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Further work on the Contemptor-Osiron; started blocking in the colours for the fist. I'm going with bright green, as that's a psychic-y colour and dodges the usual Wolf reds, yellows and blues.







It's still very early WIP, just the base coat of Caliban Green over Boltgun metal. I'll highlight up through warpstone glow to moot green, then a yellow. Thoughts?

Just built these gents, one of two packs of Wolf Scouts in my Great Company, these guys are kitted as snipers where the other pack is armed with power weapons and a meltagun. I'm using the heads from the Frostgrave Barbarian set; Onmund is the long-bearded fellow with the raised sniper rifle and open hand. There's some Kroot stuff on there too, like barrel swaps and a rifle sling. The missile launcher bloke has a bone-and-hide cape

This is Piemurr, the Skyclaw Pack Leader of Great Company Jorek

A few posts ago I talked about Ulfun Alf-Ven maybe getting a grav-longship.... Enjoy

My first ever Stormfang Gunship; to complete the Kingsguard Stormforce formation

So, to fit in with the fluff of Stormrider providing extra attacks, I've added crew to the longship. The steersman will be controlling the vehicle, the two Wolf Guard will be striking out from the sides, and Ulfun (when I build him) will be up at the front either firing his bolter or swinging his axe. Or maybe just yelling. Who knows? I plan to base it so the longship is heeled over to port (left)


This Wolf Guard will just be hanging back, as the enemy is out of reach of his blade


This Wolf Guard will be getting an arm fitted so he's about to execute a backhand strike, probably with an axe


And the steersman watches the terrain as he flies

Just finished this random kitbash; a Sabre Tank Hunter. I'll be running it using the Vindicator with Laser Destroyer rules, as part of a Spear of Russ. It still needs gap filling and bits, but it's well on its way

Bought an old (2nd ed? 3rd ed?) Vindicator and Predator last week; they arrived today. Both will join my Spear of Russ. Predator in in pieces but i undercoated and base coated the vindicator

Further progress on a Spear of Russ! 3 Predators; 2 Destructor pattern with Autocannons and Heavy Bolters, and an Infernus pattern with Flamestorm Cannon and sponson Heavy Flamers. I think the old-school Predator needs a base to elevate it a bit; lucky I have so many spare monster bases from fantasy

Did some work on the old Predator and Vindicator





Ever since I found the ogre banner bit I've wanted to add it to something with a giant gun, because what's a space viking vehicle without kill markings and utterly ridiculous horns and such?

They'll also both be getting bases, probably with raised terrain; they're a lot smaller than the current kits and need to have roughly the same footprint to be fair methinks


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Some further work on Ongmar Stormclaw's packs; another splinter of the original 13th Great Company, they have spent longer within the Warp than Jorek's forces and are all on the edge of losing themselves to the Wolf Within. A size comparison, for fun

No modelling today, but have to say with the latest release regarding combi-weapons I'm damned glad Bedlafrod's Ironbreakers are all kitted out with combi-guns! They should be quite decently killy now
Have a good one!

Keep 'em rolling out for victory!

Had to add sponsons to the Predator, but first needed to fill the side gaps. Think this did the trick?

Did a thorough reorganisation of my bitz boxes the other day, dug out all the legs and prepared them for building. I completed the numbers for Jorek's company, added a bunch of spares to Hrolmir Wyrdbane's packs, finished out the power armour quota from Ulfun Alf-Ven's company, and added 20 models in MkIII armour to Hod Grimmurson's company. After this I gathered all the MkIV I had spare and threw them at the Firewolves.

20 Tactical marines, 5 Devastators, 10 Sternguard, a Command Squad, Erik Firewolf, a Techmarine, a Chaplain and a Librarian. A good start, I think




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The Firewolves utilise flame better than almost any other, and routinely take to the field wielding melta and flamer weapons. As well as being deadly weapons of war, they are also simple and easy to repair and rearm.Flame is not just their chosen weapon, however; it is a spiritual touchstone to both their totem, the Firewolf, and to their lost homeworld of Fenris. It forges their weapons, and tempers and toughens their bodies and minds. Many Firewolves are skilled artificers and smiths, not Iron Priests, but skilled nonetheless.
At their joining with the Company, and at many times through their service, a Firewolf will be called upon to undergo feats of endurance and stamina that invariably involve heat and flame. Blood Claws walk barefoot through a pit of fire and are expected to endure this wordlessly. Hunters must slay a beast with flame, or with weapons forged of their own hands in flame, and are dropped on a planet's surface to undergo this trial. If no planet is forthcoming, they may undergo such a trial inside a space hulk or abandoned station. The test to become one of Firewolf's Guard is one of the most gruelling, however. Each applicant is stripped bare and set to work smithing a blade. They labour without rest in the heat of a forge, and once they have worked their blade they must take it to the the other Wolf Guard, who surround the new aspirant. Each may then challenge the newcomer, wielding only the blade they forged in their own trial The newcomer is unarmoured. They are not. If the newcomer is slain, or fails to rise once knocked down, they have failed the trial. If their sword breaks, they have failed the trial. Those that fail are stripped of rank and shaved and returned to the ranks of the new brothers. They then must undergo anew the trials they have previously endured. In this way, a warrior is never truly destroyed, just as a flame that is banked to embers might roar into life again.

The first of Firewolf's Sternguard veterans, all with either combi-flamers or combi-meltas. The swords are just for show. I found some Dark Elf spears in my bitz box and was taken by how some of them almost resemble a flame. So I wrote the above fluff and got to sticking them on.

All the combi-gunners are now finished, need to get a pair of heavy flamers to arm the other 2 of the squad.





The sergeant of this pack has been honoured by his Jarl for some great deed, and his ritual blade has been reforged into a power sword.

I am digging the predator. I think you need to make some more details on those side sponsors, they look a bit plain. Most of deimos pattern predators have those circular guard things jutting out around the thing.

Also might consider following my tips and tricks below when taking pictures of you dudes. Its a bit hard to single out the finer details.

Thanks Novelist47, and welcome. I'll check those tips for photos, using a very very basic setup ATM.
The sponsons are being worked on, a variety of odd bitz going into replicating the original look and feel. Pics next weekish

Top work with all the tank conversions. I really like the laser destroyer vinticator.

Love the Sternguard too, really characterful.

EDC

Thanks EDC, I'm fond of the laser Vindicator as well. With its rules, it'd be better with a few of its own kind for ranged support so I clearly need to build some more

Onto today's offerings, some more WIP Firewolf stuff

Wulfgar Firemind, Librarian



An as-yet unnamed Techmarine with Conversion Beamer



A Tactical Squad





And another Tactical Squad





All the horns on the Chaos helms will be broken off, to represent the wearer tearing them free. They may have to wear corrupted wargear to maintain their effectiveness but they do try to clean it up. Also, many gaps to be filled, not least on the wrist of the Sergeant with Axe, I'm going to fill in some of the stripy Thousand Sons leg plates to create smooth armour plating instead, as well as block the groin plates back up since I didn't use the tabards. I could add furs but I'm trying to avoid that too much here, they are routinely burning themselves so I doubt furs would last long. Maybe scales? I'll see

I have to say, I love how the legs of the TSons are hugs, they give a real feeling of height to the models and makes it stand out from the crowd.

Questions/ comments/ thoughts/ random musings are all welcome

Since I've been working on his Company long enough, I thought it time to get to work on Ulfun Alf-Ven himself. A veteran Wolf Lord, he bears the sigil of the Wolf That Stalks The Stars. This is not his own symbol, but one he adopted after falling in with the Lost Companies. It represents Russ, and Ulfun strongly hopes to one day find his Primarch. His saga is long, but it is for his almost-friendaship with the Eldar Corsaid Lord Miraak Soulburner that Ulfun is best known; his cognomen translates as Elf Friend in the Fenrisian tongue. The greatsword he carries was a gift from Soulburner for saving his life.

Nice. Cool fluff for Ulfun Alf-Ven.

EDC

Thanks EDC. Most of my Wolf Lords have some fluff attached to them. It's kinda hard to keep it all organised though

I just got this beauty in the mail, from a friend in Victoria. He will become Styrbjorn, Captain of the Guard; the counts-as Arjac Rockfist I need to field the Arjac's Shieldbrothers formation. His weapons will probably end up on an Iron Wolf



I'm thinking of giving Styrbjorn a bionic limb, most likely a gun; instead of a melee weapon he throws, Styrbjorn has a gun that he recklessly fires at point-blank range into the foe. He'll still have a storm shield of course. THis is how he currently looks



I've also been working on this guy

High Iron Priest of the Lost Companies, Jarl of the Company of the Iron Wolf and Lord of Ironhold, Harald Haraldsson is an ancient and powerful priest of the machine. His own body is almost entirely cybernetic, and his resilience is awe-inspiring. The Iron Wolf is forever bound to his armour, for so little remains of the man he once was that removing his battle-plate would almost completely cripple him.

I built him out of an Iron Father with the hammer from the Praetor I'm turning into Styrbjorn. Harald uses the rules for Vaylund Cal, the Iron Thane of the Sons of Medusa. The model will have additional servo-arms added, and a unique combi-weapon to account for the guns on his servo-harness. The Iron Hands icon on the torso will be replaced with a greenstuff icon of the Iron Priests, and his shoulder pads will be the Iron Wolf Cataphractii pads from Pop Goes The Monkey

Working on transporting my entire Great Company; added these to the mix. A Rhino for Skoll Suneater's pack, complete with little fire-breathing dragon head exhausts, and an ancient Deimos-pattern Rhino for the Bloodmaws






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I made this helmet on a whim, using the old Longbeard mask on a berserker helmet. I'd hoped to get a relic helmet feel, but it seems more samurai to me. Might make a squad with them




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And after a night of building

Still working on vehicles, but just created this converted Iron priest backpack out of bitz

The Great Company is nearly done, troops-wise. I just need to finish vehicles. Setting aside that in a month this formation will be obsolete, line edging vehicles is a seriously time-consuming exercise.

So amongst the many goodies I received yesterday was a damaged recast Legion Glaive turret. Following the fluff I'd set for the time post-Steel War, I decided I'd make up a Baneblade I have lying around to form a version of the classic Legion Glaive. But first I had to repair the turret! Here it is as it currently stands

I'm going to need a couple of maxed Detachments to field the Lost Companies in 8th. If everything remains in the force org slot it's in right now, and counting the components of formations that I had assembled, I have 14 HQ units, 13 Elites units, 9 Troops, 6 Fast Attack (if Vehicle Squadrons are still a thing, 13 if not), between 10 and 16 Heavy Support choices, again depending on vehicle squadrons, and 19 Dedicated Transports.
That's for Great Company Jorek. I havent tallied the other Companies yet

That Baneblade is going to look glorious when it's done.

After looking at all your models I kinda want to revisit my old Space Wolf army...

Oooh! Rad-cannon for Predator? nice!

Nice Space Wolf ing up of the servo harness and turret.

EDC