Drop army w/thunder wolves, rawr!

Finished painting my first drop pod, took about 5 hours (or rather, Deathproof, an episode of Heroes and Goldmember). Wasn't sure how to do the weathering so I sponged on some black, then some silver & brown. That only leaves 4 pods to go! hurrah!

I'm plotting out an army list revision. I've found a couple of white lions from the chariot kit on ebay, which I should hopefully be able to make into thunderwolf cavalry. I've seen some conversions like this and they look a little wanky, so I'm gunna try and green stuff and do some clever conversions. We'll see!

Anyways, army list! At the core of my builds, I like to have 3-4 units of grey hunters, all with a different build. Then a unit of guard terminators with a rune priest in a pod, and lastly some fun bits to play with. This time, the fun bits will be thunderwolf cavalry and maybe some wolves. I was thinking that the last two units were a little wanky till I thought about the range they threaten. Sure, they're movement 6, but they are fleet and can charge 12", so they have a sexy 19-24" threat range. That's better than bikes, given the right opportunity!

So...:

9 Grey Hunters, Mark, Melta, drop pod, Wolf Guard, Power fist - 233

10 Grey Hunters, 2 plasma guns, drop pod - 195

5 Grey Hunters, flamer, mark, drop pod, Wolf Guard, Power fist - 168

5 Grey Hunters, flamer, mark, drop pod, Wolf Guard, Power fist - 168

4 Wolf Guard, 4x Terminator armour, 1 Chain fist, 1 assault cannon, 1 Wolf claw, 4 storm shields, drop pod - 277

Rune Priest, Terminator armour, Jaws, Wrath - 120

4 Thunderwolf cavalry, power fist, storm shield, plasma pistol - 270

8 Fenrisian wolves - 64

That makes 1495, so I could maybe throw in a weapon upgrade or somthing. I dunno. Looking forward to playing this, tho! The plasma pistol and odd setup for the Guard are mainly for wound allocation, which I am a bummer and like to exploit. Rawr!

Song of the Earthserpent

So I've been collecting a space wolf army for a couple of months now. I've had about 5 or 6 games with them and really enjoy their style, a lot different from codex marines, sisters and guard (well, obviously guard..!) and I'm trying to paint all of them to a decent standard.

I've gone for deep blue, the foundation fenris grey for the main armour, highlighted with a 40/60 mix of bleached bone and shadow grey. The metallics are mainly shining gold, with a bit of light silver, and the red pads are mechrite red. So far I've done 1 1/2 units of grey hunters, and I've just primed 5 more and a pair of drop pods.

The list is built around flexable units of grey hunters in drop pods, and one or two TDA wolf guard with rune priests, also in pods. I've experimented with bikes and a dreadnaught but not really liking the outcome. They feel more like a points sink while the hunters and guard do all the heavy work. I'll post a list at some point.

As these guys are of a different paint scheme to the GW space wolves, I'm using these as another chapter. I'm not thinking of sucsessor or great company, (as I think both do not suit the space wolves) but as another chapter with similar make-up. The name I'm thinking at the moment, is the Song of the Earthserpent, and I have a few things running through my head, like homeplanet destroyed by a void whale they're now hunting, or a lean towards the Iron Snakes. Really liked that novel, damn you Abnett, I've collected 2 marine chapters and guard because of you!