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Wow, really good looking force. I saw the pics of the red faces vs grey faces for the Terminators. We call them Tiger helms but couldn't they be painted in Wolf fur colors? Just my 2 cents .

You got the right idea Dantay. Stay positive *for her* as much as for your own sanity. Keep yourself occupied as much as you can so you don't just sit around and dwell on it... that won't help either of you either.

I think the shield looks fantastic. It's more realistically sized than most GW shields & the pattern looks fantastic!

My recommendation... if you're really going with the Norse theme... is to go with a traditional round shield. Carried out consistently throughout the army, I think it would be a great look!

Hi Brother Paen. I am glad that you like them.

When you suggest wolf fur colours, are you meaning browns and blacks, or keep the red face shield and go for wolf fur colours like brown for the rest of the helm?

And thank you Gitsplitta, I am glad you like the shield and design, I will move on to version 1.1 next with a slightly thinner steel rim and I think you are right about making the shields consistent.

I think I will stick to the norse theme, I just feel its more appropriate than crazy viking in space.

Yep being positive helps, Mum and dad have been taking a few road trips with the caravan at weekends, and before going offshore having them over for chats and do the cooking to give them a bit of a break. They are considering selling off one of the cars and the caravan and getting a camper-van to go out on more trips.

She is now seeing if she can retire from work on a full pension, but if might be difficult with the restrictions in place at her work. Especially if they sack her, which they can do if she is off too long sick under 'incompetence'.

Oh and well done on the Godzilla movies!! I haven't really seen many, but I remember ejoying the cartoons as a kid, with Godzooky

Round shields all the way. I like the design and the poses. Glad your mum's on the mend too, squire.

Thanks Graven, so round shields all the way.

Anyone need Asterion Moloc's shield?

I can supply it with a stock Tartaros arm but no pad and Moloc's right arm. I also have Moloc's cresty thing too.

Well, I'll never say no to bits

SHIELD WALL!!! These are shield prototype version 1.1.
What do you think?
I got curious about the raven and t wanted to see which colour knotwork would work best
The other is a wolf.


Raven in Fenris grey and SW grey


Raven in gold, a bit too close to the yellow maybe?


Raven in red. Was a bugger because the shades of red made it hard to see where the knots crossed over.

So what do you think?? Which is your favourite?



Lastly the wolf in shadow and SW grey. Do you like??

C&C welcome... Is here anything which could do with changing.

And Graven, we'll see

Grey... They look great!

A wee bit more work done tonight.

Going with grey as the accent colour for the shields

Feedback please.



Group shot.



About the most complex design so far



One of my favourites so far.



Cross needs some tidying up, but almost there.

Any tips, ideas, critiques welcome

Really nice, very pretty indeed. I know this is probably a later stage thing, but a wee wash of (say) ogryn flesh would probably bring it all together.

No worries, I can certainly give it a try and see what happens.

I have a wee drop of gryphonne sepia left, that might be better as its not so dark.

I had originally done yellow, sepia wash then yellow again, but maybe it could do with another wash to bring te highlights in.

Should I go over the grey & black as well?

I would, to tie it all in.

Okay, so taken a night off from the painting. I have been looking at making a Logan Grimnar from scratch... I just don't like the current model, so this is what I have come up with:



It does need a lot of work, some GS filling andpointy hand as if calling someone out and some extra wolfy bits. The axe needs cleaning up and wolf heads added to them to make it the axe Morkai.
So a lot of work.

However I also have most of Asterion Moloc too which I was going to include as Bran Re,aws second in command and I tried the bits out on him..... And I really like it!



The bulls head will make a skin for shaping a wolfs head after trimming off the horns and the armour really looks ornate and gives him bulk.
What do you think?

This would be Redmaw's lieutenant if I don't do a body swap:


And after body swap


Opinions please?

Awesome.

... and ...

"Shoot me in the face you craven cowards!!"

I like Preator Grimnar more then Maloc Grimnar. The whole angle of the pose just works better for me.

Hey gits, glad you like them and yes Moloc Grimnar is doing a wee bit of posing isn't he??

Hi Whalemusic, thanks for looking in, yes I like the Praetor Grimnar... the Forge World models are both great to work from... There is something a bit more imperious about the Praetor isn't there, whereas Moloc Grimnar has more of a stalking look.

I just love the "shoot me in the face" pose, it's my favorite!

Yeah, I can imagine him shouting at his opponents " come and have a go if you think you're hard enough"

Or "This is Spar.... FENRIS!!"

I've actually been lurking for like the last 4 pages.

Very cool and dynamic pose. How are you at GS'ing hands etc?

Cool, I never knew that I had lurkers I am glad that you posted Whalemusic and sorry I took a wee while to reply, sleep overtook me

And thank you Knightley, although I didn't have too much to do with the poses of te Grimnar's, except Praetor Grimnar just raise te axe arm by 90 degrees, The FW is just so nice. It was a shame Moloc's head was sculpted on as I would have loved to salvage the Spartan helm, but hey ho.

I have never tried gs-ing hands. I have a bunch of GK sprues at home, so I am hoping to go through them and find a pointy hand, if not cut into a fist ed hand and make a sausage finger for him lol

In other news, the shield designs that I have used so far have come from some of my close friends here on Dakka, so I could give them a mini, which would be considered 'them'.... I would now like to open tat offer up to all my friends and lurkers who come by this site and frequent my blog here. So if you would like a shield design of your own to feature on a terminator Pm me. The only stipulation is that I don't breach any copyright images and it has a Norse/ celtic theme... ( you know, like celtic kotwork etc...) I have found google and Bing searches quite good for ideas, but I want to open it up to everyone. And if you feel so enthused even shoose a erminator too, All except Grimnar will be getting one, those with gun and weapon will have tem strapped to their backs once I have GS-ed theirwolfy doo-dahs to them

I look forward to your suggestions

Looking really awesome. Loving grimsby!

Okay, so got the basic yellow, black & browns down, time to start the highlights:


Yellows done:




Come meet my scary hammer of Doom!!!

And next up is highlighting the balck pads:

Don't their battle brothers looking on above seem proud of their buddies getting all made up?

Aerial view


And a group shot.... Looking good huh?


Guy at the back left needs his arms done, and 2 more wolverine looking lightning claws to do... they need paint stripping done!!

Well time for bed, tomorrow is browns and golds
Sweet dreams to you all

That is a hefty termi squad for sure. Any loadouts you are missing?

I don't think so:

I need a few cyclones to finish off but otherwise I think that I am good.

At home I have another 5 or 6 squads of terminators, so I am pretty well covered.

Are there any bits you are looking for?

I'm also a terminatoraholic, though of the deathwing variety. Not counting GK termis, I'm around 90. You've got me beat on FW termis though, only 15 plus SCs.

Yep, my name's Dantay... And I am a termie-holic
I have between 60 & 65 SW termies and 10 GK terminators.

Its scary, but I would like at least 1 squad from each great company.

At least you have a legit excuse, the Death Wing is a company

Dakka was where I picked all these up from, so I owe the trade pages a big thank you for them, Moloc was ebay.


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Couldn't sleep, up at 3am.

Did an hour in the gym and still not sleept, so got on with the brown leather strapping on the terminators.

Looks okay, but I wish I hadn't washed it with gryphonne sepia

Picture is a bit dark, so will try again later


Let me know what you think.

Oh... I asked before about shield designs. Here is a sample of some I found if it helps. I found a bunch more and will post those too later, but if anything takes your fancy please let me know.


Google-fu for the win


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Update!

Some more shield design ideas, come on folks, give a wolf a personal touch

I'm a Space Wolf to the core and I love this thread! Some amazing ideas you have Impressive stuff!

Hi Meerkat, thank you.

Space Wolves have always been my go to chapter too. You wanna pick a shield?

 dantay_xv wrote:
Hi Meerkat, thank you.

Space Wolves have always been my go to chapter too. You wanna pick a shield?

Pick a shield? I think I missed something when browsing through your thread Rapid fire explanation? (or quote what you said about the shields)