Battles stats card I have created for this company is shown bellow.


Here are the original WFB 3rd edition stats for the Dark Elf Whelp Master and war hounds.

 


 


 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The composition of the bases looks good with the dark elf in between the rearing hounds. Those chaos hound models are 6th edition warhammer fantasy, circa 2002/3, mine are painted in a very similar scheme

Lord of the Western Keep said...

Thanks I have updated the blog to show them as 6th Ed. Chaos War Hounds from 2003. Wish I could get two more but they are OOP and expensive with postage so I am looking into 3D print options. I will post some pictures when the bases are flocked and the 3rd base is finished.