Back for the Attack - Redoing the wolves!

Well I am back after a hiatus! 

Work/life/stress/money was keeping me away from updating this.

I think also I was a bit annoyed at my army, I wasn't playing or painting.

I have decided to redo my space wolves entirely into something a bit more interesting and original.

So I decided I would make them 'Rune Wolves' after totally falling in love with the Rune Priests in Prospero Burns.

So they all have bare heads, a lot have wolf pelts and cloaks lots of skulls/chains/tokens hanging off them, and most importantly a large amount of them have cloaked legs. I have used Dark Angel legs (yes I know it's practically heresy considering how much they hate each other ahahah!) I am really liking how they look.

Colour wise I am going for a purpley dark blue metallic, sort of Nightlords but not. The robes will be bone colour and there will be lots of bronze and gold trims.

Here is a test model, not 100% right but heading in the right direction.

 

 

Another reason I haven't been doing much warhammer is I have been painting a few things that are not warhammer. A friend and I have been having a little competition where we both buy the same model and then we paint it how we like and see what we end up with.

The most recent are these Moon Worms from Schell Studio, I love all this guys work.

Check it out on his site

 These busts are actually 12 inches high!

Mine is the left one

 Two more little things to talk about

1. I played space hulk for the first time! It was stressful, of course I chose marines hahaha!

    Playing a game with times turns was very hard!

2. I got a new tattoo! It was drawn from scratch by my friend Paul Abstruse who is a published comic book artist, he also tattooed it. Ironman is from my hip to my knee on my left thigh. I love it and I can't wait to get it coloured in two weeks Wooooooooooo!

Me losing at Space Hulk

Ironman thigh!

40k in 40 mins!

So our friday night games club has been doing 40k in 40mins. I totally love this as I really get into playing small and fast. (it's also a bit easier strategically for a newb like me with less everything to worry about)

My first round was against stupid plauge marines! I HATE THEM.

My last surviving model, good Old mark of the wulfen!

Next game was against space wolves, so I didn't mind loosing. It was my first time playing against lone wolves, I have never fielded them before either so it was interesting, they are cool!
Alex and I had similar lists but he had more Long fangs hahaha!

The yellow guys are Alexs, there are more of them hahaha!

My Standard Bearer FOR RUSS!

My last game was against Grey knights, I lost but turned out his list wasn't legal. Also my log fangs couldn't kill any of the Terminators but one died from a bolter shot HAHAHAHAHA!

Surrounded by plauge! :o

Space Wolf Venerable Dreadnaught

Seriously, is this not the hottest thing ever?
Actually I think all the Forgeworld Venerable Dreadnaughts are amazing.
I have had my guy for a while but was procrastinating about putting him together because I had not decided on the arms yet.

I finally bit the bullet and picked a plasma cannon and CCW.
His body is magnetized to his legs and his arms will be magnetized so he can swap weapons.

At this point in time I am trying to pin the CCW arm so that it can swing and I don't have to glue it in. I am also unsure about the head and am wondering what other kind of head might look cool.

Any ideas?

Things have been quiet on the warhammer front due to illness, then christmas, then holiday (where I swam with sharks! YEAH!) and then when I got back from holidays the lights over my painting table had blown and I can't reach to replace them.
A friend came over and fixed them and now I am painting and building my face off.

I don't think I will be buying much new stuff for a long time which is sad, and mainly due to the pic below.

Yup that is my car. yes it is smashed. It was my fault and is going to cost a fair bit to fix :(
Oh well at least no one was hurt right?!

Fleet of Dread - Why do you want dreadfleet?

(Here are my nautical babies WIP)

I have seen a few reviews about Dreadfleet. Some good some bad.
Most where the person has actually purchased it they are great things to say about it.
I am the same.

I pre ordered it and was a bit excited but also a bit 'hmm it's expensive and what if it only comes with crap or is annoying to play' Luckily I only really wanted it so I could paint cute boats and particularly the robot squid.

Imagine my surprise when I opened it and there was tons of stuff in there!
The cloth you play on is awesome and there are cards and dice and rules an all that.

Then the models! They are awesome! I am so excited to paint them. The ships are well designed and fit together really well. The terrain is clever and interesting.

I haven't played or read the rules yet so I can't really comment on that.

My only compliant was that the instructions to built stuff are in the side of the inside box, that was a weird place and I didn't notice till I was half way done and built one thing wrong.

A testament to it's coolness (at least that of the models) is my friend Luke, long time gamer and commission painter. He was saying 'err Holly why did you buy that it's crap and blah blah'
Well one of his customers asked him to build and paint their dreadfleet models. Now he is using the money he is getting from doing that to buy his own! Hah! told him it was cool!

It's been great seeing some other peoples painted ships, hopefully I can continue on mine after I fix the light above my painting desk :(

Cooking Warhammer Cupcakes

A few months ago it was my local GW store birthday party.
I thought it would be an awesome idea to make some 40k flavored treats!

The manager at the time loved Blood Angels so I decided to make some of them chocolate flavoured.

One of my good friends Deke was the sort of second manager there and he loves Nurgle so I made some chocolate ones for that too.

I needed to have a lot of ones that were easy to do and that I didn't care much about, what better for the task than ultra marines! So the large majority are vanilla flavored ultra marine cupcakes.

Why Space Wolves? Picking a 40k army

(Leman Russ by Calavera666)

It can be a bit confusing and annoying to pick and army to play when you are newish to 40k.
If you have friends who play and particularly if they have preconceived loyalties and prejudices it can become even more frustrating.

Of all the different bits of advice, from friends, blogs, shop staff, nosey strangers, the most poignant and helpful was: 'Play an army that you really like.'

Sounds simple, but it's true, if you go into the hobby and try to pick the 'best' army to win or the truest, hardest, most impressive, complicated, unless you like the look of them, their storyline and fluff, you are ultimately going to end up bored or annoyed with them.

The time and money you have to invest building painting and working out strategy for an army is substantial so love for that army is what is going to pull you through the late night painting and gluing, the remaking lists when you lose and the rest of the journey that is getting an army to a point you are really happy with (I find most people including myself are never happy and never stop striving for a better army in all facets of the hobby, but still I mean happy enough)

When I meet new people into warhammer and tell them I play Space Wolves some of these peoples reaction is, 'ugh power gamer'. Usually this comes from people who play imperial guard or eldar or something else a bit less obviously powerful and less simple.
I have even had someone say that the Space Wolf codex was 'bull and is practically cheating'

Annoying but anyway my point is I actually had no idea that Space Wolves were a 'good army' when I picked them. I liked the way they looked, I liked their story and their fluff. Even with my limited understanding of the rules they seemed to have a strategy that I found attractive (me being a sort first ask questions later type person)

I decided that I liked the sound of Harald Deathwolf and that I wanted to make an army based on him as his 'thing' it tons of wolves and I love the look/idea of Thunder wolf Cavalry an Fenrisian Wolves.

I made a rough list of all the things I like and it actually turned out to bed a fairly competitive 1500pts list but I also really loved it.

Now most of my nights and weekends are taken up with making and painting these models but I am really enjoying it and taking my time with my painting and converting, so at the end I will have a well painted army that I still like.

There was one other factor I had to take into consideration when picking my army. A lot of my friends play, and obviously I will end up playing them a fair bit, so I wanted to pick an army that would be fun to play against my friends and not an army to similar to their armies.

These are just my opinions but I really believe if you really like your army and believe in them, that has to give some good luck to your dice too right?