To start off I really _HATE_ how silly GW keep making the Wolves, I've always seen them as brutal vikings (I bet most of us have) and yet they keep modelling them as psychotic punkers... So, when i bought my first box of Wolves today I decided that ALL non-helmeted heads will be getting REAL beards and LONG hair as oppossed to the horrific creations that GW tossed out to us.
A very early WIP of the first Wolf:
I am aware of the "bulb" at the bottom of the beard, it has been removed and everything will be smoothed as soon as the GS dries completely.
So I haven't gotten any painting done yet, just some starting hair overhauls and general posture changes to some models...
They are not on bases yet because I want them in semi-deep snow and I need to get supplies for that ^^,
Anyway, enough rambling, here's the first 6 (the rest will be done modeled by Wednesday I hope):
So, what input do you guys have thus far?
The wolf guard with dual wolf claws have frizzy hair, I know... It will be smoothed out later I'm still learning to really do cool things with green stuff (for someone who's been into the hobby since 2nd edition it feels like I should've learned earlier... right? )
Literally, I wish I could beat you upon the head and shoulders for this.
Amon Amarth is the end-all-be-all for metal, as far as I am concerned and that song is among their best (hell, so is their whole new album!).
And you MET Johan Hegg. Damn.
Well, now that I am done with all that, I like what you have done. The only thing I dislike is the knife strapped to the leg. The greenstuff just looks off there for some reason. I don't think they need to lash stuff like that down when a few well-placed screws can hold them to the armor.
But you got to remember he seems to be going with the more ravage killer type army yes? They might be in the middle of a war and need to bring a few extra weapons along... no time for making things perfect eh?
em_en_oh_pee wrote:
Well, now that I am done with all that, I like what you have done. The only thing I dislike is the knife strapped to the leg. The greenstuff just looks off there for some reason. I don't think they need to lash stuff like that down when a few well-placed screws can hold them to the armor.
Screws!!? These are the emperor's finest! And the emperor demands moar rivets!!!
Anyway, nice greenstuff work, i'm not a fan of the current GWSW hairstyles either.
Buttlerthepug wrote:But you got to remember he seems to be going with the more ravage killer type army yes? They might be in the middle of a war and need to bring a few extra weapons along... no time for making things perfect eh?
Exactly what Im trying to go for, a more feral look than the sophisticated wolves gw delivered to us..
IF I get scouts (that's a biiig IF) they will most likely consists of 75% chaos marauder parts, 10% Space Wolf Parts and the rest will be GS..
I still have a ton of those bits since I played Chaos in WHFB way back in the day, might as well come to some use, eh? ;P
Alrighty, I've gotten more modelling done today... YAY!
I found Inquisitor Lord Coteaz in my bitz box, having only used his thunder hammer for my Ultramarines captain many years ago I realized that i wanted to make him a Wolf Priest (To use in lower point games mostly).
He is my tribute to one of the most awesome characters in the Swedish TV series "Hem Till Midgård" ("Back Home In Midgaard" in English), the character "Gammelman" ("Old Timer" in English), he's the village's Shaman (or Wolf Priest one might say)..
First up, please tell your GF that she rocks, on behalf of all 10,000 Dakka users!
So- missed the wolf scouts when you posted them. Those guys are amazing! Man, that kit is great when some care and adaptation is applied to it (and the ridiculous Buzz Lightyear heads are discarded).
Somehow the termis just aren't as gripping as the other SW that you've done. Some more GS fur could probably help there.
I was thinking something along the lines of massive backpelts as I feel that the backpelt that comes with the termies looks ridiculous..
I will prob. be adding about halv a mm of plasticard to their feet to make them a tad taller than they already are, might repose one of the LC wielding termies (the 4th down) by using GS to fill the gaps.
More will prob. be up tomorrow, because tonight I'm busy
I haven't even started to think about vehicles yet.
I need at least one more group of grey hunters (or 15 blood claws), along with land speeders before I start thinking about tanks.. but MAYBE I'll squeeze in a land raider Redeemer.. who knows ^^,
I found Inquisitor Lord Coteaz in my bitz box, having only used his thunder hammer for my Ultramarines captain many years ago I realized that i wanted to make him a Wolf Priest (To use in lower point games mostly).
With the giant cybernetic eagle, he would make a great Rune Priest instead of a Wolf Priest and that would save you trying to make a Crozius.
I found Inquisitor Lord Coteaz in my bitz box, having only used his thunder hammer for my Ultramarines captain many years ago I realized that i wanted to make him a Wolf Priest (To use in lower point games mostly).
With the giant cybernetic eagle, he would make a great Rune Priest instead of a Wolf Priest and that would save you trying to make a Crozius.
yeah, but then I'd have to make tiny runes in GS all over him, which i do not want to go through
I'd like to go ahead and express my jealousy on several points.
-You've met Johan Hegg. Lucky bastard.
-That your girlfriend loves you. Mine just judges me for playing 40k.
-That you have the time and energy to keep this up.
I'm impressed by:
-Your sculpting skills.
-Your good taste. Those Space Wolves are gritty... as they damn well should be!
-Your choice of winter holiday.
-That paint job. The wolf-head on his bolter looks especially nice and the colour scheme is perfect.
-How convincing the blood and gore is on that chainsword.
Cheers guys, always fun to get encouraging C&C on my work.
Kinda helps me push myself
I could toss up a guide on the blood as well as the bolter and chainsaw wolf heads with my next marine, I'll be doing him prob. around the upcoming weekend since I have tons of school and work stuff this week.
I succumbed... I bought GW's hand flamer spray thiny today when I was buying my 9 year old brother his christmas present (not going to wreck havoc for my parents whom will have a living hell trying to get "Midvintersblotet" out of his head if I introduce him to pagan history/etc. now ), which is a Black Templars Codex.
So now I'll be able to paint these in bulk, they will still get the same amount of time, but I won't have to spend so much time mixing the colors correctly over and over again.
By this weekend I should have another one finished.
I've been gone for 2 weeks, spent some quality time around different places here in Sweden.
Enjoyed some nice game hunting, and just enjoyed the snowy outdoors in general.
But now I'm back and I've been working some on my 2nd space wolf.
He's far from finished and I'm veeery uncertain on the wolf pelts' colors.
I've also bought myself a Vindicator which will get some heavy work eventually.
Anyway, here's the Grey Hunter, when he's pretty much done I'll do the blood on him and then also toss up the blood tutorial at the same time.
Alrighty, today I was SUPPOSED to study, but well, that went out of the window and in flew a cold harsh breeze.
That's right, I'm pretty much finished with my 2nd wolfy.
I redid all pelts, and finished them off with a nice bright contrasting red (this model will be the centerpiece in his pack). I then finished off the skulls mounted onto the chainsword and the bolter, and when I was in the 7th layer I discovered that the tan i was working with was not Bleached Bone, but Kommando Khaki -Nice surprise! (That's why it looked so darn dark, luckily for me I felt it looked better that way than by using the same bright color I use on the ornate Bolter Wolfhead decorations on other marines)...
I still haven't decided if he will get black or blond hair, his base is already done so all needed is the blood effects on his chainsword (which I'll do after the hair) and then he's done.
I also finished my Wolf Priest (building/sculpting) today since I got the top of the staff I needed in the mail yesterday..
I removed that pesky hourglass and replaced it with more furry godness
Comments and Criticism wanted and appreciated as usual.
Love the fur on your latest wolf, looks really nice against the red cloth. Face makes him look like a real barbarian, little to much for my taste but it goes well with the rest of the model.
Muller, I must say your SW's are a vast improvement over the source material, which I believe matched your concept until recently...I hadn't actually examined a lot of the new SW stuff and after reading this I finally checked it out and I agree with your full-heartedly; I don't like the direction they've gone at all.
That being said, your SW's are awesome not only for bringing those features back in, but for the great GS work on their hair. I feel like these guys just got done beating Grendel in arm wrestling, and then showed him how to properly raid towns...pure viking goodness!!
Of course I won't be using psykers! If I would it'd be someone more built to look like an old village seer or a shaman, with a staff made from dragonbone or something similar.
But no, mostly it'll be wolf priests, wolf lord and canis wolfborn in my army
Sorry for the delay, had some work to do this week along with other things, but now my blood tutorial is up on my blog (see my signature for link) and here's the 2nd Grey hunter, completed:
(Yes, his brother wanted to pose for the photoshoot as well )
Alrighty, I've had the apartment for myself Saturday -Monday (that's right, the "vacation" isn't over yet ^^,) and thus I've enjoyed some great live metal DVDs (Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquility, Arch Enemy, Vital Remains, etc.) while painting.
These guys are almost done (well, like 70% done at least )
Oh and I'd love some input on what color I should use for my plasma coils on these guys.
I've used green for my Black Legion, Blue for my Ultramarines and I'm thinkin' a bright orange for these guys, but I'm concerned about the amount of red/reddish colors on them already, will it be too much (seeing as they already have red eyes, red shoulder pads and red on the backs of the pelts as well as on the gems) ?
Comments and Criticism is always wanted and greatly appreciated!
Amazing job, the two guys uptop have the same pose though which made me go, ahhhhhhh i see what you did there. But i love the armor color and the rune priests face.
hehe yeah I know these guys look pretty much the same, but they we're randomly chosen out of my 15 models to paint (first batch) and it just so hapened that they got picked
Alrighty, got my "lightbox" correctly set up and finished 2 out of the 3 wolves today, the last guy have only the face and hair left so he'll be finished by tomorrow
These are utterly awesome. If I remember rightly theres a company that does Brass Etch Runes out their on the internet somewhere the names Secret Arts or something like this which may help you.
Llamahead wrote:These are utterly awesome. If I remember rightly theres a company that does Brass Etch Runes out their on the internet somewhere the names Secret Arts or something like this which may help you.
I already have been in quite a contact with them, and have one set of runes already (they were extremely accomodating and veeeeery helpful, best customer service I've experienced in a LOOOONG time!)
Will be getting a set of their runed stone bases as well to do a review of (I will of course snow-cover parts of them )
This remains my favourite Space Wolves army of all time. Perhaps it's your Swedish heritage, but all of your models have that true, fierce Viking character that a real Space Wolf should. They're far more true to the fluff than the ones GW shows us.
Cheers, and now for something out of the ordinary...
So... I know this is out of the ordinary but since I'm going to take part in a duals tournament with my pal Dennis over at: minisofdeath.blogspot.com very soon at GW Stockholm and my wolves aren't anywhere even remotely close to done (as you all can attest to ) I will be playing with my tabletop standard Ultramarine army (I painted this army about 10 years back, and I started with Ultras back in the 2nd edition when I was just a juve so don't go bashing on me for having kept with my chapter all this time ;P).
I needed a Chapter Master armed with nothing but a normal CC weapon and a bolt pistol, which none of my HQ's had (I'm not used to playing only 750p games ) I went out and bought Sicarus, because he screams Ultramarines.
My original plan was to make him tabletop standard, but I failed quite large when I realised I spent quite some time on the head alone, so not the entire model had to be painted to a good standard, but I figured that since there's both B&C's and GW Stockholm's painting comps. coming up real soon I might as well paint him nice and add him to my line-up of competing models
This was my first go at NMM (Having not read any guides on it either), he will have golden NMM shoulder pads, a crimson red/decorated tan cape and white ropes when done on top of what's painted now. Might also add some freehand on the cape.
Since this is my first NMM model ever, comments and critisism are greatly appreciated on this one.
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More ultrasmurfs (sorry, he will be completed soon so I can pick up working on my wolves, I promise )
Did my final work on the NMM;
And I did work on the cape as well (the blodgyness have been taken care of, some was actually miscast "bubbles" which I had to scrape off and repaint) I've also added a red wash to bind the colors together better after the pic was taken;
I can't believe you've never done NMM before. Esp. the sheath looks damn smooth! Minor point here - the bright lines on the pistol looks a taaaad glassy. Just one man's opinion!
How did you do the cape? Looks drybrushed... and great! Do you just happen to have a 3 cm broad brush and go at it?
The cape is layered, MANY thin layers, starting at about 5:1 mix of scab red:chaos black black and working my way up to pure blazing orange (on a pure scab red base over black primer).
My pal Dennis warned me about doing NMM, he claimed you'd get hooked, and darn it he was right xD
I had never tried NMM before this model, and I think I could've done the gold even better if I had practiced on less complicated models before
Wow great looking stuff. My only complaint is the skin on the space wolves. The models look great, and I love th glowing red eyes but the skin doesn't live up tot eh rest of the model.
Empchild wrote:Wow great looking stuff. My only complaint is the skin on the space wolves. The models look great, and I love th glowing red eyes but the skin doesn't live up tot eh rest of the model.
I completely agree Skin is something I fear painting (great to start a viking-inspired wolves army then huh ;P)
I think that as long as it remains constant, then it wont look too bad, but I agree it does look a little pale...but hey...not everyones perfect *sighs a sigh of relief that Mullers not perfect*
Love the maurader arms on the scouts. My partner is getting Space Wolves lucky guy and im the one who will have to paint them, inbetween the Iron hands and 1k sons.
Death's Messenger wrote:I think that as long as it remains constant, then it wont look too bad, but I agree it does look a little pale...but hey...not everyones perfect *sighs a sigh of relief that Mullers not perfect*
Pale is what I do want for these guys though, seeing as when you spend so much time in darkness (it's a freakin' snow storm planet) their skin won't be so pink-ish and def. not tanned...
damn........this was my EXACT idea i had for my spacewolf army.....there goes my originilatity for paint scheme (seriously everything you did I was going to do to a T, snow bases, grey bodies, "rust" effect.....ugh) lol. Well thanks for the WIP though, I will be subscribing and following. I ordered 10 TWC which should be here soon, and Ill start up my blog on them when it happens. Ill try and vary mine from yours now though, dont want to be a copy cat
Sorry for having been under the radar about this for so long but I've been busy with work. I've gotten myself back into the game now though Tonight I'll have 3 more wolves finished and I also have some sweet things inbound from Forgeworld (was payday today ^^,)
I have finally managed to get me arse out of the wagon and started on my space puppies once more.
One done, two 90% done (with faces, blood and a few details left).
I'm fully aware that his tip of the sword looks "chunky" in the pic, I redid the tip so it's nice and smooth now (at first I forgot it was supposed to be a frostblade and not a normal power sword and thus painted it glowing green so it's been redone 3 times >< ).
I'm thinkin' about adding some dripping blood from the sword, C&C on that?
I think of him as one of those who was extremely close to falling to the wulven during recruitment. leaving the glowing yellow eyes that of a fierce wolf.
Asagård? Have you some fluff as they are the most dedicated servants of God Emperor. (Asa means god-like-being) As Asagård is the land of gods, right?
BTW those sculpts of yours are absolutely amazing stuff. I too have always wondered why SW aren't real vikings. Just some blue-grey guys with lot of wolf skulls.. But you! You make the honoured chapter of Space Wolves really come alive! Thank you for that!
I finished another one tonight as well And I did add some faint blood on the sword (seeing as how it pretty much burns off blood in seconds I tried to minimize it as well as make it look burnt).
Edit: Managed to finish off the 8th fella as well ^^,
He turned out great, fiercest of the bunch thus far IMO.
And yes, I WILL get pics with good lighting soon.
I've just received a little FW dreadie along with all the diff weapons for him except autocanons as well as a FW Wolfie terminator kit, bases, Rhino doors, etched brass razorwire, etc. is also on it's way, big things are in motion here
Drybrushing is done at 4 points (IIRC) in my 10-step to making this armor, I do glazes, feathering, etc. as well, but the dominant technique is actually drybrushing.
The time-consuming part for them is waiting for washes to dry (hence I work in batches until only details remain) and highlighting each model twice
And I'm also very sorry for the colors being very off, my SLR is down ATM so I'm stuck with a pretty crappy compact camera (not to mention i need to rebuild my lightbox).
I'll be sure to get some pics up that can handle a broader colorscale ASAP
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