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Okay, now finished with Grey Hunter MotW models

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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.

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

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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.