Thunderwolves Complete

I finished the Thundewolves.  I love these guys.  Tried some edge highlighting on one, Thought it was too light.

I magnetized the marines at the shoulder for changing weapons, but am a bit stymied on how to deal with squad markings for alternate weapons.  I think I will just have to paint up each weapon I want for the squad with the same pack markings.  Otherwise, it will look weird if I have one pack with multiple different right shoulder pad squad markings.  Anyone else have any ideas?  magnetized shoulder pads?

Pack leader.  

 And with his Black Mane company decal.  I don't love decals for shoulder pads, but I was out of cool pads when I assembled these.

Thunderwolf mounts done and Snow effects

Finished the Thunderwolf mounts.  Here is a pic of the snow effect after using a matte sealer.  I like it for the most part, but am still learning.  This snow is just Elmer's white glue and baking soda.  I found I like it best with a few pointers:

1.push the glue around with a paint brush to thin it down a bit.

2.put a lot of soda on the glue

3. Don't blow the excess off, but tap the model sideways, to keep some 'skif' of snow in depressions on the base.  That way it looks more natural.

 The riders are not complete, but I REALLY liked the light layer of snow on the two bases closest to the camera.  The matte sealant kinda melted the really thin layer of soda.

Storm Wolf Diagonals tutorial

Here's a simple tutorial for adding diagonal patterns on your vehicles.  I started by looking at the GW paint job, and saw that one yellow triangle fit on the corner engine piece, or about 7mm.  I then used a pencil and ruler to draw in the triangles.

 More pencil work.

 Then I started painting the yellow.  I used the yellow base color, Iyanden yellow (now Averland sunset).  The most important thing about painting straight lines is paint consistency.  You want it watery enough to flow well, but thick enough to lay some color down.

 You can see on these pics I magnetized the turret.  That is a piece of thin sheet metal across the hole for the turret.  The magnet is on the underside of the turret.

 Then I went back and added in the black.  I still need to touch up a few spots, but am mostly done.  Pretty straighforward.

Storm Wolf WIP

 WIP Storm Wolf.  still needs a lot of work.  Need to tone down the streaks.

Lukas and Harald

With winter hitting, I got the itch to start wolves again.  Here are some WIP pics of Lukas and Harald.
For airbrushing, I use a grey primer, then airbrush with vallejo intermediate blue, making sure to get all the under surfaces covers. Then after it dries, I prime grey again, in a top-down spray, leaving the dark blue on the lower parts.  Then I airbrush a custom mix of light blue, grey and true blue.  It mixes well with the grey primer to get the blue of my wolves.  Too much airbrushing this color on, ruins the mix.

 After airbrushing, I drybrushed with Enchanted Blue (now Caledor Sky)

 Flesh and Hair.

 For the runes, I left the blue in the rune, and dry brushed the grey over.  Then finished patching up the grey.

 For my gold, I start with tin bitz, then dry brush gehenna's gold, then Auric armor gold.

They both still need some work.

Space Wolf Air Force

Using the same airbrush layering technique I did on the Xiphon, I painted the Fire Raptor and the Storm Wolf.  I did some black streaking on the top, and then covered it with my space wolf blue.  

Some detailing done.  Engines, guns, wolf bits.

 And the Storm Wolf

Space wolf Xiphon

Here is a Xiphon I am working on for my space wolf army.   I started with a grey primer, and then painted vallejo air intermediate blue into the areas I wanted dark.

Then I painted some streaking with vallejo air light grey.

Then i put my custom space wolf blue on top.

And then some black near the engine ports.  Now just some detailing to do

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.

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.