Wraith Knight WIP

 So here is my latest project.  The wraith knight is magnetized at the arms, and has magnets for shoulder mounted weapons.  I also magnetized him at the waist and head for painting and travel.

He is mostly painted with the airbrush.  I wish i had taken more pics of him along the way.  After airbrushing brown over a cream undercoat, i did a heavy washe with seraphim sepia,   Drybrushed with the cream color, and then washed again with sepia.

I also wished I had left his weapons off his arms until after I had painted them with the airbrush.  I painted the arms to completion first, which meant I had to tape off the arms when I airbrushed them blue.  It wasn't the end of the world, but it would have been easier if they weren't glued together.

I still have a lot of painting to go, and work to do on the base.  Stay tuned.

Wraith blade progress

Here is a wraith blade that is almost done.  I drybrushed, and washed him, and have started the detail work. I like how he is coming out so far.

Wraithblade progress, and mistakes

Here are my wraithblades so far.  I have only airbrushed them.  I learned a few things, sometimes less is more, especially with an airbrush.  I tested too many colors on my wraithguard.  Also, airbrushing doesn't work as well on the smaller, all metal figures.  On my wraithlords, i painted them in parts, their main bodies, heads, and back sections were separate. Good thing too, I made a mess of the bodies trying to get them just right. It only got worse and worse.  The wraithlord bodies and old wraithguard will get another paint job.

Shrinky dink wraithone bases for wraithguard

I traced some cirlcles for the bases.  Then cut them into cool shapes, cooked the on the oven at 325 for 3 minutes.  Glued em down, and we got some wraithbone bases.

Apocalypse game

Here are some pics of the latest apoc game we played.  I had half my wolves in drop pods, and half in tanks or on thunderwolves.  The drop pod grey hunters got the most kills.  Great game.

Magnetized Wraithguard

So I won a local tourney with the new Eldar Codex, and won these beautiful wraithguard.  With all the options they came with, I couldn't just glue 'em together, so I started figuring out how to magnetize them.  I used 1/8" x 1/32" magnets from kj magnetics.  This shot has most of the important stuff in it.  The right arm you can see, has a magnet that I have trimmed to match the size of his wrist.  The magnet was just larger than his wrist, as you can see on his left arm.  I didn't drill into the arm, just glued the magnet right in top of the wrist.  After I started taking pics, I realized that his left sword arm doesn't need the magnet.  Just glue the left sword arm to the sword.  Or magnetize it for different poses, you don't have any other weapon to put in the left melee arm.

The other impotant thing on this photo is the small finishing nails i used for his hand.  You can see a full nail next to a nail that I have trimmed ready to insert into a drilled out wrist.  Use a nice, new, sharp micro drill bit, and drill by hand.  A dremel will destroy the hand in no time.  

Below you can see the wraithguard with a D scythe.  I just decided to put the head vanes and hip guards on with glue.  I like the look of them, and did't want to go crazy magnetizing every option.

Space Wolf Army

So I got everyone together for a family pic.  I need to figure out how many points there are all together.  There are 2000 just in terminators and drop pods.  I am going to airbrush the termies today, time permitting.

I am going to add a melta/plasma and regular guy to each of my grey hunter squads.  They were built for 5th, with a wolfguard with power fist in the squad. Also going to bring the blood claws up to 15 strong, with Lucas.  After the termies, I want to finish the thunder wolves, and get some actual Fenrisian wolves.

Logan Wing In Progress

Here is a quick post on the progress of my Logan Wing.  

Squad 1:

TDAWG Chainfist, Stormbolter

 Rune Priest, TDA Chooser

TDAWG Assault Cannon, Storm Shield

TDAWG Storm Shield, Storm Bolter

PAWG Combi-melta, Bolt Pistol

PAWG Combi-melta, Bolt Pistol

Drop Pod

Squad 2

TDAWG Power Axe, Storm Shield

 TDAWG Wolf Claw, Power Fist, Cyclone Missile Launcher

Arjac Rockfist

TDAWG Wolf Claw, Power Fist

TDAWG Wolf Claw, Chainfist

Drop Pod

Squad 3 

TDAWG Wolf Claw, Chainfist

TDAWG Power Axe, Storm Shield

TDAWG Wolf Claw, Power Fist, Cyclone Missile Launcher

TDAWG Power Axe, Storm Shield

TDAWG Wolf Claw, Power Fist

Drop Pod

 

Squad 4

Long Fang Multi Melta

Long Fang Multi Melta 

Long Fang Multi Melta  

Long Fang Squad Leader

Logan Grimnar

TDAWG Wolf Claw, Storm Shield

Long Fang Multi Melta 

Long Fang Multi Melta  

(You can see I need more multi-meltas)

Squad 5

TDAWG Assault Cannon, Storm Shield

PAWG Combi-melta, Bolt Pistol

Rune Priest, TDA Chooser

PAWG Combi-melta, Bolt Pistol

TDAWG Storm Shield, Storm Bolter

TDAWG Chainfist, Stormbolter

Drop Pod

Group all together.  Pods need some work. Comes out to about 1996 points.  Logic was 2 shooty, 2 choppy squads.  2 Shields per squad, chainfist, and heavy weapon per squad.  With 2 Power Armor Wolf Guard, I could fit a rune priest and 5 wolf guard per pod, which means I could get a heavy weapon per squad.

Wolf Guard Terminators

I have been getting excited about an all Terminator Wolf Guard army.  I have about 50 terminators to be put together. I am magnetizing all of them to be able to change out weapon load-outs after trying them in battle.

 Wolf claw and power fist adds 15 pts, for 48 pts.  He can choose initiative 4 ap3 attacks, or initiative 1 ap 2 attacks.  Both get +1 attack because the claw and fist are both specialist weapons.

 A little overpriced for the hammer and shield, but he looks dang cool.

 Only his left arm is magnetized.  Dark angel power sword arm there.

 Power axe and shield.  Only 48 pts again.

 I will get rid of the chaos star on the axe before painting.  I like the cleaver look though.

He has a claw back there.
Now only about 40 to go.

 Rune priest in Terminator armor.

 Two claws-again not the best use of points, but looks cool.

They all will be airbrushed like this chap.  The cyclone is magnetized, but I will probably just glue them on in the future.