Second Pack of Fenrisian Wolves

I have previously made a post of my earlier pack of Fenrisian Wolves, albeit only painted. That one was made fairly simply, with no customisation beyond swapping some of the heads within the same kit (barely even counts) and by filling in the gaps with Green Stuff, with some fur sculpted to make the seam between the heads and bodies seem less obvious. Painting was mainly just drybrushing a couple of shades of grey. It was a simple project and took little worktime.

The downside to that was that since I had done very little to customise the models, the next pack would need some more work, or it would look like a copy & paste job. Fortunately, my earlier Wulfen project taught me some tricks for reshaping plastic in an oven, as well as reposing limbs away from intended positions.

 The bodies of the wolves consist of two hollow halves. Reshaping them with heat necessarily opens some of the seams on the models. I filled in the gap with Green Stuff, sculpting some new fur on top of it. The seam isn't perfect, but should work fine with darker colour back.

 Due to the body's rather extreme position, this one was challenging to reshape. I did manage to get it look fairly different eventually by swapping the tail with another model and by reshaping the ankle of the paw on the ground, making the whole model look more upright (the original one did always look to me like it was about to nosedive). I also did some minor repositioning of the legs on the left side, but nothing too drastic.

 Repositioning this model was possibly the subtlest and easiest of them all. The body was originally curved towards its left I straightened it and reshaped the front paws. This made it look clearly different from the standard model. and by extension the other model in the previous pack with the same original body.

 This one accidentally ended up being somewhat too similar to the other model with the same body at first. I hadn't noticed that I had used the same head on the same body on both models, making them look unfortunately similar. Though I did repose the front paws and the back ankle, this didn't make the models look distinct enough, so I decided to give this one a lot fluffier neck. I also cut a couple of pieces of plastic off from the head to make the transition from head to body seem more natural.

 The same model from the other side. I did also swap the tail with another model in the pack, but as it happens, both bodies had very similar tails, and the more curved tail was on my Cyberwolf, so that did little for the overall effect. However, the thicker fur coat around the model's neck did the job.

 Finally, my Cyberwolf. I knew I wanted it to look very different from its packmates, so I decided to reshape it a fair bit more than the others. I did this by cutting and extended all the legs by a few millimeters at several points, then resculpting the model at the seams.
At first, I misremembered the Cyberwolf's profile, thinking it had S and T of 5 instead of 4, so I made the model somewhat bulkier, too. I also added some armour to the head and chest to reflect Cyberwolf's better armour save.

To represent the cybernetics, I gave several of the wolf's joints external mechanical components and added a couple of pieces of thick guitar string to represent power cables (these wouldn't really be great to have hanging outside of the wolf's body, but it looks appropriate).
I wanted the pose to have somewhat werewolfy feel to it. It has been implied that Fenrisian wolves are actually Fenris' mutated original human settlers. I imagine this individual having some degree ot atavism, making it slightly more anthropomorphic than others of its species, but not overtly so.

 I had the idea of painting two of the wolves in more or less opposite patterns, with one having a white head, legs and body and dark grey or black rest of the body, and the other having white or light grey fur where it's longer and otherwise black.

 With the same palette used in opposite ways, the end result was that the wolves seemed clearly distinct, but parts of the same pack.

 The wolf with added extra fur around the neck ended up being fairly dark coloured. I didn't want to make the coat look too unusual, as it would have otherwise seemed like it didn't really belong in the same pack.

 By this point, I was trying to come up with coat patterns I hadn't used in this or the previous pack of five, and one that was available was white face, sideburns and belly, otherwise black. I'm particularly satisfied with this one's overall effect.

 I already had one white-coated wolf, but I decided the extra bulk, pose, cybernetics and armour plates would set the creature sufficiently apart. I also used some Ushabti Bone between Stormvermin Fur and White Scar, because naturally white fur is usually very slightly yellowish. I'm pretty satisfied with the model, though it does look fairly static compared to rest of the pack. It's not disturbing enough to be a problem, though.

Here's the full pack in a class portrait, though I mean them to be fielded together with the previous five, possibly either in one unit joined by a character on a Thunderwolf, or two supporting each other.