New paintscheme/chapter - the Ghost Bears or 'Draugabjörn'.

[Lord Ragnarok]

Nicely wolf'd up!

[Bryan Blaire]

You've done a beautiful job, way, way more work than I was considering for my Redemptor to have if Wolf out, but damn have you raised the bar.

 

Two clawed, hairy thumbs way way up!

 

:tu: :tu:

[Graymane]

Greeting brothers!

So, I have finally finished the Draugrbjorn Redemptor! And here it is....

Presenting Jarn Bjorn 'The Iron Bear' - Redemptor dreadnought of the Draugrbjorn (Ghostbears) chapter.

Little is known of the secretive Draugrbjorn. Renowned for striking suddenly and with unbridled ferocity, only to vanish as swiftly as they arrive, it is generally believed to be descended from Spacewolves gene stock,

This towering war machine is believed to be the final resting place of the long missing Wolflord, Jotun Bearclaw who's lost great company is thought to be the ancestral progenitors of the Draugrbjorn Chapter.

I am pleased with how the bear pelt came out. Also tried something a little new on the plasma cannon. Think the glow kind of works.

And a little subtle decoration...

The claw also seems to have come out pretty well, as have the 3d printed shoulders....

Everything is still functional, with both armour and customised sarcophagus able to be opened (sarcophagus lid is magnetised)...

So there you go - I hope you like it!

Please so let me know what you think!

Cheers,

GM

Edited April 18, 2020 by Graymane

[ranulf the revenant]

the passion you put in this project is really visible. hail to the ghost bears :P

[GrFlur]

I want one for christmas 

[Bryan Blaire]

That is a beautiful dread!

 

One thing that you might try with your plasma coils (which look great right now) is to run some thinned white down at the bottom 3rd or so (thinned down to a wash consistency) and do that about a 1/3rd of the way down, and when that is dry, run one again, but only at the very base of the coils. That will make it look like the glow is down at the center of the core, struggling against the containment.

 

Love the colors and claw!

[NightHowler]

Holy Smokes!!!  Simply BEAUTIFUL work!  I love this model.  I wish I could give more than one like.

[Graymane]

Hello folks,

So, having finished the dread, i have moved on to the next project. I want an impressive sized teminator lord to represent the last of the old wolves that still survive in the new Draugrbjorn chapter. One of Jotun Bearclaw's wolf guard and now veteran commander (not sure if chapter master yet).

I have chosen then rather impressive new Abbadon the despoiler as a base and have started mocking it up...

I was originally thinking of using the oversized claw as a link to 'Jotun Bearclaw', but im not sure about it.

I have then trimmed off the chaos bits and swapped out a few others. I quite like the axe (i know the hand is the wrong way round at the moment) and am thinking of an oversized chain fist as the 'bears claw' instead of the lightning claw. Head is also a place holder:

What do you think?

Cheers,

GM

Edited April 22, 2020 by Graymane

[ranulf the revenant]

Hmmm... The cleaned up Abbadon body is a good base. It's a good start, but I can't say I'm completely convinced on either of the weapons so far. The frostsword-chainfist is fun, but a bit cartoony. You want to keep the two melee weapons?

[Graymane]

thinking of a wrist mounted bolter too

[TiguriusX]

Still in awe of the Iron Bear...cant process new project

 

Wow...

[Graymane]

Hello folks,

So, a bit of an update. I have been trialling some bits. I like the chainfist idea and am going to bracket it with the bolters as a 'counts-as' storm bolter.

The questions are what blade to use on the chain fist, which axe to use and in which combination? The choices are...

The long blade and terminator axe (yes, i know the hand is backwards) :

or the short blade and wulfen axe...

And here he is with a test fit cloak....

Hes a big bugger. If you're interested, here is a size comparison between him and an infiltrator.

Another question is which head to use? The masked one was a place holder but its kind of growing on me...

Well that's it so far. Let me know what you think!

Cheers,

GM

[ranulf the revenant]

Definitely #2 :). You got a head in mind already?

[Graymane]

Not yet. Suggestions welcome. :)

[Dantay VI]

I reckon you do what Triszin ddid and combine an axe with a thunder-hammer. Basically similar to Thor's Storm Breaker.

 

Power fist up the other hand or leave it normal and have a combi or storm bolter on the wrist and a pointing/ gesturing hand on the right side.

 

Unless you keep the current hand and put something in it, like he is staring ata a recently slain opponents head or something

 

Either hat or strap a big-ass storm shield on him.

[sbarnby71]

Wulfen axe for me.  I think the scale still works, too often I see folks create an axe or sword that is double the height of the model and it just looks wrong (yeah I get they are super human, but you try swinging a pole vaulter's pole around your head and see how affective it would be).  

 

To throw a curve ball, what about a Wulfen axe in each hand, now that would look brutal! 

 

You could call the axes "Des" & "Troy"

Edited April 27, 2020 by sbarnby71

[Bryan Blaire]

I will vote short chainblade and Wulfen axe as well.

 

As far as the head - if the scale is right, what about Ulric's, or Krom's (if you want a more yell-y head)? If the scale isn't right, what about short Mohawk head from the Primaris Wolf upgrade sprue, or the Primaris WG Battle Leader from the Start Collecting or Tooth & Claw boxes?

[QuarterPounder]

Love the ideas! My vote is actually the short chainfist but the bigger Termie axe. It seems to fit his scale a bit better. Or dual Wulfen axes, just for rule of cool...

[ranulf the revenant]

Hmmm... I mean since he is supposed to be very old, a long beard would be an obvious choice :-D... But I could see a helmeted version as well, could look quite menacing with that pose.

[Graymane]

Hello folks,

Apologies for the long absence! So, numerous updates are due and many pics to follow. I hope you enjoy.

So, head wise, i went for Abbadon snarling, and greenstuffed some hair, a beard and an eyepatch...

Which, generally, i think came out rather well.

I also added some further bear iconography to his belt and carapace and furred up the loincloth, which i also shortened...

I wanted an embossed shoulderpad, similar to the wolf one found on the old Ragnar model and so made one using the bear head helmets from Puppetswar. They are a little small for marines but work in other ways. I also wanted him to have a suitable bear skin cape and started to construct one fro Abbaddons cape, some wolf cape bits, chain and a buttload of greenstuff. First of all was the basic layer to get the shape...

A further layer was then added and i added fangs and bulk to a wolf's head and rounded the ears to make it bear like...

More to come shortly. Let me know what you think so far! :)

Cheers,

GM

[Wispy]

incredible stuff

[Jarl Kjaran Coldheart]

that's pretty fantastic!

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Good job sculpting green stuff for the Terminator's hair, eyepatch, beard, and wolf skin cloak.

[Graymane]

Hello,

So, the next exciting episode...

I was liking how the model was coming together, but was not a fan of the big hole in the back of his cloak, so decided to sling a shield over it.

These were my initial ideas...

After further review and some feed back, the runed shield was winning so i went with that but wanted something to making it more bear-ish.

So i made a boss for the shield from one of my bears head emblems and some green stuff...

Which came up rather nicely once painted....

I also replaced the power feeds with guitar wire and the cabling on the chest with chopped platic rod to resemble armoured conduits...

At this point its all coming together nicely. More to come soon.

Cheers,

GM

[Graymane]

So, I thought the leader of the Draugrbjorn should have a suitably brutal base. And as my two biggest rivals in my gaming group are a Khorn player and a dark angels player, i thought that they might be good candidates for decorating said base...

Hope you like it. :)

More to come soon...