More missiles

Here's my week's work, yes, just one trooper, but it's been that sort of week!

He's my third Long Fang and the second missile launcher troop, thanks again to my brother for the launchers and missile!

You know the drill by now...

Try to ignore the askew missile top compared to the rest of it.

The glue shifted as it dried, so the missile only looks properly straight from a few angles, not this one!

One more plasma gunner and the squad leader and the first Long Fang pack will be done!

Long Fang Plasma Gunner

Well, it only took three days of spare time - HA!

Sorry if any of you expected to see a completed army any time this decade!

One Long Fang Plasma Gun done.

I went with a sort of green glow for the plasma gun as many people choose blue, but he's already mostly blue!

I quite like the stupidly big weapons, they're just kind of ridiculous so are a lot of fun.

Nothing too fancy on the back, just some lights coloured traffic light style. Don't know why, just 'cos.

The first Long Fang pack will have lightning bolt shoulderpads. I'll let you know about the second pack if/when I eventually get up to them (and think of something).

Hopefully the white/green hugeness of the gun shows up more on the darker board than against the white photo backdrop.

My two Long Fangs and one squashed ratty critter.

And from the other side... You can see all the black undercoated yet-to-be-painted squads there...

Not sure what I'll do next, decisions, decisions, decisions...

Vjork Verminslayer

Vjork Verminslayer is a Space Wolf Long Fang Missile Launcher armed troop.

I had so much fun putting him together that I've been looking greatly forward to painting him up!

Here's the front view, you can see the indentation in the missile launcher where it's smacked into the rat thing.

Back view not particularly exciting.

And the paint has smacked off the launcher tube onto deceased rat head. The colours are obviously not quite right in the photo, it's not quite so glaring really!

Well that was just plain fun =)

Space Wolves Army

Haven't used the computer in a while, hence the lack of posting! 


Baby is still only letting us sleep a little at night and keeps me busy all day long, except for Mondays which are filled with getting uni stuff done!


As a result, I haven't done anything for aaaaaaaages miniatures wise.


Here's a picture I took a long time ago...

It's my whole army (except for the scouts)!


Clicky for the bigger version...


A: First command group. Wolf Lord plus four Wolf Guard Terminators.
B: Second command group. Wolf Guard Battle Leader plus three Wolf Guard Terminators.
C: First Grey Hunter pack of 9 plus a Wolf Guard in Power Armour to lead them.
D: Second Grey Hunter pack of 9 plus a Wolf Guard in Power Armour to lead them.
E: Third Grey Hunter pack of 6.
F: Fourth Grey Hunter pack of 6 with a Wolf Guard in Power Armour to lead them.
G: Lone Wolf with Wolf companion.
H: First Long Fangs group with pack leader.
I: Second Long Fangs group with pack leader.
J: Venerable Dreadnought and Droppod.


And, of course, there's also a scout squad with Wolf Guard to add to that.


A link to more details from a previous post: http://simbattleboard.blogspot.com/2011/06/final-army-list-and-cyclone-missile.html


Really sorry for the lack of progress, but life has just been waaaaaay too busy to get anything done bar survival. Things will get better =)

Long Fangs Dual Squad

Well I had a few hours, yes, that's right, HOURS off today as my lovely wife took the baby boy out for a while. So I decided to do a bit of mucking around as well as finishing off the two long fangs squads. Also a guy wielding a missile launcher like a baseball bat =) I had to do an Imperial Guard missile launcher conversion of sorts to work with my space wolf long fangs.


Here are the results. I give you the Wolf's Breath Long Fang squad, dealing massive AoE damage with two plasma cannons and two missile launchers. The templates will hammer all enemies! To make sure they looked like space wolves and not just devastators I've used bits from a normal space wolf box and a spear from some really old fantasy, I think skeletons. They also all have bare heads for a more wolfy feel.

And here's the Fang of the Wolf, heavy hitting piercing damage through two lascannons and two missile launchers. Here's where I had a bit of fun. Given that I didn't have enough space marine missile launchers, my brother let me have some of his Imperial Guard ones as compensation for gluing together a squad for him. To bulk them up a bit (and enjoy myself) I did some cutting and reposing for some wolfy action. One of them is reloading or something, the other has just wielded his launcher like a baseball bat to kill some local wildlife. The backpacks on them, I think, are meant for the sergeant to use, but I couldn't have just two guys with ordinary packs when all the other Long Fangs had special ones =)

Vjork took quite a bit of work, and I'm looking forward to painting him up. Firstly I had to find some arms that were roughly in the right poses. I actually stood up myself holding a vacuum cleaner pole to get the pose right, as though he's just returning from a big swing down by swinging back up. The hands had to be cut at both wrists.


The right hand was cut and filed down to make a groove for the missile launcher to slot into, there's a nice flat rectangular bit that worked well. Another one of the big open hands was the right size to grip the bottom of the missile launcher. After that it was just a lot of fiddly repositioning with some greenstuff to help get the arms in the right position. 

Slightly different angle here, I found that it was easiest to get the greenstuff stuck in a fairly big blob, then glue the hands on and wait for the glue to partially set. Then I could reposition things by swivelling and moving just slightly and the glue was set enough to keep it together, but not so set that it wouldn't move around some.

Here you can see a bit more of the hand that had the most work done to it. I cut a thumb off and reglued it back on in a better position (originally it was bent down into the fist). A bit of paint and you'll never know =)

Vjork Verminslayer has a somewhat psychotic hatred of creepy-crawlies. His pack leader recently gave him a big dressing down after he launched a frag missile at a Fenrisian spider nest, narrowly avoiding killing some nearby Blood Wolves. On their current mission a massive rat-like beast skittered across the field of battle right in front of Vjork. With his sergeant's condemnations still ringing in his ears he chose not to waste a missile, but still took care of the rat-beast in an efficient manner.


The rat is a giant rat I got cheap on eBay (well, a whole pile of them) that I planned on using for my LotR army at some stage. I'm not sure if it's visible really in any of the shots (actually, in the one a couple up from this one it is) but I also indented near the top of the missile launcher by filing away a bit then putting some plastic glue on it. Once the plastic glue had sat there for about half a minute I scraped it away, leaving a slightly misshapen, but roughly semi-circular indentation on the barrel for where it has impacted the poor rat-thing. When painted I'll leave that bit metallic, as though the paint was stripped and put a matching colour paint in a similar shape on the head of the rat-thing to show where it was hit.

Anyway, being completely new to 40k I don't know whether this sort of tom-foolery is allowed, but I had a blast doing it and now have my two long fangs squads!


Next on my list are the remaining few Grey Hunters and then after that the scouts (though I'm not rushing to get them done).

Long Fangs

I put together my first group of Long Fangs this week and I've gotta say, it was a real blast (pun intended).


Those models are FUN to put together! Such whopping big guns! 


The parts all dovetail together nicely and although you're a little limited in poses due to the MASSIVE guns, I really just enjoyed building them!


I added some Space Wolfiness to them in legs, heads and shoulderpads. As these guys are seniors and have long histories behind them, they are bare-headed. 


So here they are...

The plasma cannons are so cool, I love the wires and everything. There are seven small wires that go into one big cable that then emerge as seven small wires again. Hopefully I'll have a go at painting them each a different colour or something (though when that'll be - who can say!) I gave the plasma guys mohawks, they live dangerously as their guns could kill them at any time, so they're a bit rebellious and rambunctious fellows!


The sergeant I glued a big scope to the side of his bolt pistol so that he can better work out where to direct their fire. Some of the heads needed a bit of sprue on the bottom of them to bump them into a better position. The lascannon and missile launcher in particular I tried to make it so the guys were looking down the scopes.

I also love the massive chunky backpacks. What's not to love about these models!?

I still have five more to go, another sergeant, another three missile launchers and another lascannon. And that's all I have time for today, baby is calling =)