These are the wolves of Ravenloft: three normal wolves and the werewolf boss. I tried to make European Grey wolves, although I didn't really look up the coloration of real wolves. These wolves kind of have pig noses, this isn't the best wolf sculpt. But it's cool, dogs are hard. I've read many comics where the dogs look like giant rats.
Remember Horrorclix? It's gone but not really mourned... not to hate, but WizKids could have done better; in fact, they've learned the lessons of Horrorclix and have done better. Anyway, when Horrorclix was coming out, you could look at HeroClix and HorrorClix product produced in the same quarter, and the HorrorClix stuff looked much better. I think it's because of the sculpts and the different natures of sculpts that tended to show in the two sets. Horrorclix designs like wolves or werewolves had lots of texture and picked up washes and whatever drybrushing a factory can do really well. Meanwhile, the smoother spandex designs of Heroclix suffered under the same number of paint applications.
This translates roughly to painting at home, in that my ability is roughly equivalent to a Taiwanese Wizkids wage slave, and these wolves looked decent without much in the way of paint apps. I did spend some time to give them gold eyes and white bellies, neither of which is really on display in this picture.
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