THE MODELS!
The Stormclaw-box itself contains
- A rulebook
- An HQ-unit, Krom Dragongaze
- 5 Wolf Guard Terminators
- 5 Grey Hunters
- 5 Blood Claws
- Various Orcs (not focusing on those here at the moment, sorry...)
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| Got yer models? Glue? Pliers and files? Something to cover your table with? So git 'er done! |
Wolf Guard Terminators
Assembly
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These were the one's I started with... And let me tell ya, that cloak, on the squad-leader? To hell with it! It didn't want to stick, pretty much AT ALL!
At this point, it might be good to point out that I was learning everything. Hadn't even checked out Games Workshop's tutorials (which, in hindsight, I REALLY should've checked out on beforehand!). In all definitions of the word, I was a complete newb with painting... I did know to start with the undercoat-spray, though! ^^ ...not much of a defence? Okay, I'll shut up now...
Painting!
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| Undercoat, check! Basecoat on two models, check! |
Undercoat's done. My brother used white undercoat-spray on his models, which, in my opinion, isn't that much of a good idea... EVERY tiny spot you don't get covered by paint shine through like christmas-lights! The black undercoat allows the hard-to-reach armpits and under cloaks to remain, well, black! It's dark in there anyways, so... Here I've started applying my basecoat (The Fang) on the terminators. While waiting for stuff to dry, I started assembling the Blood Claws in the background, but I'll cover them in a separate post...
...and no, before you ask, I didn't water down the paints, not one bit. Straight from the jar (I DID use the lip! I'm not THAT stupid! O_O), and onto the model. Covered up some of the details, like runes on the armor, with paint, I'm afraid... But hey! Live and learn! Detailing here and there with Balthazar Gold, fur done with Dryad Bark, bone done with Zandry Dust base and Ushabti Bone layer. Metallics done with Leadbelcher.
The entire squad
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| Yeah, the squad-leader's had a little run-in with the fireplace... |
So there's pretty much the entire squad, except the leader painted. I dreaded painting him, due to all the detail everywhere, and the amount of different colors one has to use... I like to paint all Russ Grey first, then all Mephiston Red (power fists, stormbolters, leader's cloak...), then all leadbelcher and so on, but on a model like this, I constantly kept going back to paints, because I miss an area here and there... All in all, the end-result looked pretty neat:
In hindsight I noticed how I failed with the terminator in the back-left... His left shoulderpad should be decorated with the Crux Terminatus (the metallic thing every other terminator has). I learned that AFTER i was done with them all... Before that I had just looked at art from the Stormclaw campaign-book... I followed said book maybe a bit too much to the letter, as in hindsight, I'd want to swap out some equipment on the terminators, but what can you do, eh?
Also, at this point I didn't know which great company I wanted to decorate my army with (because fluff is quite important for me), so their right shoulder-pads (that's where terminators have their company-symbol) were still in Russ Grey. Except for two of the idiots who had a pre-made shoulderpad with the wolf-symbol imprinted on it.
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| "TERMINATORS!" |
Also, at this point I didn't know which great company I wanted to decorate my army with (because fluff is quite important for me), so their right shoulder-pads (that's where terminators have their company-symbol) were still in Russ Grey. Except for two of the idiots who had a pre-made shoulderpad with the wolf-symbol imprinted on it.
WHAT DID WE LEARN?
Going back and forth between paints isn't a sin. Patience is key to completing a detailed model, so don't rush things. Also, eyes are almost impossible to paint! Seriously, how do they do it in the art in the codex?
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