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What colours do you paint these ravenborn?
Any response will be useful thanks!
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Ok, look forward to updates

Well, I'm not dead yet. Just 40, which is damned near the same. :( I took my wife to London to celebrate last month, which helped.

Anyways, my daughter bought me a new iPhone, so I'm trying it out. Not happy with the pics, but I spent all of 30 seconds setting up the lighting, so I won't complain too much.






So I've been playing quite a bit these days, getting my ass handed to me. I realized my list was too vanilla to be competitive, so I've been bulking up my grey hunter teams with Mark of the Wulfen (First two Wolverine wanna-bes in the top pic), Wolf Standard, and a Wolf Priest. Man, I thought Smurfs were bad for word replacement. They got nothin' on GW. "Brother Wolfheart, wolf me the wolfing wolf before i wolf you with my motherwolfing wolf."

Anyways, Instead of a banner I have Brother Donnal MacBray, who has played those pipes for 86 years without taking a single lesson. And it shows. He has no need of a mere bolter, laying low the enemy before him with a few shattering bleats from his pipes o'doom. His brethern are inured to its effects, but they know once he starts a'blowin' he won't cease until the enemy is laid low, or they are. This drives them to a murderous frenzy, desperate to annhilate their enemy before MacBray can start a second verse.

Hope you like 'em, I'll take better pics once they've done. I've completed almost 2500pts of these guys, and i never want to touch Vermin Brown again. I've also been working on both Dark Eldar and Dark Elves, as well as a Malifaux band. Must... focus...

Always love to see themed armies, great work on all of the models and beautiful paint jobs!

Beautiful army just wish this sorta thing wasnt beyond my ability and wallet lol

As a (part) scot I love this, although the pipes need the tartan. My brother is learning to play them, and when they're played well its pretty lifting (or blood curdling, depending on whose side you're on)...

Very nice as always!

Phew! How long does it take you to paint those tartans? It looks great, but it must be killer!

I really like the bleached bone keylines. My vote is for all the vehicles!

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,
Rawson

Thanks guys!

The tartans are actually pretty quick now, about 30 minutes or so. I'm less fussy these days, and don't waste time touching up mistakes. Laziness has its virtues.

I've since repainted all of my vehicles with bone key lines. I'm much happier with the results.

And the bagpipes will be tartan, he's still WIP. I've built and rebuilt him about three times in the lasy two months, and am still not entirely happy with him, but he was much goofier looking before. Marine arms weren't meant to cross over the chest to play the bagpipes; they need to be extended to reach, and my first three attempts look very orangutan-like. I was tempted to just call him a Jokearo, but common sense kicked in at the last moment.


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Found some pics online from an event in Calgary earlier this year; Mythacon. Lots of fun, although it's now all a blur fueled by little sleep and far too much caffiene.

This army is jawdroppingly awesome, as a space wolf player i have to say that I've seen some amazing subchapters but this one takes the cake. Striking color scheme, great conversions, all around amazing army.

I love the chariot bike idea, and why do i have a feeling that there will be a squad of the dudes in the future?

Absolutely B-A-eutiful Mastiff. Just love the Wolf Priest conversion. Did you ever get that Thunder Wolf conversion completed?

Thanks guys!

I've built four bikes/thunderwolves and basecoated them, but just can't seem to get them painted. They just seem like a chore for some reason. I stopped trying to work on them and came up with the idea for the wolfpriest and had him built and painted in under a week, but I just can't seem to get any enthusiasm for the t-wolves.

I brought them to my last tournament, and was happy with how they performed, so I know they need to be completed.

The bagpipe reminds me of the old "Ladies from Hell" nickname the Germans gave the Highlanders during WW1. Awesome although surely Marines can just turn their helmets sound system off? It's great for dealing with those dull sermons and mission briefings. The Wolf Priest takes "Beakie" to a whole new level!

Pics of my "thunderwolves" WIP.

I have a Wolf Lord on T-wolf, with a frostblade and stormsheild, and three T-wolf cavalry. The cavalry ride trikes instead of sidecars, and have spears with broad blades (currently broken off). Kinda' fun to build, I just haven't had enthusiasm for painting 'em, so they've been in limbo for 3+ months.

Awww shizzles. As much as I like the trikes, when I saw thunderwolf cavelry in context with your army theme, I pictured giant flightless ravens being used as mounts. I don't want to say disappointed, as I'm not, but, it came as a surprise that's all.

Your lord is kick ass though.

ghosty wrote:Awww shizzles. As much as I like the trikes, when I saw thunderwolf cavelry in context with your army theme, I pictured giant flightless ravens being used as mounts. I don't want to say disappointed, as I'm not, but, it came as a surprise that's all.

Your lord is kick ass though.

lol, that would be awesome. Do you play World of Warcraft? Druids can get a raven mount that looks great. I thought about doing something like that, but to be honest i just hate the idea of Space Marines on animals smaller than a mastadon. These guys weight upwards of a tonne each.

I googled for that raven mount, as I wasn't sure what you were going on about. And wow. 's all I'm saying. That's kinda exactly what i was thinking of. I can see where you're coming from weight wise, but... bah giant flightless birds are pretty damn cool, and you never see them in 40k.

ghosty wrote:I googled for that raven mount, as I wasn't sure what you were going on about. And wow. 's all I'm saying. That's kinda exactly what i was thinking of. I can see where you're coming from weight wise, but... bah giant flightless birds are pretty damn cool, and you never see them in 40k.

Here's a pic of one:

Yep, that's it. I had dreams of buying a lizardman Carnosaur and converting it with greenstuff... then I looked at the price. $45 a pop. Just couldn't do it. But that's the minimum size I would go for.

But I'm still damn tempted

Love the frost axe. I humbly request a tutorial similar in detail to Insaniaks skull badges. Please...with sugar on top.

The shield/sword combos are cool too, though I think that that will confuse opponents as to what is represented WYSIWIG...like why is your TWC armed with both a power weapon and a thunderhammer/frost blade/ect? I assume that the shields also represent Storm Shields? If not, that might further confuse your opponent.

In regards to the 3 TWC conversions, I like your first with the WL the most. You should do a similar one except with a wulfen jumping out of the basket!

Oh man... This army is so full of character. I love it.
Totally exalted.

Can't even say what I like the most. But the runepriest is definetly one part of it.

I've been distracted by too many projects, including dark eldar and dark elves, and orcs for Confrontation, but I still get games in with these guys. I was playing with a camera, and I'm finally getting pics I'm happy with.

Next week I finally start painting terminators! C'mon boxed 40k set!

Stunning kilt. Also liking the dappling on the power maul.

So... anyone interested in buying the entire Ravenborn army?

I have absolutely no interest in these models anymore. I don't play much 40k since I started Infinity, and when I have played 40k in the last two years it was with my Dark Eldar.

I really enjoyed my time with the haggis-scented marines... I started them about 17 years ago, and definitely had fun trying my hand at painting tartans and camo. But I just can't dig up any enthusiasm for completing the army, or for the marine aesthetic for that matter. Or, well, 40k.

I'm going to put a proper post documenting all of my models and their state of completion for the Buy & Sell section of this site, and Ebay as well, but wanted to see if there was any interest here first. If I can get a decent price I will complete the unfinished models, otherwise the whole thing will go as is. The money will go to a good cause; rum, cheetoes, pr0n and Infinity models.

So, if you're interested in owning a new SpaceWolf army, PM me.

Here's roughly what I have and their completion (I'll have a more accurate post next week with better photos, I need to get a lot of stuff back to photograph and document) The % is how complete they are as a group.

Vehicles
- Rhino | 100%
- Rhino | 75%
- Whirlwind | 100%
- Landspeeder | 100%
- Land Raider | 100%
- Dreadnought | 100%

Troops
- 4 T-Wolves. Sorta. see below. | 40%
- 5 Wolf Scouts | 100%
- 5 Terminators | 60%
- 10 SW | 100%
- 10 SW | 60%
- 5 BCs on bikes | 100%
- Assault Bike | 100%
- 15 BCs on foot | 75%
- 5 Long Fangs | 90%

HQs
- Old Man MacRoth (termie) | 100%
- 3 Wolf Guard/sgts | 65%
- 2 SW bagpipers | 40%
- 3 ancient mastiffs | 100%
- 2 armoured mastiffs | 65%
- 1 Wolf Priest | 100%
- 1 Rune Priest

I think that's it. Damn. I'd forgotten how much plastic I've gone through lol

Plus I have a lots of bits that I'll throw in.

Some quick pics:

Some of the boys: Basic trooper, Rune Priest, BC or WG with rending whatchamacallits


Unfinished Thunderwolf Cavalry:


Long Fangs (need tartans completed)


Land Raider


Army pic from six years ago




...and here's why I'd rather spend my time on Infinity:





Yes, I am obsessed with Vermin Brown, why do you ask?

Man, if I could afford to make an offer, I would. These guys are sweet.