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I had a Terminator Captain when I started my Wolfys, so I tried to make him look like a spacewolf as seen below. That was the first attempt, then I added more paint and a homemade cyclone missile launcher. As You can imagine, I did not quite like the model
So I removed all bling, paint and started all over. I decided to make him into a Arjac Rockfist (just by replacing weapons. I like this version much better than my first attempt, but this was made just the other day, so of course I now see some obvious flaws in the paintjob, still...
About the "thunder hammer", its a hammer from fantasy battles empire, and quite small for even an ordinary marine these days. But I figure if Arjack can throw his mighty hammer, maybe it should not be a two hand anvil on a pole. Also I dont like supezising to much. Its kind of scary how much the minis have grown in recent years. (yea, so why do I play SW?)
The problem with this mini is he is a metal captain that has a few years on him, and Arjac "the man mountain" is really not much larger than a regular Powerarmour marine. But he makes it up a bit in bulk and posing, besides, he is just an "ordinary" Wolf guard, not even HQ

Critque? Questions?

First attempt:


My actual Arjac now

Looks good, he needs more wolfy items attached to him to completely define him as a Space wolf character

Paint that left shoulder pad yellow and slap a decal on it, that would really make him look more wolfy...IMO

Also adding the banner from the first try would help and look nice.

Seems kind of runty, and kind of plain for a champion. He'll be pretty small next to regular Terminators methinks.

Thank you all for the remarks.
The size is kind of hard to fix. Thats the problem with metal minis: one size smaller than ordinary plastic troops. But I might fix him a more spectacular base and a standard to make it up? Anyway, the fluff says Arjac is modest, and as a captain of the WG rather than an actual HQ I dont want to give him to much space to intrude on my HQ

One thing I would like to change is the shield. that should definatley be bigger.

As for yellow shoulder pad and markings, Im afraid that would clash with the rest of my army.

Thank you again.

Wait... Wait.. wait... this is space wolves right?

I like the pose, reminds me of the warrior priest raising his hammer in the WAR online CGI clip. Good job.

You don't have to paint his or any space wolf army's shoulderpad/s yellow as that's Ragnar's great company. It's just the 'norm'.

If you've got any of the new space wolf sets they have loads of little trinkets/wolf pelts/wolf tails etc that you could add if you wanted to.

I like it

Well considering he is Grimnar's Body guard his company marking on his shoulder pad would be that of the Greatwolf, so black background and Leman Russes livery.

Key element that your missing is his anvil, how can he be Arjac without an anvil?

I made some uppdates on my Arjac. Tried to model an anvil for shoulder/back ormnament and carved a rough massive shield with a crude anvil design ("The anvil shield is a powered slab of adamantium-laced obstinite" -the codex). I just wanted the shield to be large and unshapely. Also tried to add som SW bling, but it just got to a skull and a tail (unpainted). Maybe a bit more wolfy now.

Edit: Oh, and I will ad some runes on the anvil and the shild when I get around to tidy up the paintjob and recent additions

I like the new shield.

That was the only prob i had with the 1st attempt.
Maybe the new shield should be a touch smaller?

I painted the shield and added runes. Painted the tail and made some fixin up of the paintjob in general (dont know if it comes out in the pics). I think he is pretty much done, but it usually takes a few days for my eyes to adjust to what Ive actually done. Not altogetjer satisfied with the shield. Hm maybe a remake awaits.

critique? anger?, pusslement? Let me have it.

Looking pretty spot on to me.. The runes really made a impact.

brush_slip wrote:Paint that left shoulder pad yellow and slap a decal on it, that would really make him look more wolfy...IMO

The Yellow shoulder with the black wolf is Ragnar Blackmane's Great Company. Arjak is part of Logan Grimnar's he would have a black shoulder with the wolf that stalks on it.

Aside from the metal to plastic size issues I think you've done a wonderful job trying to grab the essence of arjac.