Salamanders Space Marine

A one-off project and a study in rendering materials. This is a little one-off experiment in a non-conventional depiction of a Space Marine. Pics and process below the jump.

Revisiting Space Wolves - Infantry Squads

Intercessor Squad Þorberg

In 2020, I took on a full 40k Space Wolves army as a lockdown project, the first time I'd approached a straightforward out-of-the-box project on this scale. I had something around 1500pts before I moved on to a Soulblight Gravelords army in 2021 and I always intended to revisit the Space Wolves. I'm finally doing that! This post will focus on the infantry squads that have received a fresh round of painting attention. Plenty of new pics below the jump...

Auctioning some finished warband projects for charity

It's time to free up some space for new projects, and raise some money for good causes in the process. I'm putting up four complete Warhammer warbands for auction starting tonight and lasting one week. All proceeds go to LGBT charities in the UK. Check below the jump for  details and the links to eBay...

Primaris Space Wolves part 12: Firestrike Servo-Turret

 

The final kit to join my Space Wolves in 2020 is one of the newest Primaris units. I made one modification to it that I think really improves it. Pics and process below the jump.

Primaris Space Wolves part 11: Assault Intercessor Squad Auðr

A third Intercessor squad for my Space Wolves. The previous two were geared for close quarters assault with Assault Bolt Rifles - this squad takes that further with Chainswords. More details and pics below the jump.

Primaris Space Wolves part 10: Wulfen

Something I wanted to tackle right from the start of this project was the Wulfen. A unique and fluffy (in both senses) unit for Space Wolves, unfortunately saddled with a not-great kit. Here's my take on them.

Primaris Space Wolves part 9: Battle Leader

A distinguished leader for the Space Wolves. Either a Battle Leader or a Lieutenant, depending on your adherence to Codex standards. Pics and details of the conversion process below the jump.

Primaris Space Wolves part 8: Eliminators

I like the Eliminators kit. The combination of camo cloaks and massive guns is very cool. And my close combat focused Space Wolves need some long range firepower to back them up. More pics below the jump.

Primaris Space Wolves part 7: Impulsor

A little overdue, this monster tank has been up on my Instagram for a while now, but here's a detailed run-down of the Impulsor I built for my Space Wolves force.

Primaris Space Wolves part 6: Rune Priest

Here's the first model in my Space Wolves project to deviate much from the original kit. There's no official Primaris Rune Priest model. There's Primaris Librarians who are kind of equivalent. But I think Rune Priests should be more grisly and weird than their codex-compliant cousins. Pics and lore below the jump.

Primaris Space Wolves part 5: Intercessor Squad Thorberg

A second five-person squad of Intercessors with assault bolters. This brings my fledgling Space Wolves force up to just over 500 points. More pics below the jump.

Primaris Space Wolves part 4: Primaris Ancient

I can never resist a chance to paint a freehand banner. With a few easy-to-build Intercessors to test my Space Wolves colour schemes on, I had a spare Intercessor in circulation. So he got promoted to the army's banner bearer. More pics and lore below the jump.

Primaris Space Wolves part 3: Intercessor Squad Hervaðr

The second unit finished in this first wave of Space Wolves builds. A MSU Intercessor squad with assault bolters and a thunder hammer. More pics below the jump.

Primaris Space Wolves part 2: Redemptor Dreadnought

The first two units of my Primaris Space Wolves army for 40k are complete. There's a lot to get through so they're getting split into two posts. In this one I'm gonna show you the completed Redemptor Dreadnought. More below the jump.

Primaris Space Wolves Part 1

My new project is the biggest one I've ever taken on: a complete Space Wolves army for 40k. For the first time I'm working with all new kits with minimal conversions and aiming for a rules-legal Battleforged army for 9th edition 40k. More below the jump:

The Lamians Slaanesh Chaos Space Marine Warband (Complete)

The Lamians Warband, complete

My Lamians Slaanesh Chaos Space Marines project was inspired by the #INQ28 setting, and its cousin #AoS28. While Space Marines are the kind of OP megaheroes frowned on in that setting, I really did want to explore niche bits of their lore – the weird grim pathos that #INQ28 looks into. So this Slaaneshi warband was built with the aim of delving into a small-scale character project in an original way.

Here's the story of the Lamians warband and their allies, the Slaan Sala Movement:

Lamians Warband: Painting Update

Group shot – The Lamians Warband

It's been a while since I posted last, because I've been knuckling down and just painting all the models at the same time. Instead of posting about 10 models in gradually decreasing states of bareness, I thought I'd hold off until they're (almost) done.

So, here they are!

"Elephant Seal" Rhino Variant

The Slaanesh Space Marine squad needed a big center-piece model. I decided on a transport vehicle, and of course I couldn't resist tinkering with it.

There are two undercurrent styles to the models in this squad: extravagant, and brutally efficient. This Rhino variant is the latter: a boxy battering ram designed to crash into the enemy and disgorge a load of evil Space Marines. I imagine it to be a rare, outdated and not very popular Rhino variant pattern called an Elephant Seal.

Making a Mounted Chaos Space Marine

There's a sixth member of the Chaos Space Marine squad I last posted. It's the most involved conversion I've done on any of the models, but the idea was cool enough that I wanted to try it.

The Chaos Marines

I'm getting a brilliant response on Instagram (@instahekatoncheires). Thanks if you follow me on there.

In the mean-time, I've made progress on the Chaos Space Marine models to the point that I think that they're more-or-less complete (give-or-take some tweaking). Here they are:

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