big bad yeti's painting log... dark and brutal space wolves...bad moon orks.. a new warboss or two..

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**bigbadyeti**

hey guys and gals, I've got another painting blog somewhere about orks but I felt like I needed a change from painting green and red for a bit! My Ork mob is slowly growing but work has been slow for a while and coupled with the fact we were flooded out before xmas moneys a bit tight at the moment, so I figured I'd re-purpose some of the old space marine models I have laying about and try some more in depth conversions and a bit of green stuff!

I've always loved the idea of the space wolves, but I've always seen them as being a lot more brutal and gothic looking than how most of the GW models for them look, so my aim is to create something from the old models and bits I already have which better fits how I see the wolves.
I'm not really a gamer as such so they might be equipped with the wrong weapons or whatever but i'm not really worried as long as I have a cool model at the end of it!

I kind of got into it before I thought about making a blog about it, but I thought this would be a good way of getting feedback and pointers about how to get better! so one or two models are more or less done but i'll explain what I've done....

afraid the pics ain't the best but I hope they give some idea of what im trying to achieve, I have a box full of marines I undercoated ready for a dark angels army that never took off, they were cheap ebay bargains but im stuck with their poses and weapons so i'm limited with how I can alter them, I've done 3 so far as a taster to see if I liked it enough to push on and I did, so I have!

this is my first attempt at using greenstuff for what its intended for so im hoping the results will get better with experience but im quite pleased with the results so far, I started off pretty simple with a few scraps of wolf pelt here and there...

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i'll keep this updated a little better now!

any thoughts of pointers would be much appreciated!

steve

**pretre**

Looking good, although I'm not a fan of the full-on fur robes.

**neukd**

Nice!

I think the amount of fur on the DA vets look good (I imagine the more fur the better hunter, kinda) and I also like the yellow pads, the tone seems to fit your goal.

**Paradigm**

Nice stuff. Grimdark+Space Wolves=WIN!

**bigbadyeti**

Cheers! Quite enjoying doing these, did a little more on the guy with the frost axe, and started on a third DA veteran conversion, tried to elongate the beard and thried to get a shagy look to the fur on his robes, also swapped out his torso front to try and keep it looking a little more interesting than a ball of fur! quite pleased with it so far...

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Frustrating waiting for the green stuff to dry!

Steve

**bigbadyeti**

managed a little more time painting and modelling on the beardy guy last night, should get him painted up tonight and a few last details on the other guys, really need to start thinking about basing them properly too....

anyway where im up to now!

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feedback/ideas much appreciated!

steve

**tinfoil**

Grim stuff! I like the look and feel of this army. Seems very much in character. I'll be following this project. Thanks for sharing.

**Young_Logan**

Looking good, I like the style you have gone with. My only 'issue' so to speak (can't think of the right word atm) is the amount of fur on some of them. One of them looks a little like he is wearing a bath robe, and I've personally never pictured them quite so wrapped in pelts as this, It's not a criticism with them just personal preference. Looking forward to seeing where you take this project in the future and what other characters you are planning on doing

Young Logan

**Galorn**

From what I could see in the Pics you have a very nice scheme and aesthetic going. nice job.

**bigbadyeti**

cheers guys,

yeah I totally agree about the bath robe guy

hence I've tried to tone it back a little with the last one, I made the mistake of trying to cover every little bit of the original dark angel robe and tbh it's just too much! but live and learn!

still i quite like him even if he does look like a furball with a chain sword!

more coming soon!

steve

**shingouki**

Mad gs skills going on here yo.Seriously though nice work.

**bigbadyeti**

not had much spare time this weekend but managed to get a little paint on a couple...

painted the last converted veteran / wolfguard, really pleased how he turned out, I think the horns on the shoulder pad could have maybe been half the size, might alter them yet but im pleased enough with the rest of it, the fur robe looks pretty good I think, not as in your face as the others but enough to hide what he was!

tweaked the paint a little on the other guy too,

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**Paradigm**

Impressive stuff again. The Orks are nice and gritty as well, and the wolves are coming together very nicely.

**bigbadyeti**

cheers! that's the aim! although its also just the way I paint so it'd probably be more of a triumph if I managed a nice neat clean model!

well a couple more WIP's, I noticed the dark vengeance librarian model in the box which was begging to be used somewhere, I had to strip the paint off him so its early work so far but im picturing him as a rune priest, with a triangular pelt to cover the dark angels emblem on his chest, and some other wolfy spikey bits.. his hammer is a combination of the power maul from the DA veterans box with the head from the space wolves box, not totally sure about it yet, might tweak it a little more...

the special weapons guy I imagined is in the middle of changing weapons as close combat ensues, or maybe taking a carefully aimed shot that his melta couldn't make...either way I just didn't want a boring static pose, theres enough of them in the marines I have to convert and cant change because their glued too well! gotta add a little interest somehow!

and the last guys the final DA veteran turned wolf, its a bit hard to see without paint but his beard is bunched into a band halfway down, and I've gone for the longer fur look to his robe as I really liked the look of it on the last guy, really looking forward to painting him tbh!

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really enjoying doing these guys, breaking it up into modelling and painting a couple at a time seems to be keeping my interest a bit!

**bigbadyeti**

Well I wasn't totally happy with the pose on the beardy guy so I did some swapping and he's ended up with the hammer rather than the lightning claws, just got to do a pair of shoulder pads for him and a backpack and he's not far off done, quite pleased how he and the other beardy one have turned out tbh!

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any thoughts, ideas or critique would be really welcomed!

steve

**Papaskittels**

They are so dark... and viking.... and brutal... Amon Amarth would be very proud of you

but its almost too dark and brutal. Its almost like the smell of *Sniff sniff* Chaos

**bigbadyeti**

That's how I imagine them, almost using the same tactics as the nightlords, striking fear into their enemy's by both sight and reputation, being so brutal in their war making that they stand on a knife edge of being branded renegade... and lets face it there's no point in being brutal, mercyless, killing machines if your gonna go prancing around in baby blue power armour swinging a fluffy wolf tail about. Nope you need spikes, horns, scary trophies, and beards!

steve

**Paradigm**

The converted Red Butcher is looking great, should be epic painted up.

**bigbadyeti**

Well a quick update, I had some time off today so I cracked on with a little more painting, I put the melta guy together and other than a backpack he's more or less done, there's a little battle damage to his helmet (aka wasn't quite careful enough with the knife when removing the horns!) but it worked out ok as a rank and file trooper, I think maybe a pelt might have helped make him look a little more sinister but I don't want to over do it!

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hope you guys like!

**Paradigm**

Looking good.

**Medium of Death**

These are great looking.

That Red Butcher conversions is especially well done.

**bigbadyeti**

Cheers again!

Well I decided I'd had enough of wolf skins and beards for one week so I stripped back some nurgle terminators I bought back when I got back into the hobby a while back. I'd painted them badly in pre heresy death guard colours and tbh they looked pants, they were made up of FW torsos, space wolf claws and loyalist legs when I got them cheap off ebay. I altered a couple of them to make them a little more interesting but the legs still looked too clean so im trying to tweek them a bit more this time to break up the clean armour! this guy and the cultist are basically a test for the colour scheme, I didn't want to go so far as making them all look like they've been rolling about in mud for the last 500 years but I wanted a putrid sort of look and tentacles! gotta love tentacles! I also wanted more of a vile loyalist marine look to the normal marines, im not a big fan of the look of the stock chaos marines so im tempted to get some mormal ones and nurgle them up a bit! not sure yet...

anyway these are Work in Progress, need to do a lot more painting yet.

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**TheNightWillEnd**

I dig them all, including the "bathrobe guy." I say the more barbarian the better. Really adds to the feel of SW.

Your Chaos and Orks look great too.

**driller**

Eveybody is nicely demented-looking! Good job!

**bigbadyeti**

thanks a lot!

still trying to re-use models I've got and never bothered with, so I wanted to alter a couple of the dark vengeance cultists to better work with the nurgle theme of my chaos guys! after these two are done I want to go back and finish the space wolves I've done so far and get those units finished! or that's the plan anyway!

the cultist leader is based on the cultist with a shotgun from the DV box, good bit of work on him! the other guy is just a quick kit bash to make the heavy guy look a little more suitable! still some more painting to do on the leader but quite pleased with how he looks so far..

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steve

**bigbadyeti**

been a while since I've updated this as I've been busy fixing my camper and bug while the weathers been better! still been painting a little tho, moved back onto orks at the moment, I've been eyeing up the new ogryn models with an eye to making some meganobz but they worked out a little bigger than I expected so they're working out well as various boss figures! the first ones a badmoon warboss, also making a big mek for the evil sunz part of the mob, and not sure what the 3rd is going to make yet, really pleased how the first came out tbh! certainly has the stature of a boss!

anyway couple of quick pics....

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quick Q how do I change the name of the topic? since its not just about space wolves now?

**Young_Logan**

bigbadyeti wrote:
That's how I imagine them, almost using the same tactics as the nightlords, striking fear into their enemy's by both sight and reputation, being so brutal in their war making that they stand on a knife edge of being branded renegade... and lets face it there's no point in being brutal, mercyless, killing machines if your gonna go prancing around in baby blue power armour swinging a fluffy wolf tail about. Nope you need spikes, horns, scary trophies, and beards!

steve

Have you read Blood of Asaheim (if you haven't do, oh and battle of the fang as well). This is how I envisioned them from this writing style. I think it's totally dependant on what back ground you read. Some of the back ground sort of fits the light airy power armour others make them seem very dark and foreboding. Looking forward to seeing more of dem wolves

Young Logan

**bigbadyeti**

No I've not had chance to read it yet, I'm slowly working my way through the HH series, just read thousand sons and the way the space wolves were portrayed in that really hit a note with me! I'm juggling the Orks and Wolves at the moment, going to get the current wolves finished off and based up, then look at making up some wolfguard terminators to go with the red butcher conversion!

**bigbadyeti**

Managed to get on a little more this week with the next big boss, this time a big mek, quite pleased with the overall look of him, the base models don't give a lot of posing options so theres a bit of green stuff to make the joints work and still a little more to go...
sorry for the crap photo's I dropped my phone the other day and its not been right since!

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any thoughts of critique very welcome!

steve

**bigbadyeti**

well I finished the second one! this time a biiiig mek, with kustom mega blaster, as that's what I had laying about! I used my new airbrush on this one so its a bit of trial and error, im pleased with him but the photo's don't really show the shading on his skin up very well, i'll try and get my proper camera setup and get some better pics next time.

last one will be a rogue ogryn that's managed to gather a following of orks who like the way he smashes up the runty 'umies

any feedback much appreciated!