Hey folks, and welcome to what will be the home of a journal of sorts. I've decided to start modelling and painting a Space Wolves army for Warhammer 40,000 and I thought I'd use this thread as a home base to share what I'm doing and get some feedback from anyone who wants to give some. I'll start with an entry tonight, as I'm converting some terminators from the core set to work with my army concept.
I'll be posting links to pictures, and try and get as much information as I can up here.
The Army list in my head;
Some Rune Priests, a terminator wolf-gaurd unit, four units of mark of the wulfen marines in rhino's, two speeders, two units of longfangs w missile launchers.
More tonight.
So, first time goofing around with green stuff. Probably doing it wrong, but whatever it'll work or it won't. Sculpted cloaks for four of my terminators, hoping it makes them look a little more savage.
Links!
I'm afraid I've gone too thin on one of them, as it is pliable after a day of sitting to harden...
Tomorrow I'll try and finish the last terminator and wolf up the dreadnought a bit (even though I'm not likely to use him in the list i'm building towards, I think I will get him ready.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63555973@N02/
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You rock. I see what you did there, I'll have to remember to tag it right, thanks.
Hoping to make some progress tonight (wether or not that will happen is up in the air) but in the meanwhile, any other model enthusiasts out there with pictures, conversions, or advice?
They look great so far. No advice for you: my Space Wolves army is more or less straight out of the box with no fancy additions...and it's still mostly unpainted. Looking forward to seeing how yours turns out though!
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They look great so far. No advice for you: my Space Wolves army is more or less straight out of the box with no fancy additions...and it's still mostly unpainted. Looking forward to seeing how yours turns out though!
M
Thanks!
Looking at colors right now. I'm a little ways from painting as my first box of Space Wolves just came in yesterday (well, non-starter kit that is). I have a session of Kingmaker tonight so progress will probably be further delayed but tomorrow I'm intending on having them all built and ready to go. I'm hoping to avoid too sculpting with them, but I do want to slap some green stuff on my dreadnought to make him more space-nord-y.
I'm up in the air between going more grey with my wolves, or a bit more blue. I love working with Shadow Grey... a lot, so that might win out. I did see a good guide to painting them with the citadel paint gun (which I don't own...) so that's an idea. Getting basecoats done quickly would really ease the process along. I have an aversion to painting skin (eyes are a huge time issue and I'm not too good at them) so I'll try to use the helmeted heads as much as possible.
I want to make all the weapons look like they're made of ice, but I've never tried to paint that effect before, so that'll be fun. Probably start at a light grey to get a nice cool base, then work up from there into a bright blue.
I'm thinking of doing green stuff cloaks for all the Longfangs as well, as they're supposed to be older, more respected members of the chapter. I wish I could sculpt a bit better, it would be cool to be able to make a small wolf head for the cloaks, but that's a bit beyond my abilities.
So I'd like to have a second, less competitive and more fluff-y and fun army list as well using packs of wolves. I'm really up in the air between Chaos Hounds, Orc/Goblins wolves, or LoTR Worgs. I like the Worg's the most but I hate their faces. Chaos Hounds would require a little conversion, but the poses are dynamic and I could convert it to look like a marine is holding them back (there are some great conversions of this already, just google search images and you'll find them).
June 5
Well, I took some time last night and did some modeling with the Space Wolves Pack kit. I had my friend Jeremy (who is pretty new at this) help me out with construction. I was thinking that when I was new to the hobby I was all about bits and doodads, and that someone working on their first kit might lend a sense of youth to the figs. He built five, and I built five... and I purposely took most of the components that showed bone, and most of the older heads. This lead into what I wanted to differentiate between the two units... one is younger, more impulsive and brash and the other is older, more experienced and rooted in the history of the chapter.
I'll need to add another figure to both squads before they reach the 6 members I want in them. I took two melta guns from the black templars add-on kit and marred the iconography on them. I have another Wolf pack kit coming, which will bring me up to three 6 man squads with two marines remaining. I'm thinking I'll purchase another two kits and with the 22 space marines I have I'll finish the fourth grey hunter squad, both squads of longfangs (I'll need missile launchers from somewhere...) and use three of the remaining bodies for conversion into rune priests... exactly how is up in the air, but I'd like to find a wolf skull bit that I could use for their helms, maybe I'll sculpt their stands so they're standing a bit elevated and do some leg cuts/re-sculpts.
I decided on watered down codex grey, which I'll follow up with a badab black wash. After that I'll do a 50/50 shadow grey / codex grey drybrush of the model as a whole, then highlight with straight shadow grey. I THINK it will look alright, but as always, time will tell. I've never been the best painter around, but I do alright for the fair- middling bracket... I actually used to work for a games workshop in Massachusetts when I was in college, but it's been a bit since I've done anything other then mordheim.
Anyone out there have any missile launcher arms they want to be rid of?
Link to the base-coated squads;
Sorry for the picture quality on those, I'll be making a picture box to help with that in the near future.
I wasn't thinking to well when I was talking colors there, I'll be going with a drybrush of codex after the wash, with a codex/white mix for highlights after that.
Probably go brown for the fur and as a base for the bone to give the bone a warm organic look.
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Yeah, a picture box will definitely help - they look much better in person than in the pics.
What about black fur instead of boring brown? You're more likely to add more black to the models than brown and that way the fur will tie into the rest of the model a little better. Unless you want it to stand out of course . . .
Yeah, a picture box will definitely help - they look much better in person than in the pics.
What about black fur instead of boring brown? You're more likely to add more black to the models than brown and that way the fur will tie into the rest of the model a little better. Unless you want it to stand out of course . . .
I was actually thinking a black and brown fur mix. A little less boring then single color fur, and the most ferocious of all Fenrisian Wolves are supposed to have black fur, so that's likely to be the way I go with it.
I managed to get the Badab black wash done last night, I watered it down a BIT too much but after drybrushing(these aren't character models, after all) I think it'll be alright.
I'm thinking of different colored shoulder pads with norse runes to identify the seperate units a little clearer.
probably the following for the Grey hunters units to show age progression;
Red
Brown
Yellow
Bone
And for the Longfangs
Light Shadow Grey
Ice Blue
I might do Bone Colored Power armor for the three Rune Priests to set them apart a bit, with Ice weaponry and maybe grey shoulder-plates and the black furs to tie them into the other units.
June 8th
So, wash completed, drybrushing of codex grey completed. I'll get some pics up tonight, but it's cool how much simple tricks can do for you... I went through and painted all the furs black again (to be followed with a highlight of dark grey, followed by a light drybrushing of scorched brown.)
I'm thinking I'll do that and get the shoulder pads started tonight... I did try painting some eyes laast night (miserable failure)...I forgot how small the eyes are on space marine heads. my intent was to do the reaper trick of painting a swath of off-white along the eyes, dotting, then painting the skin in around it but we'll see.
I'm having fun with a wolfguard squad of 5 terminators and 5 regular marines with power weapons. It saves some points per model on a nasty melee squad while giving me 5 extra attacks. They work well with Logan Grimnar or a Wolf Priest to get favored enemy.
This weekend I plan on modding some Wolf Cavalry. I'm using [link=http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/o/otherworldMiniatures/wildernessEncounters/v5748btpy8hmj] Otherworld miniatures wolves[/link] and mounting space marines on them. It will involve cutting the legs open a little to widen them, but I think it will work well.
I will see what I can do to get some pictures to share.
I'm having fun with a wolfguard squad of 5 terminators and 5 regular marines with power weapons. It saves some points per model on a nasty melee squad while giving me 5 extra attacks. They work well with Logan Grimnar or a Wolf Priest to get favored enemy.
This weekend I plan on modding some Wolf Cavalry. I'm using [link=http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/o/otherworldMiniatures/wildernessEncounters/v5748btpy8hmj] Otherworld miniatures wolves[/link] and mounting space marines on them. It will involve cutting the legs open a little to widen them, but I think it will work well.
I will see what I can do to get some pictures to share.
Please do! It's always great to see what others are doing... I'm going to have Thunderwolf Cavalry in my second army list (and as many packs of fenrisian wolves as I can muster).
There's a company that offers full-fledged wolf cavalry models as well, but I can't recall who they are (they're resin-cast and require a little bit of touching up, but they look VERY nice).
By the way, I'm painting tonight if you'd like to join me, Becker.
June 9th
I NEED to get pic's up. I had a late night session last night with my blossoming wolves, and now they all have painted fur and shoulder pads. I need to highlight the armor/apply slide transfers (if Im going to....) I might just buy a really fine sharpee and write runes on the shoulderpads.
I'm thinking it's odds and ends and armor highlights tonight. Maybe faces if I'm feeling brave.
In other news - New wolf pack box and upgrade sprue came today. I'll be assembling in the next few days, which I'm excited for. With the upgrade sprue I'll be converting one of them to a Rune Priest... I was thinking Wolf-skull Helm, as much Fur as I can manage and Bone/Ice weapons. Armor will probably be Bone colored for him.
As I'm developing the army by color, with the youngest, most brash of them being Red, I was thinking the Three Priests would follow a similar color code. First will likely be a dark red with grey shoulder and a little bone, the second will be Bone with one grey shoulder and hints of blue, and the third will likely be primarily Ice-Blue with hints of the other colors to draw it all together and establish him as the leader and war-shaman.
New Pics on Flickr, I'm please with the progress so far. Need to highlight the armor, and the do a highlight on the bone after inking it (it's dark right now)... More tomorrow maybe (Pathfinder Night and I'm running so that might not happen...)
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Is that gray from the paint, or is it raw palstic? I'm having a hard time telling with the pictures.
Sure wish I had some pictures of my Deathwing army before I sold it :(
It's codex grey, and it IS close to the color of the plasic. I'll be going through with Codex/White (80/20) to highlight before the armor is done.
Main reason I ask is there don't seem to be any kind of low lights or shadows among the nooks and crannies of the armor. Usually you don't see the cables and crinkly arm bits painted the same as the armor palte colors.
bad photo, the creases and indents stand out well under the naked eye (ink wash)but the crinkly arm bits will be painted black/dark grey prior to armor completion. There's a fair deal left to be done with the armor actually, I've based --> inked --> drybrushed... which leaves a light wash for detail --> highlights. More as I progress of course!
Hoping to get to paint tonight, if I do I'll post the pics, if not it will probably be friday.