Getting started for the upcoming SW release

Marines will be biggerised, and to start with I will make two squads of Grey Hunters for practice, and drop pods for them. By these guys are done the wolf dex should be around the corner and we'l have info how the new troops work (example Blood claws, wonder what' going to happen with these guys?) Too scared to build anymore right now.

For colours I have chosen pale grey, darkish red and bone. In my first SW army I was quite pleased with the grey and red but the green was a bit out of place, too intens and candyish, so I chose a bone color to replace it, more neutral and it sort of fits to the savage SW theme. Also decided to do the red bit more dark. I toughed that I was on to something with red triangle unit markings so keeped those aswell, with new design. Then I wanted the power armour to have lots of scratches and battle damage so I swapped the grey to more lighter shade so that I can paint the scrathes with dark grey (Thanks for the tips Migs). One reason was also that I realy hated edge highlightning the power armour, so I decided not highlight the armour and just make it dirty looking so that it has "natural" highlights, something similiar to what Migs did with TWAR.

Chapter is called Red Wolves, not yet shure should they just be one of the great companies that are bit more independent or entirely a new succesor chapter of the SW. I just knew that i didn't want to paint the SW blue grey/yellow pattern (eventhou my grey is a bit blueish )

But enough of ramblings, here's the first test marine completed for the Red Wolves chapter:






And a scale picture of with a normal marine:


I also did a SW army around 2002-2004 which was very nice to build and play with. Sadly around in the 4ed SW wasn't that hot rulewise and now that I look back at my old army it just doesen't fill up the standards anymore. But those who are interested can check them out in here: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v112/Northen/Werewolfs/

one sampler too:


And the first Grey Hunter unit primed and ready for painting:


C&C's are welcome

Cool. I like the concept. Are you going to field them as a successor chapter? What colors did you use on them?

oh and
+1

Love the models
these guys should really get a new codex sometime
loving them anyway


ABH

You have amazing painting skills, love to see the squad finished!

Thanks for the comments.

viney: Grey armour is Vallejo MP Bluegrey pale, pale colour is Bonewhite whit Bonewhite Earth brown mix basecoat and red is Scab red. Metal is chainmail with few coats of Badab black. Weathering done with various things mostly with Devlan mud and Badab black and with some MIG pigments.


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Finished first patch of five for the GH unit.

Bolter marines. Fellow on the right has quite nice hip shooting pose, blasting away the xenos and heretics




Meltagunner and another bolter marine


Group shot with the test mini included.


C&C is welcome.

Yes, I'm bumping this up a long way, but I think it deserves it.

I *LOVE* this first squad. I love the faded look of all of the colours, they look like real veterans. It's a gritty style that's seeing an upsurge on this site, much to my glee

Looking forward to much, much more awesome stuff.

sA

Very nice, I'd not seen these before. A nice refreshing aproach to Space Wolves: I love the red and bone scheme. As SA says, the gritty realism is great. My one (minor) criticism is that the armour plates don't stand out enough, I would recommend a bit more shading where the plates join one another.

Great work though, I'm looking forward to seeing more.

I like this scheme, it's wonderful !
Very nice and gritty, just as Space wolves should be, I like it alot, can't wait for more soon.

Wolf

Very nice work. They look like they've seen quite a bit of battle, which is a good thing.

I thought the red wolves, were you know, red.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Red_Wolves

In any case, these are excellent looking minis. Keep up the great work.

Khrangar

I am loving these models! The paintjob looks superb and I really like the feral look about them like wolves. ^_^

SonofGuilliman wrote:I thought the red wolves, were you know, red.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Red_Wolves

In any case, these are excellent looking minis. Keep up the great work.

Khrangar

I have two issues with this army,

1. What Khrangar said

2. Space wolves have no successor chapters, well there was one but it was only briefly existant to appease the ultramarines...

Otherwise i quite like them, decent paintjob and still sort of fluffy for SW.

Let's not get too hung up on what colours space marines 'should be', afterall they don't actually exist. And whose to say that the Space Wolves don't have a successor chapter that no one knows about? Let him paint his models whatever colour he wants. I, for one, like them.

I give these an A for awesome ! , I like the grittyness of them and its a refrshing take on a chapter we are about to see alot of .

Space Wolves have no surviving successor chapters. However, it's not unknown for a Great Company to pack up and leave Fenris. Sometimes, it is because they end up in a warzone so far from Fenris, they don't bother to return. And sometimes, it's because their Wolf Lord doesn't agree with the Great Wolf, and the whole company goes into exile together.

Great work Northen. The choice of color is excellent and works very well together. Looking forward to more This should look outstanding en masse.

Thanks for all the nice comments fellas.

I myself consider the Red wolves name more as a name for the great company than the whole chapter. Maybe when the dex comes out and if it has more nice fluff, I migh make these guys more as Bran Redmaw's great company or something. Just knew that didn't wan't to use the sw (blueish) grey.

Not too excited about the new plastic set (thou only seen two) so will continue to scratch build my wolves. But the new set seems to have some very nice bitz that I will use.

Threadromancy!

Not really, as I actually have some real updates. Recently I and few other finnish gamers decied to pull our own "tale of four gamers" project to motivate eachothers a bit. My project is to continue this SW army and to get a playable force by the end of summer (around 1500p-2000p).

And for my first update I have finished last four members of my first GH squad, thou they still need one final coat of varnish.




These guys keep getting quite gritty, but it's just too much fun to experiment with different weathering methods.

First deadline for our project is 15th of April and I would need to have 500p by then. Next up I have second squad of GHs ready. Biggerizing process is done and primed them few moments ago, so pics tomorrow. With these squads I have almost 500p but I guess I'l have to make some HQ as well, just don't know yet which one as the wolf list offers quite a few. At the moment I'l think it's going to be runepriest as I am bound to have at least one of them in my final army.

Let me hear your comments.

Wonderfully battle worn, how have you done it?

Base colour for the armour is Vallejo MP Pale greyblue. Weathering starts with few washes of Badab black followed by few washes of Devlan mud. Chipping is done with dark greys and browns, first sponged and then finished with couple of painted chippings. Finally some MIG pigmets are added to represent some scorch marks and dust. The dark red is done pretty much same with but the chipping is done with medium greys. Lately been throwing in some stains done with mediums mixed all sorts of browns, greys and blacks.

And generelly the colours are not traditionally highlighted, as the weathering and chipping can itself brake the colour's flatness. And strong highlights would be just lost in this scheme.

Thou these guys defienetly have the look I am aiming for with this army, I am not shure if they are a bit too busy with all that weathering. But the fun part is to experiment with all these things.

Man the extra depth and definition of detail achieved by the babak black makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE! Very nice. And a noticeable difference to the first batch. Even in digital images.

Your scheme kind of reminds me of the red scorpions!! I would consider replicating their vehicle scheme, which is really really cool. I can borrow you the FW book with them in it.

Bases are great too. Always a treat.

m

ps. when the first squad is finished, you should update the first image in the BLOG. It should always represent the current project at its best. Reference to older work comes later in pecking order

Excellent work man, nice lived in look, really gritty, looking forward to more.....

Thanks for the nice words.

Migs: Good idea, I would love to check out that FW book.

Here's the next squad of Grey Hunters all primed up:

Last moments of easter holiday have been spent painting these guys, hope I'l get something finished during next week.

Very nice! The final blacklining really does the finishing trick well. Way better this way.

I noticed 2 fists in one pic and 2 meltas in the other. You're painting the packs mixed? Or using the old codex?

Really good start for your army, Northen!

Thanks Hammer!

Well the first squad is built up according the old dex, but the other fist guy is actually a WGsarge (one with the helmet that has red stripe). And if you look closely you can see 3 meltas in the second squad ( one of them will go to the first squad). I am bit struglling which built to use with the GH squads: 2 special weapons & 1 Pfist, 1 Special weapon& 1 Pfist & WG with Pfist and combi weapon, 2 special weapons no Pfists, to give wolf standards or not to give, which special weapons to give (now thinking of two squads with meltas and one with flamers). MOTWs will propably go to all squads.

I forgot the packs get extra special weapon when they're 10 strong. I always build them 9 strong to leave room for character in drop pods/rhinos... So no extra melta for me.

I built my 2 packs with one having all the extra goodies (just for modelling purpoces) and the other being more basic.

Just a small point, Sniper scope looks silly on a meltagun - in the same way it would look silly on a sawn off shotgun. And you should drill the Melta Barrels mate!

Other than that AAWOOOOR!

Naah, a sniper scope on a flamer would look really dumb. Anything else is fine IMO ^-^

Love how these are coming out, ive not been a fan of the space wolves (grumble grumble) until now, but what your doing really is inspiring

Got to say I love the traditional giant Space Wolf Mohawk on the new squad. I really like the duller look as well.

Thanks fellas.

First patch from the second squad is well on the way. Still need to put some finishing touches on the bases and some more weathering. Pics should up on weekend.

wow, great work was a huge fan of migs stuff and still am but this takes a different Look at marines than he did and i think will look amazing on the same table...if the world doesnt implode from sheer awesomness

Thanks sc0ttfree

I am also a huge fan of Migs work, and have to say I have taken my own share of influence from his work over the years.

Here's the newest patch of Grey Hunters ready:



500p 15.4 of April deadline is getting close, lets see if I can make it. Settled that next mont I'll make an third squad of Grey Hunters (and the last for a while ) and move on to the "fun stuff" in late May. With three GH squads I'l have nice base of troops that I can build an army on.

Great stuff!! The new scheme is really settling into a nice, strong, very 40k feel! Almost Blanchesque! And from me that is about as high a complement in terms of style as possible.

Maybe some of the posing could be a little bit more dynamic/varied with the future troopers?

And a great thing to start with the basic troops and then on to the fun stuff! I have very high expectations for your heros now. I hope you push them over the edge in terms of what SW characters usually are - something even more feral and 40k gothic - like you've done with the troops.

They are great, and they really look like something you wouldn't want to be fighting...unlike ultrasmurfs who you would just take the piss out of cos they're bright blue

They are really brilliant and look like they have seen battle! Top marks!!

migsula wrote: Almost Blanchesque! And from me that is about as high a complement in terms of style as possible.

I know, thanks mate

Next patch will be more dynamically posed, and with the next unit I 'l try to put even more effort into this.

Imperial Monkey: thanks , agree about the smurfs

Unfortunately I will have to cut down painting time for the rest of the week, so the other unit won't be ready for the 15.4 DL But I'l hope it will make it in the weekend.

Phew, last minute update for "Tale of four finnish gamers" first DL

Here's the latest patch of Grey Hunters, which now completes the second squad.



I fell a little behind as I din't get to make the Planetary empire tiles for our campaing. But that's more work for this month.

Now there are 20 of these bad boys ready. This month I will make a third quad and some kind of HQ choice.

Comments are always welcome.

I really like them. Keep up the good work. Really liked your old army (I have even played against it way back) and this is really nice update.

This whole tale of four gamers gives lots of inspiration and motivation for my current projects. Would be cool to see you guys in Ropecon. I'm trying to do a daemon army there and a small ork force for christmas.

Thanks jamo, nice to hear you remembered my old army, sadly for me your eldar gave them a bit whooping back in the days . I hope to have this army in some shape before Ropecon and it would be nice to see you too and get few games. Be sure to post some stuff when have it ready.

Finished building my campaing map tiles, fun little project:


Here's few close ups,
Orbital lift


Monitor station


Wolfs lair, my SW mountain fortress HQ

Looks like a big blob now with wolf head , hopefully painting will save it. Might yet add few tech bitz too.



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Wolf's Lair remind me of that show where... let's see... I think the Thundercats, perhaps had their base- a cat's head as the entrance on the side of a mountain

I fainted in your awesomeness.

The terrain pieces look amazing! *drools some more*

Wolf's lait just made my day, The Orbital lift looks great too.

Your poses have been a bit static (for wolves), so I'm looking forward on your 3rd Grey Hunter Pack as you promised more varied poses. The last update figures look good and they do have a bit more mobile poses already. Great to see you have finished the first batch now (something I haven't done yet).

The special terrain looks great! It'll be fun to come up with some special rules while fighting inside the Orbital lift or storming the Wolfs lair! (Altough this is not a SW world, so did your force just build it or was it there before for some reason? Well no big deal.) This is exactly the kind of stuff we want to be fighting over in the campaign.

Now I'm glad I haven't built any map pieces yet. I wasn't planning on any complicated conversions on the tiles, but this stuff just upped the ante. I will have to come up with something equally great looking to match these!

Yay, new update

It's been a while. Unfortunately real life got in the way of hobby time(lost my hobby area for while for example), but now I have gotten some new stuff done.

Got the third Grey Hunter squad assembled, that biggerizing process realy takes it's sweet time, but the details are fortunately more fun to build.

Here's the pics:




Did more dynamic poses than before (atleast IMO) and decided to give all the three squads the wolfy banner, that's why there's so many poles.

Also used Microart studios Barbarian heads, good tip for anyone looking for more SW style heads outside GW's range. Pic below,


Also have started painting the campaing tiles showed earlier, hoping to finish them during June.
C&Cs are always welcome.

Excellent work on this new stuff!

I really like the biggerized marines, and the map tiles have a very different look, with your minor changes.

Makes me want to buy that tile set even more, damn....

The poses on this last batch are nice as well, more action´y than the previous ones. The fourth one in the first picture seems to be a bit..... "About to fall"?
Not sure if this is so with the actual model, or if it´s the picture.

I tried to pick a favourite out of the other nine, but couldn´t. They´re all great!

Looks like he is swerving, selling the enemy a dummy.

super dooper! looking very good!

How did you do that round ammo drum on the bolter? It looks great!

Thanks people,

Xan: Yeah, the tiles are nice little side project with the wolves

Xanthos wrote:
The poses on this last batch are nice as well, more action´y than the previous ones. The fourth one in the first picture seems to be a bit..... "About to fall"?
Not sure if this is so with the actual model, or if it´s the picture.

Well there's always rom for one demotivational poster marine IRL it doesn't look that bad IMO, but in the pic the pose looks indeed a bit overdoing it.

Imperial Monkey: The drum clip is from ork shoota, the best source. Requres some "gentle" touches with hobby knife before fitting to bolter chasis.

Wolves look epic, the tiles look epic. I love the Orbital elevator! Looks great and really original. As migs said, everything looks very 40k

sA

These are looking really nice, btw what are the other two tiles on the map?

AWESOME updates mate! Thank you very much for inspiration.

My bloody new camera broke, so it will be some time before I can get pic of my tiles and the vet squad I am working, but at least I finally have some time for some hobby stuff.

Hello again people,

Slowly but steady. Almost a month from last update, hoped I would get more done in this time. Well atleast got something done, which is something as this heat wave is schorching Finland and there has been quite a few World Cup games on telly too .

But here's first six wolves painted from the squad previously shown.

Few bolter marines and meltagunner




Pack benner bearer, bolter marine and another meltagunner




Comments are appreciated as always

Looking good man! Love to see a shoot of all of them together!

By the way, what ever happened to the rest of the Finnish gamers?

Good work as per
Nice to see some progress!

Thanks people,

Malika: Yeah, have to take group shot once this squad is done. I think holidays/summer/real-life has thrown other finns even more out of hobby than me recently. But I am confident that we will see them again soon

Looking great, Jussi! Glad to see you've managed to do some updates on your army, even if the heat and vuvuzelas have tried to stop you from it...

I haven't touched my wolves for some time as I'm currently painting my (Flames of War) SS-Paranormal division troops for Ropecon... 3 platoons of new infantry + some tanks and arty pieces on the side.

Thanks Hammer!

Yes, those vuvuzelas were pretty luring

SS-Paranormal... for FOW? I've got to come and check these out at 'con, hope to see you there.

Hello, another update worthy of stuff done.

Got a bit motivation from our hobby meeting last week and sat done this weekend to finish off the last GH squad. Also put in some extra effort and finished my first HQ aswell

Here,s the las patch of four from the third GH squad:




And my first HQ, Njal the Stormbringer. Never have used that many special characters in game but saw this guys rules in the codex and knew that I had to try him. Plus the model is ok, very wolfy.





Not quite sure what to do next. These GH squads need transports of some sort, but Long Fang squad would also be ok, or some Fenrisian wolves or some new HQ's. And that plastic juggernaut box is looming in the near future, thundewolf cavalry, here I come Decisions, decisions.....

Amazing stuff there.

Some great looking models there. I'm particularly liking the basing on them, nice and detailed, it really gives your models that extra edge to go with an excellent paintjob.

Nice work Jussi!

I so welcome the nice mix of inspiration and peer pressure that your achievements bring to my bballing, nonmodelling summer ass.

Looking epic, what direction you taking the army in?

Thank you people.

Migs: Yep, you are on

Young Logan: I think I'll so some long fangs next and some other HQ, then some transports for GHs. First I'll build the army based on some solid mobile GH and long range Long Fang fire base with some assault elements. Later I hope to have the motivation to build lots and lots of units for this army so that I can try out all sorts of lists.

Is there any chance of you doing any painting tutorials?

Kravus: Thank you for asking and I might do one. It just takes hours to make one, even simple one. Did one for the dakka tutorial contest last spring, thou it was fun too, it took lots of extra effort to pull it of. I might do one when I get started on the vehicle models. Larger surfaces, better and easier to explain the methods I think.

But here's the update. Last week I continued to build stuff.

Here is the first Long Fang pack for the army with few custom built missile launchers.





After this got bit excited about the Juggernaut riding Khorne champion from FB line. So wen fort and bought one and made my version of Canis Wolfborn:





Went for a bit cowboy look here as I modeled some extra equipment eventhou Canis won't propably care that much for them, but they fit quite well for the "lonely rider" image. Might still go around there and add some details but basically it's there.

Comments are always welcome.

I think it needs furr sculpted from greenstuff. It looks to much like a jugernut imho. Nice conversion otherwise.

Thanks for the comment. I didn't want to overdo the fur at first, but I agree with you now that some more is needed. I have also been sculpting the armour's legs to look bit more power armour like and scratch building a banner pole for Canis.

Also hoping that the paint scheme will go long way to differ the thing form juggernaut and thunderwolf.

Ok sweet, I can also remind you that if your satisfied with this conversion and want more thunderwolves GW has just launched jugernauts in plastic: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440160a&prodId=prod890007a
They are still only on advance order but after the 21 of August they should be released in the shops.

And now that they are releasing a plastic jugg any friends he has can be more dynamically posed

Yep, already on that. Reserved two boxes on my FLGS

Yes, the plastic ones will offer great opportunities. Thou I am bit worried how I will do good looking riding Power armour legs.

More stuff done.

Continued working on Canis. Sculpted GS on the legs and added some plasticard on them to make them look more like power armor legs. Builded a banner for him too. Added some wolfy bits on the Juggernaut to make it more fitting for the thunderwolf role.





Soon to prime him, and start painting.

And here's some new stuff too. Builded a runepriest this weekend. It's based on migsula's true scale pattern mkII where you use terminator armor as basis for the marine. Initial tought was to build the characters using this idea so had to test it at least. Based on the SW terminator kit with scratch build runestaff and some GS work with odd bits from here and there.





Size comparison


This week also built a pack of Fernisian Wolves, but have to finish their bases before posting. Next up is waiting for those plastic juggernauts

Comments are appreciated as all ways.

"built"

The Rune priest looks great!

There's only one clear "mistake" and that's the width of the shoulder guard trims. 90% of Termie-up-scale marine builders do this. It should be half as wide. Massively thick trim eats so much of the bulk and mass of the torso and shoulder guard area.

I am also building some "wolves" this week. A pack of Dune Wolves, evil and cunning creatures that hunt the equatorial plains. (modified chaos hounds)

Thanks.

Now that you mention it, some volume should go off from those trims.

Your wolf pack idea sounds very cool, waiting to see how they will turn out.

Migsula, are you referring to the thickness of the plastic?
I have noticed that people leave it, so that it would scale up to a couple of inches thick at a guess.

To me it seems a lot of extra weight on ones' shoulders and was intending to thin down the insides.

Northern that is super work and a nice touch yo have the book being closed like that.

Much niceness dude!

Hello again, it has been a while. After last update I have had some major changes in my personal life as I moved from Finland to Japan for few years. So I wasn't too active on hobby side last fall. But still have managed to do something, so now it's update time.

Long Fang pack I showed earlier, now painted.





Did few changes for them as I got some feedback after I showed them here, added one helmetless head an, adjusted the thumb of the hand holding the missile and some other minor tweks.

Also painted pack pf 10 Fenrisian wolves, using chaos hounds as basis. No major conversion just left out the big horns and spikes, stuffed out the scales and rooting parts and played a bit with the 40mm bases (you can fit stuff nicely into them)





Happy to hear your toughts.

Nice additions! I am really waiting for that Thunder Wolf unit now.

As ever, seeing Space Wolves makes me seriously tempted to have a go myself. I think it is the most fun army to play the game with and obviously full of modeling potential and variety!

MORE!

Happy to see this update! Nice long fangs.

Where in Japan have you settled, if I may ask?

Thanks fellas.

AesSedai, I moved into Kyoto.

I like the colour scheme on the marines and the chaos hounds look fine as wolves. Besides if you've been keeping up with the Horus Heresy.....



I really like the colour of the wolves flesh and the contrast to the dark grey fur.

Look forward to seeing the rune priest done....the bionic eye makes him (I have a thing for bionic eyes).

Are you planning on having any vehicles and if so are you going to make them bigger?

Peter

Thanks PDH

The Runepriest is next to go on the painting station (along with some Thunder wolves conversion starts)

I will have some vehicles as well, for starters I'l have 3 rhinos for the GH squads. But I don't have plans to biggerize them.

Phew....if you were going to biggerize the rhinos I'd been down right shock and awe....but stranger things have happened. I mean for a start where would one begin?

Well I hope you have plenty of free time away from your studies to complete the cool miniatures

Peter

Ok, update time again. Managed to finish up the Runepriest.









School work is keeping me busy, but the plan is to continue the Thunder wolf cavalry next. Allready carved out the chaos icons from the plastic juggernauts and started some GS/putty work. Next up is to finish assembling the riders so I can start to design the details. This is also fine chance to try out all different sorts of weird hobby equipment I have found here in Japan. I'l keep you informed. I'll post some WIP pics, hopefully in during the weekend.

Let me know what you think.

I think the jugg need some canis ears, to change a little more the head

The Rune Priest is really nice and even nicer painted.

I know its pretty sad but my favourite part is the copper metallics... especially on the force rods wings...beautiful.

Peter

I'd seen everthing except the Rune Priest who is clearly pick of the bunch for me! Overall the image of your army fits that of prospero burns very well! Have you read it yet? Should be great for inspiration.

I am slightly disappointed you didn't fix the shoulder trims though. Their width eats away from his bulk. It's this final 10% that to me is 50% of the magic.

Very much looking forward to more and hopefully a group shot at some point!!

Thanks fellas!

FantasyBob: Yeah, I have plans to add some more wolf like heads to the juggernauts.

PDH: Copper parts came out nice, even in the pics

Migs: Thanks, I did re-size the trims smaller, but I guess I could have taken even more off. For me it looks ok, but on the next character I can try it different. Haven't yet read the Prospero novel, have to pick it up (when I find some shop that sells them ) The group shot would be nice but it will have wait.

Can't see the pics... I was waiting to see an update from you and now all I get is red X... Not cool.

Anyways, it's nice to hear that you manage to do some modelling even when you're busy with your studies.

Northen wrote: For me it looks ok, but on the next character I can try it different. .

But you should aim for awesome No, but you make a valid point, as long as you like it, it's enough. If you do this biggerising to be closer to art and GW imagery, then this kind of nitty detail does add up from nice to wow.

Is there no way to biggerize rhinos cunningly? What with rapid prototyping and other semi professional solutions at our disposal. I think I am going to biggerise mine, but alas, I need one So it's a different challenge.

WIP pics of the Thunder wolves and Canis I showed earlier(continued with some sculpting). For now I made four riders based on the platic Juggernaut.

Anyway, here's the pics

First Canis





I did some sculpting on his legs to make his armour look more power armourish, and re-did the Juggernaut's head to resemble more wolf like creature. Details don't seem to show that well in the pics as I also usually sand my greenstuff little after it's dryed as my sculpting is a bit "rough" , guess I will have to wait for the primer to realy unify the model.

Thunder wolves
First pair, rider with basic equipment and second with Storm shield.




Second pair, rider with Thunder hammer, rider with meltabomb (just dislodged it form the saddle). Down sized the TH a bit from the SW kit as I felt that it was too big looking for power armour marine.




Juggernaut heads followed the same design as for Canis, and then builted these feral style saddles with all sorts of equipment on them to add more SW flavor. Finally added some SW iconography. As for Canis, I also hope that painting will cover up some of my GS work (especially battle damage)

Let me hear your comments.

Well after intense month of school work I finally had some time do hobby stuff during last weekend and early this week.

And here is the result, finished up Canis Wofborn









And close up on man himself



Took suprisingly long to paint, but stii, nice project. Let's see how long the TW squad itself will take.

Happy to hear your feedback.

You models looks good, all except for one part.
The barbed wire.

I can never understand why people keep doing it that way, looks more like a coiled power cable than barbed wire. there's lots of ways to achieve great real looking wire or you can get some excellent razorwire cheap from seceret weapon miniatures (the guy does excellent stuff, have the razorwire myself as well as loads of his bases).
I think they would really work better with your minis for that complete gritty look

http://www.secretweaponminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12&products_id=75

Hey Northen

I'm liking the mechanical wolf mounts...it actually looks like it can hold the weight of a fully armoured space marine and to me a little more "realistic" that an actual giant wolf.

I like the colour of your bases...any chance of a quick run through of your technique?

Peter

Müller: Thanks, and good link too. IMO the one I used looks suitable for wh40k scale, and why you see lot of these is because that is the GW's barbed wire. Atleast for me it's the easiest to get.

PDH: Thanks. As for the bases, it goes something like in these steps:

1. They are first primed white. Then I paint the sand/mud with scorched brown and start to highlight it by mixing in some bleached bone and drybrushing over the basecolor in maybe three different stages.

2. After I usually paint the different components laying on the base (armor plates, weapons, barbed wire and etc..), finish them with chippings and other details.

3. Then I will give few coats of Devlan Mud For the whole base.

4. After I will give on final very light drybrush with bleached bone for the whole base, you should try to make the different components look litlle dusted.

5. Finally I will put few random puddels with badab black (sometimes few with Tharka green also) on the base, and give any metal color parts a coat of this too.

6. Usually I add rust effect to metal parts with vermin brown, and five few scorch marks with black Mig pigment.

Cheers

I think it must be the white undercoat that makes it look so good. I work from a black undercoat and they always look a little cartoony in my eyes. I am being picky mind.

Peter

Finished few more Thunder Wolf Riders a moment ago. So here's the pics.

Storm shield one and "basic equipment" one



More close-ups, Strom shield wielder





Bolt pistol, cc weapon rider




Happy to hear your toughts.

Gratz
They look ace Northern!

Wicked! I love this new trend of increased size and correct proportions for marines, very cool. Some of these guys would be little shrimps if the original scale and proportions of the model reflected the size of the human inside the powered armor.

I especially love your filthy, gritty looking weathering.

Thank you for the nice words gents.

Ok, so now I got the Thunderwolves Cavalry squad finished.

Pleased with the format I got for the Thunder Wolves with the juggernaut set. In the future I will further explore the possibilities of these conversions. Few HQ choices with different equipments, and another full squad (in the future when I have time and...) . Wacky one would be Ironpriest riding one with cyberwolf retiune But these will have to wait. Building wasn't so time consuming as I expected, but including painting, this squad took it's sweet time to get finished.

But anyways, here's the two other riders, Meltabomber and Thunder hammer wielder,




Few close-ups








And the whole unit once more




Happy to hear your toughts.

fabulous. Just wow.
Those marines is gonna have some seriously muscular thighs riding those beasties without holding on

The finished squad look great. A really nice idea, well executed.

So what is up next?

Peter

Thanks fellas,

Imperial Monkey wrote:
Those marines is gonna have some seriously muscular thighs riding those beasties without holding on

maybe by next patch they have invented reins.

PDH: Next up will be Rhinos for my GH squads

nah
Reins are for cissy vanilla marines

Very nice, the thunderwolves are extremely well done.

Very impressed with them in fact, love the little touches, like the ear 'vents' and other groovy add-ons.

Thanks Earthbeard

Here's the latest bunch, 3 Rhinos for the GH squads. Went quite dirt heavy again, but I enjoy that part in painting nowdays so just couldn't stop

So here is Beyla, Byggvir and Skinir










Happy to hear comments.

This also puts my SW to 1500p, so I have game size force , now if i could just get some games...

Congratulations on the 1500pts mark!!!!

The Rhinos look good and you've done them in such a small amount of time. What is your secret to batch painting?

Battle damage/weathering reminds me a lot of the Sky Shield landing pad you painted for the Jade Vesse l.

Peter

Those rhinos looks good and consistent with your marines. Without the dirt they would look odd next to the heavily weathered wolves.

Thanks for the last comments.

It has been a bit slow lately. But now I have some new stuff to show I have done recently

Here's my Wolf Lord mounted on Thunder wolf.

Here are the WIP pics.






He's based on the termie/power armor combination. Overall very pleased how this guy turned out. I was bit fearful of starting to build this guy as he's "the man" in the army and should deliver certain imagery. Now that I look at it, I think the model lives up to the certain expectations. Glad to hear your thoughts too.

The building is pretty much done. I am going to let him settle for few days before priming, just in case if something comes up. Suggestions are also welcome, if you guys have some.

Also here's WIP shot of the second Long Fang squad ready for priming. This set has two squad leaders as I forgot to build one for the first squad



Let me know what you think.

The thunderwolf conversion looks good, cannot wait to see it painted. I really like the effort you have spent on the bases, they are just properly busy to give some character to the figs.

very nice wolf cavalry! the only bad thingh is the feet......not so much wolfy! maybe if you try to add claws....

Thanks,

Metsuri: Yeah, bases really are the missed opportunity in modelling. Done right and they can give so much for the minis story.

FantasyBob: I toughed about the claws, but in the end decided not to do them. First reason, tought of converting them on possibly 10 Twolfs (4 legs each) felt little overwhelming. Second I think if I followed canine anatomy the leg narrows down to the paw. I think the current volumes of the hoove work bit better with the body as the hoove widens a bit in the end. Plus the hoove's smooth surface allows to put all sorts of SW iconography on them. But thanks for the suggestion.

Painted the second Long fang squad and did the squad leaders for both the LF squads.

The squad


Leaders


This was to break off the painting block as last time I painted was the Rhinos in April, weird even thou I have done hobby stuff more or less steadily for the whole summer. But next I am going to treat myself with the TWolf Lord, already primed him today.

Ok, now finished the Wolf Lord






Had a really nice time painting this guy. C&C is always welcome.

He looks good, the bone colored parts break the gray and add a lot to the fig.

How have you done the weathering on the wolf? It is such distinguishing part of your figs and makes them stand out from the crowd.

Thanks Metsuri,

The weathering is basically chippings done with dark greys and dark browns. Paying special attention to the component edges. Also playing with some brown and black washes, namely Badab Black and Devland Mud and with some other mixtures. Finally I give it some brown splashes with the sponge technique and touch some points with black MIG pigments.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, it certainly helps. I have been thinking about trying to do something along these lines, but have lacked courage to try. Have to paint up some model to try these techniques.

Do you do the first stage chipping with brush or sponge?

I can truly recommend the style.

My theory is that the splashes are more "fresh" mud or something than the chips, so I do the dark brown sponge after the chipping. Sometimes I do make big dark grey chippings (sort of older damage, weathering) with the sponge and do it same time with the chipping.

Ok, thanks on opening the thinking behind the weathering. I have to dig out something suitable for dirtying. My current projects are a painted in factory fresh look, so I need to pick up something forgotten from the shelf.

Great looking wolf lord. I really like the dirty weathered style you've got going on here.

grrr

Very cool and original idea on the juggerwolves, I like them a lot!

Thank you gents.

Currently I am finishing up a patch of MotW Grey Hunters, they should be ready this weekend or early next week.

Okay, now finished with Grey Hunter MotW models

Pics:




Some close-ups






Did the blood effect and reddish eyes to give the image of battle brothers that are lost in the instability of Canis Helix and just rage on.

I also tried a bit different approach to the power armor weathering to explore other methods.

And some WIPs


Another pack of Fenrisian Wolves and Vindicator. Had to sand the Vindicator a bit as it got some crap stuck on it while drying after priming, luckily no major disaster.


Let me know what you think.

Love the blood spatter, just mean.

Cant see the WiPs though?

Thank you, glad you like it.

Vitruvian XVII wrote:
Cant see the WiPs though?

Hmm.. checked the link, should work now. If not here't the link for the gallery: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v112/Northen/Red%20Wolves/

Oh, you're good now, its working this time.

Sweet work, man. The painting is stunning.

Great looking blood spatters on the hunters. The weathering on these guys looks a bit more focused than on the previous batches, I like it a lot.

Looking forward to what you can achieve with that Vindicator, a whole tank should give nice canvas for weathering.

Models look amazing, the paintjob really brings them to life. +1

susejo239: Thanks

Metsuri: Thanks, I am also waiting to get to those tanks. Should be a nice canvas as you said.

Thatguy91: Thanks, glad to hear you like them.

Sort of small update, finished second unit of Fenrisian Wolves. But big update in the sense that now my army is finished! For 1750 points that is. Still more new stuff to come in near future. This also makes Red Wolves my 10th finished army during my hobby career so far (plus many unfinished armies ), in a way milestone marker too I guess


Puppies




Some close-ups






Happy to hear C&C

Great natural looking wolves. They look much better with the ears/ horns left out than built out of box and the basing is great as I've come to expect.

Are the bases painted with acrylics or pigments? The muted colors complement the wolves really well.

wow

Metsuri: Thanks. The bases are painted with acrylics. Now and then I add some finishing touches with MIG pigments like dust and burn marks. I used to also use their rust but it was a bit too reddish for my taste (maybe should try some other shade from them), so now I do the rust with diluted Vermillion brown.

dakkagrot187: Thanks

So while on holidays I managed to take group shot of the Red Wolves, around 2300 points now.










As sharpest of you might have noticed there's a not before seen Vindicator there. Finished this one just before the holidays. For years have been waiting for time slot to paint this tank, really liked the FW's update on it when new Rhino chassis was released. And when they made the plastic version in 4ed (or was it 5ed?) SM codex release I bought it, and now it's even painted












Cheers

Wow theyre looking so great together Northern! Simply beautiful.

The army looks great as a whole. So understated, but full of small things to catch the eye. The colors work so well together.

The vindicator is also looking great. The weathering brings the large flat areas to life. The tracks look a bit too clean on the last pic, but that is the only thing that looks out of place on the whole piece. Looking at it makes one itch to have a go at doing some weathered armor.

Excellent work! I love the conversions and the paint job is supreme! Keep it coming, I want to see more Wolves!

Sweet! Superb weathering and painting on those tanks and rhinos.

Vitruvian: Thanks, it was nice seeing them together at last.

Metsuri: Thanks. Yeah I might have gone more dirty tracks on the Vindicator. Gonna try that up in the next patch of tanks.

Hmelrose, susejo239: Thanks!

Just finished cleaning parts for next patch of models, 3 dreadnoughts, 2 regulars and on Contemptor Started assembling them today, should be done in a few days, so WIP pics then.

That group shot, it feels good just looking at it....bet it feels even better having actually painted them yourself. Nice one.....so what army is next? Or will it be a Logan Wing force to add to this one?

Magnificient army, it was nice to see them in flesh. Hopefully some day I'll get to face them also. Waiting to see what you'll do with the dreads as they're my favorite marine models.

By the way, I've always wondered what's the point with the shell and the winch on the back of the vindicator. I've also have one for my chaos army and didn't get the logic behind it as it can't lift the shell anywhere it would be in use. In the end I left it out.

jamopower wrote:By the way, I've always wondered what's the point with the shell and the winch on the back of the vindicator. I've also have one for my chaos army and didn't get the logic behind it as it can't lift the shell anywhere it would be in use. In the end I left it out.

I guess GW took inspiration for those parts from Sturmtiger without thinking if it would actually work. They look a lot like each other:

Great stuff, especially seeing the whole lot together. I was thinking of doing something similar for thunderwolves, which legs did you use? (so i can steal the idea)

thanks, grrr

Thanks people,

PDH: Logan Wing is tempting, but for now I will do some other stuff. I am thinking of some more GH's, Dreadnoughts, Vehicles and some scouts. After that I think it's time for some termies. Or that's the plan for now at least.

Jamo: Thanks, it was nice meeting you too. I haven't quite gotten the shell idea behind the Vindicator neither, but that's 40k for you. Aimlessly drive around with big shell on your trunk

Metsuri: Yep, they might have put some more effort in the winch design thou.

grrrfranky: Thanks, ended up using just normal SM legs for the riders. Cut away from the groin piece and glue back on twisting them a bit farther apart, with some additional true-scaling they make good riding legs.

Thanks, i'll give that a go

grrr

Ok, so some more finished stuff here.

First off a patch of 6 Grey Hunters. I built them few months ago already, but only now got the time to put some paint on them. These guys now done I have 4 squads of ten Grey Hunters finished, which I think should be solid amount of troops. Now I just have to do some more transport and special weapon options for them.

Pics:













Next up is the Contemptor Dreadnought. When it was released I just knew that I had to have one

Pics:








Magnetized the arms so I can swap if needed (looking out fort the 6ed)


Have to say I really like the kit, hopefully in the future I can add few more of these to the army. One of the best features IMO was that you could pose the legs and arms so freely. Takes some amount of pinning as I wanted to be sure of the joints as this one is for gaming purposes.

Anyways, comments are always welcome.

Nice additions, especially the contempor hits the spot. The small modelling touches make it fit well among the rest of the wolves. Again love the bases, it is nice to see you continue to spend time in making them characterful and fitting to the rest of the army.

Thanks Metsuri. Found some 1,5mm cork coasters, tried them for these bases seem to work fine, gives a nice texture on he flat surfaces.

Finished up few dreadnoughts. Second one is the dread from AoBR box, on this I wanted to try how much you can achieve the wolfy image by just using the army's painting scheme and some other 2D-elements. So I just painted wolf type markings and used a few transfers without doing that much 3D conversions. Let me you what you think.






















Also painted an extra assault cannon that I had laying around for the other





Next up some Wolf Guard leaders for m GH squads. Here is a WIP shot from them, still in the middle of getting more bulkier. Armed with power fists and combi meltas. Magnetized the arms as I want to have the option of using other equipment on them as well, as the WG have a tons of options.





Comments are always welcome.

The dreads are looking great. The AoBR one fits with in well the paint job you've given it. If one starts to pick it apart the human skulls and lack of wolf skins/ tails can be seen as things that set it different to the other dreads, but those are minor issues in my opinion. On the table top it clearly belongs amongs the other wolves.

The wips look promising, cannot wait to see them finished. The magnetized arms are great idea, one that I would steal if I would be in progress of building army for 40k.

Hi mate

The dreads look good...unsurprisingly. The AoBR dread on closer inspection only looks a little out of place because of the normal skull on the sarcophagus. But that is only on real close inspection....the paint job ties it in perfectly with the rest of your army. I like the chainfist on the other dread...I imagine the wolf inside loves it.

I'm a little confused with the Wolf Guard though....are they in terminator armour or power armour? They looks different to the other power armoured marines.

I like to see that great minds think alike...that is exactly how I made my combi weapons.

Peter

Metsuri: Thanks, feel free to use the magnets. Might come handy as the edition change is looming over us.

PHD: Thanks, the WG will be power armors. I have also used bits from termie armors also to properly beef them up. I always felt the basic bolter chassis was too small for proper combi weapons (even thou I made one for these guys) , that's why I tried the storm bolter. IMO works quite well, I think there's some more room for exploration in this concept.

Well... Kinda makes my blog look a little naff! Lol.

Good job dude!

Very cool as always. I need to get a Contemptor too. Shame that there isn't a chaos version, I might have to start a new army for it...

Elnibbus: Thanks, your SW stuff is building along nicely.

jamo: Thanks mate. I can really recommend the Contemptor kit, such a treat to build and paint. Maybe we will see a chaos version when the new CSM dex hits the shelves.



Now I have also finished building my Wolf Guards. Here they are before priming, of course I still take suggestions and comments if you have any.





From the back



And the magnetized arms



I made them by using the hybrid design between terminator armor and power armor, as I have done in for my characters. I have this image that the mightier (and older) SW just get bigger at the same time. And also to make the characters and Wolf guard stand out more from the line man wolf.


Let me know what you think.

I like them. They look beefed up but not out of place. The poses are great and the small green stuff and wolf bits make them look part of Red Wolves already without the paint job.

Can't wait to see them finished.

Hooo, update time!

It has been a while, but during last week I was able to put some paint on these guys.

So here we have four finished wolf guards to lead my GH packs. Armed with power fists and custom built combi-meltas. Arms are magnetized so I can change the equipment, keeping eye out for that edition change.



















Let me know what you think.

Looking nice and grimy as per usual Northen!

Thanks Vitruvian, glad to see i haven't lost my thing in past months of inactivity

Definitely not lol. How bigs the force now then?

You managed to make these look even better than I expected painted. The detail and small touches really make them feel alive.

Vitruvian: Depending on the load outs, the army's size is now around 2700 points.

Metsuri: Thanks, sure took their sweet time, good to see that it paid off

Managed to find some painting time every now and then so I was able to finish these things.

First off, fourth Rhino for my latest Grey Hunter squad





Then I also made two Razorbacks for my Long Fang packs




Second one with scratch built turret




And a group shot of the latest transport armada



Happy to hear your C&C

The tanks look good, again the small touches and details pay off in making them stand out. The first razorback is my favorite of the bunch, the chipping and the additional markings on it are perfect.

Love this Army, love the weathering and beaten up look, love the colours, great look all round.

Check out my 15mm Blood Angels
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/454655.page

Thank you for the comments gents

Newest addition to the army, LRC. I managed to finish it already in the last days of 5th ed but only recently had the opportunity to take pics.



And here's the pics.















Always happy to hear feedback, cheers.

Again sometime has passed, but again I have gotten some new stuff ready. So here's some WIP pics of my terminator bunch with few characters thrown in.

The big blob of Wolf Guard terminators with Arjac and Logan




First half of the group. You can see scratch built cyclone launchers, have to wait and see how they turn out in painting.


Second half of the set. I also used Forge world SW kit on these guys, which I bought about four years ago, finally got to use it.



Now idea what war gear is good, so made very variable set of toys for the WG. I also installed magnets for all of the hands(48 magnets!) so that I can update and change the equipment when I get some more feedback from games.



Logan and Arjac. Logan was scratch built and converted from various pieces but Arjac was straight from blister, made an adjustment for his hammer hand as the original pose looks weird IMO. This was also my first Finecast model, so far no big complaints.


Close up for Logan, mostly used stuff from SW kits, some odd bit around here and there. And a majestic pose for the great wolf was must.


Breakdown of Logan, I think I have to paint these before gluing them on to get better coverage.


Next up is painting these guys, happy to hear any comments you might have.

Cheers

I love the bone colour scheme, looks great. Finecast Arjac has a very slightly droopy hammer. No big deal, happens to the best of us.

(By the way, you are the Northern from the Jade Vessel thread, I'm a big fan).

That Logan is seriously amazing Northen!! Oozes badassery and dynamism.

They look real good. Really like the Lord of the Wolves....much better than the stock model. I'm suprised that you've not converted Rockfist too.

Have you biggerised the terminator at all?

Thanks for the comments gents.

Bruticus: Thanks, I tried to straighten the hammer with hot water, maybe I should try hair dryer or something to get more stronger reaction. And yes I am Northen from Jade Vessel blog too, It was a great project and it's very nice to hear that you find it inspirational (even after these years)

Vitruvian XVII: Thanks, I hope that he'll be painted soon

PHD: Thanks, I had the idea of making my own Rockfist, but when the model was released I was quite happy with it (the hammer hand was in weird pose, and the shield could be bigger, but otherwise ok) and it was perfect excuse to try finecast model for the first time. Maybe I will later try to make my own version.

I didn't biggerise the terminators that much, only like 1-2mm in the feet and waist. Really don't know how to do it with terminator armor. Logan was biggerised, it made him somewhat bulkier but not such a big difference. I think the terminator has better portions than power armor already at starting point, and these guys look nicely more beefy than my regular marines.

Another update, has been sometime since last one but now finished the 12 Wolf Guard Terminators. These guys took forever, combination of laziness and huge amount of details in modern plastic kits.

But here they are, in true SW style all have different combination of war gear. Also I made magnetized arms for them so I can try different load outs.

First patch of six





Second patch of six



Whole pack




Here's the Forge World Space Wolf terminators made before current plastic kit. Now after four and half years of buying them they are finally painted



FW terminator shoulder pads



Some ways I made individual pack markings on the terminator armors






Happy to hear your thoughts

Good to see you back with more gorgeous models.

grrr

Great stuff! Bet the army is looking good. Roll on army shot.

Really like the varying details/glyphs on the top of the armour.

Still think the two FW chaps are better the than the straight up GW ones.

What have you got planned next? Edit - guess it will be Logan and Flying Hammer chap

grrrfranky: Thanks man!

PDH: Thanks, I think I want to make few more models and then take the updated army shot

I also dig the FW termies, too bad there is only two designs. Plastics are ok, specially now that I have seen the amount of detail they have. And the termi kit has some really nice key component for cool SW conversion builds.

Yeah, next up is Logan and his hammer toss champion

Lovely lovely lovely your Logan conversion is great, although im not sure about the beard yet, maybe when painted it will look better. Just looks a little rigid compared to the rest of the model. Other than everything looks great, also how did you do the missile launchers?

Young Logan

Another update after some hiatus. I finished these models some time ago but did not take pics until yesterday.

So here is some of special character whose WIPs pics were above.

First one, Arjac




Another Runepriest for the army. I got this model years ago as I liked the design, but only now I had the excuse to paint him.







Then Logan, wolf king himself, happy to have him finished as I was quite exited about the conversion.





And something new, squad of Land Speeders with some added wolfiness









Always happy to hear feedback.

Fantastic as always mate.

Logan is the wolves bollocks!

The poses of speeders 2 and 3 are pretty darn cool

Thanks mate,

Glad to hear Logan did his job