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Been working on the next 2 members of the command squad, the plasma cannon terminator and the Deathwing champion. I'd hoped to give the champion a 2-handed grip on his frost blade but that was quite difficult with the bits I had. I settled for the current pose as I feel he would probably be at the rear of the squad a lot of the time; he may have very specific skills honed over a long career but he doesn't carry guns. In normal combat he lets his brothers with guns take the lead, watching for any foe they might otherwise miss, but when the squad closes to melee, they part respectfully to allow the champion through





Still working on this, there's some gaps that need filling on the inside of the arm. Quite simple, just cut the flamer and plasma cannon off their respective arms and swapped. I'm going to add a wolf talisman of some sort to cover the gap where I cut off the Deathwing icon






And the squad:




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I've been thinking of creating a focused psyker force for the Wolves for a while; as they move from the Imperium and into their own little bubble they start to change some of their ways and methods of doing things (Heresy, perhaps, but one of the Nine Worlds they claim as their own is an Eldar Maiden World they're honour-bound to protect soooo....)
I have been looking at the Grey Knights for a while, but with the release of Inferno, and my habit of hopping from list to list like a caffeinated rabbit, the 30K Thousand Sons present an alternative. While a Space Wolf/ Grey Knight kitbash is the quickest option, and could be made to look damned nice, rune-bedecked Cataphractii as Sekhmet and sprinting Wolves with twinned runic blades as Khenetai has a certain coolness to it, plus those new Battle-Automata

Thoughts?

So following from my question yesterday, I've decided to go with the 30K Thousand Sons over the Grey Knights as a psychic Company. As cool as the Grey Knights are, they're also incredibly rigid and anti-daemon, rather than the multi-tasking psychic shenanigans of the 30K Thousand Sons. Until my copy of Inferno arrives in the mail, I'm stuck with internet lists and photos from the weekender... And conversions! All the conversions.....so, without further ado, here's my first warrior, a Khenetai Blade









I'm thinking the Sigil of the Fierce-Eye for this Company, to allude to their psychic powers. I think next up will be a converted Osirin...

Your cataphractii terminators are looking superb! The one armed with a two-handed frost axe is my favourite; I especially like how you changed his fluff to match his conversion. And, I agree with going the 30k Thousand Sons route. Grey knights seem a little bit too boring for you

-LostCarcosa

Your cataphractii terminators are looking superb! The one armed with a two-handed frost axe is my favourite; I especially like how you changed his fluff to match his conversion. And, I agree with going the 30k Thousand Sons route. Grey knights seem a little bit too boring for you

Thanks LostCarcosa, I like him too. Sort of a menacing look to a dude just casually walking around with a huge axe And I laughed a little bit too much at the Grey Knights being the boring choice, embarrassing at 5am On closer inspection.... They really are! The same 2 powers spammed throughout the list, unless you take a Librarian. A bit of a miss for the only force that can use Sanctic properly. I might force myself to make a squad or two, just to add a group that can use Sanctic; should complement the various Cults of the Thousand Sons nicely. We shall see.

Day off today, so hope to get some painting done before uni this evening

So, almost finished off the Cataphractii command squad today, need to sort out those mold lines but that's a task for another day. Also, since it was raining and I couldn't get undercoating done I made a second Khenetai.









The idea with the low-tech stone/ frost weapons is that they're ritual weapons like athame's, hand-crafted by the wielder for their own use, whereas the runic power weapons they use are issued at need by the Chapter forge. I'm going to have a couple of Khenetai with low-tech axes as well, but later.

Also, since I've created characters for fun before, I'm picking up a Njal Stormcaller in terminator armour to join my Grey Knight count-as force; with the book relic, level 3, and the warlord trait for an extra mastery level he'll basically be a Lvl 5 Sanctic psyker with a m/c Nemesis stave. Fluff-wise he'd be something like the Master of Wards, or Keeper of the Shadow Gates; the best daemonhunter they can call upon. Ancient, but still powerful..

Anyway, have a great one and thanks for stopping by!

Looking good, I really like the plasma termie.

EDC

Thanks EDC. I should have these dudes painted up nicely by tomorrow afternoon

Further work on Hod's Company, this Interrogator Chaplain. I'm not sure whether I should run him as Asmodai or just a generic version, but I'm leaning towards Asmodai. Special characters are always fun.





Like the Khenetai, he's a second hand model so I'll need to strip some paint off before I can get started on him. I added the gem to break up what will be a very dark model

While I've known for a while that I have an... Erratic... Focus on models, I decided to do something about that today. I found my army lists and began to set models out. The Great Comapny, a combination of Greatpack Jorek and Greatpack Bedlafrod, is basically complete, so I moved onto my next, the Great Company of Ulfun Alf-Ven- Champions of Fenris Formation from their supplement, Wolf Guard Strikeforce from Sanctus Reach: Hour of the Wolf, and Strike Force Daggerfist- A veteran force, Ulfun's Company has a staggering number of terminators, 82 in total. Here's the first several of them, all the Terminators for the Kingsguard, Void Claws and Wolf Guard Thunderstrike formations









Hod Grimmursson's terminators are drying as we speak


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I thought I'd go a different route with Hod's Company than the usual spot colours; the armour will still be the pre-Heresy light grey with brass banding, and the fur and such will be the same, but I think I'll give purple a try as the background for the shoulder pads and banners. I'm thinking something like the symbol of Kvatch from Oblivion, a wolf's head inside a white disc on a purple background. Link below shows the basic idea

Did some extra work on the Khenetai, still short a single sword from the pack of weapons I bought from Spellcrow but I have a minimum 5 man squad now so that's a good start. To go with the previous 2, another 2 basic guys and a sergeant who I hope can take Artificer Armour in the list

Khenetai Blade





Khenetai Blade





Khenetai Sergeant

Rediscovered this guy the other day; I'm thinking a non-Custodian Talons of the Emperor force is next up...

Good morning Dakka! So many things planned for the day... Yesterday I got a Forgeworld order which included a Scimitar Jetbike, so today I'm aiming to have Korst's Windriders assembled and ready to spray, or pretty close to it. I also located a light box, so the entire Great Company will be getting new, shinier, pictures. I might start a display thing for that later.
New projects-wise, the local GW has a 6 months build and play campaign starting on Sunday. It's Gathering Storm centric and the army needs to be a new one. I'm going to build the Erik Firewolf's Company for my entry, a Salamanders Flameblade Strike Force suitably wolfed. In addition to fighting with many flame-based weaponry, the Firewolves also fight fast and nasty, as a wildfire, so the whole army will be geared towards rapidly closing and breaking the enemy. I'm going with a Stormlance Demi-Company backed with a Strike Force Ultra. All the marines will be in MkIV armour, 50/50 the BaC scultps and Rubric armour with the Rubric parts painted for the various Chaos forces, and the Terminators will be mainly Tartaros/ Scarab Occult mixed models.


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Some work on the mass-produced jetbikes that will fill Korst's Pack. The engine front and sides used to be a Maxmini jump pack








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Assembled, sprayed, base coated and based!

Did some more work on the smaller jetbikes for Korst's Windriders. The Scimitar needs a rider but is otherwise done. I'm out of some of the bitz I need to make more jetbikes so these two will be the last until I get some more kits sorted out, but here they are



The front piece is to counter-balance the weight of the bike, I imagine even with mini jet engines it'd need something like this

Sweet, these custom jetbikes are brutal, and cleverly converted.

Thanks KernelTerror. Here's a few more

So I mentioned a while back I'm starting a new company, Erik Firewolf's, for the Scions of the Storm campaign the local GW is running. For those who came in late, Erik Firewolf (Vulkan He'Stan)





I can't use him in the Campaign, as only special characters that appear in the Gathering Storm books are allowed, hes still the leader of this Great Company. The bitz I have thus far are thesse:





20 plastic MkIV marines, a Contemptor, a MkIV Chaplain, a resin captain and standard bearer and the 30K Ahriman. These will be kitbashed with the traitor MkIV-esque armour of the new Rubric Marines to make 40+ Firewolves, in the 50/50 Chaos/Imperial look of the 13th Company. They will be updated month by month, since I'm restricted to 675-sih points a month,

Also worth noting, since I don't think I've said it before, the Lost Companies aren't all from the 41st millennium. Jorek has been collecting allies and aiding the Imperium for 10,000 years and counting, and many of the shenanigans he's been involved in haven't taken place over strictly linear times. It was only just before the 13th Black Crusade that most of the Lost Companies found themselves in the Cadian sector.

Anyway, thanks for dropping by

So, some small progress on the Firewolves. I've expanded my list of bitz, they started to look a little too Rubricae for my liking so I added in some Raptor and CSM parts. So far only a Chaplain and a minimum sized Tactical Squad but it slowly grows





I've decided to remove the 30K Ahriman from the pile too; he's far too obviously a Thousand Son and I can't be bothered removing all that detail just to make a generic psyker

So, a bit tongue in cheek here; I read through Inferno and it mentions that Hvarl Redblade commanded the 4th Great Company. I had the Winterborn as the 4th Great Company... But also had them miss the Burning of Prospero as they were trapped in a chronal loop. Also, Hvarl is said to be a bit crazy, another trait of the Winterborn. Did Russ replace the Winterborn with another crazed 4th Company? Is Hvarl Redblade Arstan Winterborn's successor? :-P

So, following on from the Khenetai Blades squad of earlier, I decided I'd make an Osiron Contemptor to accompany the force. I heavily reposed him so he looks like he's throwing a punch. The fist is from the Boneripper and Thanquol kit, it counts as his force weapon. I still need to re position his legs to be further apart, to improve the dynamic.

Some more work on the Firewolves; I switched out the weapon on the Chaplain and built a Librarian with the Tome of Vel'cona relic as well





The Librarian needs some further work; half his cape is missing and I need to tidy up that leg armour. I'm going to top his staff with part of an Empire Fire Wizard staff

Also worked on the Thunderwolf Cavalry unit that accompanies Jorek Greatwolf; known as Gunnar's Hunt they were kitted with double Wolf Claws but since they failed horrendously against a dreadnought in a game they've been outfitted with Wolf Claw/ Powerfist. Gunnar is the first to get the treatment, using Ork Power Klaws. The story with Gunnar is he's beyond old, having once spent centuries marooned on a primitive planet. His power armour failed and he's never gotten a replacement, instead relying on the heavy plate-and-mail he forged himself. Mounted, he doesn't lack speed for not wearing power armour so Jorek allows it. He later lost both arms to a Tyranid, and had them replaced with weapons instead. With the capture of Ironhold from the Big Mek Metal'ead and the piles of gear left over, he chose to wield a pair of power klaws. He usually just cuts and hacks with the sharpened blades, but when he can seize an enemy in his grasp he crushes them to death. Gunnar's not amazingly well-adjusted when he's not fighting. Anywho....





Thanks for stopping by!

Only a small update; I usually place the company marking on the left shoulderpad of my wolves with the pack marking somewhere on the model; kneepad, shoulder, whatever; but with Gunnar that didn't work. So I think this offering from Geigor Fell-Hand does a pretty good job of displaying his allegiance to the Wild Hunt. The rest of the pack will get shoulderpads from the Space Wolf upgrade sprue

So tonight's heresy; a 30K Thousand Sons unit reimagined as a 40K Space Wolves unit! There may not be wolves on Fenris but there are trolls...

Contemptor-Osiron, W.I.P






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Ongmar Stormclaw. Lost Wolf, Wulfen, Lord of a company of madmen....

Awesome updates. I love the super punch dreadnought.

EDC

Thanks EDC, got some more work done on the dread earlier. Going to magnetise the weapons and try out OSL around the fist. Here he is at the local GW after I swapped bitz for a second fist



And some fluff

It was the Lamenters, shattered and broken and war-weary, who first imparted the secrets of Librarian dreadnoughts to the Lost Companies; abandoning a horrifically damaged Furioso Librarian frame. This frame was later used to inter Baremund Beast-Bane, and served for years as a standard dreadnought might. With the addition of the Magi of the Taghmata Hvergelmir, the esoteric systems of the Librarian chassis could be better examined, and rough approximations were designed. It was only many centuries later, after the Steel Wars, that these designs were resurrected and fitted to the dreadnoughts assigned to the Runic Brotherhoods.

And additional weapon options. This will be my first magnetised model






The Space Wolves of the Lost Companies are veteran scavengers as well as skilled warriors. Weapons that other forces might abandon are often made whole again in unconventional ways. Thus it is that some of the Company's land speeders are piloted not by living warriors but by the half-dead brothers that would usually be interred in dreadnoughts. These Fangs of Morkai, as they are known, provide a terrifyingly disproportionate force multiplier for the company

Took a badly damaged Land Speeder I had. wrote some fluff, and am on my way to adding some Land Speeder Tempests to Great Pack Bedlafrod

The local GW just started a Shadow War: Armageddon campaign, and I jumped in with a Lost Companies force. As there's already 4 Space Wolf Scout units, I dusted off my Astra Militarum and sent them in. The basic Guardsmen are all built from the Chaos Marauder plastics, and stand taller than a Space Marine, so I decided to turn some Chaos Warriors into carapace Veterans



I still need 4 more to finish my warband, and then I'll doubtless build more to add to the force. They'll be painted something similar to this

Cool Idea with the Land Speeder!

EDC

Thanks EDC, there's far too few flying things in my force thus far. Glad you like.
Started some thrall soldiers to stand in as Astra Militarum , they are the crews of the ships of the Lost Companies. They're only called up to fight in defence of their vessels but are all well trained. They wear furs aboard ship because the Wolves insist on keeping their ships cold and dark. Awaiting a number of cultist scifi weapon kits to arm them properly


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Pictures help

Looking good there!

Thanks Shasolenzabi :-)
I think I've just found my next purchase for the Runic Brotherhoods. Kromlech Sons of Thor with GW Mk III bits

One of my multitude of Wolf Lords is Ulfun Alf-Ven (Ulfun Elf-friend) who counts as Logan Grimnar albeit with different kit to represent his wargear. I had planned to mount him on Stormrider, to fill a formation requirement, but I'm really not a fan of the sled. It appears, however, that the new Arkanaut frigate shares a base size with Stormrider so the question is; Do I make an antigrav longship for Ulfun? Think marines on the side to account for the wolf attacks of the official model