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I like the dread, kinda reminds me of the hellbrute which somehow fits the fluff of the 13th!

That`s true, hadn`t thought about it like that. I just went with the helmetless theme to better show off their individuality

R

Evening!

Got a package today with a lot of 2nd hand miniatures I bought for a cheap buck. One of the main things I bought was a lot of bikers. I love bikers but I`ve never afforded myself it even if I`ve dreamt of a White Scars army for ages (or rather since I saw Fat Blokes WS army in WD). Now I won`t go there yet so I used 5 of the 11 bikers for this army.

Here`s the WiP pre-greenstuffing:

From left to right; normal biker, powerfist, wolf priest, plasma pistol and normal biker.

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Looks fine Red... need beards though.

I agree, blowing in the wind

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Hello all!

Got a little update before the holidays take over Found an assault bike (yay!) that I`d forgot about. It`s an older version with the sidecarriage in metal. It came with a heavy bolter but I wanted a multi-melta, which I don`t have so I made one from some parts that I found. Put it all on a 60mm corked base to keep it in line with the rest. I also changed the biker with plasma pistol with a flamer. That update is so small I didn`t bother taking a pic of it. Think this unit will be quite hard hitting with the Wolf Priest and all so excited to test it out



The biker is primarily a berzerker body but the head is a RT barehead. Think it`s a sergeant? The gunner is mainly a RT era body with a termie wolf guard head and gunner arms from the chaos vehicle kit. Threw in some more battery packs and cables to make everything a bit more interesting. Considering adding some stowage to all bikes as well, just gotta figure out what I have first.

With all that said, Merry Christmas everyone

R

I would like to suggest you paint the names in the bases red, then go over them in orange and yellow. The white is too Blah!!!

I considered it originally but went against it. I like my bases simple and the white worked well in that respect

R

Merry Christmas Red! Great job cobbling that bike together!

Thanks Gits, Merry Christmas

R

Last installment for this army. Got two other projects I will focus on which is an IG Armoured Company army and a Daemons army. Still, I`m at approx 2300-2400 points for the Wolfwing so I think that will do for the time being

Wolf Priest:


Regular bikers for the WPs retinue:


Powerfist and flamer for the WPs retinue:


Attack bike with multi-melta for the WPs retinue:


Land Speeder that will either assist or go sniping:


And the entire Wolfwing as it stands now:


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PS: I`m behind replying to some GMS stuff and sending the stuff I`ve finished. Apologies in advance! The holidays have been crazy mad

Happy holidays amigo. Love those dirty, dirty bikers!

Happy holidays mate

Cheers! I think I nailed the ZZ-top biker look I was aiming for

Just to clarify one thing with this army. It`s not done done, more like a taking a break done

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Happy Holidays Red, man those bikers look great & the whole wolf wing together is really fantastic!

Happy holidays Gits!

Thanks Feeling both happy and a bit sad that it all came together so fast. Been really fun and I hope it shows. But I reckon I will get back to these lads sooner rather than later Someone in my gaming club gave me a great idea for objective markers. Think kegs of beer

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Always good when you get brilliant ideas from your friends!

Indeed Was a good thing I was reminded of objective markers because it always annoys me when I game that I don`t have any kustom made.

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Well that took long

Here`s my objective markers and a second wolfpriest:


After a lot of thought and even more frantic searching through my bitz boxes I ended up with looted armour and kit objectives. After all, my lads take what they can get! I will paint them up in the predominately red scheme that I use for the chaos bitz on my wolfwing.
The Wolf Priest. I guess you can see the base model for him. I just got so inspired by the GMS trades I`m getting so I made a dedicated HQ for that pack. Hope that more want to contribute to them As far as the Kharn mini go, I just like it a lot but wanted a slightly different take on him but retaining the cool parts of the mini. Pretty much how I approached my Abaddon conversion.

The objectives and the wolfpriest will be basecoated and painted this coming week.

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I think it all looks great Red, keep at it mate... you're turning out some really interesting stuff!

Cheers Gits I even got hold of a Land Raider. It`s in a bad shape but I reckon I can sort it out. Would be a nifty addition to the Wolfwing. I`m good at rolling 1s on my termie armour saves you see..

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I'm there with you buddy... no termie ever survives my dice luck!

Almost like it`s a jinx just taking the buggers

Been a few days since the last update but I`ve got a few things done.

Wolf priest on foot and objective markers:





Then I set out to get this baby back in use again:



Yes, for the attentive this means that there will be no more Night Lords from me. They have been traded for daemons

This one I`m really happy with. Got a great trade (from my perspective) and landed a Land Raider. HUGE bonus:



It`s banged up, crappy painted, poorly assembled, lacks parts that I will need to rebuild with plasticard but I don`t care. I got myself a Land Raider and I will manage to bring this one back in a good way

R

That's the spirit chief! Need doors for that bad boy? Or any other bits? Drop me a pm I'll stick them in with your possessed.

Love that marine Red. Looking forward to seeing you play with the vehicles. Should be bloody fantastic!!

Cheers lads

@graven: if you got some doors I could sure need them as both side doors where missing Other than that I`m good mate

@Gits: hopefully I`ll keep the termies alive longer with the LR than I`ve been able to with stormshields wall

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This is kind of a triple update of sorts. One thing is that I built a lightbox to get some proper pics. I think I succeded there. Besides that I got some armour for the Wolfwing! Fun times



Just love this predator! And this is the original RT one, no FW for this lad (yet... :( ).



Weathering FTW eh

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Very cool minis! Couple of thoughts/suggestions, hope you don't mind:
1)Drill out barrels on predator! By all means still go all osl insides though!
2)I like where you're going with weathering but I suggest you do some muddying/dusting up -

Get an old, thick brush (or-gw tank brush).
Load with codex grey or similar.
Wipe near-clean (not quite as thoroughly as for a conventional drybrushing).
Give the tank the once-over on all edges and raised surfaces.

Then run a quick metal drybrush along the tank tracks - there tends to be more wear here, ww2 modellers often use a pencil for this but personally I don't like to mix media.

Then the mud. Tamiya mud sticks are cool, if you have one adds some blobs - really splotchy - randomly over tracks, and underside of sponsons, and where tracks disappear into farings (mud always collects there). Alternatively, you can add some sand with pva or just skip this step altogether.

Then, drybrush with a good earth brown (vj earth, gw bestial, etc). Crucially, however, remember to brush vertically from bottom to top; this ensures beliveable splatter.

Hope that's useful!

Cheers mate

That style of weathering (dusting etc) will be for my renegade armoured company force that will soon be started. I just had to keep the style that I started on the termies throughout I think I`ve done quite a lot of what you`ve listed but these big models are a total pain to take proper pics of

R

Great update Red. Love the old predator. Is that OSL I see on the las cannons?? Agree with graven, drill the barrels on the guns. His weathering advice is very solid too.