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I'm glued to your thread! Juggernaut FTW!

What made you decide to go with a brown wash as opposed to black? I'd think black would be a more natural shadow for blue/grey than a brown. (not criticizing, just asking)

The shots on the marines looks kinda epic as it is. The blue in front and the grey in the back... looks like they are seperated by mist and distance, rather than color.


Just had to say it. hehe

Thanks guys

Git, I went with black on Lukas and felt it was rather strong. GW uses a series of brown washes on their SW's and it's far more subtle an effect.

I suppose that for a blue/grey color the brown shadows would "warm" it up a bit... I like it... and you're right, much more subtle. Just wouldn't have thought of it myself.

Black shadows are in most cases too stark, using purple, blue or brown will give more natural results most situations.

Good progress GD! The wolves offer so much possibilities for painting and customization, I'm looking forward where you will go now that the foundations are in place for these figs.

The past week has seen solid progress on my Space Wolves 500 point army.  The weekend found me away from the painting table far more often than I was able to sit down to it.  Overall I only think I was able to find an hour or two to put brush to models, but last week was so successful that I couldn't be too upset!  It also helps that it was my birthday weekend and that I got to celebrate it with my lovely wife!



All of the models have started catching detailing work as of late last week.  The metallic bits were all blacked out.  Pelts and tails have been painted Codex Grey and washed with Devlin Mud.  Shoulders have been base colored according to the pack colors and Great Company.



There are three packs at the moment, and each will get the proper colors.  The Blood Claws will be Yellow and Red, the Grey Hunters will get Red and Black, and the Wolf Guard will be Yellow and Black.  The design will likely be similar to what GW has done with segmented triangles to create the design.  I'm going to be painting the Great Company shoulder pads yellow and using Ragnar Blackmane's symbols.



I've started painting the metallic spots slowly this weekend, but thanks to the nature of detail work, it does take a good amount of time to get everything painted on each model.  I'm using Mithril Silver as my metallic color for the wolves, but this will be washed down with Badab Black, Devlin Mud and Gryphonne Sepia as the spots dictate.  Using Mithril Silver will allow my golds to be nice and bright and can be easily washed down for darker metallics.



I also went through and dug out my collection of Space Wolves transfer sheets late last night.  I don't know how much of these I'll end up using, but at the very least having the Great Company badge will be helpful.  I was a little surprised as how many of these I've been able to collect having never actually started a Space Wolves army before!

This week will be a flurry of painting if I'm lucky.  I fully intend on having at least 500 points finished for next weekend, so stay with me and I hope to share images of them as a Reinforcements update in the near future! 

Coming along very nicely g_d, even from a distance they look so cleanly painted... very nice indeed.

Nice work Grey Death!

grey_death wrote:

I had to look twice at this picture as the first time I though you had fog in the back ground obsucring the scouts, on the second look they were white base coated.

Great looking models though, love to see more of them.

Posted the final photos of the finished Wolves over in the showcase forum!

I'm also working on some Long Fangs and a Rhino to help make the army better for actual battle! Stay tuned!

After their first ill-fated debut on the battlefield, my Space Wolves were found to be woefully lacking in any real power and serious effectiveness. To help boost their combat abilities I've taken to adding new units to the army that aren't just hand to hand monsters.

First on that list was a set of Long Fangs. The squad contains three models from a friends old army that I was able to clean up and remodel. The lascannon trooper was one of my first models from my Grey Death army that had a clumpy and terrible paint job, not exactly something I was proud of having in my case. The sergeant was built 'new' from a bunch of bits and spare parts I had in my bits box with green stuff used to create the pelts and a beard. There is also additional green stuff pelt work on two of the devastator models that weren't explicitly Space Wolves models.

The biggest pain was hunting down old school arms for the right side that are needed to fit into the weapon. New style arms just can't fit right without a lot of cutting and remodeling, not something I was keen on doing when I'm trying to make speed a major part of this army build/paint. Once I was able to find them after digging around in my bits box, I was able to start looking around for a left arm. I ended up just using chainsword arms, sans chainsword of course.



Wolf Scouts have always been a really cool unit to me. Their story and their abilities on the battlefield have always made me want a unit of them. This unit was put together using a bunch of unpainted models from that same army I picked up. I've already gotten knee-deep in the painting process as you can see. In fact this squad was started at the same time as Ragnar Blackmane, but the day after starting both, Ragnar found traction and the scouts were set off to the side to get him finished. With the models around 30% complete, they don't have a ton of time left on the painting table.

So far they have kept to most of the same painting methods and recipes of the other wolves, the cloth being the only addition. I used a Codex Grey base washed with Devlin Mud, and primary highlight of Fortress Grey. Bleached Bone was then used to give the cloth it's true color and Skull White was used as a final highlight.



As a little bonus piece to the army, and since I've had the model forever, I went through my first model case (a fishing tackle box!) and dug out one of my first models. This guy was part of what I had hoped would be a Space Wolves army, but as I've mentioned before, that never came to fruition and he was painted as an early member of the Grey Death marines. Again, not a model I've come to use or be proud of after so many years and so I stripped the model down using Simple Green and a wire brush. This guy will end up being a part of the Wolf Guard once I get around to painting him.

I've got a lot to work on, but I'm hoping to find time in the coming week(s) to get more done with this army and hopefully find a night to get a game or two in with the new squads. With classes starting back up, here's to hoping I can keep the momentum going!

Over the last few days I started and finished work on a quick little terrain itch project in the form of a display board. I even used this project as a quick tip on Friday as I ended up using some ideas that were floating around in my head on this one.

Here's a quick shot of the finished board:



And to see just how much I could actually fit on the thing, I broke out my Sons of Medusa and piled them on! I'd say it holds a pretty good amount for such a small board!



Hopefully I'll get some sit down time with the Wolves this week!

Love the green color and paintjob on those SM!

And the board looks nice too

Is that meant to be a techmarine or a MotF, A close up of him would be nice...oh, wait, I'll go heck the gallery...

Worked up some new terrain stuff for a gaming day this coming weekend at a buddies place! Check it out:















Had a blast just throwing this stuff together! I have more planned for this week, but I'm bouncing around with projects as is my way

Write up goes live tomorrow morning on TPC if you want to know more! I'll be sure to link it here!

Great blog.

That terrain is impressive.

How much time to complete? Also, how were the walls done? Did you repurpose something for them?

I'm sure it's been said before GD, but how do you paint your bases?

There is some lovely work in this thread
And i finally worked out how to subscribe

"It looks like there was a bit of a struggle"

Scott, Thanks. I think I started these sometime early last week, but didn't really get started on them until a few days ago. The things that took the longest were waiting for the paint/sprays to dry completely. Actual sit down and work time was minimal though. See the link above for more

DE, Here's the basing. and here's the static grass

rodgers37, You can also subscribe to threads simply by replying in addition to the button at the bottom left of the page

Awesome, thanks GD

A printer.

My first guess was toner cartridge, but after consideration I was betting on vacuum-cleaner.

Anyway - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

Thanks

A finished Khorne Lord on Juggernaut:



Very happy with him. Hope you guys dig it as well!

The juggernaut looks great, but the rider is a bit lost against the background. That's a pity as he looks really menacing in his darker armor and what I can make out looks excellent.

Could we have another batch of pics with lighter background please

I think it might have looked better if the juggernaught was in a darker shade...(just not as dark as the lord's armour) or, if you did some effect on it (that would be cool)!!

Technically speaking it is great of course.

Thanks for the comments guys.

Met, I took some photos of the model against a white background but it just muddies the rider too much. He's very dark, very brooding, with a richness that's going to be nigh impossible to capture with my feeble set up. This is the best representation I've been able to capture so far. You'll just have to see him in person some day!

IM, I think the contrast works for me personally. It was all about differentiating the Juggy and Lord within the same model. It might be bright, but there is some depth of color there along zenithal lines where it darkens on the shaded sides.

Diggin' the Lord! I hope to see him on the table at Dakka-con; you almost never see Lords that are not also Sorcerers, which is really a shame (though understandable from an efficiency standpoint). I look forward to seeing this fellow in person!

grey_death wrote:Met, I took some photos of the model against a white background but it just muddies the rider too much. He's very dark, very brooding, with a richness that's going to be nigh impossible to capture with my feeble set up. This is the best representation I've been able to capture so far. You'll just have to see him in person some day!

I hope to do that. It is really hard to get figs him this to photograph correctly, the size is one factor and it seems that red is a difficult color for at least my camera.

Anyway he looks great and characterful, I'm already awaiting the next one you bring before us

Back working on this model from some time ago now! So far so good but still a lot to do!

Base is almost 100% and the crow has caught paint. The princess hasn't caught any work past a badab black wash.

If you want to see some more about her, I posted more on The Painting Corps in terms of the approach with a few more quick shots to show what I'm talking about.

Hope to get more done this week for this little one off model. I love doing these to break up the monotony of army painting

I've seen some very entertaining treatments of this particular model... looking forward to seeing what your going to do with it. :-)