Sören Serpentkillers Great Company (Cate)

[Cate]

Steal as much you want as I have stolen most ideas myself. :cuss I don't have that much imagination.

 

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[Cate]

A dread has joined Sörens little company.

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[greysquigg]

Nice work Cate!

 

 

GS

[Anaraion]

Do not know how I missed this thread before.

 

Your art and words are quite inspiring. It is awesome to hear your fluff and neat to see your minis all painted. Thank you for sharing.

 

My plan is to build a force around Sören Serpentkiller, the great wolf of the 4th company during parts of the 38th millennia.

 

Did see this though. Just so you know we never number our great companies. The company simply takes the name of its Wolf Lord.

 

Your company is simply Soren Serpentkiller's Great Company.

 

And truly it is my honor to meet you... /bow.

[Cate]

Your art and words are quite inspiring. It is awesome to hear your fluff and neat to see your minis all painted. Thank you for sharing.

 

Did see this though. Just so you know we never number our great companies. The company simply takes the name of its Wolf Lord.

 

Your company is simply Soren Serpentkiller's Great Company.

 

And truly it is my honor to meet you... /bow.

 

Thanks for the kind words.

 

About the number, Serpentkiller was stubborn and conservative wolf lord and also a bit superstitious, so he wanted to have a number on his company. :D

 

Kidding aside, I haven't reread my fluff for a while and I am more aware of how the Vlak Fenryka works and are organised. When I get the time I will change that. :)

 

 

Cheers

 

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[Aglǽca Darkwind]

This is some truely cool fluff and models.

[DarthMarko]

@Cate this is brilliant...I'm speechless...wow

 

Also which camera you used for taking those beautiful pictures? They are AWESOME...I'mean you coud make a comic with those....

[Cate]

@Cate this is brilliant...I'm speechless...wow

 

Also which camera you used for taking those beautiful pictures? They are AWESOME...I'mean you coud make a comic with those....

 

I used an Olympus E-M5 camera and a LEICA DG MACRO-ELMARIT 45/F2.8 lens.

 

Thanks for the praise.

 

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[Cate]

@Greysquigg and @DarthMarko.

This is the process I and my friend use when we take pictures of my minis.

The raw picture is taken in a highly lit kitchen, with white tiles and white cupboards. The model is put on a white sheet of paper which is bent so there are no pesky lines in the horizon. The picture is taken with a 16.1 mp camera and a macro lens when it comes to ordinary models and a wide-angel lens when it comes to vehicles. The pictures are HUGE, 4,6k time 3,6k pixels and every brush stroke can be seen and where ever there is a slight miss is you start to cry when you put it up on the monitor, plus breadcrumbs and specks of dusts can also be seen.

After the picture is taken, we edit it in a program called Lightroom 4, and brush up some stuff in Photoshop, sometimes we mask the model and put up a more pleasing background in PS.

All the stuff including, bought Lightroom and PS costs roughly $3500. We haven't bought this stuff solely for photographing minis,my friend works as a professional graphic designer and picture editor. That is why my pictures looks so good.

The finished product is on the left and the raw picture is on the right, I have downsized the pictures, they are 10 times bigger, which is silly on a forum like this, I think Brother Argos and Kurgan would be a bit miffed if I uploaded so large pictures.

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[greysquigg]

Awesome nice insight there.

 

Is light-room an adobe product?

 

 

I already own photoshop because it came with my laptop along with the rest of the adobe stuff.

 

Was the striking white background a brush-up in photoshop or was it a lightroom thing?

 

I'm surprised when looking at both the pics they where from the same light source.

 

 

GS

[Cate]

Lightroom is an adobe product. The white background is solely from Lightroom, if I remember correctly the only thing done in PS is making the changing the red a bit so it looks more similar to the real thing and not orange.

 

Lightroom homepage

 

 

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[greysquigg]

I see, good stuff! I'll set about playing with some of my pics and post them up on my thread.

 

 

GS

[DarthMarko]

Ty friend, really !!! - I have the whole Adobe CS6 package, but I have camera on my mobile :-( So until I buy some quality camera + lenses, I can just drool on your pictures....

Just out of curiosity, did you ever tried to posterize some pictures ? I can see them looking great behind some plexiglass...

[Cate]

@DarthMarko, nopes I haven't posterized any of my pictures, but I am going to use one of the pictures below as a postcard or framed picture as a present to a distant cousins kids, he is WH40k player in making.

Anyhows here are my finished vow for the 2013 Winter's Advance.

Arjac will just be a Lone wolf or a Grey hunter handler, the razorback is an addition to my Long fangs.

http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/486271_398110363606507_59663116_n.jpg

Arjac from the side.

http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/227779_398112643606279_88471411_n.jpg

Razorback in some funky Light plus a PS light flare and a moronic Instagram frame.

http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/58239_398112540272956_436848889_n.jpg

Cheers

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[Cate]

This weekend my club are going to meet and have some bits trading, ( I have roughly 5 shoe boxes filled with various bits, so hopefully I will be able to trade some nice pieces for my wolves).

 

But I have also been challenged for a pick up game versus Necrons (2500). I haven't played against Necrons in a long time, I think the last time I saw some of the tin men on a gaming board versus me was back in 2004, so I have no idea what I will meet or what they can do. I have not a clue what my opponent will bring, but I know that there will be no fliers "phew".

 

What I have understand is that the WBB rolls are gone or worse than they were before and there is no phasing out rule any more. Am I right? What else should I look out for? Are the Monolith still a muppety OT thing? Are Necrons still more or less worthless in cc?

 

Could any one just give me some pointers to what I should bring.

 

What I roughly have is, that can be fielded as Space wolves in a pinch (I will have to break my own rule and bring proxies in the form of Chaos marines) .

 

20+ terminators  (most have PW and stormbolters and very few are kitted out for cc, five of them I think and they either have hammer and shield or wolf claws)

150+ PA marines (special weapons are not problem, I have at least 5 of each kind and 15 flamer ones, the reason of so many flamers is because I usually battle against orks )

20 bikes (no attack bikes)

10 scouts, the close combat variant (two HB)

20 assault marines (raptors)

Two Land speeders, five Rhinos, three Razorbacks, three Land raiders, two predators, two dreads and four vindicators

20 heavy weapon Marines, (No plasma cannons) 

 

As HQ's I can field.

Wolf lords both in TDA or on bike or in PA

Three rune priests (no TDA ones)

One Wolf priest.

 

We haven't decide what mission we will play, but as always when we play the board will be crowded with ruins and cover (we mostly play in cities.)

 

In a pinch I can field IG allies (the cheap kind CS+veterans plus I have two LRBT and a Vendetta)

 

I don't need a tourny list, as it is a game for fun, but both of us want to have an even game and neither of us are going to play "fluffy" this time.

 

Any help would be appreciated. 

 

 

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[Squark]

Just a word to the wise- The Wolf standing on it's hind legs is, technically speaking, the Great Wolf's symbol (Whenever a Wolf Lord becomes the Great Wolf, he takes on Leman Russ's symbol in place of his own). I'd alter the backdrop a bit to better distinguish Soren's company from that of the Great Wolf.

 

 

Necron wise... I dislike tailoring, so I'm just going to go over the general capabilities of the army. They're still (Apart from Wraiths and C'tan Shards) made of paper in assault (moreso, if anything, since the existing close combat units all got brought down to I2 except for the C'tan shard), WBB is now a 5+ at the end of the phase (But the only way to prevent it from happening is to kill the whole unit or make it fall back. Also, the ressurection orb makes it a 4+ for the res orb character's unit). Necron Lords can be a nightmare in challenges with their S7 AP 2 I2 Warscythe and a piece of wargear that forces a model in base to base with them to attack it's own unit if it fails a 3d6 leadership check. The Monolith is now just the bastard child of a Leman Russ and a Land Raider (although be aware that it can force really close models to take a strength check or be removed from the game) Also, beware that scarabs have been altered significantly in how they effect vehicles- Now, if they hit the vehicle, for each hit they cause the vehicle to lose 1 point of armor value- at 0 AV, the vehicle or building is wrecked. So if you see Scarabs, expect any bastions to go down in one charge. Also, Necron Overlords (Not destroyer lords, which are a seperate HQ unit now) can take a royal court, which are sort of a retinue that can split off like Wolf Guard can and lead squads, which means you can be staring down Lords (Overlords have the old Lord's statline, The New guys have it too, but with 1 wound) or crypteks, who have a variety of useful weaponry (4 Haywire shots? a S8 AP 2 Assault weapon? A S8 AP 1 flamer template (that, to be fare, uses the leadership in place of the toughness of the unit, and does nothing to vehichles)? Crypteks can take any one of those, or a variety of other upgrades).

 

The big strengths of the Necron Army at the moment is the ability to spam tons of AV 13, and their fliers- They've got a flier for a dedicated transport that will place the unit inside into reserves unharmed if the flier is killed (And packs 4 twin-linked S7 AP- shots with the Tesla rule, so each 6 rolled adds 2 more hits), and The Death Scythe- Which has, in addition to the Tesla Destructor found on the Night Scythe transport, the Death Ray- Which can hit multiple targets with a S10 AP1 line.

 

Other than that, wonderful models. Makes me embarrassed to put my paint jobs up here.

[Cate]

That was a load of hurt, I really do not like necrons. :)

 

Anyhow the rest of the day was awesome, managed to trade a lot of stuff, all my old necron scarabs are now in the hand of someone else, I also got rid of some badly painted jump packs, sisters and some of my hevay weapons sprues that I will never use. instead I got 12 old metal terminators, including a chaplain, a libby and a commander, several missile launchers and flamers. Other stuff I managed to get my hands on are several sprues from Grey knights and BA, (time for some heavy converting) and lastly 10-20 ordinary PA metal marines. 

 

Now most of the painted stuff is drenched in breaking fluid.

 

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[greysquigg]

Those 92-95 sculpts are lovely. I've got a few of the old blood claws and grey hunters needing some paint and arms.

 

Look forward to seeing yours!

 

GS

[Cate]

After have roamed around after something to paint for the ETL I realized that it had been a while since I showed you what I have done, so here are some pictures of most of my Wolves.

In the pictures ten bikes, two land speeders, and one grey hunter squad are missing.

Rune priest

Contemptor

Group Shot

Serpentkiller with Wolfguards. (Bearded one have a combi-plasma I did from a bolter and plasmapistol.)

Thats all for today folks.

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[Russ Brother 92]

must say the first one I noticed out of your new lot has to be the 'Bane' mask wearing hunter :P the contemptor and big baneblade thing (I don't know the name for it haha) look brilliant :)

[Cate]

must say the first one I noticed out of your new lot has to be the 'Bane' mask wearing hunter the contemptor and big baneblade thing (I don't know the name for it haha) look brilliant

The 'Bane' mask hunter head (I think you mean the wolf guard in the first picture with the rebreather and leather straps) I think comes from the Chaos biker sprue, I can be mistaken but I am sure it is a chaos head. The "Baneblade" is a Storm lord, neither that one or the contemptor are truly done yet. When I bring out the Storm lord I usually do that together with my Imperial guard and clarify that the IG are PDF from Fenris.

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[Lord Ragnarok]

must say the first one I noticed out of your new lot has to be the 'Bane' mask wearing hunter the contemptor and big baneblade thing (I don't know the name for it haha) look brilliant

The 'Bane' mask hunter head (I think you mean the wolf guard in the first picture with the rebreather and leather straps) I think comes from the Chaos biker sprue, I can be mistaken but I am sure it is a chaos head. The "Baneblade" is a Storm lord, neither that one or the contemptor are truly done yet. When I bring out the Storm lord I usually do that together with my Imperial guard and clarify that the IG are PDF from Fenris.

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edit: Learn the words!

It is a chaos head. I think it comes with the vehicle sprue not the chaos biker kit. I've used that head for my wolf priest.

[Forté]

As for gun casings colour. Vallejo has a gun metal blue which I'll be trying. It's a metallic black/blue.

 

It's all looking good Cate and it's good to see that there's people who don't just default to the standard missions. Used to love trying the old 500pts vs 1500 and see how many turns you can survive.

[Cate]

Time for some update. This Saturday I fought two battles, one vs Imperial guard (1500p) and the other vs Sisters (1000). I was totally obliterated by the IG, he had a hit ratio of 85%+ and that is not fun when facing Leman russ demolishers. The sister battle was a draw 2-2 in vp, but if we had continued for 1 turn more I would have won as I would have contested 1 more objective.

Here are some pictures of my heroes

Rune priest who killed St. Celestine in a challenge. This picture is taken in the second turn of the IG turn.

The turn before this Jump Sister squad was obliterated by the Grey hunter squad that can be seen in the background, the turn after that they charged the Sister squad seen in the foregrund here.

My MVP in the Sister battle. Orvar the wolf guard, killed 4 celestians, 6 ordinary sisters and destroyed one Immolator.

Another picture of Orvar.

ATM I am painting up a few more grey hunter squads.

CC is welcome.

++Edit++ Added one picture.

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[Cate]

I have reached a point with my wolves that I have started to glance at allies. Sure I a small detachment of 1500 points of IG, but they only see the daylight when I play the more extreme games.

 

What I am looking for a is another Chapter that the wolves are opposite, more "disciplined", more Emperor bothering and are more of a long range chapter compared to the wolves mid range and close combat oriented. This is from a fluff point of view as I know that most marine chapters are mid range. I have been glancing at the Raptors, who in both fluff and rule wise seem like a more long range chapter. I really don't want to do a DIY one, it is enough writing fluff behind my great company, and I am looking at the codex chapters who have fluff already set. 

 

What other chapters are traditionally long range from a fluff point of view, and also could join up with the wolves? A chapter who could respect the wolves view and still see them as battle brothers and comrades of arms?

 

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