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Rune's Painting & Miniature Blog

This weekend I finally got round to moving most of the 'desk based' items from my Mum's house over to mine, so I potentially could actually start painting and modelling.  I also shifted across the Dreadnought that I did as last years GD entry and had a weird thought - how about having another go at doing what I did as my entry last year?  Randomly it's almost exactly a year since I started my last entry so I know that the time frame isn't too scary - plus my working environment is now much better and there is very little stopping me burning the midnight oil.  I learned a lot from last years entry so I feel that the actual construction process… Read More

Yup, over eight months since my last post and boy have things changed in my life.  I have recently just bought (and moved into) my first house which has consumed bags of time and money - but worth it without a doubt.  I have a three bedroom semi-detached place with garden and garage.  I've just got a pair of corner desks in the small bedroom, which is going to become my computer/modelling room and hope to move most of my model making and painting supplies across fairly soon - although I'm lacking cupboards so most will have to live in the spare bedroom for a short time.  The other major change is that I've started dating the most amazing… Read More

Great, just when I was getting into the swing of things again I go and injure myself.  I've somehow managed to end up with an inflamed lung lining, this was absolute agony yesterday.  So I am now on a short course of anti-inflamatories, hopefully it sorts itself out by the weekend as I'm meant to be out at a 30th Birthday party.  However I have stolen a batton from my Beastmen Ungors and stuck my Sky Claws onto it, these got sprayed yesterday and I have begun to paint the white elements of the faces - although didn't get very far as I felt awful.  My Wolf Guard terminator is progressing as well with quite a few useful comments and tips from… Read More

The weekend allowed me to make good progress on the Wolf Guard Terminator that I'm painting.  The armour has come out OK, not as smooth as I'd like, but it has been a learning curve without a doubt.  The key thing I've learned is that I need to ensure that my highlights are thin enough else they have a nasty habbit of applying poorly.  The other item is that I need to ensure is that the mixes with Fenris Grey are mixed well enough because as previously mentioned that particular paint separates very quickly. I've now started painting the red on the Terminator.  I'm using a recipe that was shown in White Dwarf a few issues back when Space Hulk… Read More

I can't believe that there has been 10 days since my last post, it's true that the closer to the festive period you get the faster the time seems to fly past. I have however managed to get some painting squeezed into this last week and a half, so I'm thankfully not having large gaps in my hobby again.  I've managed to undercoat a Wolf Guard Terminiator with pair of Wolf Claws as I though that this would allow me to practice one of every item that my marines would have - wolf pelts, lightening weapons, face, armour, etc.  Overall I'm fairly happy with the progress that I'm making, modern terminators are really large models so it's taking quite… Read More

Well the weekend went quite well, especially considering I didn't actually do lots in the way of modelling.  I did however get all 14 Blood Claws assembled & based and also finished off the Scouts and based those as well (yes two dozen bases).  So all I have left to do is the 6 Long Fangs, 2 Wolf Guard and 1 Battle Leader, plus Wolf Guard for the Sky Claws (I'm excluding the various metal 'priest' models I have).  By using various old marine components I had around I've actually managed to do it without using any of the bodies that were in the Battle Force boxed set, giving me 20 marines with which I can play with to fill out existing… Read More

I can't believe that almost two weeks have passed since any kind of post.  In my defense I've not actually done much in the way of modelling due to other commitments - yes mostly social :)  I always find at this time of year that November seems to be more busy than December as many of the people who I know tend to have family commitments so cram as much into November as possible. I have made a few in-roads into my army however.  The scouts are assembled, although they require extensive conversion and filling - the regular scouts (the ones with bolters) are bloody horrific to assemble.  The legs and torso's don't really tie up correctly which… Read More

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