Space wolf Thunder cavalry lord Project log# 2.

Welcome returning readers (is there anyone out there lol?) I seem to have ran out of photo allowance and so have turned this project log into a two part monstrosity.

So to pick back up from where I left this work in progress report: There are 2 head options which are magnetic. They are both suitably epic and incomplete, both sitting at around the 85% mark. As I have already waxed lyrical about the helmeted option, I will do the same show and tell for the un-helmeted option.

Importantly I will disclaim the completeness by pointing out that the poor chap has no bleedin ears yet :S and his hair is not fully complete not being luxuriously matted enough. The look I was going for can be described as fluff accurate (yes I'm aware I sound pompous he-heh) basically the dude's got pointy teeth and he looks bloody furious.

The nose needed touching up a bit and so I used a denser putty but mixing in some professional putty with the green-stuff and the left beard is paler as I needed a softer blend in that area. Look carefully and you can notice the two service studs embedded in the right of the captains fore-head (he rose through the ranks quick due to being a dangerous boss mofo). The teeth are still a little wonkey and perhaps the eyes should be a little bigger for ease of painting, I'll most likely touch up the fangs but leave the eyes.

Finally here is a teaser for a personal project of my own that I have started tinkering with since I got pulled back into the maelstrom of the warp. Ten creds to whoever names this 40k race ;p
Many thanks.

Space Wolf .Thunder wolf lord. Project log# 1.

The progress I have been making on a project for someone has picked up as of late. The briefing was simple: Do a lord choice for one of two space marine chapters, the austere and chivalrous Dark Angels or the mighty and feral Space Wolves.

The idea of Space Wolves on thunder wolves has always caught my imagination as it really blends the sci-fi and fantasy genres which is space opera at its best. So that is what I have been working on. I do like GW minis but I thought that I should go with my image of what the Space Wolves are and make this one fluff accurate and a bit less of the mild-grim dark appearance that sometimes ruins the otherwise wonderfully cruel depiction of the 40k universe we are all accustomed to.

The thunder wolf is first up, he has not been tackled much further than having the armature somewhat finished and bulked up. The face if mostly bulk at the moment and is lacking any detail but I have atleast determined where the bionic eye and the real eye are sitting within the head and so the hard work is done (detail is not hard but correct anatomy, human or otherwise is) .

The eye is not finished either but a somewhat completed eye was necessary to determine exact positioning. The thunderwolf will also have a bionic leg which will mostly consist of these bitz:

So far this project is looking less than stellar, I am aware but this is the foundations of the thunderwolf and it will shape up very slowly.

To put this in context, the rider of this beastie is already looking pretty bad-ass like some kind of techno viking with an axe to grind and yet he is only about 20% done as opposed to the wolves 5. There is alot to do but I am putting in more time as of late and making some headway.

The basic idea is that I have magnetized the neck and right shoulder to allow for head swaps and weapon swaps.

This is the first time I have magnetized anything, as I have never been pro-active enough to learn to do it for the sake of my own miniatures haha! It is a shame as now I realise that it also means subtle advantages like changes of pose not just entire pieces of a mini. 

Something else to point out is that even though I have not built this marine with the aim of him being true scale, I felt that as a lord choice is was only fair to make him a little larger without sticking him in terminator armour and so I am lengthening the legs somewhat and the neck of each head swap to a point. The right leg is far from done and the left will match up, the feet obviously are missing too right now.

This wolf visage-power armour helmet is pretty cool if I say so myself but needs tidying up, especially the right ear as it looks completely a-symetrical right now. I was originally going to add a wolf tail helmet plume-crest thingy, but decided this would be overkill and look stupid plonked between the already conspicuous ears. 

The right arm has been magnetised on but is far from done and is lacking a hand. I will complete it and it will weild a tasty looking thunder hammer; there also will be a second right arm built which will hold some other weapon, either a frost blade of some sort of a ranged weapon like a plasma pistol (do people still use those? it's been a while for me) 

The left arm will be static and hold a shield. The power pack will be ornate and have a large banner which will not be embossed so as to leave the owner room for free-hand, I personally think there is nothing quite like looking at a hand painted banner on a nice mini :)  

Project log# 2. shall be up shortly. Many thanks :)

40k Fan art. Tau commander "Shadow-sight"

I combined Shadow-suns armour with how I think Farsight looks (how old is he? does he look crusty enough?) and his heraldry. Did a pencil drawing with the picture from the black library book "Damocles" as reference (no tracing, tracing doesn't teach you anything :P ) and then inked it, way too heavy on the inking but it is only the second time i've done it.

Playing fantasy skirmish games with my skaven and high elves figs at the moment using the one page rules https://onepagerules.wordpress.com/ . They are alot of fun and I can't wait to get started on 'one page kill team' I've got some tau coming in the post and i've started sculpting a scratch build commander. Hence this drawing, I find as bad as I am at drawing that I am getting better and it helps my sculpting alot as I can get a feel for what is the right way to do things.

Painted scratch-builds

I sculpted these a while ago but thought I would post some pics of them painted.