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I know, right. Space wolves are grey. Not this baby blue business. I found an old white dwarf, I think circa 2000. It was when the original space wolf sprue came out. Those guys are grey. Don't know whose idea it was to switch colors. I could belly ache about it all night! At any rate, TWC.......

Nice Thunderwolves! The bronze shields are cool!

Thanks Paradigm! Managed to finish the Stormwolf. I think this is the best space marine flier, definitely matches the army better than any other. This thing reminds me of a Viking long ship. Anyway, pretty cool!

Very nice! Love the use of the red and white!

Thanks paradigm, I was a little concerned there are too many colors on the guy. Overall, I am pleased.

Anyway, 1st drop pod close to done. I tried to make some freehand looking thing along the sides. Think the idea was sound, execution not so much. Also a damn door broke, what a beating. Still fits though. Anyway.....

Alright, the first pod is finished. This army is almost done.

Very nice! Maybe weather it a bit like it just went through re entry?

Hard to make Pods look interesting, but that one does! Love the freehand work!

Who's up next when the Wolves are done?

Just read through the whole lot over lunch nice work, wolves look great and the guard are an impressive bunch to, the work on the ebay rescued vehicles was also done very well.

@Ustrello- yeah, some burn marks would be appropriate but I'm not sure it would match the rest of the factory fresh army. It's a good idea though.

@Paradigm- not sure what's next. May take another break. I hear space marines are getting another codex and new models. That may be promising.

@sonny2dap- thanks for the compliments and taking the time to flip through the blog. Glad you like it.

In the meantime, 3 more Thunderwolves........

Yes thunderwolves. I completely agree with you about SW being grey. Dunno why they pussied out and went baby blue. They're Vikings for Gorks sake, they're meant to be menacing not huggable.

@WarbossDakka- exactly right. You can't be a bad ass space Viking and wear baby blue.

In the meantime.......

And here are the Thunderwolves. All I have left is a drop pod then these guys will hopefully find a good home. Not sure what I want to do next. A new space marine codex sounds interesting. Also heard about a possible Dark Angels book, maybe an excuse to try them again. Anyway.....

Nice work as usual!

You should do a xeno race, maybe tau (gasp)?

@Paradigm- Thanks man, always appreciate the kind words

@ Ustrello- I had considered Tau because I think it would be fun to try a camp scheme on them. Problem is I just can't get motivated. Imperial armies have always been my soft spot.

 40kFSU wrote:
@Paradigm- Thanks man, always appreciate the kind words

@ Ustrello- I had considered Tau because I think it would be fun to try a camp scheme on them. Problem is I just can't get motivated. Imperial armies have always been my soft spot.

Yeah I feel you, never start an army you have no interest in. Might I suggest an Iron Hands or Raven Guard army? With IH you can do lots of augmentations and with RG you can do a lot of jump pack infantry.

 Ustrello wrote:

 40kFSU wrote:
@Paradigm- Thanks man, always appreciate the kind words

@ Ustrello- I had considered Tau because I think it would be fun to try a camp scheme on them. Problem is I just can't get motivated. Imperial armies have always been my soft spot.

Yeah I feel you, never start an army you have no interest in. Might I suggest an Iron Hands or Raven Guard army? With IH you can do lots of augmentations and with RG you can do a lot of jump pack infantry.

He's already done a fantastic RG army, worth checking out!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/blog/535033.page

How about Grey Knights? Nice and different from typical Marines, potential quite a small force, plenty of scope for special effects on all those Power Weapons.

Or if you want something completely different, the new AdMech kits look rather awesome!

 Paradigm wrote:

 Ustrello wrote:

 40kFSU wrote:
@Paradigm- Thanks man, always appreciate the kind words

@ Ustrello- I had considered Tau because I think it would be fun to try a camp scheme on them. Problem is I just can't get motivated. Imperial armies have always been my soft spot.

Yeah I feel you, never start an army you have no interest in. Might I suggest an Iron Hands or Raven Guard army? With IH you can do lots of augmentations and with RG you can do a lot of jump pack infantry.

He's already done a fantastic RG army, worth checking out!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/blog/535033.page

How about Grey Knights? Nice and different from typical Marines, potential quite a small force, plenty of scope for special effects on all those Power Weapons.

Or if you want something completely different, the new AdMech kits look rather awesome!

Hm I must of missed that, my bad! But I'd still suggest the iron hands or another first founding chapter. Though the Admech would be very interesting, another suggestion could be a knight or two!

Hey gents,I'm glad you like the armies. Admech kinda creeps me out. It's like the IG ratlings. It's just weird. I'm hoping to settle on an army I like and just go with it. I want it to be marines, but with the largest selection of models. That would probably make it a codex chapter. I'm surfing lexicanum and Google for interesting chapters.

Yeah the admech can be kinda creepy, but might I suggest the iron snakes then? Cool color scheme, good lore.

@Ustrello- I looked up the Iron Snakes, yes very cool. Great lore too. I don't know, I've always wanted to do Minotaurs. I guess we will see.

In the meantime, drop pod 2. I figured this one will deliver the dread so I left out the harnesses. Or I got lazy. What stinks is one of the doors snapped. It still closes and stays in place, can't even feel, but damn. Both pods the same thing. Maybe I got a bad batch. Still WIP.......

Well with that option I'd go with the minotaurs, especially since you can get some sweet forgeworld stuff for it to make them stand out.

 40kFSU wrote:
@Ustrello- I looked up the Iron Snakes, yes very cool. Great lore too. I don't know, I've always wanted to do Minotaurs. I guess we will see.

In the meantime, drop pod 2. I figured this one will deliver the dread so I left out the harnesses. Or I got lazy. What stinks is one of the doors snapped. It still closes and stays in place, can't even feel, but damn. Both pods the same thing. Maybe I got a bad batch. Still WIP.......

It’s probably the fact that drop pods are made out of pure evil and malice. They hate us as much as we hate them. Wretched things. I left the harnesses out of one of my pods for the same reason. The dread is a perfect excuse for not having to paint another set of these twisty little things that refuse to line up nice, and you need to do all sorts of brush contortions to get covered.

I might have some... issues with pods.

As for your next project, the world can always use some more Ultramarines .

@Ustrello- exactly. The Forgeworld transfer sheets are awesome. Ditto the resin pieces. Also they are a codex chapter so more cool models are available to them.

@Nevelon- I concur with your drop pod description. I think it's quite rational. It's almost as infuriating as building Necrons. As for the Ultras, I think you got them covered pretty well.

 40kFSU wrote:
@Ustrello- exactly. The Forgeworld transfer sheets are awesome. Ditto the resin pieces. Also they are a codex chapter so more cool models are available to them.

@Nevelon- I concur with your drop pod description. I think it's quite rational. It's almost as infuriating as building Necrons. As for the Ultras, I think you got them covered pretty well.

I expect to see Moloc and or Aiakos sometime

So, the Space Wolves are finished. Thanks to everyone who stopped by and took a look. Ustrello, if I go with Minotaurs, those two psycho's will be high on the list!

An awesome army as per usual FSU, I hope it finds a good home! Personally I'd rather see aiakos as I have never seen him fielded before when the minotaurs show up.

That's a mighty impressive army!

Wow. Love the army. I looked through it to try to find my favorite part, and couldn’t. It’s just all that good. Again: Wow.