Tis Done!

22h of painting later, I have finally finished my 1250pts Space Wolf army for Conflict Scotland! Not much else to say, back is killing me, and I'm going to have nightmares of pains running out for weeks, but I finished it!
And here are the pictures, safe to say I'm pleased.

As I'm a bit pushed for time, that's all for now, comments are greatly appreciated!
-Aseldi

The Sprint Finish!

Hello there! Aseldi here,

As you know from my last post, I took the widely discouraged, yet most commonly taken approach of 'leave it all to the last minute' for my painting for Conflict Scotland. Thankfully, I seem to have kept on track so far today, completely one Grey Hunter pack, Long Fangs pack and the Thunderwolves. This leaves me with only the Wolf Guard and the other Grey Hunter pack to paint, which should be manageable! 

On the other hand, I'm yet to actually get a rune priest... So I reckon I'll throw together a quick conversion using a Chaos Warrior cloak (heresy I know) and a torso and legs I have spare with the generic staff etc. 

So that's my rambling for today, and on the topic of CS, I'm hoping to get some battle reports, but with a lack of a camera, this could prove difficult.

Pics will be up tomorrow hopefully,

-Aseldi

The Inevitable Has Occurred!

Hello all! Aseldi here to proclaim that indeed, the schedule I posted on the blog a couple of weeks ago has been completely neglected! Here we are, a week from the event, and I've just finished assembling and basepainting the best part of my army...
So it seems the next few days will be rather frantic. To give an idea of the scale of the task (which is definitely achievable), here are some pictures of my army! (minus the Rune Priest... which I am yet to produce, as i completely ran out of superglue and have never gotten round to renewing it...)

Rhino Painting Step by Step Guide

Greetings to all who've graced this Blog! Aseldi here with a followup to yesterday's painting article, with a run through on how I painted the Rhino, in case you want to go for the same look, or maybe get some inspiration.

Like I've said before, I'm on a pretty tight time and budget, so have stuck to a few simple steps, which can be applied across my whole army, using similar colours.

The paints are mainly from the recommended Space Wolf colour scheme on the Games Workshop site (cause I'm creative like that...). So they go as follows:

And can be found here to buy from the GW

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/paintChart.jsp?catId=cat820002a&rootCatGameStyle=paints-tools

So, I started off by spraying the Rhino black (duh) then base-coated it The Fang, followed by a wash of Nuln Oil.

Next, I painted most of the raised areas Russ Grey.

After that, I painted the edges, and most raised areas Fenrisian Grey. As well as adding some of the old Mechrite Red to the banner, and painted the casing of the weapons Abaddon Black.

I then gave the whole model another liberal wash of Nuln Oil (I get through that paint massively quick...)

After the wash had dried, I used Etherium Blue over the model from front to back, like I imagined the wind would blow the snow over it as it raced through the desolate, freezing, landscape.

I really like the look of the model at this stage, as if it's being frozen by the harsh surroundings, frost accumulating on every surface. But with the introduction of the texture paints, I thought I'd add some Mourn Mountain Snow onto the areas around the treads, where the snow would be thrown by the movement of the vehicle.

And there we have it! My humble guide to painting the Space Wolf Rhino! This wasn't at all an alternative to painting the rest of my army...

As always, comments are greatly appreciated!

-Aseldi

Week 1 - Painting update

Aseldi here, with my frantic painting update.  I actually managed to complete my first week's schedule! I never thought Rhinos and a Drop Pod would take so long though.

Anyway, here's what I've achieved this week.  I'm by no means brilliant... But I'm aiming for a thoroughly weathered snow effect, and I think I got that!

Also, being under massive time and budget constraints, I'm using a fairly limited palette. Should pay off though.

So there you are! I'm pleased with actually finishing it, and what it looks like. Hopefully I'll get a step by step up tomorrow on how I painted the Rhinos.

-Aseldi

Painting Schedule

Hello all! Ok, I'm going to post a painting schedule up here in the hope I can actually adhere to it.  I'm painting towards the list I posted earlier today, so it will go along these lines

Week commencing 3rd June: 2x Rhinos and a Drop Pod
Week commencing 10th June: 1 Grey Hunter Pack and Thunder Wolf Cavalry
Week commencing 17th June: 1 Grey Hunter Pack and Wolf Guard
Week commencing 24th June: Rune Priest and Long Fangs, and finishing the squad I inevitably don't get done.

-Aseldi

Stripping the Paint of the Past

Hello all! Aseldi here. Recently, I appear to have been making a backwards move with my goal to paint up a 1250pts Space Wolf army for Conflict Scotland... I've been removing the paint of totally unrelated models!

My first army when I came to the hobby was the Dark Angels... Back when Codexes cost £12... Well, many things have changed since then, not least the price of the codex, or my allegiances. The Lion would not be pleased, but Russ showed him who's boss, so no losses there.

Anyway, my point. I had Azrael and Ezekiel (the latter happens to be one of my favourite models in the whole game actually...) sitting on the shelf, bearing the splatters of a far younger self. I'd even gone to the extent of varnishing them, so their shine seemed to congeal all the mess already upon them.

But anyway, to my point: acetone is really effective for stripping the paint off metal models! Basically nail varnish, I just poured some into a jar, put my models in, and left them overnight.
By the next morning, the paint and varnish had softened enough to be removed with a bit of scrubbing from an old tooth brush, and the acetone had also dissolved the superglue.

So now I'm left with the models as good as new! Maybe I'll get round to painting them again some day...
-Aseldi

Painting Space Wolves

Here's a brief showcase of a couple of the Space Wolves I have managed to paint.  I'm hoping to complete all of them in the summer, having purchased the full 2000pts list I posted before, giving me my first ever completed project! Here's hoping I'm able to stay focused for that long...

Overall, I'm pleased with how they turned out, and I am definitely sticking with the colour scheme (the one recommended on the Games Workshop paint guide).  It's very wash heavy, and I like the rugged look it gives them.

-Aseldi