Box o' Resin

Here's what $600 USD worth of resin parts from Forge World looks like...and no, this isn't even remotely all mine, it's a combined order for 6 people so we can share the free shipping on paying over 250 British pounds on our toys.

Grey Hunter Proof of Concept

So I'm happy with a color scheme for my guys, except for the wolf tails, they need some work still.  Here's a crappy cell phone pic to show from behind the base armor colors.  Other than the tails needing some love, and the base, this guy is done.

WIP: Ragnar's Great Company...of legs.

Thought I would throw a pic of this up here while it's covering my desk, this is all of the legs from all the kits including all the devestator squads and the one tac squad (and 5 assembled swiftclaws in the middle, for a total of 92 more marines to assemble.

This doesn't include the 2 packs of grey hunters, 1 pack of scouts, 1 pack of swiftclaws, 1 pack of claws, and 2 packs of long fangs already assembled...

Total count of non-terminator marines will be 147 plus Ragnar, and a couple of other random pieces, and that's not inlcuding 10 bikes, 10 cavalry, and 6 speeders...

And the mound of boxes of the armor to still assemble, I've only got two razorbacks, the land raider, and one whirlwind ready to go so far, still have to do all the drop pods, and the rest of the transports...I'm certifiably nuts methinks.

WIP: Dreadnought and Wolf Guard

Shocking, but here's proof I'm actually painting finally...three Wolf Guard in TDA. and the first of three dreads that I have assembled.  Dread is much further along than the WG, but all are progressing.  Most of the stuff I did on the dreadnought was proof of concept to make sure that my technique I'm using works on large flat surfaces before I start doing vehicles, and just to play with different color combos and whatnot to see if I like them.  All in all, I'm pretty happy with the looks on this guy, and he'll have a virtual twin with some slight variations on him, and then a venerable one from Forge World to round out the trio.

The Guard units came out pretty nice, I have a lot more of them to assemble, right now I only have 8 ready to go, 5 of which are the the unit of double wolf claws which were highly amusing playtesting them against Aaron's ork army.

I also have 2 full squads of Grey Hunters ready to go, just need flocking and priming, as well as 15 Blood Claws, and two packs of Long Fangs.  Going to work on assembling the rest of my Razorbacks that I want to field, as well as a couple of speeders tonight.

Not dead, just busy...

So there's been a lot of assembling going on, no painting sadly, but we're getting close to a massive paint-o-rama of the first 2000 points or so.  Converted a wolf guard terminator last night into a wolf priest, going to get him based and ready to prime today and start working on him, as well as the first two packs of grey hunters.

Pics to come soon.

Ok, so a few more minor acquisitions...

Soooo, I said I was done, and I almost am now.

So I picked up 10 wolves to convert to Thunderwolf Cav from James MrDandy.com, they look freaking awesome and should really help round out the army as a whole.  I've been searching around for wolves to use, and I can't use them in sanctioned GW tourneys, but I can use them everywhere else, woot.  I might pick up one more from him to use as a mount for a wolf lord, we'll see if I like them as much as I think I am going to once I have them all assembled and painted and ready to roll.

In addition to that, I picked up the last two standard dreadnoughts I need, as well as one more battlebox since I am one drop pod down, and I'll use the rest of the sprues to customize the bike squad and the wolf cavalry that's coming.

So my army will be around 7500ish points now total.  Not that I'm ever going to field it all at once (but wouldn't that be freaking awesome), but it will allow me to tweak my lists at will and play with different combinations.

Off to Atlanta on Sunday, so spending time with the kids tomorrow and probably not working on the army at all until after I get back on the 4th, and then only home for a week and I'm off to California for a partial week for a class there...yeah, little grey men have to take a back seat to work and family, but I'll survive, and so will they...

Base Army Points...

Um, yeah, so with all of my acquisitions, and minimal wargear attached to things...I'm at 5362 points.

Acquisitions can now officially end for a good long time...

I've got more primed/washed and ready to paint, pics to follow.

Assembling skyclaws tonight, and then need to make up a 200 point group for a special scenario team, I hope I can find enough guys to do it...hahaha

Land Raider Ho!

Still using the iPhone, resolution is still garbage...will get better as it's finished.

Land Raider Crusader for the Blood Claws Pack (and Rune Priest since it can carry 16 units), need to glue on the cupola with gunner and the back hatch, and finish the doors.  We cut/ground/filed the symbols off both standard doors and will replace with Space Wolves icons and power shields left over from the terminator squad.

In general went together very smoothly, had one place I had to munge together with some extra glue but when primered and painted it won't be noticeable.

Assembed Blood Claws!

Horrible pics, taken with iPhone, I'll get better resolution ones soon.

Six completed Blood Claws (of 13 total ).  Due to having four battleforce boxes I was able to pick and choose heads and shoulders, so they have matching right shoulders that already have markings on them for a Blood Claw Pack.  Going to leave the entire group all helmet-less as they are supposed to be the nutjobs of the company, and hey, who needs a helmet, right?

Three are flocked as a test with pieces of slate, going to try crushed walnut shells on a couple as well to see how I like them.

Blood Claw with bolt pistol and power sword, rawr!

Let the onslaught of boxes begin!

So I arrived home from my business trip to SC to find three large cardboard boxes waiting for me, and a couple of small ones (one from England!).

Needless to say I have a lot of assembly in front of me.

In addition to what came in the mail, Aaron and I made a road trip into Portland where I picked up my initial order of paint, a couple of brushes, a Land Raider Crusader, and a Speeder.  It's not like I had enough to assemble already, right?

I've got the scouts with sniper rifles ready to go and just needing wolf bling, and the first five Wolf Guard in terminator armor are assembled as well.  They are all at Aaron's ready for primer, along with the 6 drop pods.

Pics to follow with what I've got assembled so far, working on things squad by squad for continuity's sake, the Blood Claws will be first along with their sweet ride.