Hobhounds and Handlers

Hobhounds being taken for walkies by their hobgoblin beast masters. Some more of Aly Morrison’s superb hobgoblins. Beast handlers and their menagerie of vicious pets were a staple troop type for a lot of armies in early editions of Warhammer, and including a unit gives a nice old school flavour to an army I reckon. The hobhounds are really odd models. They look like a cross between a pit bull, a babboon, and some kind of Pleistocene hyena. For painting inspiration I looked to the Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger- a fascinating and unusual Australian carnivorous marsupial that was appallingly hunted to extinction in the 20th century.