The first of the premium deliveries for the magazine set was the Brutalis Dreadnought. Having not built any dreadnoughts since 3rd(?) edition the design has changed significantly, and the kit has got drastically more complex compared to the old fashioned Box noughts.

I decided to make life even harder a magnetise the ‘claws’, wrist covers/bolters and the Bolter/Melta chest options. The Viking stylised shoulders and coffin cover come out of the resin Vat thanks to Greytide studios to add some more wolf flair!

From the core space marine combat patrol, the ‘special’ character is the Terminator Captain which may see some use IF I ever play any games. On the other hand the Librarian in terminator armour is far less likely, a will probably be replaces by any number of space wolves specific special characters or the new wolf priest (which I have though not built!).

The Invictor and Chaplin on a bike have featured in a previous post here in more detail, the Invictor warsuit is part of the now old space wolves combat patrol, between buying it and getting round to opening it Games Workshop have managed to do a range refresh and the new patrol is something I will likely pick up containing Wulfen, Wolf guard terminators and 10 (more) Blood Claws.

Another part of the standard Space marine patrol are some core codex terminators. These models were the first I tried to weather in any way. Everything up to painting these has ended up looking like fresh recruits in equipment just off the Mechanicus factory production lines.

This was done with some torn up sponge and a degree of overenthusiasm which has taken them probably past ‘worn’ to nearly needing replacing, but it does help to bring them to life a little.

Next up the Infernus marines were some of the first battle line Wolves I painted after the Terminator captain and they have the above mentioned fresh of the production line look. 5 of the collective are from the marine combat patrol, I have 2 that I’ve picked up from GW stores ‘first paint’ miniature for me and the boy and the final one standing atop a burning Tyranid skull here is a magazine special.

I need to get up to 10 marines to field the next game legal size of unit. Of these I’ve painted the core 5 and magazine special and as of this month built both of the store push fit ones. One of these I actually managed to get my 2 year old to help with the building and I will figure out what I need to setup to allow him to ‘paint’ it as well at some point in the near future. The final marine I built recently and have tried to add some additional Grey tide bits to him to differentiate what is the same sculpt as some of the other already painted units

Another magazine special is the Primaris Company Champion reading online they had some game legal some rules very briefly but have now as a stand alone unit been pushed out to a legends datasheet.  He got a shoulder pad change that required some carving as the stock was moulded to the arm as well as a resin head swap and back pack decoration (which when I started painting I realised it was backwards…)

As a bit of a random offshoot looked back over the ‘blades’ I’ve don so far in order here top to bottom (I re-did the middle blade and don’t have a earlier picture or it would be first and more of a mess!) I think there is a progression of skill through them, if nothing else they are get less blocky between colours. The same technique I used on the Axe below grading from the red to orange to white from the haft outward.

Haldor Icepelt is the named character for the old combat patrol box, he would previously have been yet another space marines lieutenant (Game Workshop seams to be drowning space marine players in them) before the wolves codex but his loadout and role means he now much better fits being a wolf guard battle leader.

I had real fun painting this Mini, I did him in part subassemblies because of the pose across the chest and I think he came out well. The only think I may remove and rework slightly is the head, I’ve still not got a good was of getting faces / skin right yet, which if you look below could become a problem!

Then we come into the partially completed parts of the old style compatible patrol. They are the two battle line units in the form of a group of 10 stock Primaris Intercessors and the 5 Hounds of Morkai. The Hounds have now been moved to legends with the new codex so outside of their special combat patrol data sheets I will have to run them as Primaris Reivers.

The both have got as far as built before my daughter was born at the end of July and will now likely stay that way for some time! The final unpictured part of the pack comes in the completely untouched pile in which sits the new space wolves army box with no less that 28 minis as well as a in plastic wrap Redemptor dreadnought which I bought at Salute earlier in the year as I really fancy an all dreadnought list for some casual games (it is so far outside any kind of meta…)

Given that I am holding a 6 day old wee one as I one-handedly write this on my phone a two weekly post schedule I had hoped to keep (and managed for 2 and a half months!) is likely to be extended to a month or more!