Finally another update!

I picked up a set of cheap walmart brushes with long tips, similar to the expensive brushes I bought at my LGS. I wanted to make sure I could properly care for and use the brush before I destroy the expensive ones with ignorance. 

The result was great! I never thought that a $4 pack of 6 brushes would be anything aside from frustrating and would fray/break easily. I was able to paint teeth, for the first time ever! I am very satisfied with the quality of faces I have been able to produce with the new brushes. I have 5 more on the way and should have 6 fully painted space wolves by the end of the week. Only something like 34 more to go!

 I also sat down and did some converting. I have had this bit, this jawbone, for a while. Never knowing what to do with it. So I sucked it up and went to work. Using some new x-acto blades, I trimmed a chainsword down. Then I drilled an oval hole where the blade was. I modified the jawbone to fit into the hole, and the result is below! My Krakenbone Sword!

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Lastly, I managed to score a rather large haul of Space Wolves on Craigs list for about $150. Ill be rubbing that in everyones faces when it arrives today, as its +600 worth of minis! With this score I have 10 dreadnoughts, more than enough to run my all walker army!

More minis painted!

Over the weekend I finished getting at least a base coat on EVERYTHING Space Wolf related... aside from my TDA weapons, which are still needing extra shoulder pads. I failed to finish my wolf priest on bike, but I am very happy with how it is coming along. So here are some pictures!

Wolf priest bike and priest, still WIP, but happy with progress.

 Magnetized arms for my wolf guard, special weapons, and TWC units.

 All my power armor infantry. Going full on assembly line with the basic colors, then I will give them all personal touches.

First 3 games!

Another long wait between updates, I am sorry to my 4 readers!

I busted some chop over the weekend to get my SW infantry all up and running. No more unpainted minis lying around waiting to primed and painted! I also had my first 3 games with SW since I last posted! Twice I fought IG, my opponent had the worst rolls I have ever seen both times, he is a good friend and I felt bad for how the games went. As soon as TWC hit his lines turn 2, the game was as good as over. Both games a TWC blob and a axe/shield dreadnought flanked his lines, chewing through tanks and guard alike with ease. Void claws were brought in the first, and did very little aside from really help bring in reserves, though I wouldn't say they are worth the points just for that. A very fun unit I would like to try again none the less. Though for serious use, I would rather those 240pt go to more TWC. The first time I had a wolf priest in my TWC, the second time I had a wolf priest and an iron priest. The wolf priest is an amazing addition to the unit. 

The 3rd game was against orks, we got kill points and I tried a wolf lord with krakenbone, silly me, I should ALWAYS bring fellclaws teeth on a TWC lord. Missing hurts too much. The lord caused 2 wounds to an ork warboss, then failed 1/3 of his +4 saves and was killed instantly by a powerclaw. Both the TWC and void claws in that battle died without causing too much damage. My void claws +2 saves rolls were absolutely terrible, failing 5/11 rolls. Not knowing that his walkers were only S7 caused me to be very defensive with my dreadnought, once I found out how weak they were, I assaulted with mine, wiping them all out in one assault. 

His nobs pretty much walked through all my infantry, the MVP was the autocannon dreadnought, who I brought instead of the sword and shield dread. The auto cannon dread got first blood and slay the warlord. He was also the last model standing and prevented me from being tabled. At the end it was his FW walker VS my dreadnought. Both of us could barely hurt each other and the game ended 11-9 in favor of the wolves. 

All in all, TWC with wolf priest is absolutely amazing. Axe and shield dreadnought is superb, auto cannon dreadnought is pretty nice, but more of just a substitute for a predator, still useful though. The stormwolf is balls to the wall amazing. I used it once, it took out its fair share of vehicles. Lastly, still unsure about helfrost. against orks it missed every time, against IG it managed to glance a russ, taking off its last hull point, and kill some guard.

All in all I had a really good time playing the new Space Wolves. I feel that they are in a great spot to be a fun, somewhat strong army. 

Updated Iron Priest

I was pretty unhappy with how my Iron priest looked with a dinky little standard thunder hammer. The wolf shape was cool and wolfy, but I feel that an Iron priest should have a massive intimidating weapon. I picked up a set of 3rd party hammers from my LGS and started to kitbash. 

The handle is from a frost axe, which I used to extend the thunder hammer. The new length is close to the height of the hammer the actual Iron Priest model has. I am really happy with the new look, though I wish I could have easily had the hand up higher on the grip. 

Thoughts on the new book, and some new models!

The new book is out, and I love it, even though it broke my heart in a few places. The changes to tempestus (mainly murderous being WC2 large blast and living lightning having short range, but shock is cool. ranges fit with how wolves play) Removal of Mark of the Wulfen (I had so many models ready for it!) Removal of chainfist/SS (Spent a good deal of time converting one) and the removal of some of the characters special abilities. Njal lost his storm, and doesn't know all of tempestus (which seemed to be the way to go with the new books) Grimnar lost his special buffs too. The warlord traits are hollow remains of what the sagas used to be, that probably hit me the hardest. EW turned into +6 FnP. Though the awesome daemon trait table might have just spoiled me, the SW ones do seem too situational.

As for the good... DREADNOUGHTS!!!!!!!!
Hell yeah dreadnoughts with storm shields, murderfang, hellfrost weapons! I love them all! A point reduction for just about everything outside of special weapons. Wolf claws getting +1 strength, lone wolves not taking up force org. Teleporting TDA, drop pods with locator becons, Iron priests are ICs, I could just keep going on! There is a lot about this book that I really love, much, much more than I dislike. So I picked up the book and some models ASAP.

I left work an hour early, swung by the store and grabbed everything I needed for a good (not too unhealthy) fenrisian night. Cheese, imitation crab, beer, and models!

I magnetized the dreadnought to use every option outside the normal DCCW and bjorns fist. Murderfangs claw will make for a nice default great wolf claw, and I can swap it off for the shield when I want to.

 Of course, I magnetized it to the same polarity as all my other models, so that lead to some silly business.

 I plan on having a set, maybe 5, of super magnetized marines. This Iron priest is a test of one, both arms and the torso are magnetized. I could swap him over to a foot marine no problem. I may plan on doing the same with wolf guard. So the same 5 or so dudes can get on bikes, or jump packs if needed.

 I had a very good time putting the flier together, only magnets are for the meltas to be skyhammer. I don't plan on running heavy bolters. Because I have so many bodies lying around, and I didn't prime the inside to paint it. I wanted something to block the view a little. So I made a marine to stand at the front.

Between stormclaw and these models I have burned through about 100 magnets. My TDA have every option available, including 5 heavy flamers. I don't know why or where I got 5 SW heavy flamers, but I have them. I figured, just in case lone wolves could have them, plus it looks pretty cool, even if I will rarely if ever run a single heavy flamer!

Progress on the trials.

It's been too long since I updated, and I am sorry. I haven't really done any trials recently, and I am considering streamlining the process, as one group of blood claws can take 3-5 hours. The result is maybe 4-6 names, and I have way, way too many grey hunters lined up for that. So I may generate names in the same fashion I did, and do a simple few D6 rolls. Maybe a reverse leadership on 3 or 4 D6. You fail, dead, you pass, grey hunter. You do well, grey hunter with option for special weapon, you do really well and you enter into the running for TWC, long fangs, and Iron priest hood.

I have been working on my Wolves, just not doing the trials. The new starterbox was really awesome, and boosted up my army to new heights, especially because I had just bought some GH before hand. All in all I have around 60 walking models, and I think only 20 or so are named. However about 45 are modeled, though they don't get a head until they have a name. I am trying to give them all unique poses, which has lead to a lot of custom weapons.

 Hand crafted "fenrisian" weapons

Dwarf converted weapons, all with dwarf belts and helms.

Lizardmen weapons, and attempts at high cheekbone older faces.

 No heads, but my favorite, SHIELD BASHERS! (Shield CC weapon, not stormshield)

Some guys I was just having fun with. Giant hammer is magnetized!

2 badasses I threw together just to do it. 

Ill have an update with my progress on the new models since the release in just a moment.

Small update, painting some models.

Ok, so I did some trials a bit ago, but I never posted them because I am super lazy. Plus the trials went terribly, just some of the worst rolling I have ever seen. So many misses in combat, so many fails to wound! The upside is that a few did make it out, barely. So I think I have 4 more, these ones from caves. They sport the new dwarf weapons and all have matching belts to signify their clan.

The real reason for the post is the painting. Specifically Ringus is painted. I wish I could go back and change a few things while I was modeling him, but overall I am happy. I also purchased a Gamesday Wolf priest to accompany my 7 pewter wulfen models. For gameplay they will be represented by a blood angels allied detachment, they will be death company.

I also recently acquired Bjorn the Fell handed, who I mainly purchased and painted because I love the hell out of it. Lastly, a Contemptor Dreadnought. Who I plan to field, with the crazy FW drop pod they can take, the turn the arrive you can pop smoke and get a +3 cover save, but not shoot anything. So it could be pretty nice.