Stoic Raptor Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 I'm just not seeing which pads you feel you have to use, but couldn't find elsewhere without the icon. Seriously. Care to show us? I'm not trying to tell you how to make your army, I'm just observing that there's got to be an easier way. And you completely misunderstood the rest. I didn't say "cut it off to paint it on" and I don't even see how you could arrive at that. I'm saying it doesn't have to be black and yellow, you could easily paint the background a different color and/or the head as well. It's not a symbol that's only ever been unique to Ragnar's company. But if you don't want to use that symbol at all, there are many, many Space Wolf shoulder pads that are quite decorative and "wolfy" that don't have the raised detail in other kits besides the upgrade sprue. It's almost like they took existing shoulder pad sculpts and put the wolf's head on them for these two sprues. I mean, if it's not that much work for you to remove the detail and have a surface that's smooth enough, good on you. Personally, I prefer to find an alternative that I don't need to cut away, whenever possible. It's the same reason I wouldn't use a Dark Angels or Ultramarines upgrade sprue on these models. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349806-primaris-upgrade-pack/page/2/#findComment-5159009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteySödes Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Space-Wolves-Upgrades You can see the difference in the trim yea? Good. Cutting the symbol off IS the easy way. My mind is completely blown by this haha. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349806-primaris-upgrade-pack/page/2/#findComment-5159013 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Space-Wolves-Upgrades You can see the difference in the trim yea? Good. Cutting the symbol off IS the easy way. My mind is completely blown by this haha. I did the same :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349806-primaris-upgrade-pack/page/2/#findComment-5159025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainStabby Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 I'm just not seeing which pads you feel you have to use, but couldn't find elsewhere without the icon. Seriously. Care to show us? I'm not trying to tell you how to make your army, I'm just observing that there's got to be an easier way. And you completely misunderstood the rest. I didn't say "cut it off to paint it on" and I don't even see how you could arrive at that. I'm saying it doesn't have to be black and yellow, you could easily paint the background a different color and/or the head as well. It's not a symbol that's only ever been unique to Ragnar's company. But if you don't want to use that symbol at all, there are many, many Space Wolf shoulder pads that are quite decorative and "wolfy" that don't have the raised detail in other kits besides the upgrade sprue. It's almost like they took existing shoulder pad sculpts and put the wolf's head on them for these two sprues. I mean, if it's not that much work for you to remove the detail and have a surface that's smooth enough, good on you. Personally, I prefer to find an alternative that I don't need to cut away, whenever possible. It's the same reason I wouldn't use a Dark Angels or Ultramarines upgrade sprue on these models. If you look at his army he's using the ones from the regular upgrade kit and filing off the blackwolf icon and painting the pad the GC mark he wants. $15 for the sprue and some filing is infinitely cheaper and speedier than ordering from shapeways or anywhere else for that matter. The Primaris one is just regular Primaris pads with the marking on it so it provides little to no benefit for how it APPEARS Petey is building/painting. :D Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349806-primaris-upgrade-pack/page/2/#findComment-5159031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoic Raptor Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 The Primaris one is just regular Primaris pads with the marking on it so it provides little to no benefit for how it APPEARS Petey is building/painting. I was under the impression that it was the Primaris pack we were talking about, given the name of the topic and his initial comment. I guess we were just talking about two different things. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349806-primaris-upgrade-pack/page/2/#findComment-5159051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wispy Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 I also file the blackmane icon off of the upgrade-sprue (the previous, non-primaris upgrade sprue) shoulder pads. http://www.warroomgaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/99070101012_SpaceWolvesUpgrades01.jpgThose shoulders have some unique space wolves motifs going on even without the great company icon. However the Primaris pads, if you take the icon off... They're just plain shoulder pads. It takes 10 minutes to scrub off the great company and 15 minutes to freehand a new one. Sculpting my own would take a week of trial and error. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349806-primaris-upgrade-pack/page/2/#findComment-5159056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteySödes Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 The Primaris one is just regular Primaris pads with the marking on it so it provides little to no benefit for how it APPEARS Petey is building/painting. I was under the impression that it was the Primaris pack we were talking about, given the name of the topic and his initial comment. I guess we were just talking about two different things. I think my initial reply was pretty readable. Primaris upgrade purchases = 1, previous = ~7 for the reasons stated. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349806-primaris-upgrade-pack/page/2/#findComment-5159058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrFlur Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 Go for 3D printed ones!!! They don't get very smooth but ... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349806-primaris-upgrade-pack/page/2/#findComment-5159141 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackalwolf Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 That's so cool, have you designed them? I've tried once 3d printed ones and they were quite cool, looked much better after I took the dremel to the inside and made them less thick! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349806-primaris-upgrade-pack/page/2/#findComment-5159164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrFlur Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 Well, I just took the image, 3D-ed it and patched to the clean shoulder nothing fancy Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349806-primaris-upgrade-pack/page/2/#findComment-5159202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainStabby Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 The funny thing is... I use Shapeways so much for my GC and pack markings, it never once occurred to me to just file down the blackmane icon on those pads, or any others for that matter. I just kinda reconciled myself to paying 13 bucks for the sword, axe, pack etc... I am sometimes not a smart human. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349806-primaris-upgrade-pack/page/2/#findComment-5159404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wispy Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 I hate 3rd party bitz, always disastisfied in the long run. Shapeways especially. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349806-primaris-upgrade-pack/page/2/#findComment-5159465 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbarnby71 Posted September 3, 2018 Author Share Posted September 3, 2018 So far I've only bought Reivers and I find the non-primaris shoulder pads work just fine for the left shoulder, as their armour is smaller anyway and the right shoulder pad is real small so the scale works better for me. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349806-primaris-upgrade-pack/page/2/#findComment-5159694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wispy Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 The question for me is why we didn't get a free upgrade sprue bundled into our primaris kits like the angels got on their release.well because we dont have primaris kits to bundle with it. We have the same ones they have though. They just got a free upgrade sprue with their intercessors, agressors, etc. which you can still buy on the GW website. We have to buy the kit (which costs the same) and then also buy the sprue, effectively making our primaris kits more expensive.Its not free, its $5 more.Not on the US webstore: Blood angels intercessors with sprue - $60 https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Blood-Angels-Primaris-Intercessors-2017 Space Marine intercessors no sprue - $60 https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Space-Marines-Primaris-Intercessors If thats the case, any US based Space Wolves fans needing some intercessors in the shirt term should buy the Blood Angels Intercessor kit for the free chainsword and pistol. There's nothing particular Angelly about either of those bits and will give you a chainsword for the nopposite arm the Wolf upgrade sprue does. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349806-primaris-upgrade-pack/page/2/#findComment-5160223 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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