New year, New Army

Hello everyone! At the store here in Dunedin we are starting a new campaign, which I believe is aimed at getting people into the hobby and/or starting a new army. As I have recently sold all of my 40k, I will be starting a new army, which means, approximately once or twice a month, I will be making up a new unit for... Black Templars! On top of all that and all of my other ongoing projects (I have a wall of stuff to paint), I have just started painting my friends Space Wolves, and I'm painting my brothers birthday present (it'll be a surprise for the 16th because no spoilers). This means I am very busy, and very excited

The Space Wolves Force

I got started on the Space Wolves this morning and after about 4 hours work, I have some progress. I had to start by trimming and cleaning the models; getting rid of the mould lines cleaning up the bits of plastic that holds the parts onto the sprue, and replacing some unworthy or missing parts. After that was done, I primed them white and took a break. (I wouldn't usually call working in the garden a break, but in this case it was a break from painting) I got back into it with several drops of paint and some water and did a thin Wolf Grey coat on as many Space Wolves as I could do, in this case, nine. then, using a small but not tiny brush, I filled in the rest of the details with a basecoat. Then, finally, to end most of today's work, I applied a generous coat of Dark Tone shade (Similar to Nuln Oil, or Black Ink).

Here's a progression of photos, summarising day one;

Basecoating the first nine.

The difference between before and after shade.

The nine after shade.

Close up of the most detailed model after shade.

When I got home tonight, I decided to have a go with mostly finishing a model and here we are. I believe the lack of natural light has deadened the colour of this model though, it is slightly deeper than the previous model. I will show the model in natural light in the next post.



Thanks for reading! Any comments would be much appeciated.