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I was fully committed to building a battle weary Blood Ravens army until my best friend gave me a verbal beating about it. Here's a little backstory; I have wanted to redo my Space Wolf army since 2000 using nothing but the current plastics and retire my old RT/2nd ed Wolves to the annals of glory.

He points out that the SW codex is due for release next year and as much as he loves my old Wolves he won't play against them once the new Dex comes. He says he's doing this for my own good, he's tired of hearing me talk about redoing them. As I am a much better painter now and I would be much more satisfied having the army I've been planning all these years complete. He also points out the cool factor of having awesome looking space Vikings, who care for nothing more than a good Ale and to fight in the service of Russ!

He is quite right I need to man up and follow through on my Wolves, they deserve it.

So lets start with a look into the past. Here are a smattering of my Wolves; all painted 9+ years ago.




The Wolflord with the Pfist is my first attempt at GSing wolfpelts.



The predator will be the only thing to transition into the new army for sure.

The concept for the new army will be a post Heresy theme so I want to represent a large mix of armor types.

Blood Claws will be wearing predominately Mk VII armor with Mk VI mixed in.

Grey hunters will have mostly Mk IV and Mk VI armor with a few Mk VII mixed in for flavor.

Long Fangs will be wearing armor that will best protect them so a Mix of Mk III, Mk VI and MK VII will fit the bill.

Wolf Guard will wear anything.


Here is the test Grey Hunter. Grrr... I need to fix one thing; a spot of grey on the exhaust vent on his pack. Other than that one flaw I'm quite happy with they way he's turned out.






Here are five more Grey Hunters. I'm working on 4 more they will all be sporting converted Mk IV Maximus armor.



Here is a WIP of my fist converted Mk IV. I still need to fill in the wrists, but I'm really liking how he's turned out.

Normally im not too fond of Space Wolves but im really impressed with yours, especially the Mark IV that your making...

might have to try making a helmet like that tonight...

I really like that old skool colourscheme you're using!

Thanks guys, I'm currently converting a Wolf wearing Mk III armor as the Packs Plasma gunner.

Pics soon.

Looking good! A lot more depth and detail on the newly painted models. Very nice! ;]

It's been a while but I've been tinkering with my Wolves again in anticipation of the new codex. I'm in the process of converting up 8 Grey Hunters in Mk IV armor.

Here is a mock up of my first Mk VI Wolf Guard who will accompany the first Grey Hunters Pack.



He will be getting a goatee, Mk VI cabling on his torso and some more Wolf Bling like tails and teeth.

These 2nd ed Long Fangs just came out of a simple green bath, they still need a little clean up. I love the leg armor on these bad boys! I'm gonna fuse the lower bodies of these LF's with current chests and heads; this way They can carry the current Heavy Weapons.

Before you start going crazy sawing them, I would test fit them for the heavy weapons. You may find that they fit pretty well. It would be a shame to lose all those details.

I already test fitted them and they don't adequately fit. The torsos are very small and narrow even though they don’t look it in the pics. The models are from 1992 when GW was doing the first of the up scaling.

Here's todays GS progress. The loincloth will get furry in the next update. I'm not completely happy with the chest cables but they will be fine for now.

Holy Cow

That's all i can say

Amazing space wolves!

Any tips on how you make the hair on them? And where you got so many bareheads?

Thanks, for the hair I just spread some GS out and make stips in an attempt to get a natural flow with my sculpting tools. Each SW sprue has 4 bare heads.

Here is the WG about 85 to 90 percent finished. I'm now gonna add a wolf tooth necklace to the right shoulder and some wolf tails to the left.

Gah, already commented on this on that "other" forum Warseer

So I'll just say... keep it up, 'tis goodly stuff

Thanks bud!

Here is the more or less completed WG. he need a little clean up on some of the GS.






I didn't notice the mag on the combi weapon was messed up until it was pinned and glued. So I tried making a Drum mag, I'm not completely happy with it I need to try and make it look attached to the bolter better. I may change it to a hanging belt of ammo instead.

He turned out much taller than I expected almost a head taller than a normal Marine mini. Part of this comes from the fact he is actually standing up, the other part comes from using the Khorne Zerker legs which are a little taller and more bulky than normal marine legs.

Great stuff man I need to see more.
I like the head a lot, and cool older paint jobs.
Also I'm converting my chapter into SW it's mostly AOBR stuff what parts do you think i should get for conversions?

Thanks, my advice would be to hunt down as many SW accessory sprues as possible!

I found a solution to the mag issue that I'm happy with!

Usally I dont like the space wolves,but I like yours'.So good work keep em coming.

Ooo. It's very nice to see those old, old SM figures in the first page. Brings tear to my eye.

Anyway, It's nice to see another wolf player doing SW conversions! I like the Wolf Guard guy. The drum clip on his combi weapon was nice (once you reinforce the attachment part a bit), but the new clip works well too. Great use of green stuff on the whole as well.

Could you use green stuff to thicken the torsoes of the long fang figures so that the new heavy weapons fit better? The legs/wolfy bits on the long fangs look good so it's nice that you are using the figures.

Keep on the good work and may Russ smile upon you! For the end times!

Thanks guys, I appreciate the feedback!

The problem with the old models is their torsos are way too narrow and thin plus they have no necks.

Here is the first converted Long Fang.



I like the way he turned out; the conversion gave him some height and more importantly a neck!

The Fang looks good. Too bad the HB gets in the way of all that wolfy detail! Perhaps you should have used those legs on another model instead.

Thanks!

It's ok that it's covered, because it'll hide the fact that there are two sets of those legs in the Pack.

The unconverted one next to him will have a missile launcher so all that wolfy goodness will show on the next conversion.

The first Long Fang is almost done and the second Long Fang is well under way!

Paint something!

They look good,I would also like to see em painted.

I promise the painting will commence soon! I primed the Wolf Guard today.

Once I finish converting the other 3 Long Fangs it'll be all painting for a couple of weeks!

I've been on quite a roll with the conversions and am really enjoying the end results. i don't wanna lose my momentum by switching to painting while I'm in the mood to convert.

This looks to be my most conversion intensive army to date. As I am planning not using many suits of mark 7 armor.

Small, short update. I've decided to use 3d GC badges. I'm gonna sculpt one then make a green stuff impression mold so I don't have to sculpt each icon. Ive chosen to use the Night Runner badge.



Here is the pad with the the moon in place; when this is dry I'll begin sculpting the Wolfs head.

Loving the wolves - what colours are you using for the grey armour? I am doing mine son and hate the blue grey

Absolutely love your wolves

Sorry for the lack 'O updates, I've been working on my FOW Germans for an upcoming tournament.

Anyway I'm back working on my wolves. I've assembled all 5 Fangs now, I still need to finish the GS work.



I started working on my Ven Dread. He is still very WIP.



WingWong, sorry about the delayed response.

They are from the Vallejo paint line.

Base armor color: VP 991 Dark sea grey (DSG)
Highlight mix color: VP 870 medium sea grey(MSG)
The shading color is Panzer grey

Start with the base armor color of DSG. Then is gets a highlight of 3 parts DSG to 1 MSG highlighting 3/4's of each armored plate. The highlights contimue gradually adding 1 more part of MSG covering a little less of the armored plates with each coat. The final highlight is MSG outta the bottle.

Awesome stuff!

I'm a big fan of Vallejo's whole 'sea grey' line of paints...

Here's the Night Runner Badge, so far. It needs a little clean up, but I'm generally happy with it.