Showing posts with label Long Fangs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Long Fangs. Show all posts

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Shootie Space Wolves





Most people associate space wolves with headstrong full frontal assaults. However, with the long fang's ability to split fire long fangs are a huge asset when it comes to swinging the tides of battle.

The only draw back is without the option of being able to take more than 5 long fangs for ablative wounds, they are more vulnerable than your standard marine devastator squad load-out. To counter this, some like to field an extra wolfguard in terminator armor with ass cannon and missile rack.

4 long fangs with missile launchers + wolfguard with missile rack allows 6 or 7 shots of missiles... I can't remember if the missile rack shoots 2 rounds or counts as twin linked, but nonetheless this is a whole lot of dakka.

In case that wasn't enough, Rune priest can also support Long Fangs with their living lightning abilities. D6 hits at S7 AP5 with unlimited range hitting on a 2 up with chooser of the slain... btw, space wolves can field up to 4 rune priests.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Space Wolves Long Fangs WIP



Just to keep up with my obligations to my buddy Ray in terms of painting, here are my new long fangs. I've spent about 6 or so hours so far... 40k is really a love/hate relationship for like all my relationships with girls... You love them, but there are def. times I wanna twist off their heads.

Nothing really unique about my style, pretty much standard procedure. The only thing is I try to get them done the cheapest way possible. instead of using gw's matt black spray paint, I use any kind of matte black spray I can find at hardware stores for 3 reasons.

1. Price. I ain't payin gw S**T... $20 hong kong roughly around $2.50 usd, i can get the same sized spray can instead of whatever the obscene amount gw demands...

2. Spray paints sold at hardware stores tend to be less fine than hobby grade sprays. This can be used to your advantage when you decide to dry brush and highlights as the rougher spray tends to pick up better and therefore saving time on dry brushing without re-applying layers that appear to be too faint. You will need to get a feel for this first...

3. Your basecoat should always be the most important layer. I could care less if you can paint Sistine chapel on your model if your colors peel off due to crappy base coats. Hard ware grade spray paints are designed to hold onto almost anything... My neighbor's spotted chihuahua will agree with me. With that said, there is also no longer the need for metal primers for metaloid minis and therefore saving you even more money... Please note, metal models will still chip if you are not careful. The reason is paints is softer than metal... You will still want to purity seal the model.

Thanks for reading guys...