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How do you paint the armor....???????

Dantay looking good man. I love your Thunderwolf squad!

i love the free-hand on your LR and the dread...

How do you paint these magnificent beasts? I'm def sub.

Hey Raen, sorry it took so long for me to get back to you and my plog. I recently moved to my folks so modelling, painting and use of computer has been rather restricted.

You were asking about armour.

Basically black primer.... fenris grey basecoat.... badab black wash.... fenris grey drybrush..... then a few highlights by progressively lightening the fenris grey with sw or the light grey foundation. Bob's your uncle and jobs a ggod un.

As for the wolves a lot of credit should go to emissary1701, we looked at a lot of different wolves and tried to match the colours to them. Atleast they would look natural and not too outlandish.

Thanks for the com[pliment on the freehand on the LR jetjetex.
I am proud of the slamestorm cannnons as they are really freehand. For big stuff like the wolf's head i actually drew the LR on to a sheet of paper and marked out the armour and then drew the design on top. Cut it out, glued it on then painted it. I know its cheating but it works well. I plan to do the same on the rhino and razorbacks that i have.

I am glad you like the stuff and I hope to get something of an update going soon..... I have been quiet for far too long.

I love wolves, and I love your Space Wolves. Canis however is my favorite of them all and you, my friend, did not do him wrong. Very nice. Makes me want to go out and buy a Canis of my own......someday.

*Thumbs up*

Sorry to take so ong to get back to you, but thanks bunnygurl... he is a great centrepiece for an army and fun to paint.... you should definiyely get one..... wish he was plastic though as he is more or less solid metal

The painting on the wolve's fur is fantastic!

Fortunately all the models really lend themselves well to drybrushing, start dark and getting lighter..... and emissary1701 is a great teacher, he has helped me a lot

Great work all around, so assume Im giveing the same praise thats been said.

The dread claw hand is a great idea I assume that its a terminator claw cut and stretched out to fit properly, and the hand with the spur is worth repeating and by that Im probally going to steal the idea.

Hey you know what, since you are posting for trades on the Marine Swap maybe we should trade. Ha ha, dakka thread promotion.

Would be good RL has been getting in the way a lot, my wife having depression has been tough but getting back into it.

The Dreads claw was made from 4 zombie scythe blades set in GS then a Space wolf cobat shield set over the top as a housing for the power bits (and to hide my bad GS-ing).
It would be easy to embellish around it with giutar wire and stuff to make it better.

You are more than welcome to steal myy ideas, lol, afterall i didnt copyright them

And trading will be great.

Great work Dantay! Everything is coming along great, the wolf riders are especially good!

Thanks, I will hopefully have progress pics up tonight, and also a group shot of the whole army. Hust ran out of propellant for my spray gun :(

Nice! I'll check them out when you get em up.

THREADOMANCY!!!!... It's threadomancy I tell you. The inquisition must be warned!!!!

Okay so here we go. I have been on Dakka for the past few months admiring everyone else's work, but not getting on with my own. Real life issues have really been cutting into my modelling time. However things in my home life are getting better and so it is time to dip my toes back in.

What I would like to show you is the size of the army that I have accumulated and maybe then you can see what I am trying to do. My original concept was to have a small flexible force which then slowly grew with what if's and trying to compensate for any eventuality.

When I joined Dakka I had a rethink about my army.... to many they are just blobs of plastic or metal, but to tose who invest time and money into their collections they are so much more than that and so I decided to give them somethong they deserve. A background. By giving them a story (or as a wolf a Saga) it gives me a reason to collect a vision to shape my collection by and a motivaation to get them done. At this point I have not set myself a deadline to paint my models, although that may come in the future if I get lazy.

The simple background of this army is that they are a Space Wolf army fighting during the first war of Armageddon. For those not in the knowduring the 3rd century of the 41st millenium the Daemon Primarch Angron led a huge army to Armageddon to wage war on the Imperium. For a time the war went badly for the defenders they were pushed back from the primary continent and suffered horrific losses.

For an unknown reason Angron halted his armies and for several weeks he stopped to build grand monuments to his god Khorne. Speculation is that the warp storm which brought him to Armageddon was abating and he needed a way to keep the links with the immaterium strong.

When he broke for Armageddon Secundus, Angron was met by a huge surprise.... the Wolves had answered the pleas of the governor of Armageddon and they stood firm against Angron and his legions of berserkers and daemons. The Space Wolves had reiforced the defences during the lull in fighting and strengthened the resolve of the embattled guardsmen. The defenders took a fearsome toll on the deamonic hordes and where the fighting was fiercest the wolves were sure to be found, cutting down their foes with bolter and axe. Such sagas were made that Russ would be proud!!

At the height of the battle Angron and his bodyguard of 12 bloodthirsters joined the fray, cutting a great swathe through the defenders, neither guardsman nor wolf could stand before them. Seeing the danger The Great Wolf played his trump card. At a signal from him a full company of 100 Grey Knight Terminators teleported into the battle and ass\ulted Angron and his bodyguard. Angron was defeated, cast back to the warp with his dark lieutenants, however the toll taken on the Grey Knights was terrible.... only a habndful survived the titanic battle.

With Angron gone the warp storm blew out and the daemons faded, leaving behind the traitor guardsmaen and khorne troopers to be mopped up by the victorious defenders.



So ther you have it.... my theme for my army, rather than use 1 grea company I intend to use elements from all of the Great companies to show jus how big and confusing the first war for Armageddon really was. My army is nowhere near done and it will be a long slog to get it done, but I hope you can follw me through my journey. It is pretty much a restert if you will and I intend to use all of the great advice I was given in the past to help get this pushed along. I would actually like to thank those who have been watchimng this for a while, please stick around I could do with your input as I go.

For anyone interested I am going into the GMS. This is for another project I am running. As part of the war for Armageddon, I am sure the Inquisition would have been there to help fight Chaos. This is also to help me keep focussed and as a motivator to push my painting skills as far as I can go and to learn new skills. It will also kkep me frsh too with new and interesting mini-projects. If anyone is interested in doing a GMS please pm me and put a note on the GMS forum too.

Thanks

Okay time for pictures...... Lots and lots of pictures!!!!!

More pics:

And going with more pics:

Still going

Stay with me still got some more to go:

Are you still with me.... Now for the juicy stuff

On to the Wolf Guard

More Wolf Guard

And yet more Wolf Guard

And finally all the HQ's and stuff I missed earlier. I hope you enjoyed looking at the pics..... All new ideas and C&C welcomed

That's a lot of wolves! (How did you avoid those all appending into one post?)

@ Arakasi. I just used the Post reply function rather than quick reply.

It might be that the pics take up so much memory it has to use another post, who knows.

And yes it is a lot of wolves... I am a prolific collector and builder, but not a painter. I tend to go slow and paint 1 at a time.

BTW I like your orkz and the new base for Morgrimm will look sweet when its done

Good God when will you never find the time to paint that lot.
I keep mine to a minmum, that many models on the go would just depress me.

Where did you get the spear arms from?

@ Harms66 Lol, it is a question I keep asking myself too.... I am a prolific collector, but my painting time is very slow. My ambition is to one day field a fully painted army.

I have a GW spraygun, and when it doesnt leak propellant it is great for laying down the base grey, then i will try to use it for spraying badab black as the shade.
From there they will need to be done by hand for the drybrushes of Fenris Grey up through the huighlights.

I would recommend it for block spraying (that is what it is designed for). But it will in no way do any detailed work, you need a proper airbrush for that.

Wolf Guard Hengist took me bout 10-12 hours to paint and the dread around 18-20. Both by hand

And Harms you are right it does depress me seeing a wall of models, which is why I want to use the Great MArine Swap as a motivational tool. By focussing my efforts into 1 model I can learn new techniques and become a better (and maybe slower) modeller all round.
As much as it will probably pain me to do this.... I might steal Majortom11's idea and farm part of the army out. Get them painted to a basic standard minus things like armpads etc.... Then i can do all the fine details and shoulderpad/ banner designs myself. I have a friend who might be able to help.

I can then do the faces, fine detail work, weathering techniques myself. Using what I learn from the GMS and still keeping the army "my own".

BTW there are a few not shown yet

As for spears, do yo mean the bikers, these are standard space marine arms, but using marauder horsemen spears.

If you mean the Bloodclaws, it was a lot of chopping and hacking of Space Marine arms and some biker arms repositioned to hold spears hammers etc. They wer done before the pesky BA and SW 2 handed weapons came out. I can try to get more detailed pics of the arms if these are the spear arms that you mean.

Okay so not much done . However do not despair.. I am in negotiations to get my wolves progressed a bit, but for now I have been indulging myself with a few GMS's

So much for maintenance of aim I am aware of my failings and will be sure to correct it

Anyway a bit of progress on Thing 1's GMS scout.

Hope you like it

JUst too much...stuff! How on earth do you keep motivated with so much unfinished stuff around?