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Lighting isnt great for pictures in the office so I apologise if these are a touch dark.

I have been getting a little work done on my Space Wolves, or as GW will probably rename them, Lupus Astra...

Got the greys down and washed with babdab black on all 18 extra guys

I will not show you them all as it would be very very boring, but now I have highlighted up.... I tried some zenithal drybrushing???? Basically turning the model at an angle wit each layer so only the upper areas, or the most prominent parts got more of a highlight... thepics ,ake it look really chalky, but in real lfe it wasnt too bad... took 2.5 hours to do all 18 which is warp speed for me and now they lok like this.



We are coming for you!!!!



They went on to bases after drybrushing was done, because:
A It makes a stadier platform for painting &
2 I wont keep handling the models and risk smearing/rubbing the paint.

Btw this music is helping keep me motivated : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJ07onCqAs & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA2Rj7GEXhw, if neither of these gets your head bobbing, then it is a very sad day!!

And not quite model related, but my desktop when I am working away

picture removed by mods for not being model related

Makes me smile when I see the wee one, crazy climber!!

Anyways folks, keep on truckin'

He's getting big!

Yes he is, oh and good luck at Adepticon! I hope you & your team do really well, but most of all I really hope you have loads of fun

Thanks dantay , I'm sure we will!

that bunch looks like a very expensive new interpretation of Michael jacksons "thriller"...

my youngest son is getting to school this summer... I fell older due to this and see my kid growing up way too fast...ach...

and...some kids somehow are natural climbers... my wee kid is too...

Ah, monkey children. Great looking mix of minis, menacing! Also, loving the new avatar mate.

Yeah, I meant to mention that too. Very good choice.

Thanks guys

Yes monkey children are fun, except when they decide they cant get back down
And looks like the mods got the picture.... No more monkey child...

@ Vik, wasnt quite going for the thriller look, but hey if it works lol!! They will hopefully look a bit better when they get some more paint spattered on them. However the headless, handless theme will continue, as I forgot all the bits.
But do not fear, someday they will be whole again, plus I am trying to bypass the wife and order a few bits from some bits sites to jazz them up.

Anyone know sme decent bits sites which do dwarf stuff??

@ Graven & Gits cheers, glad you like the new avatar... saw it when looking at a thread of funny images for 40K and thought, yup thats for me... It was either this or Buzz Lightyear Space Marine as my coffee itake has shot up by about 1000%

Hopefully more pics soon, the painting is proving to be a nice distraction


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Do I stick with tradition and go with a black right shoulderpad bearing the Great Wolf's marking and trick out the fisyt in yellows and black for pack markings and te like or do I break the mould and go with a yellow pack marking on the right pad, and do the fist up in black with the Great wolfs marking.

Look at the picture above and give me your ideas please?

In the meantime, continuing painting

UPDATE!!

Got the golds on the 1st squad done, run out of badab black, so all silvers are on hold, when I am done with black paint, I will dilute it down and make it a wash.

In the left corner weighing in at 2 tartoros terminator suits are the BLACK PADS!!! & in the right corner also weighing in a t 2 tartoros suits are the YELLOW PADS!!!

In the middle is sgt Grey

Let me know which will look best please?

Oh if you are wondering why my models are a bit well, bitty just now, I plan to do te heads sepaprately, but when I soaked thm in fairy power spray the chainblades fell off of them and vanished into the warp, so when I am home, BIG chain blades on the fist. They will also get Storm shields, which I am devising a method of concocting, so they will not get finished per se before I go home, but they wioll be finished insofar as I can paint them.

If anyone wants to buy some forgeworld tartaros strombolters please let me know

Anyway picture.

Hmm, I think black pads. All gold becomes a bit of a blur. And if storm bolters are making the place untidy...

Cheeky!! Will see what I can come up with

Update again!!

Done these about as far as I can for now.
Spent ages on the black and the yellow, I am pretty happy with both, but I wonder if I made my paint was too thin on the yellow as it is hard to see the gradient change in the light. And the highlighting isnt showing up too well either.
The crux terminatus needs some more work and I hope that th fingers look electrically charged.
Next step for these is when I get home is to raid the bitz box for right hands and manufacture some shields.. Then get some chain blades for the fists. But for now they are done...






Next up is these guys:



C&C welcome as always


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Weird, my post got swallowed!

Bit more of an update!!

Working my way though the next squad, need to tidy up the reds and armour a wee bit, then on to golds and metals....

Whaddya think?



A question though... The auto cannon guy, do I make the centre of the belt gold, or do I try my hand at painting it as a stonking great gemstone??



In other news, my mum's surgery went well yesterday.. she had a lump the size of a tennis ball removed from her body and she will be in hospital for about a week, maybe 2 depending on recovery time. So I shouild be qable to get off this rusty tub and go see her soon.

Really love the way the golds, reds and browns work with the grey and steel. Excellent choice in colors dantay. I like the gold.

Sorry to hear about your mom, hope she recovers quickly!

Thanks Gits, and yes hopefully she will recover fast.

The colours dop work well don't they? Lets see what happens when I put the yellow in the mix

So, gemstone or no?

No, stick with the gold.

Leave it as. Looks beauty.

Okay, gold it is... so it will get highlighted up but stay as is... I used Ogryn flesh as the wash this time instead of gryphonne sepia... I think I like it more

Thanks guys

Hopefully more to come soon.

Update, did golds last night... messed up the gold... redid the gold this evening... still not 100% happy, did the guns... 90% happy... Graven mentioned vallejo gunmetal blue, so I tyried a blue wash instead of balck on the leadbelcher and looks okay

Let me know what you think... Fingers crossed finished tomorrow... then finish off other termies which ae half done... Time has run out for the hammer wielders... Next trip lads, I promise

Anyhoo, time for Show & Tell.



Group shot

& now up closer its the end of the auto cannon barrel thats bugging me, might have to scrape the pait off and go again.. we will see



C&C please?

i think you really nailed the grey look with these now...

the muzzles of the flamer could do with a little bit of burnt weathering... blue and red wash aybe then black on just the tip?

That would be a good idea actually! Thanks Vik.
I can use it as yhe beginnings of larning to weather my models, I have always been scared to try in case I mess up, but maybe its the next step I need to make.

And thanks for compliments on the grey I might actually go and re-do all my terminators this grey colour!

i think doing all in grey would suit these senior of the seniorest^^ warriors... after all you don´t get suited up in a terminator...er...suit as a rookie...so grey would represent a sort of battlehardened air for the marine...

I really like them dude. I like the AC barrels but I would highlight both barrels and tips with Silver to give them a bit of pizzazz.

Hi Graven, thanks... I'll try the silver.
I did do the gold highlighted up to silver 2 nights ago, but made the mistake of putting a gloss varnish on it.

I re-did it last night and it looks akoy, but the tips look "soft"

I'll give the silver a go, if that doesn't work go for weathering and if that still doesn't work, then knife and file will come out and take the paint off

Do you think the blue shading is better than the black?

Not much of an upate...

After a really busy day... I havent done much of anything model-wise.
I got the shoulderpads on my PIP terminators and got the base colours down & washed.
Tomorrow night I WILLl get them done. If it kills me.

So Group shot!



Front row... Nearly there, need to do yellows, blacks and golds. Put some mithril silver on the autocannon tips as Graven suggested.
Need to make shields and GS some wolf cloaks and doodah's. Oh and swap axe heads for dwarven great axe heads
Second row.. find some right hands from my GK sets and make some shields, add some suitable chainblades to the fists and gs some wolf pelts... Manufacture a cyclone too. Wow not nearly as finished as I thought!!
3rd row. Shields, cloaks.. You know the drill!
4th row. Swap 3 hammer heads for Dwarf great hammer heads, more right hands, shields, ds wolfy bits and make another cyclone...

All of them... Basing ideas, the grey is far too Bland... Hints and tips please

This has been by far my most fun project and the free time at work has really helped push me on, I've tried new techniques and I honestly think these are some of the best painted odels I have done so far!!

Oh and thanks for sticking with this P&M blog and me, I know it has gone in fits and starts, but hopefully I can get some consistency going!! And keep enjoying myself

Last update for a few days.

Got them as finished as I wanted. Almost there. I tried out a Justaerin head to see how it woud look, the maximus with the vents looks quite cool.

What do you think? Go with this, different colours, or bare heads?





ANy thoughts, hints and tips welcome!!

I like the red, but I think the grey head gets lost in the armor.

Agreed, I would keep the whole head like that, full of glowy ness.

A full red head?? Hmmm...

I do like redheads However I don't think I could go full glow like nerdfest09

I am not sure, what about red & black with some gold detailing?

Oh and the first shipment of dwarf bits arrived from www.bits&kits.co.uk

Yay!! Just waiting for my moulding materials and my shipment from the US.

Not much of an update today.

The modelling mojo, is coming in fits and spurts, so making the most of it when I can.

My nun had surgery a few weeks ago for skin cancer, she had a lump the size of a tennis ball removed and it has left her with difficulties walking.
It was about her 6th surgery in the past few years, but this is by far the biggest removed and also it has travelled within her body. She is being amazingly positive and she has a great oncologist and consultant who are doing everything to get her up and running again.

Before she left hospital she found another small lump and again it is cancerous, so next week she wil have more surgery. She will not be having chemotherapy and will be going straight to medicines designed to kill off cancer which will be 3 injections over 6 months.

Anyway staying positive and trying to keep myself occupied.

Picture 1, shield prototype.



Opinions please? Are the colours and design okay? Each shield will be unique, however I want to tie them together by using the same or similar colours, suchas the yellow and black. I had considered red for the knotwork, but it would be too dark. Please I would enjoy some C & C.


OPinions please? Is it too big, does it look okay, the shield will also be about double this thickness also.

Besides this, I have been working on a few other models. On the left is Bran Redmaw, centre is my possible Logan Grimnar model. Still need s some work done on the ace, armour wolf cloak etc, but a start, on the right is a Sevrin Loth conversion to a rune priest, still needs a wee something



Lastly is my Wolf Guard battle leader, inspired by the picture from IA11. The plan with Minotaur symbols is to use them as a map to sculpt a wolfs head. I will remove the horns. It is such a nicely posed model. I am almost tempted to Change the weapons over and make him Logan Grimnar instead. Again a fair amount needs doing on him.

Not sur if I should keep the shield, or go for a round one like the others, any thoughts?



Really not sure, so any advice would be a help.