BRAN REDMAW!

As some of you may know, my company of Space Wolves is the First Great Company led by the great Bran Redmaw. AND as some of you may know, Forgeworld is making the Bran Redmaw model... and boy it looks sweet. This brought about a discussion with my pal Rik.

My stout compadre knows I have a serious jonesing for Furious Charge. I mean, I like it... I like it a lot. :) Rik believes that Redmaw will not have FC. He's about 100% sure for no other reason than he hates me. I, on the other hand, believe he will... for no other reason that I love it. :)

What do you guys think he will do? I think Wulfen will be cheaper or free or something like that. Perhaps some other ability. One thing is for sure, he is still way cooler than Morkai... and even though Kip paints like 8000 times better than me, my great company kicks his ass. :)

Aches and Pains...

It has been a while since I updated anything and there is good reason... Three weeks ago I had knee surgery and with that comes me being ultra lazy. :) Days before I had went back and removed all the basing from the marines I had done before and got them all ready for repainting... They are all still on the table... 70 something marines. lol... Actually, as I look over at the table now, they are all missing. My wife musta got sick of looking at them for weeks.

But after three physical therapy sessions I am feeling a bit better. On the 22nd I get to start walking and when I get to walk, I will get to start hobbying again. I really want to get this army done because I cannot start another until it is... and Grey Knights are looking interesting again. :)

Everyone take care. Hope you are all having fun. :)

So the new color scheme has been chosen...

It will be fenris grey (I use sombre grey), wash it black then dry brush sombre, then 50x50 sombre/Space Wolves and then a real light dry brush of Space Wolves.

That is some fast marines. :) Gunna remove the basing from the ones that were done and then make Rik put the base paint on all my marines. ;)

Will get some pics up of some done marines here soon.

Taking steps to get this damn army done!

So I sit back and look at my hobby table all the time... and just think... I dont want to paint another 70 effin marines. Hell man, I'm having a hard time painting one. lol... But that is how many marines I have waiting to be painted... Over 70... and thats not counting my Land Raider, 2 Preds and 4 Rhinos. I see that and it makes me puke a lil in my mouth.

The newness of the army and playing it is gone. I dont know if you know what I mean, but I can only compare it to a video game. So you buy a new video game and you play the hell outta it... not even beating it, just play the shit outta it for like a week. Like NCAA 12... played the hell outta Michigan and building a crap school into something good... and I havent touched it in forever. That is what happens to me and armies. I get all excited, drop hundreds of dollars... build it all... play some awesome games with it... and then get bored.

So to take steps to finishing my army, I think I am going to repaint even the 20+ I have done and come up with a much faster and easier paint scheme. Something with a base coat that I dont have to mix three different paints for with a heavy wash and a dry brushing. I dont normally dry brush things and perhaps that will help me become a better dry brusher.

Anyone have any ideas on a quick paint scheme? I like the idea of a more blueish color, but I'm also leaning towards a dirty grey... maybe a lighter grey with a black wash? Anything that will look decent, really. haha

Take care!

Sky Claws are done!

So I changed up what my army would look like at the end. I finished making 10 Sky Claws... cause I really dig Jump Packs and the aspect of suicidal troops is good for stories. :P So that means there were less Blood Claws. I made the Blood Claws a pack of 15... cause I just dont use them at all. I mean why would I? Grey Hunters are so much better for the same price.

So my final Space Wolves army will be...

Bran Redmaw
2x Wolf Priest
1x Rune Priest
10x Wolf Guard in Termie Armor
7x Wolf Guard
1x Dreadnought
15x Wolf Scouts
4x 10man Grey Hunters
1x 15man Blood Claws
1x 10man Sky Claw
4x Rhinos/Razorbacks
7x Devestators (2 Lascannons, 3 Plasma Cannons and a Missle Launcher)
2x Lascannon Predators
1x Land Raider Crusader

Now I have to prime them and get them base coated... theeeeeen I might get them all done up. lol I'm struggling to paint! I'm trying to change the way I live... getting up earlier and planning to start working out.. things like that. Now I just have to get back into painting and getting this army done. :)

Now that I look at it, thats a pretty decent army. What, around 2500 points or more? Pretty good stuff.

Have fun.

It was a draw!

Chase and I played to a draw... A Chaos Lord with his Deamon Weapon was just too much at some points and the furious charge from the Khorne Berzerkers really dealt a lot of damage. I was pretty lucky to get a draw to be honest... Pictures and a video! :)

And the vid....

The Rout Hunts...

Tonight we are all playing at the Battlefoam Saloon and I'm taking on my son and his Corsairs. Should be fun. He has learned to play his army well and all his battles have been close. I just like spending time playing with him cause hes getting to that age where his sense of humor and personality are really coming out. Ya know, becoming a man and all that.

I've hit a rut in my hobbying. I havent painted in a lil over a week and havent finished my blood claw building. I have to get off my fat ass and get  this stuff done. Well at least get it all base coated for crying out loud.

When I first got into the hobby I started a Raven Guard army. I liked their fluff and everything like that. So I bought a shit ton of it and started building and painting. The major thing that made me get that entire army painted was that I wasnt going to play it until it was all painted. That made me want to paint through the dull parts and push to get it done... and when it hit the table it looked really nice. I really should have taken that direction with my Space Wolves.

You see I have my vices just like everyone else and my vice is computer games. Not console games, computer games. I love playing MMOs (which are massively multi-player online games) like World of Warcraft. Currently I am waiting for Star Wars: The Old Republic to come out and that will really put a damper on my hobby, not my playing, just my hobby. I dont think I could quit playing again like I did a year ago. So you see why I have to get this stuff painted.

But I dont want to rush it and make it look bad. That would make me even more angry. I like the big highlights I put on my wolves to make them stand out, but I'm not really getting any better as a painter because of how fast I do them. Its a catch 22. I wanna go fast, yet I wanna get better. Ugh... anyways... I have work to do so gotta go. haha :)