I've been working on this army for many years now; they started as a 13th Company army when the Eye of Terror campaign came out back in '03. Since then I've modified the list across 3 codices but never actually completed them. Recently I dug them out, dusted them off and started repainting them.

They're a lost company, as mentioned, but one forged from the tattered remnants of many companies rather than a single company. Jorek, the wolf lord leading them, is 13th company, as are a handful of his warriors. Other companies have brought tanks, terminator armour, bikers, flyers etc and joined with Jorek and the others for mutual protection and survival.

Modelling-wise they use the old 13th company look of part Imperial part Chaos, with the various warriors each bearing different combinations.

Paint scheme is the Space Wolf legion colours; Mechanicus Standard grey, badab black wash, layer of Dawnstone. Chaos parts are painted a Chaos Legion, except Death Guard or Emperor's Children.

My painting skills desperately need improving, particularly looking at a model up close

Lemme know what you think!

These are my first completed squad, Greywolf's Pack. Grey Hunters with a battle leader.
All my squads have standards, something left over from the previous codex, and it helps to make them stand out on the tabletop

And one for the treadheads- picked up the Chapterhouse rhino kit and even put it on a rhino a while ago, just found it in a box. Thinking I'll turn it into an old school Razorback, the open topped turreted ones, with lascannon/ twin plasma gun.

Here's how it currently looks:

Just started painting another couple of rhinos, no pics yet, but was hoping for some ideas from you guys; I know such a flat expanse of a single colour can look dull and boring, any ideas on sprucing it up? I was thinking shields and pack markings, but I don't want to go too crazy, they're supposed to be feral but still functional.

Also, dug out my old 'counts-as' Lone Wolf. Hope you like him.

(I apologise for the picture quality, it's taken from my phone. I'd buy an actual camera but I'm hanging out for Santa)

Last one before bed for the day!

Going to greenstuff the gaps between plasticard and model and hopefully get it smooth enough to look like there was never a gap there in the first place

The plasticcard work on the tank looks great!

Thanks knubbis!

After a productive night at work -love a good standby- I have the (wolf)Man himself, Jorek Greatwolf!

Swapped the hand out, he used to wield a Dreadknight thunder hammer.

And a few more tanks pics. This is another Chapterhouse kit, I think. Not on their site anymore. Was planning on using it for 30K, but since decided to add it to the great company.

These two, a Baneblade and a Leman Russ, came from a friend who got out of the hobby a few years ago. They're a bit dinged up and missing some pieces.

I had to rebuild the Russ with plasticard for a fair number of bits. I'm not sure on the track covers, they need further work it's true.

The Baneblade was being rebuilt as a Fellblade until Forgeworld released theirs. Now it's going to be a Baneblade with unusual bitz on it

And this one, for my Blood Claws, was based on the pic from the Horus Heresy artbook

After 40ish hours awake and painting for most of it, I think it's time to sleep....
Anywho onto the painted goodness!
The old school Razorback I'm working on has a coat of paint and detail added to it, and I've built the turret. The Long Fangs in the picture are the squad that will be using the tank.

And the turret!

Also, in honour of the new Blood Angels codex, my counts-as Astorath the Grim, Idolaf Sternhammer and one of his wulfen guard (Death Company)


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So, no pics just a basic list of what I have to paint:

Great Company, Apocalypse
The Black Rage, Apocalypse
Catachan Ambush Patrol, Apocalypse
Predator Assassin Squadron
Armoured Vanguard Squadron, Apocalypse

And that's just for starters!

Catachans are my allied Fenrisian Thrall units, Death Company are Wulfen.

Some Forgeworld goodness; a Land Raider Achilles Alpha, Cataphractii Terminators and the Mk IV command set arrived today

The Achilles and Cataphractii are going towards my Winterborn; a siege assault army using the forgeworld rules and Chapter Tactics: Carcharodons. I want to see what an entire 10-man assault terminator unit with lightning claws and cataphractii armour looks like! Also picked up some 3rd party fur bitz since my greenstuff skills are questionable at best.

The Mk IV is being set aside for another project, later. Trying to keep everything focused on the wolves for now

Along the way I've also created some of the enemies of my lost companies; some just generic bad guys like the Black Legion Sorcerer, others foes worthy of a saga of their own, such as K'zarr'ok the Bloodtide.

My first few Fenrisian Thralls. The guy with the heavy bolter is Ufberth Ironhide, my take on Gunnery Sergeant Harker. The gent with the white beard is a Thrall Skald, charged with singing the sagas of the worthy and great. His presence inspires nearby Thralls to fight the harder, hoping it will be them he sings of! In rules terms, he's a commissar. The Jotunbrud with the shield and mace is my Bullgryn Bone 'Ead. I made him from a minotaur. He's the first of several I plan to make

Really nice army so far! Keep the updates coming please.

Thanks Lady Mournival, I shall keep updating!

The razorback, now christened Ansilvund (Thanks, Skyrim!) is almost done, as are the two rhinos I started for my Winterborn company. I started work on a new character, Holgir Bearclaw, the Keeper, for another part of the company, and I'm working on a side armour door/gun piece for a scratchbuilt land raider.
Thoughts, questions, criticisms and advice are always welcome!

Merry Christmas to all!

Pretty sure I just had a post go AWOL... apologies if this is a reprint....

So, all my Christmas money is now gone, spent on 32mm bases for my power armoured marines...
While the change annoyed me at first, it means I can get scenic on those beasts! I have some scenic bases already and for a few of them the 25mm was just too small. Hopefully 32mm helps there.

I'm now working on the Wild Hunt, a company entirely composed of Thunderwolf riders and Fenrisian wolves. They used to be the Canis Wolfborn build from the 5th ed codex, now they're being built up into a Wolfpack Flanking force.

Also, I have an Iron Priest, Hogni Halfman, and Thrall-Servitors. Hogni needs a smallish repaint and I never did finish the Thralls, but they'll be taking up my time until the new bases arrive

In the fluff I've written for my companies, they have a small fleet of mostly recaptured ships. One of them was a ship of the Ordo Hospitaller, now turned over to the Wolf Priests. In the dark laboratories aboard, they craft new Space Wolves from the Thrall population and genetically modify -or create from scratch- new war beasts. Which is why my 'thunderwolves' are so varied.
It also explains this guy!

I either use the Creature Feature rules from WD 292 if my opponent is okay with that, or the Ork Squiggoth rules from Forgeworld (the little Squiggoth, not the gargantuan one)

Dreadnoughts!!

Wow it's looking really awesome. Keep it coming.

Grtz,
Remco

Apologies if this one-line reply is considered spam, but how do I subscribe to these threads without having to reply? Please clarify; thanks!!

Hi Noble Korhedron! Unfortunately I don't know how to subscribe without replying, sorry.
And I don't consider any reply spam, it's good to know people like the blog!

If I'm being completely frank, I really only posted that to ask my subscription Q. I'm not that into the Space Puppies myself, despite being an Imperial player....

This update brought to you by Insomnia! I've heard it said sleep is for the weak. Whoever said that was an idiot!
So, unable to sleep, I grabbed a whiskey and made my way to the office. This is what I've come up with. Some of them are old projects I dusted off and photographed. The Chaos dudes, Thrall flamer and sergeant and, to a lesser extent, the Wolf Brothers, are examples of this.
Others, like the Swiftclaws and Thralls, were barely clipped, cleaned and glued before the camera came out.
But enough talk! Pics or it didn't happen!

And a flamer-armed Thrall.

Need some advice on the fire, haven't painted flame before.

Hey RBeijers, sorry I missed you on the first read through, thanks for having a look!

My Thralls continue to grow, as do all aspects of the company really. Just finished building a re-captured Ork tank that, for now, counts as a Whirlwind.
I've also decided to build the Winterborn units as 40K/ 30K units, so all their wargear and builds has to match both timelines! I'm using the Forgeworld Siege Assault Vanguard list for 40K, and since you can't use Space Wolves to build that list, I've gone with Chapter Tactics: Carcharodons. I have some plans to build Wolf Lord Arstan Winterborn, who will be a Legion Praetor or Tyberos the Red Wake, out of the Legion Praetor in Cataphractii armour, Lufgt Huron's Ghost Razors, a chainfist, and furry bitz. Watch this space....
The Winterborn Einherjar, a trio of dreadnoughts, count as a Legion Dreadnought Talon in 30K and Siege Dreadnought Talon in 40K. The two I have are nearly done, but I need to get a third. Probably going to corrupt a Furioso for that honour, since it's the only dreadnought kit with a right hand.

Last but not least, some of my old, need-a-repaint Blood Claws, from Ulfrid Traitorsbane's pack. These guys will definitely benefit from 32mm bases!

Hi Dakka!

More love for the Winterborn- Blackwolf's pack, an Honour Guard squad with Relic Blades. The third guy is the standard bearer, and he'll have his blade over his shoulder like he doesn't have a care in the world. I have no idea if this is a viable build for an Honour Guard squad but I like the idea of berserkers with two handed swords

Enjoy!

Back again, hope everyone had an awesome new years!

Working on the Winterborn mostly, with some unusual side projects- converting a Dark Elf Kharybdiss into a Krakenspawn for fun and games, building an utterly unrelated box of Space Hulk, and my fantasy army of undead Elves using the Undead Legion list from Nagash- but still getting paint on the grey and furry ones.

Some progress on my Winterborn Land Raider Achilles Alpha, and the ubiquitous Imperial Knight. Mine is called Grimalkin, and her pilot is the Lady of Scars. They were formerly of House Griffith, but now serve alongside the warriors of the Dishonoured, and through her oath to them, to Jorek Greatwolf

And now for something completely different! Blood Angels, Undead, and Goblins, sorta...

The first miniature I painted from Space Hulk was the dead Blood Angel as an objective marker/ test piece. Thoughts? I'm trying lighting... Think I'm failing :p

The next guy is based on a pygmy from a Lustrian-themed Empire army in the latest Visions book. I have a fair number of Goblins left over from when I bought boxes of the wolf riders for fenrisian wolves, thought I'd use them up somehow. I'm thinking maybe as Ratlings, but I need to sort out arms.

And, lastly, Lathen the Eternal, my once-was-a-Wood-Elf Tomb King/ Arkhan the Black proxy and a few of his Necrolith Collossi.

Apologies for the pictures, but I'm picking up the stuff to make a light box tomorrow and then buying a camera so the quality shall improve

Let me know what you think!

So, after a chat with a workmate/ occasional 40K opponent, I've decided to write what I'm actually working on in a little more detail.

There's two formations that are named "Great Company", one in the Apocalypse book and the other in the Space Wolf codex.
The one in the codex needs the following:
1 Wolf Lord- Jorek Greatwolf
1 Wolf Guard Battle Leader- Don't have it yet
1 unit of Wolf Guard- Power armoured, not terminators. Need to build these guys
5 units of Grey Hunters- 50 dudes! So far, I have 3 full(ish) packs with shoulder pads etc. Still need those 32mm bases
1 unit of Wolf Scouts- Have the models, but never used them. They're on the desk now
3 units of either Blood Claws, Skyclaws or Swiftclaws- Have 2 units of Blood Claws and 1 Swiftclaw pack
2 units of Long Fangs- Actually, have these guys finished!

The Apocalypse formation adds to the above, with the following necessary units:
1 Wolf Priest
1 Rune Priest- Probably Longspear. Pics to follow
3+ Dreadnoughts- Baremund Beastbane, Erik Bloodfist and Siggfried Skulltaker

Additionally, the following can be taken:
0-1 Iron Priest- Hogni Halfman
0-2 Thunderwolf Cavalry- Won't be making them part of the Great Company, they'll all be in a Flanking Force (another Formation)
0-3 Fenrisian Wolf Packs- As with the Thunderwolves
0-3 Lone Wolves- Have to make them, need to fluff them out first

Also, Swiftclaws become 0-3, Grey Hunters become 5+ with no upper limit, Long Fangs become 2+ with no upper limit, and Blood Claws/ Skyclaws become 3+. Lucky I have a Skyclaw pack half-finished.

Looking at this, even in the little version of the Company I need a minimum 56 dudes. With how I'm building packs, it's going to be more like 119 Wolves, plus transports and other shenanigans. Then, once they're done, I'll have to add a few more bitz and bobs to upgrade them to the Apocalypse level. I'm thinking.... March, at the earliest. Then it's onto the other formations! Yahoo!

Anywho, good morning and goodnight!

Following the previous post, more writing!

Since these are Lost Companies, and not just a single Company, I have even more Space Wolves to paint!
One of these groups are The Winterborn, originally the 4th Great Company of the 6th Legiones Astartes, they were trapped in a weird part of the webway for a little while, aware of the passage of time but not actually aging. Most of them are a little bit mad...
They're a Siege Assault Vanguard list using Space Marines with Chapter Tactics: Carcharodons. This, I've already mentioned. They also double as a 30K Legion list. This is their lineup:

Arstan Winterborn, a converted Wolf Lord- Waiting on Forge World
Beowulf Ironbreaker, a Master of the Forge and Keeper of Relics, necessary given the old school stuff they'll have- Armenneus Valthex, Wolfed up. Waiting on Forge World
2 Iron Priests/ Techmarines- At least 1 will be the classic Iron Priest, the other probably a conversion. Need to name them too.
Blackwolf's Pack, an Honour Guard squad with Relic Blades- Work proceeds slowly

Torin Shieldbreaker- a Contemptor in a Lucius drop pod
Fafnir Drakesbane- a Contemptor-Mortis in a Lucius pod. If my skills are up to it, using the Alpha Legion Contemptor as a base
Winterwolf's Sons- a Sternguard squad. Thinking Mk IV armour, with some furry bitz and Legion combi-weapons. One of the completed Chapterhouse rhinos too.

Erik Bittertongue's Pack- a Tactical squad with Siege mantlets. In the Siege list you can give Tac squads huge shields, like the 30K Breacher squads. Gives them a reroll against shooting attacks and Bulky. Chaos Warrior/ Space Wolf mixed bitz
Skjor Snowblood's Pack- As above
Winterborn's Fangs- a fun little thing of the Carcharodons is their ability to take lightning claw assault termies as Troops. Mine will be in Cataphractii armour.
The Einherjar- 3 dreadnoughts, 2 Ironclad and 1 Siege with a Flamestorm cannon. These guys are actually done!
Skoll Suneater's Pack- Another tactical squad, without the shields. Run around in a Rhino.
Hadvar Bloodmane's Pack- another Siege Assault list special, basically an Assault Squad without jump packs but carrying combat shields, mounted in a Land Raider. The Land Raider's done.

Allfather's Hand- A Storm Eagle gunship, fun for carrying lots of guys and killing even more! Come on Forge World....
Morkai's Gaze- Fire Raptor gunship. Needs more guns...

Egil's Judgement- Relic Sicaran Tank, and one of the reasons I need a Keeper of Relics! Again, Forge World, but not yet ordered.
Foehammer- Achilles-pattern Land Raider. I'm working on it
Deathwolf- Relic Whirlwind Scorpius. Not yet ordered
The Hunters (needs a better name)- As with Dreadnoughts, Predators run around in squadrons in the Siege list. 2 Predators, a Relic Deimos with a Plasma Destroyer. All will be Deimos hulls.

Niddhogur- a Fellblade. Not yet ordered.

As you can see, my love for resin crack knows no bounds! One of the 'perks' of Australia, Forge World is kinda the cheaper option for minis... Ah well.

For your consideration, the Sergeant of Winterborn's Fangs. I'm planning to repaint the hand and lower shoulderpad grey, since I think it's too much red on the model atm. He also needs a head, some more Maxmini furs, and the grenade launcher the Cataphractii come with.

Also, been working on some of my other characters. I have a bad habit of making HQ choices without painting enough other units to use with them.

I've posted this guy before, but without explanation. He's Arnbjorn Redmoon, the Wolf Lord prior to Gunnar Redmoon to use the symbol of the Wolf of the Red Moon. His company was presumed destroyed after all contact was lost with them mid M41 battling Tyranids. I'm building him from Wulfrik the Wanderer, since it's the model with the most extraneous skulls I've ever seen!
The second pic is a nuncio-vox I converted for the Winterborn, and Arnbjorn's massive Frost Axe.

As always, comments/ questions/ criticisms welcome!

So a Skyclaw, a Salamander and a Wolf Guard walk into a blog....

And an older mini I completed recently, Skyslayer. my counts-as Stalker. Uses a Sisters of Battle Rhino with Defiler cannons

Really like the look of that thunderwolf/squiggoth, the dreadnought Torin, and that wolfguard you just posted a couple posts ago. Keep up the good work!

Thanks Lady_Mournival! Both are awesome models (I think) and do really well when played, but they don't get much game time, sadly

So, after a hectic several hours painting, unboxing, finding old projects, dry fitting.... you get the idea... Many many things! Some old, some new, some desperately need paint whilst others need stripping back then repainting.

Also found some of my other Space Marine forces, and decided to build 2 different forces from them. I have more than enough warriors, from different chapters, to easily build a company and some. And I wonder why I used to be short of cash a lot of the time.... Damn plastic crack
The models that are clearly veterans- ornate armour, unusual weapons, etc- are being made into a combined arms force of warriors using the rules for a First Company, whilst the other more vanilla models are being made into what I'm calling The Dishonoured; sort of a forlorn hope/ foreign legion for Space Marines that have, in some way, dishonoured their chapter or themselves. They repaint their armour grey, keeping only their left shoulder pad, make an Oath of Moment detailing how they will regain their honour, and head off into the blue.
Without further ado, pics:

and some Dishnoured pics. Squad Luko. There's a Flesh Tearer, Imperial Fist, Black Dragon, Ultramarine, Raptor, Rising Son and, of course, a Soul Drinker in there

And lastly (for now) some fantasy!

Back to 40K for now, but a randomish tangent from usual- Ogryns in all their glory!
My Jotunbrud (yo-tun-brood, in case you were wondering) are currently 2 strong, with another 4 to build. I could simply make 2 more Bullgryns and 2 bog-standard Ogryns... Or not. I searched Imperial Armour and old White Dwarf magazines, and came up with a shortlist of things that I could build instead:

Feral Ogryns- Like Ogres, but 40K. No guns, just hitty sticks
Plague Ogryns! Or not. Can't begin to see how they would fit with the army.
H-grade Servitors- Mechanically augmented, possibly vat-grown, lovely. Later.
Chaos Renegade Ogryn Berserkers- I need several! Unbound is fun...
Charonite Ogryns- What's a Charonite? They're a Heresy-era unit, a terror weapon left over from Old Night. Even the Imperium won't use them lightly. Carapace armour and souped-up power weapons for hands. Perfect!

Here's the final Minotaur of my first box, part-built as a Charonite. His right arm features a dreadnought hand, just as his left does. The armour will be grey/ green stuff, possibly power armour or maybe scout armour.

But I need your advice, dear Dakka: Which hand?
Also, does he need a mask?

Some more Space Wolves, mostly Winterborn. Added some wolfy bitz to the Land Raider Achilles to tie it more in with the army. They're mostly blu-tacked on while I paint them then I'll superglue them to it.
Also started on another side projects; the War Bears. They come from a planet that was one of the first settled by humans. Due to the interstellar distances, they miscalculated, overshooting their mark and voyaging deep into the outer rim of the galaxy. The crew, in suspended animation, slept on for centuries. They awoke only when the ships sensors detected a nearby habitable planet. When they discovered that they were not only off course but centuries out of time, blame for the fault was passed around, escalating to a civil war that destroyed their ship. The few survivors rebuilt on the planet below, forming tribes. Each tribe had a unique weapon or technology that distanced them from the others. For the Bear clan, this was genetic modification secrets that forged a human into a powerful, if misshapen, warrior; a War Bear as they came to be known.
They're similar to Thunder Warriors; big, strong, violent, and not as fast or as stable as Astartes, but they are incredibly tough. I'm thinking I'll use the rules for Ork Nobz for the warriors, with Warbosses as their Chieftains. I can explain their terrible BS as their having never held a proper firearm before.
The guy I've built is Deaton, their last Shaman and the only one to have ever undergone the War Bear transformation. He's a Wierdboy.

Did some more work on Arnbjorn Redmoon, fixing his cape into a furry one worthy of a Wolf Lord and also working on his pose. Pretty static, but them's the breaks. He still looks the part, particularly with his ridiculously large axe.
I think if I was to use him in an army, I'd probably use the Forgeworld rules for the Executioners High Mortiurge. That dude kicks butt!

And some vehicles under the brush right now: a Land Raider Ares, stolen from the Dark Angels no less, and a Stormwolf flyer

Had a rethink on the Wolf Brothers, going back over the fluff and notes I'd penned for them, and came across a problem: They're huge! Beastmen Gors are well over the height of a Space Marine, and since I'd planned to use the rules for Khorne Cultists- Using the Lost and Damned from Apocalypse, of course- they were far too large!
Thankfully, my War Bears are supposed to be bigger than Space Marines, and their test model is made from a Bray Shaman anyway. Problem solved! The Wolf Brothers would be remade as War Bears, and I'd rebuild the Wolf Brothers. A box of Ungors later, and I have my first guy

I was planning to use Maxmini werewolf heads, but they're a bit big so I'm just removing the horns from the more humanoid Ungor heads. They're sorta mutated Wolf Brothers, so I think if fits
The bow on the test model will be swapped out for a las or auto pistol later, but I needed to get the pose right first. Also, Holgir Bearclaw is there because he's the Dark Apostle the formation requires. Fluff-wise he's the only Wolf Brother with his mind intact, more or less. He's still a mutant, though, hence why he covers his mouth- think deep sea fish teeth

Some more Wolf Brothers, and my first 4 mostly finished Skyclaws

Some more work, my first War Bear to start with. Beastman Gor, chaos warrior, some green stuff work. Size comparison to Deaton is good, as is the size beside a marine.
Also the third and final member of the Winterborn Einherjar. Was a furioso dread not so long ago
And, lastly, some Ungor shields I'm painting up for combat shields.

As always, enjoy and let me know what you think!

Short one for today- started greystuffing the Jotunbrud Charonite. Going to give him armour based off the space marine scout armour, but larger. Also went with the Blood Talons. Thinking I'll check the finished piece to see if he needs a face mask or not.
Also filled in the wedge at the back of my War Bear where I cut the Gor torso to give it a more upright stance, and started smoothing the thighs and transitioning them into the kneepad/ boot bitz. I'm going with a tactical exoskeleton look for the War Bear armour, similar to what you see on the COD: Advanced Warfare posters, with plate armour and chainmail over the top. The plate and mail is their traditional tribal armour, the exoskeleton comes from another tribe that aided them in seriously bloodying a Chaos attack force on their homeworld.
And I've decided to move away from the Ungor shields for my Winterborn assault marines, going to go with a more Norman rounded shield look.

Lastly, I'll leave you with some fluff I wrote about the War Bears. Pics below as usual, lemme know what you think!

"The Chaos marines of the Genitors warband won their first victories against the Bear clan at range, blasting its warriors with bolt and missile. Arrogantly, they thought them nothing more than abhumans, never dreaming they could meet their equals on such a backwater world. In this they were grievously wrong. Chaos Marines are genhanced demigods, elevated far above their birth race by ancient science. The War Bears were monsters, their alchemically hypertrophied frames taller and broader than an Astartes, with a far greater tolerance for pain and a limited capacity for regeneration. Only in their battle plate did the the Genitors outmass their foes, and the unholy strength of their corrupted wargear was matched by the muscle of the Urd tribals. When the smiths of the Ironblood Clan began to produce armour for their allies that could stay a bolt round, Genitor losses began to rapidly rise"

Got out the old chaos black spray and went a-hunting plastic men! Currently, 1 Krakenspawn, 2 assault centurions, a long fang, 3 honour guard, 2 skyclaws, 3 swiftclaws, 18 thralls and the last of the 3 Winterborn Einherjar are sitting blackly upon my desk. This week's target!
Also some pics. Will have more painted stuff soonish, the paint is drying on my Wolf Scouts and then they need washing... Should have pics of them tomorrow!

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Back after a small hiatus with more techno-barbarian goodness!
Since I started on the War Bears, I've purchased the Ork codex to have a true and proper look at their army list and decided to work on a few additions; some Mek gunz, Lootas, Shoota Boyz, and of course mega armour. Sticking with the theme I started with the original War Bear armour they're built of spare necron bitz with beastman, chaos warrior and grey stuff to complete the mix.
Many Space Wolves painted, so a few pics of them too. Onwards to visual evidence!

As always, let me know what you think!

Many things techno-barbarian for you today! You've seen the War Bears, but they were only one of the seven tribes of Urd. One of the others were the Iron Blood clan, possessed of advanced technology jealously guarded from the other tribes. Whilst the Bear tribe fought with swords and plate-mail, the Iron Blood wielded lasers and wore powered armour.
This is a guy I just came up with; Jyrik. A Journeyman crafter of the Iron Blood, he broke tradition and invented something new; force field generators and a suit to mount it.
In game terms he's an Ork Big Mek with mega armour and a kustom forcefield. Probably Da Finkin Kap too.
Just some WIP shots of his torso for now, he needs a lot of green/ grey stuff work and plasticard gubbins, not to mention legs and a head, before he's ready

Back again!
32mm bases are in for the marines and, whilst I wasn't a fan in principle, in the flesh they just add something...
Pics! Mostly this week's work, some earlier

Hey guys, I'm back!
Well, after a couple of months without internet- damn you, Telstra!- I have returned from the pretechnology wasteland
Although, it was nice and quiet there... It's kind of awesome switching facebook off for a loooonng time.... I digress

Recieved a mighty haul from Forgeworld the other day- a Contemptor, 10 Cataphractii terminators, a trio of Mk1 Predators, a Space Wolf venerable dreadnought, legion seeker squad and legion combi weapons, legion praetors, and Lufgt Huron. All this allowed me to make some serious inroads into finishing my Winterborn!

Also been working hard on the War Bears, started down a new path with them using Bestigors not Gors as the base; results are promising!

And, as always, let me know what you think! (please...)

For those of you seeking Space Wolves, here they are!
Arstan Winterborn, Lord of the Company of the Winterborn, was built from a Legion Praetor with Lufgt Huron's ghost razors, a Space Wolf chainfist and Murderfang's head. His fur will be repainted to a darker colour soon, it doesn't stand out enough
Also Erik Firewolf, who I built as a bit of fun and a chance to use Huron's flamer hand; he counts as Vulkan He'stan (I can hear the cries of Heresy! already..
Also some pics of the Contemptor-Mortis the Winterborn will be getting, the Honour Guard squad with Banner of the Emperor Ascendant, some Salamander Vanguard Veterans and my most recent Jotunbrud

Hey guys, just some kitbashing I've been doing while I wait for multiple coffees to wear off so I can sleep!
Have a lovely day, or night, depending on time, catch you later

More work on the Winterborn, started repainting Arstan and added some bitz to the Contemptor, now called Fafnir Drakesbane
On his trial of Morkai he killed a frost wyrm, whose skull he still bears, and during a campaign on an Exodite world he was critically injured by an Exodite dragon. He wears its hide as proof.
Nearly finished Winterborn's Fangs, my terminator squad, all in customised cataphractii armour

More to come later today!

More Clans of Urd/ Warbear/ Techno-barbarian stuff

Back to Space Wolves, the Winterborn once more
Put in some work on the Honour Guard, trying to get them all to look heroic and unique. Think I succeeded too!
Also finished Fafnir Drakesbane and am getting closer to completing Lord Winterborn himself.

Have an awesome day, sometime this week. You've earned it!

Been working on some terminator Wolf Guard with frostblades, pleased with the results
Also, posted the wrong pic of my Contemptor's shoulderpad so I'll fix that now

Some more of the Terminators with frost blades, and the leader of the Winterborn Honour Guard, Hrongar Blackwolf

Thoughts on this one, if you please:

The Winterborn have a second Contemptor on the way, to be named Torin Shieldbreaker. Once a bloody-handed reaver of Fenris, now a bloody-handed reaver of the 6th legion, I'm thinking I might make him out of the Death Guard contemptor, or perhaps the Iron Warrior one, to represent extra armour, with a siege claw from a Decimator Daemon Engine and a scratch-built chainfist like the one on the Cerastus Knight Acheron.

What do you reckon?

Just some WIP shots of the remaining Honour Guard, to go with Blackwolf
Also a Wolf Priest Terminator

Questions/ Comments/ thoughts/ criticisms/ recipes welcome!

Working on the Wolf Priest, and found some Wargames Factory Samurai. Not sure what I'll do with them, just yet.
Also started repainting my Wood Elf army that I started back in '02, using a White Dwarf list. The core units back then were Archers and Spearmen, and over the few incarnations of the army book my Archers have become Glade Guard, while my Spearmen ave become Eternal Guard, possibly the most useful Elven core unit in the current run of Army Books. Thinking of later branching out into an Army of the Eternity King, just to add some heavy armour and such to the list. Posting a pic of the old paint scheme and (lack of) skill, and a newer attempt. Anyway... On to pics!

And the final 2 Wolf Guard of Borri's pack. I'll post a pic of the unit and its Stormwolf when they're painted

Cool stuff.

i like the cyclone missile launcher hack off the smoke launchers

always like the looks of that bit.

Thanks Desubot! I like the finished piece too, although the conversion was touch and go for a bit... Still, beats buying another cyclone launcher!

For your viewing (dis)pleasure, Dakka, I have some more Wood Elves!
More pics of the test Eternal Guard model, bit dark though... Sorry about that
Also a Wardancer I kitbashed
Next up on the desk - for the Elves, at least- some soon-to-be-converted Steeds of Kurnous!
More pics to come later today, of Elves and Wolves alike!

As promised, more!

One of the coolest (I thought) units in the old Wood Elf army book were the Alter Kindred, elves who had melded with an aspect of nature and taken on animal traits. Something like good beastmen. Unfortunately you could only make individual characters part of this kindred, but I always planned to do a unit of cavalry as centaur-elves. With the new army book, that option is no longer present.... But Forgeworld in their wisdom has provided me an out!
In the Monstrous Arcanum book there's an entry for Bull Centaur Renders, nasty Chaos Dwarf/ bull hybrids. I've decided to Elf that up a bit...

Also, received some Ebay goodness in the form of the original Wulfen models from the 13th Black Crusade days. Adding them to a few conversions to make some Death Company for unbound 40K games

Just finished work on one of my Wood Elf mages, Kaoru of the Tala Clan.

Small update on the Winterborn, their Breacher squad. Nearly done, need to finalise the painting and basing, and scratch build some more helmets.
Also the terminator squad with frostblades are almost complete. Pics later tonight I hope

So, Terminators aren't quite finished. Working... But I do have some completed Honour Guard for the Winterborn, and some new kitbash/ conversion models for my Elves. Decided to go a restricted Host of the Eternity King for the army, so I have a Sister of Avelorn and a Dark Rider

Lemme know your thoughts!

So a productive night building and painting!
Just started a d20 roleplaying game, post-apocalypse setting, and converted some of the characters for that; everything from a half-giant in plate armour to a cowgirl with a powerfist!
Also painted a Reaper Bones Storm Giant as a Jotun to go with my growing, unofficial, non-Chaos Norse army for WHFB
A Forgeworld dreadnought and a Storm Raven received some brush love too, alongside my test 'wolf for a new way to paint World Eaters colours
Lasltly, some spirit dogs for my Elves; thinking I might use the rules for Wolf Rats for them

Almost forgot! Skeleton Dragon! Because who doesn't love the Undead?

Could I ask where you got these heads?

Hey Zywus!
They're from the wargames factory apocalypse survivors kits. Also where the pistol and crowbar came from

Thanks, I didn't recognise those heads were in that kit.

How is the size of those wargames factory heads compared to GW models? Would they look small on a marine or guard body?

Zywus, unfortunately they're too small for either Marine or Guard. They're thinner and smaller than any GW 40K heads, 'true' 28mmm rather than heroic scale.
That being said the survivor models actually make decent Guard equivalents, IMO

Been hard at work but managed to complete very little, lots of ink washes that need to dry

On the table atm we have a trio of Ents, an Arachnarok spider, a giant I'm in the process of armouring, a Zoat, a Truthsayer, 3 Dragons including the skeletal one I posted earlier, a Carnosaur, an old Hydra, a Chimera, a Manticore, a Ghorgon, 2 Griffons and an Arcane Phoenix. The blending on the phoenix is a pain! I'm trying to match the picture in Monstrous Arcanum, to no avail.

I also have a kitbashed Loremaster, and some Dark Riders and a Tirranoc Chariot for my Elves, and the Winterborn Honour Guard is 80% painted, although no bases done yet, and a greenstuff and bitz dragon I still haven't finished building

Anyone with any tips on how to blend the colours of the Phoenix, please let me know

Kurnost wrote:
Zywus, unfortunately they're too small for either Marine or Guard. They're thinner and smaller than any GW 40K heads, 'true' 28mmm rather than heroic scale.
That being said the survivor models actually make decent Guard equivalents, IMO

Ah, I suspected the heads would be incompatible. The models sure are nice though. I'll probably get a box if I can find them locally (International shipping costs is murderous from WGF themselves).

Really like that dragon, though the pics are a bit hard to make out. I think you need to photo it against a less busy background. The head reminds me of the dragon skull on the GW giant sprue. Is it that bit with sculpted scales of is it from an existing dragon?

Zywus, the head is the spare from the High Elf dragon kit with some Dryad bits for horns/ branches

Took some new photos of the dragon, and some background

He's a dragon found in the Deepwoods, lair of all kinds of unpleasant forest spirit-y things. One of the spirits in there took over the body of a fallen green dragon, rebuilding the shattered skeleton with tree and plant life, bound together by magic
I built him from spare bits and lots of green stuff, with Balrog wings. I'm hoping I can resurrect the model, because I really don't want to restart the model

On to pics!

Evening all! It's bloody cold, perfect weather for hobby!
Dug out some wizards, all for the Elves of course; a Zoat, a few High Elves and a converted Alter Elf/ Brayshaman kinda dude
Also added to my dragon collection with a rendition of Asarnil the Dragonlord. So many flying creatures! My desk resembles a prehistoric landing pad....
Also working on an Incarnate Elemental of Death, and a rethink of my Deepwoods dragon

And for those who thought I'd forgotten the Wolves, a Predator Infernus on the build, with additional armour, a new front end and a converted driver!

Enjoy!

Back again! (people run screaming)

Still working on the Fintmancha rebuild, added some bitz just need to build the base and body, and I hit on an el cheapo build for a chaos dragon using spare parts, I figure if the mages of my Elves can bind creatures they'd have no issue sending a chaos beastie to die for them

Also some WIP shots of the Predator Infernus for your viewing pleasure, some of the Krakenspawn, now with handler, and some energetic Fenrisian wolves dodging city terrain

Enjoy!

So, a little more work has yielded an undercoated squad for the Winterborn, an Elf wizard-warrior on a griffin built from a very damaged secondhand Prince Araloth and bits, and a Wolf Lord, Hrolmir Wyrdbane

Should get paint today, stay tuned!

Some more work on Hrolmir Wyrdbane, and started on some squads to accompany him!
I've been playing him as Krom Dragongaze, and these will complete his formation, the Fierce-eye's Finest

Some time off, glorious relaxation- but back again and back into it

New camera not working right now, but a few more pics from the phone

Some more WIP models

Some more WIP stuff, Space Wolves and Mechanicum. Enjoy

And Bedlafrod

Slightly random question to any CSM/ Daemon players out there with a Decimator from Forgeworld- how big is the thing?

I'm really liking how those marines came out. Keep up the good work

Thanks War Kitten!

Pretty much a continuation of the earlier WIP post, with updated pics
More Wulfen, an old Mythicast Thunderwolf from long-pre-GW Thunderwolves (and looks it), another Lazarus robot for the Taghmata Hvergelmir and some updated pics of the Centurions and Harkon Frostmourne
Particularly happy with Frostmourne, since this is his second incarnation and I started that over a year ago, it's nice to have him nearly finished
Also, basing the Krakenspawn before I paint him (her?It?) and the gutsy space wolf goad

Last one for the night (morning...)
Briring, one of my Thunderwolf Cavalry, has had so many Thunderwolves die on him that the Iron Priests have built him a mechanical version
So far, apart from the juggernaut, there's bitz from the Dwarf gyrocopter, Skaven hell pit abomination and stormfiends, a space marine backpack vent and a Sicarian computer monitor in there... and I haven't started to convert the front legs (because they're in the black hole I call an office... somewhere...)
Anywho, enjoy and good night

Started the painting on the Krakenspawn, just flat colours for now. More updates as they become available

Went back over my army list and realsied I don't have the transports for my footsloggers, so I've been working on a couple of Rhino's, one for Greywolf's Pack and the other, probably, going to the Ulfwere.
Greywolf's boys took theirs from a chaos warband, probably Iron Warriors, whilst the Ulfwere were given theirs after defending a shrine world.

Kitbashed a gun of some sort last night, thinking I'll use it as a conversion beamer on a relic predator.

Questions/ comments/ criticisms welcome!

Hello again!
Sprayed Greywolf's rhino and started work on the additional plasticard armour for the Ulfwere's relic rhino, but no pics yet
Have revisited my old Land Raider Ares and finally worked out how to fit the frontal dozer blade using spare Defiler bits
More space wolves on the build, and the thunderwolf cavalry riders almost done, some pics of that by monday
For now, enjoy the Ares!

Your work is fantastic. Some of those marines are so gritty and dark.

Thanks Corpuschain!

Some love for the 13th Company- transports! Still WIP but...

Some progress on packs and such; Norring Ork-smiter's Grey Hunters assembled to a paintable level! Strangely difficult to find that Chaos/ Imperial blaance whilst sleep deprived
Also wrote an army list for some Wolfbrother Marines, using the Chaos codex. Needed to fill points so I chose appropriate wargear, named him, then made a model!

Should really post some new stuff, but it's late and it's not easily available... So some more work in progress!
Some of the Grey Hunters from Norring Ork-Smiter's Pack; one with a plasma pistol, another with a powerfist, a bolter and chainsword bloke and the ubiquitous standard bearer
I've been told the plasma pistol Grey Hunter looks too Khornate. Might swap a weapon or something.
Also some work on Gemin Sandwalker, of the Wolfbrothers, and one of several Wolfbrother Initiate packs I'm working on. Chaos Cultists, using a mix of Ungor, Skaven, Cadian and Goblin plastics (pretty much whatever I wasn't using for something else) All packs will be 35 strong. Need to greenstuff the skaven heads to look more lupine, and fix the hooves on the ungors to be clawed feet. Fair bit of work.

As always, comments/ criticisms/ request for biscuit recipes welcome!

Goodnight

Found a set of 1/35 scale tank tracks in the local hobby store. Here they are on a land raider. Thoughts?

Just went through your blog and just have one thing to say :


Regarding the tracks I'd personally say go for it, but I am a big fan of the mark 4 tadpole, so clearly biased
Keep it up !

Thanks KernelTerror!

Should have his pack finished soon!

Evening all! Been working on my converted Land Raider, Hekate

I'm building Hekate as a Redeemer, but it's not technically a land raider
It was recovered from a technologically advanced, noncompliant world by the Lost Companies, tested, and found to fulfill a similar role to the Redeemer
That's my fluff anyway
So I thought, since it's running non-standard tracks and hull bitz anyway, and has stormfiend miniguns in place of assault cannons, why not modify the flamestorm cannons too
I'm thinking of taking the warpfire throwers off the Boneripper model cluttering up my office (the new one) and mounting them in the sponsons
Probably mount the smaller ones on top of the bigger ones to fill space

I've included some (bad) pictures to give you the basic idea

Thoughts?

Kurnost's "Can't sleep so I built a miniature" hour is here again!
First, some fluff:

Whilst the Bear clan of Urd bore the brunt of fighting the Genitors Chaos Marines, the forge-fathers of the Iron Blood clan struggled to overcome their foe's technological advantage. They were partially successful with the Iron Fist power suits, but these armours were cumbersome, heavy and tiring to wear. It was 35 years before they were able to craft an armour nearly as resilient as the tainted power armour of their foes, by which time it was too late to drastically alter the course of the war. Whilst these advanced armour suits were given priority in the evacuation of Urd, they number barely a score of the hundreds of suits of armour rrecovered from the doomed world.

And on to the pics!
There's Necron, Stormcast, Dwarf and AdMech bitz on this guy, quite happy with him!

Cool ideas with this skaven parts, they definitely have mechanicus aspect to them, so I think the forgefather story works well with those (A bit rusty on my SW fluff though). I just am unsure about the blue round armor platings on them, not sure they fit with the square Land Raider, you'd need to try them on I guess !

And hell yeah more sigmarine, looking good !

Evening all!

It seems that I have a bad habit of spontaneously kitbashing characters
I'll be happily rummging through my bitz box and something wil catch myeye... then another something, then a full-fledged idea..... Then I'm up past 3 am building whatever I've just devised

So, I present Ainethach th Oathsworn, commander of the Warbears and last king of Urd

Hello dakka!
Some more (slow) progress on the Warbears; Star Breakers!
Specially trained Warbears in advanced armour, wielding star breaker mauls, these were the final word in Star Warrior (Chaos) slaying
Unfortunately, by the time they were ready the war for Urd was already lost. They only fought once, in Ainethach's strike against the Genitors' leadership, before being evacuated from Urd

So I've worked out the flame/plasma weapons for Hekate (I think)... Many skaven bitz shoehorned into the sponsons
Let me know what you think

Wow. What a great thread. Some really fantastic conversions.

I love how everything is really brutal looking. My fave is Kraken hydra thing. A really great piece.

EDC

Morning Dakkka!

Firstly, evildrcheese, thanks for the kind words! Good to know you like. I'm finding the krakenspawn to be a centrepiece which is odd since I basically saw the model on the shelf and thought "I must have this"
Thinking of a separate force possibly using the Nid codex full of similar beasties- krakenspawn, frost giant hive tyrants, dragon-riding space wolves as nid flyers, stonehorn carnifexes etc. But later. Later....

For this morning, been working on the company. Dug the whole thing out, went over the list and found the missing bits, currently 45 wolves, 23 bikers and several transports. The Companies are deployed on my kitchen table so I don't forget about them

Also worked on filling up units, have a Wolf Guard or two and some Long Fangs for you

As always, questions/ comments/ cocktail recipes welcome! Enjoy

Ooops, nearly forgot these boys!

Fith's Pack, of the Great Company of Ulfun Alf-Ven
The pack who claim Hekate as their transport travel in ancient, battle-scarred Cataphractii warplate

A pack of 6 terminators with combi-weapons and chainfists, backed by a redeemer and a heavy flamer to discourage charges

Some more work in progress!

Radd Ingolsson, Wolf Priest of the Lost Companies, gets a new, relic-y bolter to represent the Bite of Fenris

Tymvaul Black-Cull, Blood Claw pack leader in desperate need of new paint but finally assembled

And a THunderwolf rider for Gunnar's Hunt, all with double Wolf Claws

Cool. Looking forward to see how the BaC stuff progresses.

EDC

Hey Dakkaites, been a while! How is everyone?
I've been busy with work and life, but found some time to work on my Wolves recently!
So here we have some more members of Fith's Pack (BfC Cataphractii), Blood Claw Pack Leader Blackclaw, based on Arjac Rockfist, and Lone Wolf Bronrod.
Thoughts/ questions/ comments/ random songs welcome! Have a great one!

Some WIP on Fith, Pack Leader of... Fith's Pack

Wolf Guard Pack Leader, Chainfist, Combi-Plasma

F'lor Martol was raised to the Wolfbrothers early in the 200's M42, a few years after N'Ton El'Oban. When the Althing decided to send Great Company N'Ton back to the Imperium, F'lor was seconded to them to fill the role of Chaplain

>> Dark Apostle, Mark of Slaanesh, Burning Brand of Skalathrax, Ichor Blood, Combat Familiar, Gift of Mutation- Temporal Distortion (Fleet), Command Trait- Lord of Terror<<

A Wulfen Champion of Great Company Kolvjon, Traven is a savage and unrelenting warrior, scarcely more in control than his packmates.

>>Possessed Champion, Mark of Khorne, Gift of Mutation- All-Consuming Hatred, Gift of Mutation- Multiple Boons (Mind of Metal, Crystalline Body, Cerebral Cogitator)<<

Norugun is one of the most lucid of the Wulfen Champions, and his armour bears enhancements that make him a far deadlier warrior on the battlefield. These upgrades were personally crafted by Norugun between battles.

>>Possessed Champion, Mark of Khorne, Gift of Mutation- Cosmic Fate, Gift of Mutation- Warp Claws<<

Awesome.

Those claws he has are really brutal looking.

EDC

Thanks EDC!
The Warp Talons ability gives him shred, but he only has a c/c weapon so I thought some kind of punch dagger/ cat claws martial art-sy kind of weapon suited best

Son of a Necromundan guardswoman and a Muricanth pilot, T’garran has been with the Lost Companies from birth. His time as a Wolfbrother lasted a mere two decades before injury forced his internment in a dreadnought. The chassis he pilots is, more properly, an H-grade servitor chassis, but it performs the same life-support functions as a Dreadnought and mounts two hardpoint heavy weapons with which T’garran dominates the battlefield.

>>Helbrute with Reaper Autocannon and Missile Launcher<<

Missile launcher coming soon....

Added F'lor's left arm, with the Burning Brand of Skalathrax. Grey knight storm bolter arm with an incinerator muzzle. Still needs work but getting there

Bonrod’s home was a prosperous human world that was run by the survivors of a Rogue Trader family. When the Space Marines of the Executioners Chapter contacted the still-loyal enclave, they declared them secessionists and made savage war upon them, finally destroying them outright. Bonrod and a few other survivors fled blindly into the Warp aboard a damaged warship and were recovered by the Lost Companies. Despite becoming a Space Marine himself, Bonrod’s hatred of the killers of his world has never abated. The Contemptor chassis he claims is outfitted with unique, advanced Medicae systems and was formerly used by an Inquisitor Lord to prolong his own life.

>>Helbrute Champion (Helfist Murderpack Formation), Twin-Linked Lascannon, Thunder Hammer, Veteran of the Scouring (Imperial Armour 13 Legacy of Ruin)<<

Scut was recruited from a war-torn feudal world and quickly rose through the ranks of the Wolfbrothers, leading many packs in battle. In life, his preferred weapon was a heavy chainsword salvaged from the aftermath of a chaos attack. As a dreadnought, his clawed fists lay waste to his foe. He takes his name from his tendency to seize his enemies up in his hands and tear them asunder, an effective and terrifying method to despatch traitor Astartes.

>>Helbrute, twin power fists, combi-bolter, heavy flamer<<

Also did some more work on T'Garran. Still needs something, but I'm not quite sure what

Very nice looking walkers, keep it up !

Thanks KernelTerror!

There's quite a few more still to come

A little more greenstuff work and Scut is good to paint!

Some work on Bonrod, crating him a pair of lascanons

Some greenstuff work and Norugun is beginning to take shape!
I know you can't see it, but there's battle damage sculpted into his armour plates

The native shaman of Itrium were called Storm-Shepherds for it was only they who could calm the raging lightning storms that might otherwise start forest fires that could render whole tribal lands into little more than charred ruins. When The Purge came, the Storm-Shepherds suffered many losses but those who survived gained great power- when wounded, they found they could reform their bodies, calling upon the Wolf Within to save them.

>>Rogue Psyker (Horus HEresy boook 5 rules), Rogue Psyker Alpha, Tainted weapon<<

The human version is the rogue as a human, the other is to represent his possessed form

Larger, stronger and far smarter than a normal Wulfen of the Wolfbrothers chapter, the Ward-Wulfen are one of Felessan’s creations- indeed, he is often accompanied by a pair of them.

Respectively, Anakatis Kul Blade Slave, Gal Vorbak Dark Brethrenw power sword and Gal Vorbak Dark Martyr with power maul. All using Legiones Astartes Word Bearers special rules


(Yeah, I know, 30K. But the Gal Vobak are soooooooo cooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Some more greenstuff work on Traven, Wulfen Champion. Added some fur to his hands and feet, and started sculpting the possessed parts of the armour into more natural muscle or power armour systems.

A commander of a score of Wolfbrothers, Truvor and his brothers ambushed an Iron Warriors Siege Terminator squad on the surface of Cadia. Despite losing many of their brothers to the savage and resilient foe, Truvor’s pack triumphed, taking the shattered terminator armour as trophies. The Iron Priests, impressed by the feat, repaired many of these suits, and those who lacked armour were outfitted from the Lost Companies armouries, making Truvor the first commander of a Terminator pack in the Wolfbrothers.

As it stands, Truvor is an exercise in using up bitz. Cataphractii terminator, dreadknight, dreadnought, Dwarf gyrocopter, space marine and third party fur bitz thus far, and probably some ork stuff too by the time I'm done

>>Chaos Terminator champion, Mark of Tzeentch (hence why the cataphractii look), power sword, combi-bolter, gift of mutation- Blademaster (WS5)<<

Wow, very interesting build that last Terminator armor. Will be interesting to see where you go from there...

Just finished greystuffing Bonrod's legs and feet, pretty happy. Working on his left arm thunder hammer now
Just have a size comparison shot with the Betrayal at Calth contemptor and a standard dread. I think he stands out enough

Painting Scut Foesplitter, thought I'd show off the colour scheme. It's pretty dark, like the old Grey Knights. Scut doesn't have any furs but these will be white. Lenses/ scanners same blue as the Space Wolves, and brass edging.
Also, since I'm using the Chaos rules for some of the Wolfbrother units, I've made a counts-as daemon prince for the Dark Apotheosis result. He's a Frostgrave greater demon with minotaur hands and weapons. He'll have a wolfy head, of course

He's not quite finished, but I've put some serious work in on Truvor including starting the painting. His left hand will have a Space Wolf storm bolter when I can find a spare

Some more WIP, including green/grey stuff work and a head from Maxmini. Getting him to glue at his running angle has been the hardest bit so far. Swapped out his backpack, probably give him a Mk IV pack instead

Of all my Wulfen pack leaders, Norugun's probably closest to painting stage. Going to add a little more damage/ jury-rigged repairs to his armour and call it a day. Like Traven, he has a Maxmini head

Scut is nearly done, just needs a storm bolter in his right hand. I've started work on Bonrod's sarcophagus, and assembled 9 of my 10 Lazarus robots for the Taghmata Hvergelmir (apologies for the terrible photo there folks)

Randomly built a heavy weapon Wolfbrother the other day with a heavy flamer. No name or squad yet, just a dude. Enjoy!

Can't sleep right now, so hobby!
A little more progress on Norugun and a battle robot for the Taghmata Hvergelmir. The battle bot is very early stages, haven't decided on the weapons loadout yet
With Norugun I'm trying to make the extra armour attached to his armour look like damaged and worn metal

Morning all (yes, it's afternoon here but shift work) just put together some more Wolfbrothers to fit various places and times in the life of the young Chapter.
First up, a Wulfen from the 3rd generation of Wolfbrothers. The first generation was the original successor Chapter that was destroyed, the second generation were the enhanced humans Inquisitor Rathmine created in his insanity, from where Holgir Bearclaw arose, and the third generation were Holgir's first attempts to fix Rathmine's work. Most are Wulfen.
With him a group of (somehow) stable Wolfbrothers crewing a (chaos) rapier laser destroyer.
From the third generation and also somewhat sane, The Herald of Truvor. Chaos Terminator with powerfist, combi-bolter eventually and Icon of Flame
Lastly, some sicth-generation Thegns.

Been busy building Wolfbrothers! Not to replace the Space Wolves, but simply because that's what on my mind (and all the parts are in my bitz box...)

So, for your viewing pleasure, some Wulfen of Norugun's Pack, the first unit of Possessed I have at a playable size

To go with my Wolfbrothers, some heavy support in the form of a chaos rapier carrier with ectoplasma cannon, in this case representing a modified plasma cannon created by the Taghmata Hvergelmir and tested by the Wolfbrothers, who sorely lack equipment (at least at this time.....)

Additionally, an Iron Priest of the Wolfbrothers, of the 5th generation, wielding a Conversion Beamer. As he's been trained by the Taghmata Hvergelmir and not on Mars, his armour will be the tattered black and red of the Taghmata, with the iron wolf's head shoulder pad of his Chapter (shoulder pads coming soon.... As soon as Australia Post do their job....)

Ooo where did the ray gun you're using as conversion beamer come from?

Some cool conversions going on in here. Great work.

EDC

Thanks EDC!
The ray gun is a Maxmini Tesla Cannon. Comes in packs of five so I will be making more techmarine conversions

Been doing some work on finishing up some Wolfbrothers unit. Started painting Bonrod the Roarer and assembled the Herald from Truvor's pack.
Started work on a great wulfen as a counts-as daemon prince for if any of my characters roll up Dark Apotheosis, using the head of the clawed fined I turned into a tithed wulfen with some grey stuff

Started work on a magos-Malagra for my Taghmata force. Malagra are the tech-assassins, nasty buggers. This one is called Renard, and due to his wargear he's a bit bigger than most. He's mostly a marine Centurion with some 3rd party shoulder pads and a Khador Berserker Warjack powerplant. As well as making it a pain to get him onto a base, it'll provide a nice place to position the staggering amount of weapons and items this dude has

Lemme know what you think of Monsieur Renard!

Back to Space Wolves (for now)

Another unit that came about from random bitz-box rummaging, these two are the first of a six man squad of thunder riders with storm shield and thunder hammer

Been working on the Wolfbrothers, added some more to the Rapier crew but didn't have sufficient rapiers for them to crew. Looked at the Kataphron servitors for a while, then found these instead! Without the turrets, they're about the right size and with 5 in a box I now have 2 full squads of Rapiers

Morning all! Bought these a while ago to add some variety to my thunderwolf packs but, since I now have a lot of thunderwolves these guys were put away. Scrounging around the internet I came across some not too crazy fan rules for Khorne Berserkers on juggernauts and decided I'd add a squad to my Wofbrothers (who are predominantly Khornate chaos)
So here's the mounts, 1 have 2 of each sculpt, so I won't do a group[ shot until they're all finished. The last model has the colour scheme I'm going for, almost albino wolves with dark armour and riders

Working on a sub-group of Wolfbrothers, The Grey Wardens, to represent some of the genetic alterations they've come acroos while modifying their gene-seed to reduce the instance of sponaneous mutation. The Grey Wardens are strong, resilient, and when not fighting serve to keep the other crazier wolfbrothers in line. game-wise they're Plague Marines
This fine fellow is Duncan of the Grey Wardens
>>Plague Champion<<

And here we have....

Been working on my plague champion (counts as)
I think the chest plate needs something- icon, cables, etc. just something to break up the expanse a bit
What do you think?

Finished the first of the juggernaughts for my mounted berserkers! Needs a base, but I'll get to it

Evening Dakka! Been putting some more work in on the Wolfbrothers, nearly finished the rapier carrier and crew, and Duncan is pretty close too, just waiting on the shipment from puppetswar with my shoulder pads...

Also been working on the Space Wolves, some more fast attack to round the company out. Been quite a while since I played with bikes, but these ones will accompany the few I posted a long while ago to form a full-strength Swiftclaw pack, complete with attack bike. The Land Speeder will join the other speeder I've had for a while, possibly give some survivability to the unit

Working on a new unit! They're called Stormblood Thralls, and they are drawn from those aspirants who failed to become Space Wolves (and survived). Tough, well-trained and highly experienced, Stormblood units support the astartes in engagements where the full force of the Great Company cannot be brought to bear. They have limited genetic and cybernetic enhancement.
I'm not sure what to play them as just yet, but Dark Eldar Wracks has been suggested.
I made them from Khorne Bloodbound with spare Space Wolf and Dwarf bits

Working on a new unit! They're called Stormblood Thralls, and they are drawn from those aspirants who failed to become Space Wolves (and survived). Tough, well-trained and highly experienced, Stormblood units support the astartes in engagements where the full force of the Great Company cannot be brought to bear. They have limited genetic and cybernetic enhancement.
I'm not sure what to play them as just yet, but Dark Eldar Wracks has been suggested.
I made them from Khorne Bloodbound with spare Space Wolf and Dwarf bits

Cool idea for the Stormblood Thralls. Great conversion work, as ever.

EDC

First off, thanks to everyone for the views, suggestions and comments

Way back on page 1 I introduced Holgir Bearclaw, the Keeper. He's the leader of the Wolfbrothers, and the custodian of their more dangerous members hence the title, The Keeper. Rules-wise he's a Dark Apostle with multiple boons and the Slaughterer's Horns, Daemonheart and Crozius of the Dark Covenant from the Crimson Slaughter codex. Looking at the model I was using, however, he doesn't really fit. He's tiny, and just looks like a guy in power armour. So I remade him. Some Sternguard and Wulfen bitz, an Empire Knights banner top and the head from the original miniature, and he was reborn! Still haven't finished the painting, but let me know what you think.

I think that looks brilliant. He looks like an absolute bad-ass.

EDC

Badass indeed, and with a creepy zealot vibe, really cool model !

Afternoon ladies and gents!
Went converting at work this morning, came up with this gent for my Stormblood Thralls

Been working on my Jotunbrud, going to use them as Grotesques to accompany my Stormblood Thrall Wracks units.
Also started my first unit of Wulfen! As always, conversions through the unit,

Been working on my Wulfen Guard (Death Company, using the old metal Wulfen models) for a while now, and as I'm not prepared to pay stupendous amounts of money on ebay I've been trying to find some decent counts-as models.
Picked these guys up from Spellcrow; their Feral Wolves hands, heads and torso kits with the Wolves legs kit. What do you think?

Finally got my Puppetswar order, and finisehd up with Holgir

Kolvjon, called the Lord of Beasts for the composition of his Company, is Holgir's first successful space marine. Whilst he is almost entirely Wulfen, he retains enough will to accept orders and act upon them, and he leads his Company as an alpha beast might, always to the fore, his blade red with the blood of the foe. The beast he rides was a gift from Johran Redbeard, Huntmaster of the Wild Hunt, after Kolvjon saved his life.

Much later, when the Wolfbrother genome had been stabilised, Johran forged more beasts in the same vein as the one Kolvjon rode, giving the Wolfbrothers their first cavalry unit

Morning all!
A while back I bought a mixed bag of old minis from a friend who was getting rid of his stuff. Among the various randomness in there- Ogres in Empire uniforms, Viydaggs, banshees and undead, dragons and many, many daemon/ monster things, was this guy.
I have no idea what it was originally supposed to be, but for now I'm using it as a Dark Mechanicus spawn; some warped daemon-cyborg-thing they throw at their foes

If anyone has any clue what it was or where it came from, I'd love to know

Enjoy!

Dakka, I feel I made a terribly decision this morning.... I got all of my models out and started counting! Ye gods....

Over 200 Space Wolves, nearly 100 Wolfbrothers, assorted gribblies, at least 4 true 28mm historical/fantasy armies, warhammer fantasy Bretonnians, Elves, Dwarves and Empire, 40K orks and more counts-as forces, primarily of the 30K Militia/Cults list than I can safely poke a stick at... and not a single finished army in sight!

So I shall be expanding! More blogs for each army or force, updated as I (slowly) go.... So no more randomness on this blog, just 13th company-ish Space Wolves

Testing....
Haven't had much luck with the direct link thingamabob in the past so here we go....

The final terminator for Fith's Pack!





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Johran Redbeard, Huntmaster of the Lost Companies, is a powerful warrior possessed of incredibly acute senses.



His greatest skills do not lie on the field of battle, but rather in a laboratory, for Johran is the chief geneticist of the Lost Companies. Through his tireless efforts the companies are supplied with wolves, riding creatures of all forms,





Jotunbrud for combat and heavy labour





And even stranger beasts, primarily as weapons







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Some more love for the Wild Hunt- a big daddy Jotunbrud



I'm thinking of running Tyranids (don't recall if I mentioned that earlier...) to represent the weird variety of beasties the Wild Hunt has. Let me know your thoughts, or an alternative army I could use!

Also, some Swiftclaws with a difference! I have 3 packs of Swiftclaws in Great Company Jorek; Ingmar's Stormriders, Lassnr Thane-Seeker's Pack and Korst's Windriders. The Windriders use reconditioned jetbikes (if you're wondering how, an Iron Priest scrapped a heavily damaged Land Speeder and stuck the grav plates on a bike)













Korst started life as a Wolf Priest on bike, but he'll be getting a slight rebuild with power fist and shield. The rest of the squad will be getting the chaos skull helms too

Excellent, again, lots of crazy conversions and beasts that will fit the 13th nicely !

Loving those jetbike conversions. very cool indeed

EDC