Indecisive painting

     I've come to the conclusion, that I'm an indecisive painter. Since normally I will create my own fluff and color scheme for an army, I'll paint a ton of test figures before deciding upon the final color scheme. And once I have come to something I like, chances are, down the road I may even change my mind again. I did this with Chaos space marines, Tyranids, and now with the current army on my painting table Space Wolves. 

     I didn't really test out a color scheme for the wolves I just picked a great company (Ragnar's) and went with it. I don't know if I was just being a bit over zealous or what, but the figures came out way to bright & colorful in the end (I can partly blame this on the incredibly detailed new space wolf models). So I need to fix this before I go any further. 

     I'm determined to complete my space wolves, but now that I have changed my color scheme half way through, this leaves me with the task of repainting everything I have so far. Luckily for me, the main part of the figure, the power armor will remain unchanged. I will be repainting all of the company markings, shoulder pad trim, leather parts, armor tubes, plasma weapons, and rune stones. 

     Am I just crazy, or does anyone else go through this?

Before and After pictures coming soon! 

Inquisitor complete

Yes, I would like to go first. Thanks!

Book detail with Micro pen.

I will probably add some detail to the cloak at a later time. I had to get him done for a battle this weekend. 

Mounted Iron Priest + Cyber Wolves complete

He is done. I'm not completely thrilled with how he came out, but he will due. My dissatisfaction comes mostly because of the old sculpt of the miniature. I do not like how all of the armor has a pocked texture. For the conversion, I chopped off the thunder hammer arm for a reposition. and had to slightly pry the legs apart to fit him on the Juggernaught. For the Juggernaught, I shaved off all the spiky bits (in an effort to make him not look so chaos), gave him a green stuff saddle, and fur.

Here he is with is buddies. Chaos warhounds sans antlers. I posted them before, but the pictures were way blurry. 

For the little runes and detail on his furry blue prints, I used Micro pen. 

Cyber bitz courtesy of Ork Warbikers & greenstuff

Long Fangs complete

Unit of Long Fangs complete. Though I normally field them as 2x(1 squad leader & 5 Missile launchers). Until I get some more missile dudes, the Las Cannons are "counts as" missile launchers. 

They belong to Harald Deathwolf's Great Company. I created the symbol by applying the Logan Grimar transfer. I used Yellow ink to color the white moon in, as the translucent ink does not mess up the detail of the black wolf, then blocked off the sun with little mechrite red triangles. finally I touched up the sun with Golden yellow.

Long Fangs Pack marking. The Marine in MK6 armor is from the very first plastic space marine box set I bought years ago. He has been patiently waiting for his time to shine!

Tyranid Harpy Conversion

Here are some picks of my Harpy Conversion, which was very simple to achieve. Using the Carnifex kit, I just chopped off the front carapace pipes and replaced with some GW Dragon Wings. The base of the dragon wings needed to be cleaned up a little to fit, with the addition of green stuff around the joint.

If you are wondering what's going on with my Base, I'll be painting this to look like an "Alien" Landscape. I glued some googly eyes from Michaels craft store with a little green stuff around the base. Once painted, you wont be able to tell it was a googly eye. :) I also glued some long grain rice around, which I will paint to look like larva.

Magnetized Hunter killer missiles & Las TL Plasma conversion

I made some quick easy brackets to magnetize my Hunter killer missiles. This makes them easy to keep track of once used. Just pull them off. I scratch made the bracket because the supplied bracket doesn't have a whole lot of room for a magnet, and I usually use them for the other options.

Bracket is made of 1/8" thick plastic card (same thickness as the magnets)
I mark off a square a little larger then the magnet for the base and a rectangle for the stand that the HKM will be glued too.

Drill a hole in the base, the same size as the magnets

Cut out the pieces

Glue the stand to the base with plastic glue, so they are perpendicular 

glue the HKM's to the assembled bracket

drill a hole in your tank where ever you want to put them, put a magnet in the tank and in the bottom of the bracket with super glue. 

Here's a couple Rhino's and a Razor back with a Twin link Plasma gun.

For the twin link Plasma gun I used Plasma guns that came with the space wolves sprues. I cut off the grips, drilled small holes to match the mount, then put a small piece of plastic card between the two to make them match up. 

Updates coming soon!

I've been lagging on the Blog updates lately. But rest assured, I have been slangin' paint like mad. I have a few final things to touch up, and then I'll be able to post all of the new stuff I have been painting.

For Russ and the Allfather!