Sons Of Fenris

Grey Hunters - WIP - Part 1

2011-08-19T03:58:00.000-07:00

From the Space Wolves pack, I've assembled nine Grey Wolves here, making room for perhaps a Wolf Guard or one of the HQ. Assembly took a little more than 2 hours and after not having doing this for so long, I can't help but break a little sweat over this. Just warming up.....

Holiday!!!!

2011-07-29T19:45:00.000-07:00

Hi All!

Sorry for not blogging on minis for the past few weeks. I went back home for holiday to catch up with my family and friends and its only recently I've gone back to my routine and make no mistake, some minis painting/assembling will be posting up soon!

I've been busy in my other blog http://sidestreaker.blogspot.com/ on other things in life.

Cheers!

my blog here is not the only thing I'm neglecting, look what happen when you leave a cat alone for too long at home... tsk....

Ragnar Blackmane Painted

2011-06-13T11:25:00.001-07:00

And here is my first painted Space Wolf, my first HQ Ragnar Blackmane. I've been using the standard GW colour template to my best of ability and trying to keep to the colours of the actual Ragnar as close as possible.

Can't wait to start on the rest of the squad!

Njal Stormcaller- assembled.

2011-06-03T22:16:00.000-07:00

For my second HQ, it shall be Njal Stormcaller. Here's the assembled mini and will be primed soon! just love that bird!

Ragnar Blackmane Conversion

2011-06-03T14:43:00.000-07:00

Well after so long, I've finally decided to start the army. Lots of things got in between, and that's how life is. It has been an exciting and eventful year for me, which unfortunately left me with no time to dwell into this lovely hobby.

After being able to manage my time a little better, it is now a good idea to pick up where I left. I have chosen the first step by doing a conversion with the SpaceWolf set. When I first laid eyes on the sprues, I knew immediately there's a Ragnar in there, waiting to be converted.

Well here it is, my first modelled up and converted to resemble the GW Ragnar Blackmane as close as possible without the use of Green Stuff.

Can't wait to work on the rest!

Preliminary Space Wolves Army List

2010-04-27T21:58:00.000-07:00

Ragnar Blackmane

Njal Stormcaller

Ulrik the Slayer

TROOPS

9 Bloodclaw+1 Flamer 1 wolfguard 2 claws

9 Bloodclaw+1 flamer 1 wolfguard frostblade

10 Grey Hunters 2 Meltaguns/Plasma

ELITE

Wolfguard Termie Armor+assault canon-

Wolfguard Termie Armor + Frost blade –

Wolfguard Termie Armor + Wolfclaw –

Wolfguard Termie Armor + Cyclone ML –

Wolfguard Termie Armor + Chainfist -

Wolfguard Termie Armor -

Wolfguard Termie Armor + Frost Axe –

Wolfguard Termie Armor + Chainfist –

Wolfguard Termie armor +TH/SS -

Wolfguard Termie armor + 2 Claws –

HEAVY

6 Long Fangs

3 ML + 2 LC -

TOTAL - Approx 2k

Ok, here's an experimental list on the kind of army I'm looking at. Lots of infantry, enough bodies for assault and anti-tank, enough termies to deal with tougher units, and moderate long range coverage. I'm adding some bloodclaws and not having just grey hunters all the way, to add some flavor to the army, not overusing greyhunters.... In each modularized unit of the troop, if everyone goes on foot (as how Russ intended), I can attached a wolf guard terminator to each of the grey hunters or long fangs to add to their potency. However, if transports are added, I'll replaced some of the termies with rhinos/drop-pod/razorback. Eventually, I'll beef it up to about 2.5K with the necessary hardware like all transport included and maybe a Land Raider, and maybe a juicy dreadnought as a centrepiece.

I'm trying to keep to the fluff especially for the wolfguard where there should be the almost no repetition in their fit-out to express individuality. Also, it will be interesting in terms of hobbying with all the variety.

Let's see, Ragnar and Ulrik may be attached to any of the troops, preferably Ragnar+GH and maybe Ulrik with one of the BC+WG as a mentor. Naturally, Njal can join any of the WG termie squad.

Starting point!

2010-04-27T05:03:00.000-07:00

It been a busy first quarter of the year! Moving about and looking at a more steady time ahead, I now find the comfort to start of my Space Wolf eventually, yeay!
My recent hauls includes 1 battleforce, 1 pack of SW termie wolf guard and Njal Stormcaller. I'm starting slow on this and eventually will add up to my infantry number.

I've decided to go for a Ragnar battle company theme. So Ulrik should be on my list soon. I shall be putting together the minis shortly and hopefully to show some pics soon.

New Space Wolves Venerable Dreadnought

2009-12-23T17:28:00.000-08:00

Now this is surely going into my checklist! The new venerable dreadnought from FW will be released soon! Here are some juicy pics from forgeworld. I have plans to purchase this together with the Ultramarines venerable dreadnought, both which will compliment both my astartes army.

Pics - from Forgeworld - Link - http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/swdread.htm

Wolves, Avatar and Heavy Armour

2009-12-22T21:54:00.000-08:00

I've just finished reading the 1st Space Wolf omnibus by William King and I must say, its a blast! A very enjoyable read, not only about space wolves but a good insight of the 40k universe and a bit on the Thousand Sons, the wolves arch-enemy. William King's writing may be a bit lengthy or repetitive at some parts but that adds flavor to the story and get the reader to really immense into Ragnar's mind. In the midst of fighting the enemies of the imperium, King managed to portray colorful characters of the chapter which sets them apart from the rest of the Astertes. I look forward to reading the 2nd omnibus to add to my resource and knowledge of this great first founding legion. I'm definitely going to start space wolves with Ragnar and bunch of blood claws on the table to draw blood! At this stage, before I can start on my wolves army, I'll be doing lots more research on the codex and coming out with an army list before any purchasing.

Oh, have anyone catch Avatar lately? Despite the

moderate hype before the movie was released, the review came out very positive and prompt me to take a look myself. I must say it was fantastic! It has exceeded my expectation. The story line is good, the sequence and flow is smooth, and the concept art and design is fabulous.

James Cameron has the script for this movie since 1994 but was waiting for the technology to make this possible. He has developed a detail background of the story, the culture of Pandora and lots of behind the plot/scene information. In fact, once this has proven successful, he's planning 2 more sequel. It seems like that is very likely now as Avatar has already received several award nominations.

I can't help relating the battle scene at the end to be similar to how and Imperial Guard army would battle some Eldar Exodite in a Deathworld planet. Watch it in 3D, good stuff!

On the painting table: I'm working on my pair of Vindicators and trying to finish them off before I assemble my dreadnought+drop pod soon. I'm THIS close to completing my space marine inventory! HA!

It's all just armour and support vehicles now. The only thing I have to worry about now is storage for my 3rd army. I'll be posting the completed pictures in my other blog http://ventris-4thcompany.blogspot.com/.

Oh and before I miss the chance to wish y'all , have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

A sip from The Cup of Wulfen

2009-12-03T17:32:00.000-08:00

HOW IT ALL STARTED: I pick up the copy of White Dwarf when I was at a newsstand just to satisfy my curiosity of these space puppies, and thought this may be a good starting point. I immediately like the feel of the army, with a rather refreshing breakaway order from the codex astartes in many ways.

Not long later, I found myself in a bookshop and bumped into a copy of Space Wolf omnibus. I'm almost at the end of the first book and I'm already hooked to the story of Ragnar. At that point, I've already decided to collect this army in the near future and just picked up a copy of the codex which I've ordered earlier. Somehow I have a good feel in starting this army, unlike all my previous army where I've already have a pre-conceived idea of what I wanted to build, this time with loads of reading material and a well informed fluff, I have some really solid ideas to make a SW army as fluffy as I want to the very last detail. I do not know the previous codex and can't really compare or see any improvement over its predecessor but it is suffice to say that this codex has some really interesting elements to it that makes this a potentially fun army (despite the fact there is no Leman Russ battle tank, in the Primarch Leman Russ army). I love the Saga that has been introduced to the HQ characters which gives them special ability based on their background.

Currently one of my favourite units has to be the Blood Claws, young enthusiastic aspirants eager to prove themselves in the battlefield. At this point, I can imagine building Ragnar's army with many Drop Pods and lots of infantry, charging furiously towards the enemies of the All Father.