Space Wolf Army Building Blog Update 2

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Quick update, this is my Wolfen marked Thuderwolf rider, the hands as mentioned are GW Ghoul hands, the head is from a Polish company that make conversion parts, Maxmini, check them out at www.maxmini.eu great stuff. More soon.

Space Wolves Army Building Blog Update 1

My First Three Scouts

Close up 1

Close Up 2

Close Up 3

Thuderwolf rider torso/Wolfen Conversion

Thunderwolf Rider heads

So Im gradually working on my space wolves. My Mate Col Corbane gave me some scouts a couple of years ago and I finally built them. I added lots of bits like heads, rune stones and other bits from the space wolf sprues. There will be a squad of 9 in the army, Im now settled on 2000 points and am going for models I like rather than balance so will have to practice hard to get anywhere with these in battle. Ive also added some pics of parts of my thunderwolf riders, I always paint heads seperately as its easier to detail them and paint the main figure in bits. I have a rider with the mark of wolfen in the army list and converted the torso by removing the hands from some arms, boring out the ends with a 1.5mm drill then inserting plastic ghoul hands, looks good to me. This dude will have d6+2 rending attacks on the chargs and is cheap in points so cheap and nasty! My Wolf lord will have eternal warrior, belt of russ, frost blade so 7 initiative 5 rending attacks on the charge, 6 in normal combat a real monster!

More soon.

Space Wolf Army Building Blog

Njal Stormcaller and Blood Claw.

Njal Again

Wolf Pelts.

Close up of the old bugger.

Blood Claw with Plasma Pistol and Power sword.

So here I go again with another change of direction. This came about from happening accross a discussion on Dakka Dakka or somewhere about thunderwolf cavalry models, which in turn led me to seeing the Mythicast thunderwolves, these are superb sculpts check them out at this site

http://www.mythicast.com/. They are a Phillipines based model company and make some sci fi wolf mounts and giant wolves ideal for thunder wolves and fenrisian wolves. Now personally I hate the huge GW pugdog wolf rider figure to the extent where it put me off space wolves, but, these mythicast wolves look great and will form my command squad of 4 thunderwolves and mounted wolf lord in the army I am building. While I am waiting for them to arrive from the Phillipines Ive started painting and have done Nigel and a Blood Claw to test the scheme, here is what I did.

Main Figure. These I build and leave the weapons off because painting chest details is easier with no weapon I paint them seperately on coctail sticks inserted into drilled barrels, I black undercoat the models and use an airbrush to apply 50% shadow grey and 50% space wolf grey just like the GW site suggests. Then I make a wash from Adeptus battlegrey foundation paint, washing up detergent and water to make a very dilute wash, apply this to the creases between the armour with a fine brush, the washing up liquid helps it run so does warm water so I always use warm washes. Finally an extreme highlite on the edges with space wolves grey and the armour is done.

Equipment. Any equipment on the figure I block paint the main colours then wash it with a 70/30 mix of Gryphonne sepia and devlan mud. This makes an excellent wash very like army builder dark tone, BUT, its matt so no pissing about with varnishes. Then I highlight with the original colour and add some bleached bone to super highlight. I always prefer bleached bone to white as it gives a gentler dustier highlight.

Wolf Pelts. These I love and its simple, base coat a mid grey like GW codex grey, paint the underside anything from pale brown to nearly white your choice. Wash with the same mix as above then drybrush the original grey over the whole pelt then work towards the edge with lighter greys like GW Fortress grey and finally bleached bone. The reason for this is that wolves have a light inderside and when skinned this will form the edges of the pelt. Lastly go back to the pelt and wash several coats of devlan mud or black (Your choice and wolves vary greatly in colour so experiment) with this wash I do 3 or 4 coats making it narrower each time so only the very narrow centre strip gets all the washes, this gives an excellent effect. Lastly highlite the underside with the original colour and superhighlight with added bleached bone, done.

Thats all for now, more will follow as I intend to do a blow by blow blog of the Mythicast wolves as a review of the models. TTFN.

Saxons On Ebay

All the Saxons, leaders and warband are on Ebay at the moment, if interested in private sale email me.

Saxon Leaders finished and based

Two Finished WAB Leaders, one will be army General one a character

Gripping Beasts Penda

Penda from the front, he has just butchered the guy at his feet, not pretty when someone has their head smashed in and back chopped open with an axe!

This is Musketeers Saxon General again now based.

Same figure from the front with a slain champion at his feet.

This is the test base I did, I felt all the Saxon bases looked a bit garish with the flock, so I toned em down using airbrushed devlan mud, nice effect, tones down the flock and cos it also hits the lower part of the miniature it blends it into the base and subtly makes it look like it belongs in the terrain on the base.

Musketeer Miniatures Saxon General

Front View

Close up

Cloak and rear view

Shield

This miniature is going to be the general for my Saxon Age of Arthur army, Ive seen one superbly painted on the banner of the WAB forum, but have been unable to pin down the painters blog for a closer look, check out the forum and have a look, superb painting and I love the colour scheme so have shamelessly copied the style from memory and I'm really pleased with this guy, Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. I will mount him on a 40mm square base with a slain enemy champion at his feet from Gripping beasts early saxons.

Aventine Sassanid Elephant & LBMS Transfers for Ebay sale

Side view WIP Shot

Front showing "De pigmentation"

Full side view

I thought I would post about this model because I think the combination of LBMS transfers and the Aventine model is excellent, the model fits together well with minimal mould lines and on the website you can buy alternative trunks including one throwing someone! The transfers fit perfectly but remember that when you peel off the backing they apply face down so what you think is te left side is the right and visa versa. I spent some time in India a few years back and following my habit of preoccupation with wargaming was able to photo some Elephants up close with a view to painting them, interesting colouration, especially the de pigmentation that occurs making them look pink around the eyes ears and mouth this is dark dots in areas of pale pik rather than pink dots. Anyway I will finish this model and Ebay him this weekend, anyone interested in buying him directly and saving me ebay fees email me at harpo6780@hotmail.co.uk

Standard Bearer.

Ive altered the standard this guy carried, will go with hand painted baners throughout the army.

West Wind Productions Saxons

First Unit of 15 Gedriht for WAB

Close up of right flank

(The guy with Bull skull covered in blood will eventually be my ASB)

Left Flank

Centre ( The Guy in the Sutton Hoo Helm will be a Cyning and army general)

Ive had these miniatures for some time and only recently got some paint on them, I used Army builder quickshade and their Matt varish then super highlighted them and muddied the cloaks etc. Ive Hand painted the shields and will probably do the banners too for this army (Ill do away with the LBMS banner at the back ad replace it with a boar or similar). Nice figures and Im a fan of the seperate head system as it allows quite a lot of variation in the units, more soon.

The Crusade continues

Teutonic Magister By Gripping Beast

The other side, shield transfer by LBMS

The Grand master and the Magister

Really enjoying painting these figures and basing them in snow for a Baltic Campaign against the Rus, or whoever is maneuvered into a conflict with the Teutonic order, remember "GOD WILLS IT!"