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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

As I'm still in the planning phase with whatever I choose to do for next years Golden Demon, I decided that I'd start to assemble some of the new Space Wolf mini's I bought at Games Day as it's my intention to have at least assembled a 1500 point army by the early part of next year. I've finished putting together a Wolf Guard Terminator with Assault Canon.  I will be honest and say that I'm very impressed with the new boxed sets, unlike some other plastics the tidying up is either straight forward or minimal.  The sheer number of weapon variations is also staggering - I think that you have around 3 pairs of weapons for every body so can kit… Read More

Unsurprisingly I didn't win anything at Golden Demon yesterday.  Despite staying up until 11-30 on Saturday evening getting my entry done.  My basic problem was that I ran out of time and rushed the final parts of the model.  The red elements was litterally splashed on, the metals weren't finished off to a high enough standard plus the base and cloak got whacked out in an evening - far too short a time to do them justice.  This meant that I didn't even receive a single sticker for my entry :(  - which was my goal.  However the fault lies squarly on my shoulders as I should have spent more time on it when I had the opportunity and for not… Read More

Deep breath moment...  I've been concentrating on getting some websites finished off for customers as they've been outstanding for quite a while now.  I'm writing my own PHP back office to provide content management and such like, so it's been a major undertaking.  Sadly this has absorbed most of my potential modelling time over the past week or so.  My brother is moving flats in the next few weeks as well, so I'm going to have to assist him there as his new flat needs a little bit of work done before he can move in.  On Monday I worked late on a server at work, so late that I pretty much came home and almost went straight to bed. This has… Read More

So I had a fantastic weekend away, still feel quite chilled despite the fact I'm still flagging from lack of sleep :)  Looking quickly at the mock up of my dreadnought, I'm still very happy with the overall appearance.  My new rivet maker arrived yesterday, so I can put some rivets onto it soon as well.  Watch this space... Read More