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Funny enough, your Wolves are sounding like they're going to end up remarkably like my own. Grey, with maroon and bronze/copper detailing. For what it's worth, I can tell you that scheme does work, so go for it.

The RP's sword lends itself to a very high-contrast paint scheme, so your plan should definitely work, but I'd go with almost a dark metal on the blade to really make the runes stand out.

Bow-wow bark woof woof!

Nice looking space wolves. Tons of details on those guys, good luck making your deadline. I’d not worry about every model being WYSWYG. You have a good mix represented in the units, and there is no doubt that they are grey hunters.

You paint job sounds fine, my only concern is how well they will look next to your Scars. I assume you are going to base them the same, so that will make your list look a little cohesive. But if you completely change your palette, I’d worry that there would be a bit of a discord in your painting harmonics.

If you can do the glowing rune thing on the sword, that would be awesome. Going for something subtle, or branching out into OSL?

Hi Zambro, I love the command squad and Chapter Master, they look amazing. So is that the White Scars all finished now? Will you be going straight into the Space Wolves?

great work, cants wait to see the Sons of Russ.

Paradigm wrote:Funny enough, your Wolves are sounding like they're going to end up remarkably like my own. Grey, with maroon and bronze/copper detailing. For what it's worth, I can tell you that scheme does work, so go for it.

The RP's sword lends itself to a very high-contrast paint scheme, so your plan should definitely work, but I'd go with almost a dark metal on the blade to really make the runes stand out.

Nevelon wrote:Bow-wow bark woof woof!

Nice looking space wolves. Tons of details on those guys, good luck making your deadline. I’d not worry about every model being WYSWYG. You have a good mix represented in the units, and there is no doubt that they are grey hunters.

You paint job sounds fine, my only concern is how well they will look next to your Scars. I assume you are going to base them the same, so that will make your list look a little cohesive. But if you completely change your palette, I’d worry that there would be a bit of a discord in your painting harmonics.

If you can do the glowing rune thing on the sword, that would be awesome. Going for something subtle, or branching out into OSL?

Thanks fellas
The basing is the same, so they will tie in a little better. And I had an idea from these two comments, go with a dark metal (almost black) sword with blue OSL coming from the runes. It looks great in my mind But it is my first time trying OSL, so we'll see how it comes together...

Brother Ectus wrote:Hi Zambro, I love the command squad and Chapter Master, they look amazing. So is that the White Scars all finished now? Will you be going straight into the Space Wolves?

great work, cants wait to see the Sons of Russ.

Thanks Ectus! And dont worry, I still have some scars to do. I need these guys for a tournament in two weekends time, but right after that i'll be back into the Scars Just off the top of my head, I have sternguard, vanguard, honour guard, LR, SR and a whole bunch of termies that still need painting! The end is within sight, but just a little out of reach

I had a solid 2 and a half hour airbrush session this morning. All the Wolf stuff is primed, and based. I didn't realise how much surface area there is on the drop pod... It took a while.

Z

Hey everyone, how's everyone doing?

It's been a (long) week of no updates - I decided against doing regular updates on my Wolves. A combination of just wanting to finish them without distractions and not wanting to clog up a White Scar blog with Wolves. But alas, we are finished.












I really enjoyed painting this colour. Such a pleasant change to white.

The drop pod was rushed, in all honesty. I spent all day today on it, and an hour or two yesturday. So, imo, it is just about on par. I've clearly got 3 colours minimum for a tourny, but it's at basic TT quality. In an ideal world, i'd spent more time on it, but this just aint the case. Tomorrow i've got 9-5 legal training in uni followed by (relatively heavy) drinking, and I dont think i'll be doing any drunk, late night painting sessions. And of course the tourny starts at 9 on saturday, so I cant even paint in the morning before. I hate doing this, but I'm just going to have to settle for the quality it is now.

I think, the OSL on the priest is pretty good for a first time attempt. I used a paint brush (not an air brush) and it was a lot easier than I expected. The wolf that is accompanying them is my Chooser of the Slain. In the codex, it says that the chooser usually takes the form of a psyber raven and is constructed by a fusion of flesh and steel. I haven't had time to dick around looking for a Psyber raven to use, so I exploited the use of the word 'usually' and just got a wolf The model is smaller than the Rune Priest model (as is it's base), so it still complies with the rules in the Codex.

Remember the game I was telling you guys about a few weeks ago? Against Eldar-Tau. Well, I have a rematch lined up with him tonight It'll be our last practise games for the weekend. Hopefully, I can pull a win, but mainly I want to learn something useful that will help me on the weekend I'll let you know how the game goes.

I'm one excited cookie for the weekend
Z

Very nice wolves, the posing in particular is very good. The scheme definitely works, and is well-executed. The OSL works nicely and the basing is fantastic.

I shouldn't worry about the Pod. It's clearly painted and serves its purpose, and you can always go back and edit later if it really bugs you. Besides, anyone you play who's ever have the misfortune to have to build one of those things is going to completely understand why you've left it alone. Pods are evil incarnate, I tell you!

Good luck with the games/tourney.

Any drop pod that gets off the “to-do” list is a good pod. But your’s looks clean and solid, can’t complain. If you are looking to do more it might be a good place to try out some weathering/chipping effects. One of the perks of being the allied force is that it does not need to match everything else, so it’s a place to experiment.

The Wolves seem almost too drab. There is no real “pop” or focal points on them. Realistic, yes; but on a small mini, they tend to blend into the landscape. A minor complaint, but it stuck out for me.

The same could be said for the rune priest. I like what you did with the blade, but I kinda want to see an electric blue, or even a blue-white in the bottom of the runes. Like the core of the blade is raw power, shining though where the runes were carved into it. I think he could use a little more wolfy bling as well. The tail talisman on the front is a good start.

Thanks fellas for the honest comments

My game this evening was incredibly intense. It was hammer & anvil, regular objectives (5 of them) and I had first turn.
Lets just say, I have an incredible alpha strike. The pod'd wolves destroyed 2 out of the 3 warwalkers when they hit, then proceeded to tie up a Wraith Knight for 3 turns. The turn 1 orbital bombardment took out 2 of the hornets, too. I finished off the WW and stacked a HP on the remaining hornet with the TFCs. I also maneouvered around the LOS blocking terrain in the centre of the board to minimise the reaper's comeback.
In return, his damage output was wrecked and he had not that many things to shoot at.
A few notable things as the game went on:
-Jaws'd the tide on turn 3
-4+ to deny a power is crazy good.
-I over-committed the command squad on turn 4, and lost them
-I ID Elderad (the warlord)
-I killed all his scoring units

All in all, an excellently played game (by the both of us), and a real nail-biter all the way through. The final result:
Eldar/Tau - 3 (STW, FB, LB)
Me - 4 (STW, 1 objective)

A victory! woo!
I'm feeling alot more confident about this weekend.

Sounds as though you gave him a good and proper thumping Z.

The Furries are looking good. The glowing runes on the sword are perfect looking. As for the rush job on the pod, I think it looks fine. It's not like it's streaky or anything.

Nice work and nice win mate. Take your lessons and go to the tournament this weekend and see how you get on.

I'm sure I speak for all the followers of this blog when I wish you best of luck.....

Wow, sounds like a real bloodbath of a game. You seem to have picked up the fairly simple way of using the pod-wolves straight away. The Rune Priest certainly adds a lot to the army, the 4+ to deny any power, not just maledictions and witchfires, is awesome, and Jaws is great against Riptides, Tervigons, Crons of all types, Ork Warbosses, anything with low initiative. What other power did you take with him? (I'd recommend Living Lightning as you've already got a reliable cover save and some long-rage firepower never goes amiss.)

McManiak wrote:
I'm sure I speak for all the followers of this blog when I wish you best of luck.....

Thanks Martin

Paradigm wrote:(I'd recommend Living Lightning as you've already got a reliable cover save and some long-rage firepower never goes amiss.)

...Oh wow... How'd I overlook that?
S7, AP5, assault d6 with unlimited range is pretty good (compared to the alternative options).
I went with fury of the wolf spirits... List's already been submitted, so I cant change :(

Fury of the Wolf Spirits can be useful, if a little limited, against some armies. The ability to force a Ld check and two 'ammo' types can be pretty good against low-Ld targets, so might come in handy running off things like small Loota squads, Fire Warriors without a Fireblade/Etheral. Heck, you might even get lucky on a Riptide.

Still, you'll be using Jaws most of the time as it's a great character killer (I don't think you can LO,S it). Good luck.

Mate I love your space wolf allied attachment, they will make a lovely contrast to your white scars on the table top. You have definitely inspired me to add a possible allied force of my own.

Thanks Ectus, keep working on your SoM. They're too pretty to get distracted by something else

Storm of Iron 2014.

I do a quick summary of each game, then a conclusion at the end.

Game 1:
against Tom. Crusade, dawn of war. Grey Knights, Imperial guard, inquisition.
This being my first game against GK, IG and inq I was a little apprehensive. He went ahead and deployed across the entirerity of his board edge, and with me going second, I loaded up my bikes on the right flank. His servo skulls denied my scout advance, so I just shuffled around for a better flanking maneover. On the right, he had 2 chimeras, in the centre his coteaz/aegis/some-kind-of-unit in a defencive formation and on the left he had most of his foot guard. Due to my deployment, he was only able to target my TFCs in turn 1, and destroyed one of them. In return, I got rather lucky, and scored first blood and slay the warlord in my very first shot (orbital bombardment). My grey hunters came in on his left and shot up some foot guard, and the TFC targetted the soft taget that is the remaining guardsmen. My rune priest did manage to get Jaws off once, claiming a priest, another dude (psyker maybe), a guy from coteaz's unit and the quadgun. Then he died horribly the an assassin's sniper.
The Chapter Master pounded face, then died to Coteaz. We called it on turn 5. He had barely anything left on the table, I had all objectives and all three secondaries. He had nothing. I found this game to be really enjoyable, and my opponent said he enjoyed it too. I played really well and make him think about everything he was doing. His list wasn't exactly 'optimised' (judging by the result)
but the fact that it was my first time playing them helped him a little.
The final results:
Me - 18 points (and 13 kill points which are used in the case of a tie)
Tom - 1 (and 8 KPs)

Game 2:
against (another) Tom. The Relic, Vanguard. Daemons w/ CSM.
My solid victory catapaulted me into the top tier (I was playing table 2!). There was a Scar's list on table 1 and a Scar's list on table 3. I guess bikes dominated the first game. As expected, I had a hard
game ahead of me. I faced screamer-star. First time playing daemons, too. I was going second. It started as just a slow slide down hill, then it built up to the eventual vertical plumit. I tried to play smart, keeping my bikes in a massive block together, with their backs to the board edge. I ignored the screamer star as best I could, and I took first blood on my first turn against an invisibility DP (I was pretty happy about that!). much started to fall apart after that. Lost my command squad, khan, CM and priest in combat with the screamers and decided to focus on his troops - It's an objective game after all. We finished on turn 4, and all I had was a Talon and a TFC left on the board. Luckily I gunned the horrors holding the relic down with my final shots from the talon, making it a non-victory. He still won, from secondaries, but didn't get the relic and thus not the extra points for winning (I'm not sure how other tourney's work, but here we get an extra 3 points for a win, 2 points for a draw and 1 for a loss - We got 2 points each in this game as no one had the relic).
I felt a little overwhelmed at the start, and frustrated throughout the game. He rolled a crazy number of sixes (to the point where I thought to myself, are his dice loaded?) and me a crazy number of ones. I couldn't get the rune priest's nulify off for the life of me! But Tom was cool about it, I explained it was my first time against daemons and he was patient with me about the rules. Looking back at it, I'm pleased I could deny his relic and force the draw.
The final results:
Me - 3 (3 kill points)
Tom - 5 (11 KPs)

Game 3:
Against chris. The empy's will, dawm of war. He was playing Orks.
I felt a little sorry for chris at the start, he had just come from a game against another scar's list (playing on table 3 right next to me) and he lost. I held back in this game, not enough to be noticable,
or patronising, but enough to make it more enjoyable. I soon found that Chris is one of those guys that has an awesome time just throwing dice, and this was my most enjoyable game so far (and probably of the weekend). Gazgul (spelling?) and his squad ground through my stuff in CC. GHs, command squad, and a lone Nob with 1 wound left made it to my back line and took out my TFC! It was really enjoyable. The focal point of the game was; my Chapter Master, Khan and one guy left in the command squad failed moral, and ran (the chapter master with 3 wounds remaining). Then his dakkajet came on, and dakka-dakka'd into the remaining command squad. 3 wounds to take. 'My chapter master will tank them', I declared. Promptly followed by rolling 3 1s!!! Dead. We laughed hard. And for a while about that. I won the game, with 2 bike squads and a TFC remaining, he had a Dakka jet left.
The final results:
me - 15 (10 KPs)
Chris - 2 (10KPs)

Game 4:
Against Sid. Big guns, vanguard. Eldar with Dark Eldar.
Sid was running a jet-counsil with all the trimmings. This game was really intense, up untill turn 4. Due to the deployments, we weren't going to be able to move into effective range in a single turn.
Meaning we'd get counter assaulted. So there was a massive 24" strip of board that was effectively no mans land. I nabbed first blood, and was dealing with the weak stuff he was bringing on, but he
eventually committed and blasted across no mans land. Once they were in, there was nothing I could do. They made short work of me. All I had at the end of turn 6 was the drop pod left. That jet counsil was really intimidating. It started as a slow roll down hill, then a sharp plummit off a cliff when they got in. Looking back, I was rather flustered at the start of the game. Showing up 15 late, and having been rushing for an hour previously wasn't good for my state of mind at the very start of the game.
The final result:
Me - 4 (7 KPs)
Sid - 18 (13 KPs)

Game 5:
Against Ashley. Kill Points, Dawn of war. 'Nids.
I know what you're thinking... Kill points. 'Nids. Bikes. Exactly that. He conceeded on turn 4. Being that last game of the weekend, I figured this is my last attempt to bump the number of tourny points i had up. When I saw Ashley with his 'Nid codex, I felt confident and relieved. Then a little sorry for him. He was running the tyrant, 2 tervigans, 2 trygons, a smattering of littler bugs and 60 gants. I had first turn, and it went exactly like you imagine it to go. Grav to the face. I lined up my jaws to hit 2 tervi's and the tyrant (all the while thinking, 'I'm such a ****'). Then proceed to roll double 6. He got away lucky. My first turn took out a zoanthrope, a tervi, and stacked a few wounds on the other tervi. Through the game, he managed to kill a single bike squad.
We took the game relatively slowly, and talked a fair bit. It was definately an aweful game for him (I hope I didn't come across as an a-hole).
The final result:
Me - 20 (11 KPs)
Ashley - 2 (1 KP)

Wow... What a weekend. I went in with a goal of trying to win atleast 1 game, and instead won 3! Crazy! And that's not even the best part, the people are (There were 15 tables on the go, and around about 30 people). I met alot of people from the tuesday club (I go on thursdays) and a bunch of other people out of of the area who were all amazing. It was such a great atmosphere. And the armies were incredible. There were 3 Scar's lists there. Mine, a black scars and a bronze scars which were all FW bikes and speeders etc. A few Tau, few eldar, chaos (of both varieties), a healthy smattering of marines, all of which were painted and looked great. I had a lot (and i mean, a lot) of people come over and say, 'Mate, those Scars are incredible' - or words to that effect. The guy who won best painted definately deserved it. He had an incredible Night Lords army. A lot of conversions, really cool lightning effects and LEDs in his vehicles (the drake looked ace). It was just jaw dropping.

I was talking a lot with one of the local guys (from the club) and his not-so-local friend. They do tournaments fairly regularly, and invited me to tag along with them to future tournaments. An offer which i'll take them up on. The one regret I have, and it's more of an after thought really; I should have taken my camera. Just a few snaps here and there would have been great. Maybe the TO took some pictures and has uploaded them somewhere? I'll have to look around.

Anyway, the all important results:
I placed...


Z

Congrats mate. You have accomplished exactly what you needed from your first tourney and more.

You had fun, met some good people and won a few games.

Any changes to your list that seem obvious now?

 McManiak wrote:

Any changes to your list that seem obvious now?

That is a fantastic question. To put simply; I dont know.
The meltas in the command squad weren't used, and there were no infiltrators for the chooser of the slain to block. Also, the GHs got torn apart in shooting, so the banner was kind of useless. I could strip the MBs off the bike units too, they were only used once or twice throughout the weekend. So, a potential of 60 points to play with. I dont think I need to worry about it too much at the minute. If/when I line up the next tournament, I shall revisit that question.

It’s better to have melta and not need it, then need it and not have it. With the proliferation of super heavies and mega-forts, keeping a little melta in you list is a good thing.

Sound like you had a blast, and grats on your placement. Do you have a picture of your army as deployed? It’s one thing for us to watch your army slowly get painted, but I do love the shots of armies mustering up before being packed. Nothing like all that hard work, sitting in a functioning list, ready for battle.

Sounds like you had a great time, and congratulations on the placing, 4th is a very respectable position, especially for your first tourney. It's also great that all the players were decent and that you didn't run up against any rules-lawyers or super-cheese lists, as I imagine that would've ruined the experience somewhat and there are a fair few tournament horror stories out there.

Best of luck getting another tourney lined up, and on recovering from what sounds like an awesome weekend of gaming.

Nevelon wrote:Do you have a picture of your army as deployed?

...Not the full 2k list. I could muster everything together and get a picture tomorrow when the sun is shining.

Paradigm wrote:...and on recovering from what sounds like an awesome weekend of gaming.

It's astonishing just how tiring playing 40k is.
I slept through my alarms and woke up at noon today, I was gutted (not really) about missing my 3 morning lectures

Zambro wrote:

Nevelon wrote:Do you have a picture of your army as deployed?

...Not the full 2k list. I could muster everything together and get a picture tomorrow when the sun is shining.

Paradigm wrote:...and on recovering from what sounds like an awesome weekend of gaming.

It's astonishing just how tiring playing 40k is.
I slept through my alarms and woke up at noon today, I was gutted (not really) about missing my 3 morning lectures

Your studies are important, don’t get in the habit of blowing them off for fun and games.

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That said, I slept through my share when I was in school. When I’m at my FLGS playing in our little tournaments I’m constantly reminding myself to sit down when I have a chance. And usually ignoring my own advice, but that’s beside the point. The other big thing is to eat well. While gamers can traditionally survive exclusively on soda/beer and greasy cardboard masquerading as pizza, eat some fruit and veggies. You will be surprised how much it helps.

Looking forward to the pics!

Haha, thanks Nev. It's nice to be looked after
I'm pretty good when it comes to food. I break the norm of students eating gak. Although, I think a little less alcohol might be beneficial, lol.

Also, I just got a PM from flibs. We're finally exchanging minis for the Great Marine Swap

As promised, here is the picture of everything looking formidable









I took a few more pictures for putting into a P&M showcase thread. You can see them here.

Also, I did a quick inventory of what I have left:
-5 Sternguard
-5 Vanguard
-5 Honour Guard
-5 Tactical Termies
-5 Assault Termies
-5 Marines
-4 Attack Bikes
-2 Chapter Masters
-Stormraven
-Land Raider
-Land Speeder Storm

Up next: Sternguard.
What do you want to see after?

Z

Purley because I wont be doing any I would like to see the Termies and LR.

Good job mate

I did another 3 attack bikes to base coat last night, ready for wash and detail tonight.

 McManiak wrote:
Purley because I wont be doing any I would like to see the Termies and LR.

I was just measuring the top of the hull on the LR for a potential lightning bolt going down the top of the hull.
I think i'll do it... It's gonna be a real test of patients and finesse

You don’t see many White Scars LRs. Lots of space on those things to have some fun; big canvass. I was going to vote Vanguard, but I think I’ll side with McManiak on this one.

Army is looking sharp, thanks for the pic! Any plans on doing a display board?

No, no display board plans. A little too big a project imo.

plus, i got no place to store it

Just seen this blog Zambro, this is really nice stuff.

The white is nice and clean. Nice to have some tournament stuff as well, good so see the boys in action.

Do the bolt, it will look great. I'm doing a large bolt behind an aquilla on each side of the thunderhawk. One nitpick if you will, is the apoth bike could do with some trim colour. IMO. Great otherwise mate.

The army shots are looking formidable, and the it's only seeing all of those that the consistency of the quality is so obvious. Great work!

Sternguard and Land Raider? This should be good, especially with freehand.

Also, I've revived the writing exercises thread down in the fiction forum if you'd like to take a look. More WW1 stuff.