Space Wolves: paint or transfer for ragnar symbol.

I'm just thinking that the ragnar symbol is quite difficult and I find it hard to reproduce stuff like that. Only problem is that I don't have any ard coat so i would have to take the step up and buy some.

So, what do you think.

Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Space Wolves: Nearly built it all!

So, I have nearly completely built my starting army. All I have left is 8 grey hunters + 1 wolf guard and to stick the missiles onto the whirlwind. Pics to come.

Thanks for reading,

Jacob

Evolution of a list: Grey Hunters V Blood claws.

Hi, today I wanted to talk about blood claw and grey hunter unit set ups.

I currently intend to run 9 blood clwas with flamer, power fist and wolf guard with TH/SS and 2x 9 grey hunters with melta gun, mark of the wulfen and wolf guard with power fist. Blood claws pod. I could swap 1 unit of hunters for some more claws though. Ehat do you think?

So, how do you set up your units and do you take blood claws over grey hunters or vice versa. Tell us, thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Painting: The painting formular for my wolves.

Ok, sorry for not posting in a while. I have been a little busy and am struggling with pics at the moment. But, here is my painting formular for the wolves armor:

Spray black
paint fenris grey
paint shadow greay a couple of times
wash heavily devlan mud
over all but deepest areas aply shadow grey again
line highlight of mix of shadow grey and space wolves grey
final highlight of space wolves grey.
battle damage

The wolf guard get this treatment:

Spray black
paint fenris grey
paint shdow grey a couple of times
heavy wash of devlan
highlight shadow grey
final highlight mix of shadow grey and space wolves grey.
Heavy battle damage

So, what do you think, obviously you need some pics and they will come soon. See you then

Jacob.

Ragnars mates: Torin theorising.

I am pretty certain that I will somehow do Haegr but what if I wanted to do maybe torin? I mean, what would he be armed with and what rules would he use. Normal wolf guard perhaps?

I don't know, please could you help. For those of you who have not read the books Torin is a space wolf that has a lot of finesse and is a bit more like a terran than a fenrisian. Please don't spoil the books by telling me he dies as I am half way through the 5th one but have not read 1,2,3. I have read 4 though.

So please give us a hand, thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Space wolves: 9 grey hunters now done but no.10 on hold!

Hi guys. Sorry for the late post but I have been having problems with pictures and this blog. So, I had got like 10 pics for you but only 2 have suvived the draft save. Here they are!

My wolf guard with power fist and bolter.

All 9 guys, number 10 is on hold because I don't have a meltagun. Might get 1 soon!

Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Ragnar's mates: Arjac Rockfist A.K.A Haegr, the man mountain!

All rights reserved for the above picture to prophet minitures.

So, I was looking at the arjac rules when I saw one of his nick name, the amn mountain. Who daes that remind me of. O yes, Haegr, from the great Space Wolf book series by william king (for the first 4 and someone else for the other 2). Read them if you like space wolves. Now, since I am doing blackmane, I want to be able to fiels Haegr so I thought I'd use Arjac's rules. For goodness sake, he can even throw his hammer like haegr can in the books and the shield ability is similar to a Haegr's bulf ability I had in mind. I just think that these rules suit him really well and will work. So, at some point I will have to make a moel. Hmm, to bad I already built my wolf guard termies!

So, what do you think. Would you do it. Tell me.

Thanks for reading,

Jacob!

Space Wolves: Grey hunters started (Mark Of the Wulfen shown)!

Hi, just thought I's share the 4 grey hunters I have built so far. I know i still havent put the other pics up but I have been having problems. Anyway, here are the pics:

Here is the mark of the wulfen guy close up. He has genestealer claws and I ripped up his armor then had my first ever try at sculpting fur. It doesn't look great but it will di. I gave him the wolf head standard thing so it's kinda like the 'mark' of the wulfen aswell.

So, what do you think of these guys, could I improve on anything and would you have done anything different. Thanks for reading,

Jacob

Unit set-ups: Long Fangs.

Image courtasy of Guys that game,

Hi, I have been thinking today. How do you set up long fang units. Do you go 5 hvy bolters or 5 lascannons or 2 of one and 3 of the other. Do you take 5 guys or 6. Do you take tank hunters or infantry manserts or a combo, even as far as whether you take all of the same tank hunting class weapons or amix (like 2 plas cannons and 3 las cannons. both are tank hunters but they work differently). Or maybe you just think that they are a bad unit as they have no ablative wounds!

I personally run a 5 man unit, 1 squad leader and 4 long fangs. they have 2 plas cannons and 2 lascannons. This is mainly because that is what I have the models for. if it was personal prefference it would be 6 dudes with 5 missile launchers for ultimate versitality.

So, what do you run. tell us. and what do you think of my build. Come on, please let us know!!!

Evoloution of a list: How do you go about it.

When building a list I bear certain things in mind, here they are in steps:

1. The theme for the list (eg. Ragnar blackmane or mech marines or mortar gunline guard).
2. Style of list (eg. drop pods, flamers, meltaguns).
3. Tactics (eg. Drop down and then suicide attack or play conservatively before a last turn objective grab).
4. Depending on style either HQ or troops, for me generally HQ
5. Elites.
6. The other one out of HQ and Troops.
7. Anything else.
8. Tot up points.
9. Get list under the points limit.
10. look at list as a whole.
11. 
    
    Make any ammendmants.
    
    
    

Now, you may write lists differently or tghink my way is not very effective. So, tell us what you do and what you think of what I do!

Evolution of a list pt1: My starting Space Wolf list.

Hi, here is my list at the moment, it is over 1500 points which is the standard level for my group, more on that later. here is my list:

Ragnar 240


Rune P 100

term armour 20

WT talisman 5

COTS 10

5 Wolf Guard 90

4x term armour 60

pair of wolf claws x3 45

assault cannon 30

WG pwr armour TH 25

WG Pwr armour SS 25

10 Grey hunters 150

Pwr fist 25

Flamer 0

Melta Gun 0

Mark of Wulfen 15

10 Grey hunters 150

Pwr fist 25

Flamer 0

Melta Gun 0

Mark of Wulfen 15

9 Blood Claws 135

Drop pod 35

Pwr fist 25

Plasma pistol 15

Flamer 0

5x Long fangs 90

2X Las Cannon 50

2X plas Cannon 40

whirlwind 85

Storm Bolter 10

Total 1515

It is a tad over 1500 so I would probably lose the plas pistol but the model has one. I doesn't matter too much as my gaming group is not that strict. Please tell us what you think.

And when I want to take it up to 1750 then I would take something like this (all I would need is a lone wolf):
Ragnar 240


Rune P 100

Term armour 20

WT necklace 10

WT talisman 5

COTS 10

5 Wolf Guard 90

4x term armour 60

pair of wolf claws x3 45

assault cannon 30

WG pwr armour TH 25

WG Pwr armour SS 25

10 Grey hunters 150

Pwr fist 25

Flamer 0

Melta Gun 0

Mark of Wulfen 15

10 Grey hunters 150

Pwr fist 25

Flamer 0

Melta Gun 0

Mark of Wulfen 15

9 Blood Claws 135

Drop pod 35

Pwr fist 25

Plasma pistol 15

Flamer 0

5x Long fangs 90

2X Las Cannon 50

2X plas Cannon 40

whirlwind 85

Storm Bolter 10

Lone wolf 20

mark of the wulfen 15

5 wolf scouts 75

melta Gun 10

2x pwr weapon 30

Rune Priest master of runes 50

Rune priest Saga of beast slayer 10

Total 1735

So it's a few points under 1750 and I don't know how competative it would be, please tell us what you think.

As always questions and comments are welcome. Please give us some tips and tell us what you think.

Thanks,

Jacob.

Space Wolves: Pics would not upload.

Hi, sorry for not getting the pics up yesterday. The problem today was the pics wouldn't upload propperly, fortunately my lap top has been fixed. anyway, here is a teaser pic:

Space wolves: Sorry for not posting over the last few days but pics will be up tonight hopefully

Says it in the title really. PICS TONIGHT!!!

Space Wolves: First post and what I'm up to!

Hi, this is Jacob from Gamers World and I just want to introduce you to my new blog.

So, my schools gtaming club was opened today and i started to build my whirlwind. this means i have built 9 bllod claws, 4 wolf guard termies, a drop pod, half a whirlwind and started my terminator rune priest conversion!

Anyway, thanks for reading,

Jacob!