Plasma Gunner Wolves!

I decided to keep on my Space Wolf kick today. So, based on the list I wrote, I've been breaking down my list and planning to do just a couple at a time. Today I painted 2 plasma gunners. Check em out!

Urge to paint a Space Wolf

So, I got home from work and felt the need to paint a Space Wolf. I had one primed tactical marine, so I painted him up in Space Wolf blue/grey. I messed around with chipped armor and weathering powder just to see what came out. I'm getting back in the wolfy state of mind. I have a list that has 40 Grey Hunters, 10 Terminators and 6 Long Fangs. I think I'm gonna build to it. :) Here's my result.

Salamanders Standard Bearer!

I'm at home working on my Salamanders command squad today. My standard bearer when from grey plastic to almost fully done. I freehanded the standard. I hope you like em!

A modeling update!

I've decided to put the Wolves on the back burner so that I can finish my Salamanders Battle company. I just finished my 6th Tactical Squad. Here are a couple of models. They haven't been based and I haven't put on the decals yet:



In addition to that, I entered a captain for my battle company in a local painting competition:





I started to dabble in Warhammer Fantasy Battles. I think I'm going to play High Elves when the new 2 player set comes out. I painted a horse yesterday for my Noble.

To Wolf or Not to Wolf?

Well, I finished the Space Wolves that I wanted for the Apocalypse game that was back in March, then I got a new spark to paint more Salamander marines. I've been doing that since. So, I am only a couple squads away from a full Space Marine battle company. I also got a Forgeworld Thunderhawk for my birthday. I decided that when the battle company is done that I'm moving on to the Thunderhawk. The Salamanders have also finally gotten a Captain for the 2nd company. I'm working on him for a painting contest at my local store. He's just about done. I'm going to post up some pics of my company and my captain later on when I get home.
Thanks for readin!

How to finish a squad of Blood Claws.

Yestersay when I sat down in front of my unit of Blood Claws, an idea came to me. I thought that maybe every time that I sit down to do work I should have a small goal to get accomplished. Yesterday it was ti just get the 1st coat on all the gold trimmy bits. I got that accomplished! I think that lots of smaller goals make it so that I'm not going 'I've got 2 Land Raiders and 30 Grey Hunters and blahblah'. Next goal for tonight is to get the black armor joints done. I think I can do that.

I also ordered some new primer to try. I was using the Krylon 5-ball flat black. The first batch was great and it was dead flat. After that though, it was like it was mislabelled because its really shiny now. So I ordered some Krylon black primer to try. I guess there are advantages to working at a paint store. :)

Slow Production

I'm finding that the method for painting the Space Wolves is a bit tedious.

Right now its about 6 steps before doing the detail. In retrospect I probably should have used more regular Tactical Space Marines and less of the Space Wolf Pack bits because they're so detailed.
The steps are this:
1. Spray prime black
2. 2 coats of my Space Wolf gray mix
3. Wash with blue
4. Drybrush special SW gray
5. Go back and Chaos Black all the details
6. Details
7. Highlight
8. Paint unhelmeted heads separately and glue to armored bodies.
9. Transfers
10. Pull my hair out cuz there are so many Space Wolves on my painting table.
11. Try to figure an easier way... Or just go play Imperial Guard :)

So, that's my dilemma right now. I've got a small project that's part of the full army plan. I've got an Apocalypse battle in march and I'm painting Ragnar, 15 Blood Claws and a Land Raider Crusader to ally with my Salamanders force. These Blood Claws are really bugging me tho. I've gotten thru steps 1-4 for all of them tho and steps 10 and 11 sometimes too. I wish that I could find out Games Workshop's magic Spacw Wolf color mix. When I did my color sample I tried everything they said and none were close.

I have a blister with the head of Cadia's XIII sitting on my desk (Creed) and his vox casting toadie (Kell) yelling at me to open and clean them and paint them! Ack! I've also got Ragnar Blackmane primed and sneering at me with his out-of-proportion bolt pistol. If I give up on the the Old Wolf will be pissed and I don't want the fury of Russ' Wolves. We all know what happened to Prospero, right?

Blabberblabber over. I apologize for misspellings cuz I'm on my blackberry and I don't wanna proofread :)

For Russ and the Allfather, right?