So, the Ultramarines were so boring army that I couldn't continue to do them after one squad... I then moved to Flames of War stuff for awhile and started a Heavy Gear army too. Well, now I'm back to 40K and starting a new marine project. This time an old love, the Space Wolves!

Here's pics of the two test figs I built (the one in the middle is just a size comparison fig)

[EDIT]: Forgot to mention, these two are Grey Hunters.

haha look pretty cool man

Nice work, keep 'em coming!

great work buddy

Nice!

The posing and green stuff work makes them look so much more dramatic and intimidating than a regular marine.

pure class, look amazing, cant wait to see more.

This is going to be the absolute bomb Hammer!!! They suit your style perfectly and capture the SW essence so purely.

The plasma and chainsword wolf looks absolutely feral.

I'm really looking forward to watching this progress.

Nice GS work, very clean. Love the ferocious and unkempt look.

Also, is that an ork clip on that boltgun? Heretic!!

When do we see more pics!?!?!?!

I have finished the biggerising part of the eight Grey Hunters. Now moving on to the details. I should get these ready to paint in few days... So here's a wip pic .

Great! At squad level you really begin to see the impact "true scaling" them makes.

You guys with your biggerizing projects. It almost makes me want to take up the GS and sculpting tools and take a crack at it. Almost.

Great work on what you've got so far. Nice to see some folks out there are more afflicted than I am in this hobby!

A whole army of true scaled marines is ridiculous and awesome. Migs and yourself are most definitely insane.

This one I am very interested in. I haven't seen anyone do the true scaling yet. And, the Wolves definitely deserve it.

They look great so far, and can't wait to see more.

Blood

BloodDefiler wrote:This one I am very interested in. I haven't seen anyone due the true scaling yet. And, the Wolves definitely deserve it.

They look great so far, and can't wait to see more.

Blood

Blood, check out Migsulas Crescent Guards thread then, he has already done the true scale marine army! Mine are just a pale imitation of them, spiced with bit of barbarism to them.

RAWR!

I've always had a thing for 'Rymdvargar' Marines (if that's the correct translation) and these
should be some kind of textbook example of how they should look. Great work!

As for biggerizing, would you mind going into detail on what exactly you do when you do this?
Are there any online tutorials or something that shows which parts to buff up or similar?

Oh, and keep it up!

al-Majid Agandhjin bin Ahfal al-Rashid

This might be of interest to you!

good work with the green stuff.

I had this land speeder I had made for the ultramarines back then, which I now re-decorated a bit to use with my wolves. Added stuff to the base too. Sorry for the bad pic, but I had already undercoated it in black and that doesn't photograph that well... Anyways, a speeder for the woofs with very little effort!

Gotta love re-designation!

Base looks particularly good, though some of the details are a bit washed out. Looking forward to paint as always ^_-.

I finished four more Grey Hunters. Need to finish the last four and then I can start painting these.

Kneeling wolf is my new favorite of the pack so far.

Good progress being made with these guys.

I think some better lit photos could help folks get a better feel for where the project is going. Some light from the front as well as what you have here would work wonders.

These are just quick photos I snap in the night after the modeling session with the ceiling lamp the only light source... When I get these suckers painted I'll try to take better lighted photos. Maybe I need to buy a new desk lamp or something to help with the light issues.

Beautiful work Hammer. Looking forward to seeing them painted.

One question though. What tools are you using when you do the beard details? I can´t seem to get hair looking right...

I have about 8 different sculpting tools, of which I use 3 the most of the time. My main tool has always been the GW sculpting tool for some reason, but I happened to buy an "Army Painter" set of sculpting tools, where there were a great, sort of rounded spearhead shaped tool that seems to be made for this hair/fur work. The other end of that tool is a large flat blade that is perfect for smoothing large gs areas.

Two more done, two left to do, then I'll slap some paint on 'em.

I tried to take this photo with ceiling lamp and desklap for more light. I guess the light comes too much from the left and leaves the right fig in shadow, but I think this improves the lightning conditions a bit neverthless.

Really shaping up well, and keeping them feral is definately working. Just to be sure, are those ork drum mags, or your own creation?

They are ork drum mags. I had to find some use for the Black Reach box!

Nice. Looks like I´m going to have to have a talk with my brother about his spare ork shootas.....

lovely basing, look forward to seeing them painted.

I really need to make use of that melted straw fungus ^_^.

You have some of the best posing of marines on the web.

Wow. The poses are truly incredible.

Any chance you could make a more detailed photo-log on how you go about assembling/"true scaling" them?

I'm very new to modeling and would love to get some pointers on how to get my models as awesome as yours.

I'm such a slow painter, but I'm still working on the wolves, albeit at snails pace. Anyway, here's a pair of PIP pics to show where I'm at this time.

Nice paint scheme on those. The chainswords really stick out as focal points, I like the hazard stripes, a bit more blended than I usually see them.

Nice blending of the greys also.

wow that looks great keep up the good work those are some of the best wolves Ive seen

Very cool! I had a crack at doing a couple of marines like this a few years ago. Planned a squad but I found they took so damn long to do with just wire and GS alone that I ran out of momentum with them.

Here's a link to some pics if you like, you may have seen them before elsewhere:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v646/CMDante/Ultramarines/

Looking forward to seeing them when theyre finished, love the little SW pieces you've added through sculpting. The bases are fantastic too!

Cheers,

Dante

This is not a scheme I've seen on the wolves before. I dig it. The poses are great though. That's something that I really need to get off my arse and do is posing. I'm in one of those, 'I really don't have a spare figure I can hack apart' modes, as $$ is tight, and can't really spare anything. But, this gives me ideas of how to pose them.

Great stuff, can't wait to see the rest of the packs.

Blood

What do you mean by "Biggerizing"? Does it have anything to do with extending the legs? Anyways, looks great!

wyomingfox wrote:What do you mean by "Biggerizing"? Does it have anything to do with extending the legs? Anyways, looks great!

Biggerized, or so-called "true scale" marines are meant to make the marines a little bigger than IG trooper. It is just ridiculous how IG guy is the same height or even taller than marine when in the fluff the marine towers over the normal human.

So I added a bit length to the waist, legs and neck socket and made the chest a bit broader. My biggerizing is a bit more subtle that what seems to be the norm among the "true scalers" as people seem to use terminator bits to make their marines bigger. But however you do it, it still looks better than the standard marines.

CMDante wrote:Very cool! I had a crack at doing a couple of marines like this a few years ago. Planned a squad but I found they took so damn long to do with just wire and GS alone that I ran out of momentum with them.

Here's a link to some pics if you like, you may have seen them before elsewhere:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v646/CMDante/Ultramarines/

Looking forward to seeing them when theyre finished, love the little SW pieces you've added through sculpting. The bases are fantastic too!

Cheers,

Dante

Yes, I think I have seen those marines before. The lightning claws guy looks really great! I might steal that pose on one of my wolves.

Very cool.

Oh, OK...I can see that from the finished green scultps. It would be kinda nice to see a tutorial on your method...just a wish list if you ever have another fig in progress.

Those guys look amazing! Hope to see pics of these guys fully painted up.

I've put the wolves temporally on hold while I'm building Genestealer Hybrid "gang" for Necromunda. I will return to the Wolves once I have finished all the Hybrids and stuff. This will move the wolf project to next year.

Do you have a thread for the Genestealer Hybrid Gang?

Wow, usually the space puppy paint jobs seem a little boring to me but the bending and highlights along with all the custom GSing make these guys pop!

I love these ! i've always been a fan of Spacec Wolves infat that was my first army ! verycool and unique look to them ! i wanna see more

nice I once thought of getting a space wolves army but I dont like sm. Anyway thay look great lets hope they don't get mauler by genesteelers

After a few months break from the wolves, I'm back.

I started working on various additions to my wolf force...

Wolf Lord in terminator armour. Will have lightning claws when finished. I just had to give him the standard "stand head taller than the rest of the guys, begging for lascannon shot" pose.


Wolf guard terminators, to accompany the Wolf Lord in battle. You'll propably notice the Forge World bodies. The FW stuff was just too good to pass. If you wonder the amount of green stuff, that just comes with the need to cover the biggerising scars.


You might remember my biggerised squad of ultramarines? I decided to turn them into Space Wolves to get another Grey Hunter Pack with as little work as possible. Here's a pair of ex-Ultramarines with wolf bits added, now needing a re-paint to wolfy colors.


Here's my Dognaught, still very WIP, but coming along. I saw the four legged dreadnought conversion somewhere (I think it was at Dakka) and liked it a lot. Now that I needed a striking Venerable Dreadnought for my Woofs, the memory of the conversion came back to me and I knew I just had to try it myself too. Thus the Dognought was born.


I'm building a Land Raider Crusader for my Wolf Lord to ride around, but I can't start building it until my ordered Forge World bits arrive. The only thing I could start working was the twin-linked assault cannon with added gunner. The piece is still WIP, but I like the idea of a real gunner shooting the weapon, while shouting around curses a sailor would blush at. "Oh, you want some of this too! You look like a dork in that outfit!" DAKKA, DAKKA!


And finally, the Prowler. Barely held together with blu-tac, but you get the idea... I had many rhino kits lying around and didn't feel like buying a Predator kit (with yet another rhino hull), so I decided to convert a Predator from one of the Rhinos. I figured the open hull wouldn't be considered as open-topped since the crew is wearing power armour (same as land speeder isn't considered open topped). Armed with autocannon and a pair of heavy bolters (one is still missing from the pic. I guess my great company had run out of Predators and the Iron Priests converted some of the rhinos into gun-carriers to fill the hole. I call this vehicle Prowler, but it fully reps a predator.

More!Mooore!!!

Absolutely love everthing... Woofs are on my list to do; they were going to be after Relictors and/or orks but I think you have pushed them to the front of the pile for me!

Good work!

Man those Wolves are covered in awesome sauce!

Very nice work. And Nive Wolfnought too. I still remember few years ago when i posted the first Wolfnought in Work in Progress, as With the gorilla dreadnought and the Raptor dreadnought. Many years have past and i still see people using it as inspiration. As Gray Death Told me once... Your Kung-foo is strong.

I just love that dreadnought! What a great idea and so characterful for the Space Wolves. Maybe the pilot is a Wulfen?

These are some really dynamic and energetic conversions. They look wild and feral like a Space Wolf should without looking overdone or cheesy.

Brilliant work!

Anyone got a link to a guide for how to roughly make a dread like that? Or even just parts lists/components etc?

Okay, that's awesome.

Wing:



from what i can see it is all dread and sentinel parts, with the addition of a jugger head.



all of this work is amazing, and love the style of the pred, may have to borrow that one

wow man nice stuff
the beards and bases look really nice

also, the dognought is just badass lol
i look forward to seeing to painted

Sentinel - that's the parts I couldn't place...

I'm gonna have to do something similar to this... Would rather have a more robotic head though so gonna plunder my bits!

Thanks for info

I used parts of various kits in the Dognought:

- Black Reach box dreadnought as body. Parts of another dreadnought (backpack, CC-arm mostly), but with careful converting you could do this without those extra dreads parts. I just happened to have them available...
- The back legs came from IG sentinel.
- Head came from juggernaut
- The lascannons came from SM devastator kit, but I might as well have used the dreadnoughts lascannons, so these are not neccessary (and anyway, you propably want to arm your dread with different armament. I could easily see the back holding an assault cannon or heavy plasma instead of the lascannons)

So, basically you can build this with one dreadnought kit and one sentinel kit and that jugger head with the help of your bits box for extra gubbins...

Much love to the Col Hammer

Thankies and I am sooooo stealing your idea for my wolves!

This stuff is awesome.

Your conversion work is really great. The re-posing and custom facial hair is going to make this army look wicked and unique. I'm not a fan of the wolf-dreadnought, mainly because it looks awkward (IMO) on the 2 bases.

I don't even like space wolves but I already love this army.

the guy who made the other dogdread is BobPanda, and he has some SICK conversions as well.

one of the things that i liked was using the space wolf backpack with the 2 wolf heads on it, cutting out the face of an MK7 marine head and stuffing one of the wolf heads into it.

instant wolf-helm

Demogerg wrote:the guy who made the other dogdread is BobPanda, and he has some SICK conversions as well.

one of the things that i liked was using the space wolf backpack with the 2 wolf heads on it, cutting out the face of an MK7 marine head and stuffing one of the wolf heads into it.

instant wolf-helm

Not true really, bob panda skills are awesome but he dident make the first Wolfnought. Ask him.

This was my entry at coolminiornot. Look at the date.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/92144

As well as my Gorilanought

http://www.coolminiornot.com/103489

And my Raptor Dreadnought

http://www.coolminiornot.com/103490

Totally cool. Russ would be so proud right now.

Truly grand. I love biggerized marines. And conversions so extensive you can count at least four colours on the miniatures before priming.

Amazing work.

@Col Hammer:

What thickness plasticard do you use when making your True Scale Marines? Do you put your spacers in the shins? What size do you use between the legs and torso? Just curious.

I can hardly wait to see more of your work! Keep it up and please keep updating us. Your work is truly inspiring.

Thanks,
Chappy P!

Hey Hammer - for once you're getting the love you deserve

Great start, looking forward to more, this is right your alley in terms of style and talent!

Great stuff amigo Love the unkempt barbarian look and feel to your minis
Nice painting as well.

They look great, can we get some more info on how you made them true scale, or close to that.

Chaplain Pallantide wrote:@Col Hammer:

What thickness plasticard do you use when making your True Scale Marines? Do you put your spacers in the shins? What size do you use between the legs and torso? Just curious.

I can hardly wait to see more of your work! Keep it up and please keep updating us. Your work is truly inspiring.

Thanks,
Chappy P!

I actually cheat a bit here... I just put a blob of green stuff between the pieces of the cut chin and sort of eyeball it. So the thickness will wary a bit from mini to mini. Same with legs and torso - just a blob of greenstuff to extend the gap a bit. I used to use plasticard (my previous Ultramarines were made that way), but I got the lazybug and moved to greenstuff instead.

Navegante wrote:Not true really, bob panda skills are awesome but he dident make the first Wolfnought. Ask him.

This was my entry at coolminiornot. Look at the date.

Yeah, your dread was the original inspiration. It was BobPandas dread that brought the design back to my mind. So both helped!

I actually haven't seen the Gorilla and Raptor versions. Nice!

@Col Hammer: Awesome thanks! One other question, I need to look on the first and second page, but do you alter the abdomen section of the marine at all before or after you space out the chest pieces? If you do not, then how do you disguise the waist section? My assumption is by knives, pouches and grenades?

One last quick question, did you modify the Chaos Marauder heads at all in order to fit them on the bodies? They are really cool bare head options for Space Wolves!

This is inspiring me to start a wolf army, which was my first army back in second edition, that I never fully finished. Thank you for your hard work, truly inspiring, I cannot say it enough!

Thanks,
Chappy P!

There will be quite big gap between the chest piece and legs that needs to be covered. You guessed it; pounches, ammo bags, purity seals, knives... anything you can find is useful in covering the gap. With wolves it's even easier! Bits of mangy, fleabitten fur that the wolves so love is excellent way of covering the gap.

I glued the marauder heads in place with the help of a bit of green stuff. Some of the heads have hair going the wrong way and that needs to be cut, but mostly they go in unmodified. I then add some hair and beard with green stuff to make them look even wilder.

Welcome to the pack. More wolves the merrier!

C'mon col, you cant keep us waiting long for updates
i may have to make a "squig dread" for my orks now

What do you mean? It was 82 days between my last post and this new update. Is that long?

Yes

And Thanks again for the information =D

I might have more questions about your Wolf Dread, but I'll save those questions for later.

Thanks again,
Chappy P!!

well, ive seen longer updates
mines just hit the few days mark on 1 and close to a month for the other 0_o

Col Hammer wrote:What do you mean? It was 82 days between my last post and this new update. Is that long?

Actually, I can't count. I forgot to add little thing called December. It was 113 days, not 82. If that makes any difference...

I'll try to make my updates little quicker this time.

bloody hell lol
thinking of annual updates?

But what makes Hammer unique is the amount of times he changes his mind! It actually takes that 113 days for him to change his mind about 456 times and come back to the same opinion and work on some wolves again

I think I can easily drop that to quarterly updates. So measely three months to go for the next one!

i know migs, thats why i keep atleast 5-10 different projects going at any time


lol, sounds ok when you put it like that col
sounds like FW's fething delivery service.

Awesome work! Really inspiring me to get back to work on my marines. Cant wait to see more.

I can't believe I've only just now found this thread...


BEAUTIFUL, can not wait to see more!

Since the Dognaught's base is so desolate and empty, I'm thinking of putting a corpse of Fenrisian wolf there... Would that be too much? I.e. would I get PETA hit squad after me for doing something that gross?

I mean, it is perfectly normal to put maimed and butchered guardsmen on the base, or lacking those, slavegirls... But would a dead animal cross the line?

Got a tutorial on how to do the wild hair, they look great!

Col Hammer wrote:Since the Dognaught's base is so desolate and empty, I'm thinking of putting a corpse of Fenrisian wolf there... Would that be too much? I.e. would I get PETA hit squad after me for doing something that gross?

I mean, it is perfectly normal to put maimed and butchered guardsmen on the base, or lacking those, slavegirls... But would a dead animal cross the line?

Yeah, that might be too much. How about you just put a dead PETA member on the base instead...much more PC.

Col Hammer wrote:Since the Dognaught's base is so desolate and empty, I'm thinking of putting a corpse of Fenrisian wolf there... Would that be too much? I.e. would I get PETA hit squad after me for doing something that gross?

I mean, it is perfectly normal to put maimed and butchered guardsmen on the base, or lacking those, slavegirls... But would a dead animal cross the line?

Not sure about having a corpse of something that the army uses for a symbol is the right message to convey...

Now a shredded Thousand Son or DA helmet/Corpse....that would be fine, and PETA couldn't say anything about it....unless you explain that said corpse was trying to hurt a poor innocent wolf, then you'd have backing!!!

JediRaptor wrote:

Now a shredded Thousand Son or DA helmet/Corpse....that would be fine, and PETA couldn't say anything about it....unless you explain that said corpse was trying to hurt a poor innocent wolf, then you'd have backing!!!

My only thing is it needs a base like a bike using a chariot and 60mm bases.

Amazing work. Can't wait to see more finished pics.

(That dreadnaught totally made me stop and say "Whoa").

I also love the beards on the marines. I generally try to shy away from dramatic poses from Marines, but space wolves are my exception.

Here's some more WIP pics:

Land Raider with some Forge World bits


Dognought, with finished base.


Wolf Guard Battle Leader that I'm using as standard Wolf Guard until I get more Forge World terminator bits to make more termies, still a little bit WIP.


The camera must have moved, blurry pic... Another Wolf Guard terminator (again still WIP)


You know the drill... a WIP Wolf Guard.


And yet another WIP Wolf Guard.


And finally, the Wolf Lord. WIP.

Man, those minis are too kickass. Excellent work.

Excellent work, the small changes with the naughts head transform it to wolf. I really like the bases too.

love the work so far col
hasnt been too long since the last update, so the 90 day rule is gone i guess


i think the doggy need a drop pod made like a kennel

Col. hammer where did you get the imp symbol under the dread?

I believe it was a limited run scenery bit that was available when COD came out.

I love those termies. They really do reinvent the whole concept of tactical dreadnought armour. It puts the old models to shame! Great work!

sonofruss wrote:Col. hammer where did you get the imp symbol under the dread?

I cut it from a that plastic nametag thingy GW sells.

I smell wet dog....

Maybe this means your models are awesome beyond all belief or maybe there is just a wet dog sitting next to me.Well nice work can't wait to see more.

There is a local tournament coming up in April 12th, that's 18 days away. I will try to finish this army for that tourny. It's a bit tight schedule, but I'm gonna give it a try!

dont rush it col
what you got left to finish?

The tournaments are really the only way I can finish armies...

My list was made with compactness as the primary motive. So it's not the best one out there. It's 1750 point tournament.

Wolf Lord w/ termie armour
2 Fenrisian wolves
4 Wolf guard terminators
in Land Raider Crusader

Rune Priest
1 Fenrisian Wolf
Wolf Guard leader w/ power fist
9 Grey hunters w/ 2 fists, 2 plasma pistols and meltagun
in Land Raider

Wolf Guard Leader w/ thunder hammer/storm shield
9 Grey hunters w/ 2 fists and plasma gun
in Drop Pod

Venerable Dreadnought

doesent seem too bad then, not too many models in the time left, good luck with it col

Col Hammer wrote:The tournaments are really the only way I can finish armies...

The only way you can "almost finish armies" that is :p

Nice work like I said earlier. Your back to the project you were working on when we first met, 9! years ago. It is brilliant to see the improvement in skill and kits and the same spirit that makes your work so special. I must say the two of us have done some pretty decent work during the years

That wolfshaped dreadnought... I love it! I think I'll have to do something like that for my genestealer cultists.

Hey I collect Space wolves and I'm an alright converter (no where as good as you) And I was wondering if you could give me a quick guide on how to convert a space marine into a Space-wolve?
(like the Fur and Hair)
Cheeres!

How on earth have I not seen this before! Holy hell Hammer (like the illiteration?), this stuff is incredible. I love the Terminators, possibly more than any I have seen. The dynamism of their poses, their bulk, the cinematic movement and basing... it's going to be a crazy ride to paint, but it will be awesome.

Happy hunting (with your wolf pack, of course.)

sA

Had two test games last sunday (my first ever games with SW! Woot!). Lost a quarter grapper against Emperors Children (I have only 2 troop choises, so it's kind of hard to take quarters AND keep them). Tied against Migs TWAR in another quarter grapper game. Fun games both and I like how the wolves play.

I exhanged the Drop Pod to Rhino in the list because of those games.

Started painting 18 Grey Hunters and Land Speeder. 11 Days to go until the tourny.

Cool. You're going to have a lot of people drooling over your army at the tournament, make sure to bring an umbrella

They look even better IRL! Somehow the scale and sense of movement isn't portrayed in the images.

And I must say I underestimated the teeth of the list - and bad things happen in games when you do that. Next time, you'll stand no chance
Those two LRs just damn refused to die!!!

Man, I so wish I had a good reason to copy that Dognought conversion. It's just an incredible build. Totally cool.

Few WIP pics... a proof that I'm doing something.

Rifleman pattern dreadnought.


Predator Prowler.


Another angle.


Dreadnought drop pod. I left the insides empty and removed one of the support "wings". The big door still opens as 2 separate doors.


My rune priest.

Woah, how did I miss this?
Some kicker conversions Hammer. Love the improvised dread drop pod. That looks absolutely cool.

I love it. All of it. Gah, so much detail ...

I like.

Thank you for not continuing with Ultramarines. If you had made Ultramarines that looked this bad-ass, I would have had to sell mine and start over =)

Love the Wolf Dread. Seriously awesome conversion.

you really got the space-wolf look down, haven't you?
quick question: from what kit are the metal bitz on the runepriest?

TheMightyWarhamster wrote:you really got the space-wolf look down, haven't you?
quick question: from what kit are the metal bitz on the runepriest?

The head and weapon are from a Hordes Circle of Orboros shaman figure. I don't remember his name right now.

Kromac the ravanous or some such.

very cool stuff, makes me want to take my frost blade back up

WOOT! for the Rifleman!

*Smacks himself for not noticing this thread earlier* *SMACK*

Those are some good looking Space Wolves! Their style and mood is just perfect and I love the dynamism of their poses.
The Rifleman is sure a double serving of nostalgia...

Love the shaman conversion mate, very cool and again, fits perfectly with the barbaric look that you have nailed so well.

One question, whats the bar on the dreads exhausts for?

Cheers,

Dante

Why did you remove the side wing to the Drop Pod? Now the only way it'll land is on its' side.

-J.

CMDante wrote:Love the shaman conversion mate, very cool and again, fits perfectly with the barbaric look that you have nailed so well.

One question, whats the bar on the dreads exhausts for?

Cheers,

Dante

The bar is on top of the body, not on the exhausts. It's an air radar. This dread is AAD-dread. I modeled it after a classic battletech mech (and before that, a macross robot?) called Rifleman. When I saw those twin linked autocannons, the Rifleman imaje instantly jumped to my mind, so I just had to do it.

The bad thing is, I ordered a wrong right arm autocannon from FW and now it doesn't match with the left arm... I'm still contemplating if I should order another arm or settle with the unmatching pair.

Alazahr wrote:Why did you remove the side wing to the Drop Pod? Now the only way it'll land is on its' side.

-J.

Nope. The dreadnought inside will lean on the opposite side doors when landing, thus keeping the pod balanced and upright.

Great looking Wolves man, I'm in the process of stripping & repainting my 6k odd points worth and you're giving me some good ideas and incentive too.

Started work on 12 Blood Claws. I plan not to give any facial hair on them. They haven't earned their beards yet! It'll be slow work to biggerise 12 models, so these won't be ready is some weeks yet.

Also started to paint a Rhino. Since I have had so much trouble painting the infantry, I figured to break the painters block with a vehicle instead. I should be able to finish painting this way before I finish building the Blood Claws. I hope.

I also own now Thunderbolt fighter from Forge World. I plan to paint it in SW colours. The pilot is SW bondsman, not a space marine.

Started work on a Baneblade too. I will paint it also in SW colours and the crew are SW bondsmen. With so much unfinished stuff on my plate right now, this tank is a low priority and I will build it over a long time while focusing to finish something else.

Not much to report, but the work still continues.

Looking forward to painted stuff! Anything - just finish a single Grey Hunter or Termi - it'd be so awesome to finally see your "finished" vision for the army and then drool in anticipation of all the new stuff to come.

We want updates!

What's up anyway mate? Where you been?

Like I said in the last post, I'm working on 12 Blood Claws. The basic biggerizing is boring work that takes long times and is not interesting subject for pics... When I get over the groundwork and start working on the poses and details, I'll take some pics.

I'm also painting a Rhino alongside the Claws. Still very PIP.

So nothing new to comment.

Great Work on everything so far! I really like the posing you've achieved!


I'll be impatiently waiting for your next update!

Long time, no see...

Well, summer is behind us and I guess it's time to get back to business... SW codex is only weeks away, so now I will return to the SW army. Or close to it anyway.

I bought the Space Hulk box and after seeing the great BA figures, I immediately decided to ruin them and turn them into Space Wolves instead! I figured this was a good practise to convert and paint these before the SW codex comes and I'll start working on my long neclected models again.

Here's pics of the small changes I made to the figures. Now I need to paint them.

Ha, this is already filled with win!! Im looking forward to the painted pics though.

I though about doing the same with my SHulk terminators, but as I'm already swamped with other projects I saw reason.

Nice to see that somebody else and especially someone talented took the task. Now get em painted!

I had always thought that the space hulk termies looked gunk cos of the red plastic, but I'm excited to see how your painting makes them look!!

I sure hope the new codex will allow you to field all your terminators!

Col Hammer wrote:So, the Ultramarines were so boring army that I couldn't continue to do them after one squad

Ha take that all ultramarine players! Sir you are right.

Fantastic models, i want a few like that, or a lot like of that, or a whole army like that, which ever comes first.

s.j.mccartney wrote:I had always thought that the space hulk termies looked gunk cos of the red plastic, but I'm excited to see how your painting makes them look!!

I sure hope the new codex will allow you to field all your terminators!

The codex is very flexible. It allows me to field up to 30 Wolf guard (I think) and even more with Logan Grimnar in charge.

But these termies are meant just for Space Hulk. Unless I get to play in a big Apocalypso game, where I could use them alongside my wolf army!

Could you write the method on how to paint your space wolves? the WIP shot you did in the 1st(?) page looked great. really can't wait for you to show some pics

Inspirational custom wolves, really nice log mr!

Gutteridge wrote:Could you write the method on how to paint your space wolves? the WIP shot you did in the 1st(?) page looked great. really can't wait for you to show some pics

I haven't actually painted (finished) a single wolf yet.

I'm currently painting the Space Hulk terminators as wolves, so I hope I have something finished to show soon.

Hammer, you prove that to be in the company of wolves is to be in a great company indeed!

Keep 'em coming Hammer. Nice work!

Wow those space wolf termys converted over well . With all the bits in the Grey hunter box it should help seed things up for you ?

slann wrote:Wow those space wolf termys converted over well . With all the bits in the Grey hunter box it should help seed things up for you ?

Yes, I'm eagerly awaiting the new Grey Hunter sprue! My Blood Claws have been on hold for many months now and I can finally finish them with the new bits!

Not long now.

Have you painted up those wolves yet? im really eager to see how you have done it!

Me too. Some pics Hammer!!

Well, incase you missed the "tale of..." thread, here's the first 6 finished Gray Hunters:

wow amazing stuff, what paints did you use for your grey hunters?

wow,this thread has only been dead for over a year...

The project is not dead though - I am trying to pester Hammer into posting here again!

love the dynamic poses of your characters and the grey you chose looks great, nice work!

migsula wrote:The project is not dead though - I am trying to pester Hammer into posting here again!

well then:

MOAR BOAR demands MOAR!!!

cant wait to see the dognought painted

Ok, I'm back.

I realise it has been along time since I posted here last time, but now I'm back to this project. I was away because of some real life stuff and also because of my Flames of War army got more love than the wolves. Now I'm gonna rectify that.

No pics yet as everything is the way I left them many months ago and there is no new stuff done yet.

On the painting table are my two Grey Hunter packs, Wolf Guard and the Wolfnaught. Lining up behind them are some Blood Claws, Fenrisian wolves, Rifleman pattern dread and pair of Land Raiders. On the planning/bits gathering stages are some Long Fangs and Thunderwolf riders.

Excellent!! Welcome back to dakka!

=D welcome back

Sounds cool, keep us posted.

Awesome! Can't wait to see your return to form.

Finally, some work in progress pics to show.
Long Fangs and Wolf scouts, going on strong, but still very much WIP. Need more wolfy fur and bling so that you can tell they are Space Wolves.
I gave the Long Fangs werewolf heads on the premise that the older the SW’s get, more feral and inhuman they will look in the end. The old ones do not lose their minds to blinding rage as the young pups that get the mark, but retain their minds because of the long lives and vast experiences they have gone through. Or something.
The Wolf scout has mark of the Wolfen and he has turned into feral werewolfish beast before he has had a time to learn how to tame the beast within…
The pair of scouts are still missing arms as I was unhappy with their poses and equipment and ripped off the old arms. Now I’ve given them better posed arms and equipment, but I’m still searching for the right bits to use as their missing arms. I plan to make that meltagun less shotgunny looking. It has an ammo clip already in place on the other side that you can’t see.

Anyway, without further ado, the pics…

Brilliant heads and poses especially 1st one of the scouts

Ok, after another break, work is continuing... I'll let you guess which Fast Attack choise these will rep when ready.

Add wolf ears on the jugg head and a long tail

Holy shyt man, these are some bytchin wolves! Absolutely amazing!

Had to go through this again - brilliant, brilliant, brilliant work! Vlka Fenrika would be proud!

These Wolves look AWESOME!

I am subbed and inspired