Dantay's VI Legion. Hvarls Headtakers

[Dantay VI]

Haha. Yes i guess I should thin the list out or add in other vehicles which are going to need names too.

 

My bad.

 

Hrist sounds good. Quake cannon up front and buildings will quake in gear from the dreaded melta

[depthcharge12]

"Who let the dogs out? Woof woof woof woof!"

 

:P

 

Great assault marines man! I always envision the Space Wolves as major drop pod junkies, so it's good to see something different! Keep up the good work!

[Kriegriss]

budds I love you VI legion so good ... and I was turned off the wolves after Santa and goblin I mean space wulf cavalry

[Lord Blackwood]

Shield Destroyer O u O  

[Dantay VI]

Okay, a quick update.

 

I am still tossing around 2 names for the Achilles. Herja & Hrist. Folks seem to be angling more towards Hrist. Will think on it another day or so.

 

Did a bit more paintwork on my tank

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20151118_122256.jpg

 

Had to go back to trying to make a Mech grey from dawnstone and black, then a wash of nuln oil. I think I will have to do the time intensive step of painting panel by panel and write down a paint formula.

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20151118_122315.jpg

 

I do have a question. Should I do a design on the shields as I normally do with infantry, or do I go really simple like a basic quartered design, or a rune? 

The reason for asking is that I am going to put a knotwork design on the main body and possibly top. I do not want to overload the thing in bling, and also I do not want to potentially have clashing designs. Shields are magntised as is the cannon, so they can be removed for weapons destroyed markers.

I also plan to do excess shields so I can hand them to opponents as kill markers/trophies if they take it down.

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20151118_122331.jpg

 

Tried the FW technique for exhausts, what do you think?

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20151118_122345.jpg

 

Lastly, quite chuffed with the lenses. Again for te headlights went with the FW idea of using black and greys to simulate a standard headlight. A bit crude but effective. Just need to paint in the bars across the lens. I also went black to white for all the other lenses then washed in glaze and gloss varnished. Such a time saver when there are tons of them and all differing colours. I'll definitely do it again this way.

 

Let me know your thoughts, and thanks for looking :)

[Lord Blackwood]

I love this thing already  , My 2 cents would be to use a rune   for the shields , I  dont think  it will be too noisy  it looks really ace so far man keep  up the good work 

[Charlo]

Boss!

 

Some Wolf heads could actually look really ace on the Shields! I say go big on the details!

[Dantay VI]

Thank you Bladewolf & Charlo.

 

I am undecided about the shields, but this might help a bit

 

 

 

 http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20151118_221237.jpg

 

I was thinking either a dark  red or black diagonal line running bottom to top through the wolf head might be cool. Will think about it some more.

 

In other news I have decide to call the Achilles Herja! It is a more feminine name, and devastation is her game! Will save Hrist for my Vindicator.

 

What do you think of the design for Herja? Its still a bit rough, but looks good so far... Thoughts??

[Lord Blackwood]

Wow, Did you freehand that?  It looks insanely good. 

[Kriegriss]

he is insanely good man look further back in the post at his fire raptor

[Lord Blackwood]

he is insanely good man look further back in the post at his fire raptor

Oh I know all  about him ,  before I turned to stone and took on  the templar cross  I followed his work on the space wolves board  you should see what he did with one of his knights  

 

./looks at his own wolves in disgust 

 

But yea , it still boggles my mind everytime I see a new bit of work of his 

Edited November 19, 2015 by Bladewolf

[Jarl Kjaran Coldheart]

Welcome Herja, may you rain hel upon your enemies!

 

WLK

[Dantay VI]

Thanks guys.

 

I am still posting up on the Space Wolves forum

 

The design is mostly freehand. I drew the outline up on paper and used it as a template and using brown paint stipled on the outline. From there the rest is freehand. It is far from done. If you want I can post pics when I do the other side to show what I did.

 

I love vehicles, because they allow you to be more expressive, especially imperial stuff with its slab sides, I actually find it hard to not go overboard. I am a fairly mediocre painter, but I am lucky that I have plenty of time in the evenings to fart around till something good comes out

 

I am going to have to finish the Fire Raptor someday though.

 

I don't know how to do spoilers, but on the schedule is:

 

Knight Lancer

Glaive

Scorpius

Plasma Pred

Caestus Assault Ram

Typhon

 

That lot will see me through till atleast middle of next year.

 

I tend to save up and splurge, once per year, twice if I am lucky & the wife lets me. 

The fact that Wolves are still waiting for their book means I can invest in the fun stuff now, then I can commit to the meat of the army when it gets released.

Hopefully making it a positive rather than a negative.

 

I have so few troops just now while I am waiting, my bench looks like an Astartes parking lot. 

Edited November 19, 2015 by dantay_xv

[Barabbas Sogalon]

I love that wolf head!

 

Guess I'm the opposite when it comes to vehicles, collecting a mechanized Imperial Guard army made me scared of painting tanks.

Edited November 19, 2015 by Barabbas Sogalon

[Dantay VI]

I am fortunate. As I work offshore and have no home-life when away, I have several hours where I can work on a model, so it gets a fair amount of attention. And just one at a time

 

On a 2 week trip I will do 1 tank or 1 unit for the whole 2 weeks

 

I could imagine, if I had to do a squadron of Russ tanks I would get pretty scared., pretty fast.

 

I really like what you are doing with your Death Guard legion, the improvised weapons are cool! Are you going to use unit or award markings from WW1 on any of your models?

Edited November 19, 2015 by dantay_xv

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Building the 40k incarnation of the Norwegian Armoured Battalion was definitely a one-off project.

 

And thanks. Can you tell me more about those markings?

[Dantay VI]

Hi Barabbas.

 

I tried googling BEF WW1 insignias to see what came up, but not too much. Might be better searching famous units of WW1. I'll give that a go in a bit.

 

With regards to the wolf design. It is a mixture of stencil and freehand.

 

There are loads of cool designs out there and while quite easy to do on paper they are a nightmare to recreate on the side of a tank with all the lumps, bumps sponsons getting in the way etc.

 

So how did I do it?

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20151120_120200.jpg

 

I drew the design on paper and then cut it out. Once this was done I placed it over the area of the tank I wanted the design to be in and stippled the paint on.

 

Be careful with the paint, I go from design to tank, so I do not get any splodges of paint where I want my design to be.

 

When done you now have an outline of the wolf head.

 

This could be done with any design, Templar cross, crowns anything at all.

 

As an aside, with the wolf head it would look totally cool to stipple with red and do a black wolf head, so it looks surrounded by blood!! Maybe a cool idea for a Warhounds design??

 

Or An Iron Warriors skull, with some orange for rust or red for blood of fallen enemies surrounding it, 8 pointed stars you name it..

 

Next step:

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20151120_121344.jpg

 

Start the outlining. I start off with very dilute Balthasar Gold and at this point you can be as messy as you like. You can also go outwith the outline you have done to compensate for any bumps or what-have you. 

 

Thats the first 2 steps so far. Depending on hopw neat you were you can now go back and tidy the outline before doing any designs you want to do, or continue with the gold and start doing whatever you want.

 

Just remember to keep the paints really thin, so you can easily correct any mistakes. If paint is too thick not only is it hard to conceal, but you get ridges of built up paint everywhere.

 

Will post more soon, let me know your thoughts..

[Dantay VI]

Part 2.

 

Okay, so with the watered down Balthasar Gold, start marking out the designs you like.

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20151120_185357.jpg

 

As you can see it is looking pretty shocking at this point, in fat if you change the snout, it looks like a dragon!! But I would not worry, the main thing is to get a rough position of where you want your lines to go

 

Next you would use your armour colour. I am using black because I do not have any grey and I do not want to custom mix it until I need to use a big batch.

Anyway with the armour colour you now start outlining and tidying thus:

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20151120_193112.jpg

 

A quick note, because the paint are pretty diluted the gold will stay liquid throughout the tidying process, so if you mess up the black, you can easily go back with the gold and correct anything you want.

 

And that is how to get a design down on a tank

 

Looks pretty good & you could leave it as-is, but for me I am going to highlight it up wit a series of shinier golds.

 

One thing I have noticed i that the GW golds look a lot shinier when you add water to the paint, does anyone else notice that?

 

Let me know what you think  

Edited November 20, 2015 by dantay_xv

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Nice!

 

I think I'll have to try that for the iron crosses and crown on my Knight.

[Dantay VI]

Go for it and let us know how it turns out..

 

 A bit of tidying but knotwork finished up.

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20151120_221831.jpg

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20151120_221846.jpg

Edited November 20, 2015 by dantay_xv

[Lord Blackwood]

bout to start mailing you things to put elaborate crosses on 

[Dantay VI]

Lol, yup go for it. I will advise you though, that postage to the UK could make it prohibitively expensive!!

 

What sort of crosses are you aiming to do? What size and on what kind of models? Do you want them all the same, or different crosses?

 

Saying that though Bladewolf, your stuff is pretty classy looking as-is. I'd be pretty proud to have Fist/ Templar army like yours.

Edited November 21, 2015 by dantay_xv

[Dantay VI]

Honest opinions please.

 

I am in 4 minds over this shield.

 

1. It looks okay.

2. Might look better in black & bone, (Long Fang colours)

3. Design doesn't work and looks like the wolf is being asked to fetch a ball

4. Ball fetch picture, maybe just drop the shield altogether

 

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb456/dantay_xv/20151121_221808.jpg

 

Really need help with this.

[Lord Blackwood]

I think it would look better in black and bone personally. 

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Got that ball fetch picture as well, but I'd like to see it in black and bone.