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It took me less time than I originally thought and I now have eighteen nicely based marines.  Five Skyclaws, a pack of five Grey Hunters and another pack of eight Grey Hunters.  Overall I'm very happy with how they've come out, the bases add 2 to 3 mm onto the height of each marine and because it's not a consistent thickness makes them all seem slightly different heights (they're not clones of each other after all).  My next task is to assemble the ten scouts that I have as these require arms, bodies and legs to be matched and if I move them then I'm going to end up muddling them all up.  I'm tempted to add more onto the bases with these,… Read More

I must admit that I've had a fantastic weekend modelling and getting my Space Wolves army together.  It's not been constant (which is a good thing as my brain would likely have melted) and I've got a chunk of the army ready. All of the torso's have been tidied up and gaps filled with green stuff.  The Skyclaws (5) are ready to glue onto their bases (more on that shortly) as is the smaller pack of Grey Hunters (5).  The larger pack of Grey Hunters (8) just need the shoulder pads glued on a few and appropriate heads selected and fitted.  This leaves the large pack of Blood Claws (14) which need a few more legs tidied up and then arms, shoulder… Read More

I've been having a serious think about how to go about 'labelling' up my Space Wolf army and have decided to (sadly) take a change.  I really would like to do an army themed around Egil Iron Wolf's Great Company, however the standard decal sheet doesn't have his company symbol on it.  I could create my own decal sheet, but to be honest I've spent more than enough cash on my army already and would rather spend time assembling my army in preference to creating decal sheets on the computer.  The standard decal sheet gives a number of different company symbols for shoulder pads - you have "The Wolf that Stalks Between Star" (Great Wolf) - "Blackmane… Read More

The handful of bits I ordered over the weekend from Games Workshop arrived yesterday, but due to various reasons I didn't actually get a chance to open them until tonight.  The techmarine and his servitor retinue are actually quite nice models, though quite fiddly.  To make him suitably Space Wolfy is going to be a bit of a challenge, but not horrific (I hope), numerous wolf skins and pelts are going to be needed, along with using some arms from the Wolf Pack sprues.  One thing that I have realised is that this model is actually 3 or 4mm taller than a regular power armoured marine - the same height as a terminator. Overall including the Battle… Read More

I may have already ranted about this in the past, but I fundimentally dislike many of the colour schemes used for Space Wolves.  The standard Games Workshop scheme is far too 'baby blue' for what are essentially savage space marines.  Grey is a popular alternative (I even used it for my 2009 Golden Demon entry), but I find that it limits painting other areas on a miniature - for example rocks on the base or grey hair, highlighting pure grey is also a bugger… Read More

For the first time this year I actually have a whole weekend entirely to myself!  My Mum and Sister are both away from Friday, with my Sister not being back until Sunday evening.  So much time what do I do?  In all seriousness I've got a few things that I need to catch up on, but do intend to spend one of the days working on assembling my wolves. I'm hoping that somebody will go into GW in Swindon on Thursday and pick up the battle force of wolves.  This will mean that I've pretty much got all of the troops that I actually want for my army.  I'm tempted to aim to get my skyclaws (5), bloodclaws (15) and scouts (10) assembled up over the… Read More

I just chanced across this link to a long list of Norse names, I thought it was pretty cool for any budding Wolf Lords out there. Read More

I finally managed to get round to taking some shots of the Dreadnought that I entered as my Golden Demon entry.  The paint job let the overall effect down, but overall I'm being positive in that it was a fantastic learning curve. I've begun to assemble a pack of Skyclaws now (jump pack marines), and can safely say that the new boxed set integrates with the older plastics without any problems at all - and are infact… Read More

I happily got home from work yesterday to find a jiffy pad containing a (slightly bent) Space Wolves Codex.  Though £15 is a tad steep for a book, the codex is actually very good.  As with most codices it's laid out in the familiar format of Background Fluff > Troop Fluff > Coloured Section > Army Selection.  I've only flicked through it and so far it seems pretty cool.  They've added lots of elements that have in my opinion been missing, such as some of the Rhino varients and Land Raider varients.  Jump pack Blood Claws are now an option which is pretty cool.  One complaint I have is that although there is a great variety of… Read More

A couple more possibilities to add into the melting pot in regards to some kind of diorama. First off is a Warhammer Quest dungeon scene, but using modern models.  A bit like the one Mike McVey did years back where the whole thing is split into a number of micro-dioramas with different monsters and party members.  For the barbarian I think it would be possible to convert a Chaos Knight into a much more 'Conan' style character, Wizard would be the new empire wizard box, Elf could be one of the wood elf range and Dwarf could be converted from any number of Dwarf models. Whilst searching (the wonders of Google Images) I also came across a number… Read More