Back and with models painted!

I've done some painting and playing recently. I got sidetracked from the Wolves by painting more Salamanders. I really like the red bolters like they had in the old Space Marines codex, so I used it on my new Assault Squad. Here's an example:

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I also painted Ahriman for my friend. I've had his model for months and months and months and months...and months. I wanted to paint Ahriman cuz I really like the Thousand Sons. Here's how he came out. This was a pretty quick job. It only took me about 3 hours from black primer to what you see her. That included pinning his very delicate wrist. Check it!

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Now that I've gotten everything else done that I wanted, I am on to Russ' Wolves! Here is my first model. I've got an Apocalypse game coming up in a couple of months, so I'm doing a squad of Wolves led by Ragnar to team up with the Salamanders. It's going to be Ragnar and 15 Blood Claws in a Land Raider Crusader. I even got some Forgeworld Space Wolves doors for the Land Raider. I'll get pics of that when I start it. Here's my 1st official Space Wolf model. I think he came out awesome! I'm really pleased.

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Bjorn 99% done!

So, Bjorn is now 99% done after working on him almost all day Friday. I need to design/finalize a banner for him and then that's it. I'm very excited. Now there's only 1700 more points of Wolves to build and paint... :)

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Next Up..

Now that I have my 2 HQs just about assembled, I think I will paint them first. I've got a big batch of Space Wolves armor color mixed up on my paint table. I'll paint Berek Thunderfist first and then Bjorn the Fell-Handed.

After I get them done, it'll be onto more Grey Hunters to build.

The Wolves of Fenris muster...

I finished the Daemon commissions I was workin on and now its onto my next army.

I'll apologize in advance for the pics. I'm trying to get the lighting right.

I've started modelling the Space Wolves.

-Berek Thunderfist: I need the right head for him. Other than that, he's built. Here's his legs on the base that I built out of extra Daemon bits:

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-Bjorn the Fell-handed: I constructed his dreadnought claw out of sprue that I carved. I got the wolf dread arm as a cheap bit but I needed to build the claw. I'm working on an interesting base for him with some Daemon bits I had left over. He will be triumphantly standing on a defiler claw. Here are some in process pics:

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-Wolf Guard: Almost all assembled. Here's one to check out:

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-Wolf Scouts: A pack of 5 is all assembled! Here they are:

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The beginning.

I've decided that I want to be a high level 40k painter. I really enjoy the game. I used to play Heroclix. The sculpts were ok, but the paint usually sucked. Now, I get to decide how good or bad they look. I've been playin for about a year and started with Tau. I painted the army and magnetized some crisis suits. I moved onto Necrons and we all know how easy they are to paint.
I was looking for the next army to mess with after Necrons and bought the Space Marine codex and the Eldar codex. I was leaning towards Eldar but someone else in my playgroup beat me to em, so I chose Space Marines. I began a Crimson Fists army cuz I liked Pedro Kantor and the CF story so much. I was gettin bored with Pedro and the gang so I moved to Salamanders. I'm having a lot of fun with Vulkan He'stan and the gang but I like new armies and painting challenges.

I thought about starting Chaos Marines until the Space Wolf info started coming out. So, what does a good Space Marine fanboy do? I bought the 2 Space Wolf omnibusses (omnibi?) and started reading.

So now I've got a pile of Wolf sprues and an army list to fill out. I suppose I should get to work.
I have also taken a commission to build and paint a Chaos Daemon army.

The real point of this rambling is to intro myself as an aspiring painter/modeler. I plan to show the Daemons and the Wolves as I work on them.