Wolf Lord Warzan and his Spring Clean

A bit of an intro here, this Space Wolves force was already at a pretty good level, painted and based, but I want to try and make the army uniform and perhaps do a little lightening up of the dark greys and ass a few shades with some finishing touches added.

The army is certainly pretty large, probably around the 3000 points mark, with a few addons needed to complete a squad or two, but it also has various marines that can be used as secondary pack leaders with different weapons attached than the ones in the pointed army list.

Goals

• Complete uniform army
• As best tabletop quality as I can
• Army list written
• A plan for one or two future addons

The first units I wanted to start work on were two Grey Hunter packs, I needed to get a plan down so that I knew how my tidy up would would work. And perhaps how long it would take!

Stay tuned for a first look at one of the packs completed make over very shortly….

So that I knew what marines went with what squads and to make sure the force would be “legal” as far as 8th edition goes I needed to make up an army list documenting squad numbers and wargear.

HQs

Primaris Wolf Lord Warzan – Power Fist and Plasma Pistol – 92pts

Ulrik the Slayer – 110pts

Cataphractii Terminator Lord – Combi Melta and Lightening Claw – 118pts

WolfGuard Battle Leader – Lightening Claw – 68Pts

Wolf Priest – Power Fist – 84pts

Troops

Grey Hunter Pack1 – 9 men, inc Power Fist – 129pts

Grey Hunter Pack2 – 10 men, inc Power Fist, PlasmaGun – 153pts

Grey Hunter Pack3 –  8 men, inc Power Fist – 116pts

Grey Hunter Pack4 – 8 men, inc Power Fist – 116pts

Blood Claw Pack – 14 men, inc Power Fist – 194pts

Intercessor Pack – 5 men, Bolt Rifles – 85pts

Elites

Great Company Ancient – 63pts

Cataphractii Terminators – 5 men – 206pts

Wolf Guard Pack – 10 men, inc 3 power fist, 4 combi melta, 2 power sword, 1 Frost Blade, 3 Storm Shields – 250pts

Wulfen Pack – 5 men, inc 1 Frost Claws, 4 Hammers, and Shields – 243pts

Fast Attack

Fenrisian Wolves – 15 wolves – 120pts

Thats all the complete infantry units, totalling 2147 points so far, but ofcourse there are still plenty of vehicles i need to list and add on here 🙂 Thats for another day!

Grey Hunter pack 1 are complete, transfers and varnish added and hopefully they are good to go!

Steps taken from the initial look;

• Light airbursh of Mechanicus Standard Grey from the top down
• Lighter airbrush of Dawnstone trying to pick the very top of the model out
• Gold, metals, and base colours re-filled in
• Black pack markings  added, and black trim on base added
• Final highlighting in places
• Gloss added to pads needing transfer
• Decal added
• Matt varnish to finish
• Odd tuft added to the bases

Seems a lot of steps, and some take longer than others, and others are model dependant. Bottom line is the first unit seemed to go quick enough… The second unit is progressing nicely.

This was a really nice looking unit of 15 Fenrisian wolves, the only thing i have done here was to tie their bases in with the first 2 packs I’ve been working on.

Thats a black rim and a tuft here and there!

Hoping to have these nearing completion tonight, but need to fit in some PlayStation time ha! Hoping it doesnt suck me in and keep me away from this work for too long!

Next thing to do is add the washes and give it plenty of time to dry!

more progress on the project to follow tomorrow most probably!

10 man unit of Grey hunters now completed…

Much the same as the first unit with what was done 🙂

That marks the end of the first batch of stuff. Pretty happy with progress, although I’ve seen I really only have 3 weeks left to complete the rest! Panic!!

Batch 2 has been based on what paint was in my airbrush… I just kept going until the cup was empty.

I wanted to get some work on a couple of the more elite units done, as well as a couple of characters.

First set of images is an example of what some models looked like before this stage…

The next set will be some of the models as they were dusted from a top down angle with the airbrush

I have begun doing some further work on the terminators and 2 characters and would love to get them completed by tomorrow night

I have most of the colours touched up again after the spraying. Have begun adding washes will look to have the transfers added tomorrow.. They aren’t far away, to be fair the terminators were one of the best looking units in the army before the spraying, hopefully this will just have helped lightening up the armour a bit