Hobby Update: Further Vargheist Thoughts

The group in progress

I don't know if it's burnout or the models or what, but I find myself struggling to finish these guys.  Honestly, I'm not sure how to finish them.  I wanted to use dark colors to set them apart from the main body of the force and to resonate with the Death Company models.  At the same time, I didn't want to use pure black, since I'm using it for armor pieces throughout the force.

The color I settled on was a very dark slate gray for the body, plus Fortress Grey for the wings and hair.  I washed down the wings.  I put a pretty heavy drybrushing of white on the hair.  I don't think it even qualifies as drybrushing anymore, but I like the way it turned out.  I'd usually Badab Black on the rest of the body too, but the recesses are so pronounced, I think I'm going to go with actual black paint and then drybrush a lighter gray on the larger muscled areas for highlights.  Even with all that, I don't know how visually interesting they're going to be.  I'm worried they'll look basically like blanks on the table.  They need a splash of color or something to draw the eye, but I'm stumped as far as where that splash belongs.

Suggestions?

Hobby Accomplishments
-Finished Deneghra
-Played the first two games of a campaign
- Made Space Hulk bases
-Worked on the Vargheists
-And finally, fifty posts!  Woot!

Hobby Goals
-Finish all the red on the Land Raider
-Finish the Vargheists
-Acquire more Rhino and Land Raider doors