Back on the 40K track, the new Space Wolf Codex and models released last month were particularly pleasing for me as I am an absolutely rabid (sorry!) collector of the ‘Sons of Russ’ in case you didn’t know. I have been looking for an excuse to redo my ’99 Tournament Wolves for literally a decade now and the new plastics in particular have really got the creative juices flowing again. One job I have been meaning to get out of the way was to paint and texture the remaining four hill sections of the spare Realm of Battle set.
Originally I had planned to just paint them up as a 4’ x 4’ Lord of the Rings board, however I had a change of heart and decided to texture them as an icy wasteland instead using a combination of painting and Woodlands Scenics snow effect scatter.
The pits of skulls were filled with several thin layers of water effects and dusted with white spray to simulate and ice crust, the idea copied straight from last months White Dwarf.
Dave additionally had a nice surprise for me last week as well in the form of a Ragnar Blackmane conversion he started many years ago and never quite finished.
I had forgotten completely about this until he brought the completed version around to leave with me along with a copy of the original to compare the difference. The first thing I will do is mount it onto a more heroic base size and add Ragnar’s famous Fenrisian wolves; I have exactly the two models in mind which would work very nicely.
I must resist these distractions however as I still have a lot of pieces to cast this week and have already been distracted enough by the arrival in the post of the Forgeworld weathering powders set and a sheet of brass etched Imperial Aquilla for the corridor sections. Hopefully next update I will have a few more sections assembled as the pile of tiny bricks is looking healthy once more.
Until then, happy gaming.
2 comments:
Looking at Ragnar alongside the latest Space Wolf releases he still stands shoulder-to-shoulder with them. He's such a beefy model that he still cuts an imposing figure some sixteen years later despite scale creep. Compare that with Abbadon who was done by Jes much later and is dwarfed by the current generation of Chaos Marine Terminator plastics.
Nice to see you back blogging Carl.
Thanks Chris. I agree, Ragnar can still hold his own as a model against the later sculpts. The only reason Dave decided to convert him was purely down to the rather old school flat pose. I wanted Ragnar to be a bit more dynamic so he fitted in with with rest of the army better. I think Dave did a sterling job adding that without spoiling the model.
Have dusted off another old Space Wolf conversion (although not quite as old as Ragnar, but done the same time) which I hope to post end of next week.
Cheers, Carl
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