A very nice result

Wolf it's funny because I sorta copied what you'd told me you used on your Tau cadre's weapons (with a few adjustments).

It's painted like this:
Snot green (I think; don't have pot in front of me but it's the dark one that isn't dark angels or catachan)
Wash of 'orkhide green foundation paint' - I didn't want to buy more washes and this is suitably dark when watered down.
Drybrush scorpion green
Drybrush scorpion green/skull white
Drybrush skull white on extremes.

For the blue I did the same thing just swapped some colours but same steps (used blue foundation as wash).

Wow February?! This army has been done for a few months but I never got around to taking any pictures. I may add a few more long fangs (the remainder of my old devastators are soaking in greenstuff) but as far as I'm concerned this army is complete.

Here is a full shot of the army:


Followed by a left to right pan




My Logan Grimnar


And my favourite of them all:


Also, an amazing excerpt from a 1250 point game I played:
I win the roll to deploy first and set up my longfangs in the 4th floor of a building within my 12" deployment and keep all of my pods in reserve; my Raven Guard opponent sets up across from me with a rhino full of troop and a jump pack squad with Korvydae beside it hidden behind a single floor building.

Depsite his deployment I could see a single marine and the tail end of the rhino with the long fangs though of course conveying cover. I drop pod 10 marines (though these were completely insignificant as you will see).

I split fire my longfangs with 3 on the rhino and 4 on the single marine I can spy. Of the units that shot the rhino only 1 shot got through (attributed to my Wolf Guard Termie)

Two jump pack marines die from krak rounds and the rhino explodes. The exploding rhino kills 5 marines inside and 3 adjacent assault marines. The assault marines fail their leadership roll at the end of the phase and run off the table (with Korvydae) and the rhino squad then fails their 25% loss leadership and falls back off the table as well.

After this single round of shooting (my terminators didn't even fire their combi weapons) my opponent has had approximately 600 points run off the table. Needless to say the game was over at that point and I awarded my Wolf Guard a special Raven Guard decal on the underside of his base to remaind and taunt my opponent. Cried of Long Fang power aside, the whole thing boils down to a single lucky shot from one model with a missile launcher that killed a rhino and 8 marines and my opponent's terrible luck with rolling that game.

Pure win

Well, you kept us waiting long enough!

Your army looks really awesome, most probably because of the much extra love you gave to them.

Really makes me want to build and paint some Marines, but first I should do my Imperial Guard.

Great work Fio'el

Glad to hear the 13th was more than capable of seizing victory by the horns!

Fantastic work! It's so good to see the finished product. I love the way the Powerfist/Chain Blade worked out on your Term. However, I will continue to hold a soft spot in my heart for your Rune Priest.

Keep it up and on to the next endeavor!

Superb work on these Imperial swine

Particularly like the effect the shoulders have enmasse. Alone most would look a bit full on, but all together you get this great effect as they scale off each other.

The grey you used, what is the recipe if I may ask? Come across deep and moody.

- Tael.

I'm not an adventurous painter to mix anything so I used GW Adeptus Battlegrey with a space wolf grey drybrush. Then a liberal Badab Black wash followed by a gentler space wolf grey drybrush. Easy as pie. Same way I did the Dystopian Wars boats I threw together.

I think I get a little article on BoLS this week which is kinda cool.

I must also echo the praise on your army. Seeing them all together looks great and they really do have an epic look all side by side.

With the new plastic Grey Knight terminators, are you tempted to try replacing any of your heads with the similar Grey Knight versions?

Congratulations on the feature on Bell of Lost Souls.
Really nice army you have there and the tutorial for the helmets is one of the best I've seen.
It's easy once you've seen it, but incomprehensible untill you figure it out.

Thanks!

Apparently I wasn't finished with them...

I couldn't help but power through painting this thing. I was so happy to make it and then after using it in a game (as a Leman Russ Exterminator with Pask) it has earned a spot in my army. It may not be the best heavy support IG can take but it sure was fun to use and struck fear into my opponent. Painting it was a lot of fun too. I've been going nuts with my new air brush as of late (well it's six months old at least but I haven't bothered or had the courage to use it until a few weeks ago). This guy really fits in with the rest of my Space Wolves too and will play as a Predator in games when its not used as a Leman Russ.


I really wanted the tank to look battleworn but not rusty. Just like it had been shot at quite a few times after a nice fresh coat of paint. I suppose that doesn't fit SUPER well with being 13th company (I read the codex and it does say that they have 'limited' armour so I can have one). Who knows, maybe ceramite doesn't rust? Actually I'm sure someone knows...

I had a spare Dark Angel tech marine head and tossed that on the tank commander. I'd assume he'd be an Iron Priest and all renditions I've seen don't paint him red. I did go with the black and white cog eye piece though which helps to add a bit of colour to a grey model.









Next up, Space Wolves Dreadnought...

I'm done I swear!

I finished off the last bit of my Space Wolves Dreadnought this morning. After a varnish I'll put a decal or two in the thigh guards to seal the deal but otherwise he should be ready to kick some chaos skulls in. . .

I sponged this guy pretty liberally to make the damage stick out. I also wasn't drawn to the face enough so I painted his nose spike gold to match everything. I was scared of going a bit overboard on the gold and making it look to gaudy but I think this is just enough to fit in with my terminators.

I also use da bit of tausept ochre drybrushing on the roof by the lamp to make it appear on. The arms come off so that I can swap in other weapons. He'll likely end up a rifleman most of the time.

I have two more that I am in the midsts of painting (Iron Fist and Blood Angel) and could likely get another done this week. I'm not really likely the yellow on the imperial fist though but am not sure why. I just am not a yellow guy I guess. Soon enough I'll have a nice little band of dreads to move around. Because of this (and the different chapters involved) I think the 'extra' weapons are going to be painted black and non descript so that they fit on all 3 torsos and don't look out of place.


I know I was 'finished' with this army but this was fun to make and paint so whay can you do?!

You can get more Tau and paint them? But really man, I've seen my buddy's dreads and this one is way cooler. This dude looks like a giant stone colossus, and that thunder hammer is huge! lol

It's not just a thunderhammer, it's a giant thunderhammer that has a bank of missiles in the head. The hammer must have the "One Shot" special rule, 'cause I can't imagine that thing surviving all those warheads exploding at once!

Beautiful dread Theambit. I think that the gold detail on the head was genius to bring it out more. The heads on the new venerable dreads never seemed present enough to me. They disappear amidst the massiveness. Giving it the pop was undoubtedly the right thing for it.

Here's a WIP of a 'Fellblade' that I am in the progress of making from a shadowsword kit. I'm planning to use the Banehammer rules with the modification that the sponsons are TL lascannons and models cannot shoot from it. It shouldn't change the rules too much as it was treated as open topped for disembarking originally.





The length has been reduced by an entire panel which took quite some time. It is now equal length to a landraider and can be a counts-as landraider in normal games.. Visible in the images above, the cannon is removable. I plan to finish the top so that it can function as a land raider for my space wolves or as a banehammer in apocalypse. I figure reducing the length and giving it a transport capacity of 12 (6 terminators) is quite fair.

Since I don't have room to put the hull mounted TL heavy bolter, I'm going to have two long fangs sitting on the front. The guy above is an oldie but I think to give it some contrast I'll put a current addition heavy bolter guy on the other side.

I still have work to do but I wanted to share my progress so far.

Hey T-A,

That is a pretty tight (in the congratulatory sense) looking project. Must have been finicky to chop the hull like you did and have it all meet up evenly. Plastic is a wonderful medium, but can be capricious to the hasty.

Did you smash mold green-stuff landraider doors? Bravo in anticipation of "YES". Those look very clean.



This is only a nit-pick... but I feel this detracts from the over all effort. I think you can come up with a cleaner way to achieve this given more time and possibly a fresh start on the concept. However, if this is what you really love/want to do, then more power to you! If you perhaps posed the marines as automated statues of Fenrisian heroes wielding functional, slaved HB's then I would have no choice but to love that.

modelglue

To answer modelglue, the doors are sadly not some pro greenstuff job I did; I traded for some from someone that had spray painted them green. Not primed, spray painted.

Also after speaking with modelglue, I've moved the longfang over. He looked a bit unsteady where he was and now has someone to talk to without yelling over the vox. I doubt that cannon is loud anyway. I just love the image of soldiers clammoring over the top of the tank riding into battle, or providing covering fire as the terminators inside run out into the battle.

So here is the super heavy:


And here is the upscaled landraider it can turn into!


I call that winning at GW economics.

It was a giant pain to cut the hull to match on each side. Since the tracks are made of two panels plus guide bars for the wheels I had to cut every piece and reinforce it all with plasticard. I luckily had purchased some clamps a few months ago that work GREAT for holding drying models where you want the parts to stay. I'd recommend these to everyone and I think the package deal had 8 or so clamps of different sizes for 20 dollars.

In apocalypse I'm going to run this as a banehammer with reduced capacity and BS 4. I used it last weekend and the 6" maximum movement is a huge impairment for an assault vehicle and once you start moving forward it isn't hard to lose the main gun. All in all it is a very balanced unit even though I stole it for my spacewolves instead of IG.

I really like that conversion!! Can you post a pic of your tank next to a stock Land Raider? This looks like something I may have to do to go along with my truescale Deathwatch marines. They need a ride worthy of their scale. I'm pretty sure if they all tried to climb into a stock Land Raider they would only get 2 or 3 in, and there wouldn't be any way for them to assault out (unless by "assault" you mean roll or scoot).

Also, I don't suppose you have any "work in progress" pics?

Looks Good TA!

I'm definitely more in love with the idea now that I see it fleshed out and on the way to being finished. Thanks for the mention, I'm honored.



Looks like all your dedication payed off; 1 up for patience and determination! (insert obligatory morphing sound)

The model itself looks very robust, since you've shortened the hull. Reminds me of a Sturmtiger

modelglue

abraxus I'll take a pic later, I forgot for you. FYI The height and length differences are neglegable but it is about an inch or so wider which makes it appear quite a bit more grand. The only WIP shots I have are on here when the floor is missing.


I'm nearing the end of painting this guy. I took a quick shot to show where it is currently at. I still have to sponge it, finish the tracks and then cover the bottom with dried mud. The top is a tad plain but I didn't really want to go overboard on bits and colour. A bit more work after an evening or two and I should have this finished by the end of the week. Maybe it will even hit the table as a painted land raider on Thursday.



I went away from the red shoulderpad on the longfangs which would have mirrored my squad of them because it mimicked the tech marine driver too much. I guess I didn't take a great shot of the details so I'll save those and this will serve as a teaser. Once the model is done I'll be sure to give better angles of the detailed areas.

I like it!

But why do I spot assault launchers in the front and lascannons in the back?