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After years of looking at everyone else's beautiful armies and awesome blogs here, I've decided to start one my self (the blog that is, it's up to you guys+gals whether it's a beautiful army or not).
Over the last two or so months I've been building up a Space Wolves Heresey-era Great Company, led by Mograine Deathblade (Logan Grimnar). I've finally began painting stuff, and tomorrow I'm hoping to get them photographed and uploaded.
The army is:
High King Mograine Deathblade (Logan)
High Thane Ymiron of the Pinnacle (Wolf Lord)
Odyn Starcaller, caster of the Runes (Rune Priest)
Bolvar Wyrmtamer , Chooser of Legends (Wolf Priest)
Iron Thane Skorn the Vanquisher (Venerable Dreadnought)
Thane Korelon the Guardian (Dreadnought)
The Brotherhood of the Whispering Wind (5 Wolf Scouts)
Chosen of the Deathblade (10 Wolf Guard Terminators)
The Rocks of the Pinnacle (10 Wolf Guard, inc. Bjorn as a Wolf Guard) + Moonfall (Drop-pod)
The Frostclaws (10 Grey Hunters)
The Hammers of Fenris (10 Grey Hunters)
The Midwinter Predators (10 Grey Hunters) + The Shield (Rhino)
The Fresh Bloods (10 Blood Claws)
The Slayers of Monsters (6 Long Fangs) + The Snow Lion (Razorback)
The Fury of Winter (Stormraven Gunship)

The army has a lot of Forge World MkII-V armour, a smattering of their arachic boltguns/pistols, and every model was built individually (no batch building) in order to get an army of utterly unique models, which I feel suits the Wolves.
The Blood Claws are about halfway painted, so hopefully will be finished by tomorrow evening and posted up. :-)

The Stormraven is House Rules. Manager of local GW lets any marine chapter use 'em and I love the model so had to have one :-)
As for the quiz, I'm feeling like second bottom already, roll on that £15!!

Here are the WIP shots of my Blood Claws







Been worked on since then, should be finished by Sunday night :-)

The gold is Dwarf Bronze, Leviathan Purple, Shining Gold, and then Mithril Slver edging. The weapons are almost done now :-)

Only a week behind schedule (blaming the unreliablity of warp travel), I've finished my Blood Claws - The fresh-Bloods. I handed painted the Great Wolf symbol in gold which was possibly the most time-consuming part, and used the dark sand weathering powder on them for a worn look.
Next I'm working on a Grey Hunter pack with 2 plasma guns, as well as Wolf Guard to lead each pack and a Wolf Priest. Photos will follow very soon.

Here is the High King himself. Unsurprisingly he still needs work - bit of greenstuffing around joins etc. I gave him the Horn from the terminator sprue to represent his Inspiring Howl. The base is Njal Stormcaller with one of the new Grey Knight terminator arms, and the Axe of Moraki is made from 2 of the Frost Axes from the terminator sprue with 2 of the Wolf Skulls from the Grey Hunter boxed set.

Here is my first Grey Hunter pack - The Frostclaws. I was hoping to have them done by sunday night but I suspect that will be unrealistic. I think their armour is a little darker than that of the Blood Claws, but once I've added some other colours I'll have a better idea.

@ PDH as requested here are a few pics of the chapter symbol.

Also there are some new pics of the blood claws squad finished.

Sad times - the dog got hold of the Grey Hunters whilst they were drying in the sun and savaged three of them. Two were ok, but the marine with the bolt pistol and bolter and bare head has been had both his hands chewed off. Will replace them with a pre-heresey bolter and a new bolt pistol hand tonight...

Lol. thing is a menace. However, now my Grey Hunter has a shiny old skool-style bolter with chainblade attachment, so all good I guess.

Here is the photos of High Thane Ymiron of the Pinnacle - my Wolf Lord in terminator armour with Frost Axe and Storm Shield. Today he relinquished control of the army to High King Mograine for a hard fought draw against PDH's Death Guard army. I have never been so grateful to see a '1' for random game length in my life! Mograine was, as ever, a monster and slowly hacked his way through two squads of Death Guard and a Chaos Lord whilst his loyal troops died in droves around him. I did manage possibly the worst deployment of Long Fangs ever and was rewarded with some dire shooting from them as a result.
Ymiron is WIP, still needs a bit of green stuffing, and maybe a Talisman or similar somewhere.

Cheers. He definately shows the versitility of the Terminator frame. You couldn't do the same with the regular Marine one. He's not that high on the queue at the moment but that may change. The axe will be done like Logan's in the book, so black with red edging and Gloss Varnish. All the Frost Blades in the army will be done that way, and possibly the Wolf Claws too. Not sure about the Power Weapons yet though. Not sure what colour I'm gonna do his helm, the normal marines in the army who have that helm are having them done in white, so may go for black or red.

After a long time away, mainly working, but also was attacked in the street which inconsiderately took away painting time, I have some new pics for you all! I've finished the Grey Hunter pack (although still need a banner design) and made a decent start on the first Wolf Guard pack too. The army has grown as well, I've added some heresy -era Skyclaws with a jump-pack equipped Wolf Priest, a Swiftclaw Bike Squad, a Landspeeder Typhoon, and some more Terminators including a Rune Priest.
The Wolf Guard with single Wolf Claw and bionic arm is a Heresey-era Bjorn, before his incareration in a Dreadnought suit. The Wolf Guard with the 2-handed axe is Sarfang Deathbringer and will be painted with a palid look to his skin-may mix pale gray in and see how that works out.
Enjoy :-)

Here is the next (belated) offering to the Great Company - The Hammers of Fenris - my second Grey Hunters pack, and The Rocks of the Pinnicle, the power-armoured Wolf Guard.

Lol ;-) I blame Prospero Burns personally. Didn't care about them 'til I read it!

PDH-Lol, she has you whipped, but I dare say it was a reasonable request to be fair!
Here are some more things to brighten up your day! The Slayers of Monsters (when I remember I've deployed them!), and their Razorback The Snow Lion.
Wolf Scouts are almost done :-)

The post I know you've all been waiting for..... The Deathblade himself, built for my birthday by PDH, as well as Bolvar Wyrmtamer, one of my Wolf Priests, and my Venerable Dreadnought, The Iron Thane Skorne the Vanquisher :-) Surprisingly, they were amongst the quickest models to paint, but I think that's because I've been batch painting the squads.
Collectively this motley three are affectionately known, to me at least, as The Scourge of the Death Guard, due to the charmed existence that they have had against the devotees of the Plague God :-)

I will take some more photos pf the Dreadnought tomorrow when the sun is out (an unlikely occurence I know ;-) ). Hopefully the Wolf Scouts will be done by then too, as there's not too much to do on them. My stuff for my Salamander Command Squad should arrive tomorrow too, so lots of exciting modelling. They are getting Cypher's backpack on all except the Apothecary, who is getting Fabius Bile's Chirugeon. My captain is getting the Thunder Hammer from the Forge World Raven Guard Captain. Have you seen the new Forge World Rhino? Gonna get one for my new Heresy-era squad I think :-)

After some careful thought (and a total avoidance of my bank manager) I've decided to be a touch ambitious. I shall succeed where the Emperor failed and do the Great Crusade. So, 6k+ of Space Wolves shall be reinforced by the other 17 Legions..... A character, and at least 2 units from each of the other Legions. First is Salamanders.
I've ordered Army Painter's Army Green to do them with, and some brass etches for my Drop Pod. I've made this lot plus a Sternguard squad who will get the 'pod. After them it's Thousand Sons led by Ahriman.
Hopefully I shall post up my completed Wolf Scouts and Rune Priest tomorrow, if I get a new camera.

Finished loads since last post but the new camera I bought to photograph them is dire, and the photos are terrible. These are the best of a very bad bunch I'm afraid. Here are my 10 Skyclaws; The Spear Blade, and for PDH a side-on view of the Dreadnought, as requested.

Camera's still playing up (never buy a cheapish digital camera from Argos!) but managed to get slightly better photos this time. Here is Skarl Darkprowl, the Wolf Priest who gets the chore of leading the Skyclaws, The Brotherhood of the Whispering Wind (Wolf Scouts, or at least the 4 who's photos turned out), and Odyn Starcaller, the Rune Priest. He will soon be joined by a power armoured brother-in-arms, most likely made from the Grey Knights in power armour as a base, then liberally bedecked with bits of dead wolf :-)