Space Wolves audio book

Nick Kyme is working on a Space Wolves audio book called Thunder from Fenris. Here's the skinny from his blog.

"I’ve just listened to the final sound effects and music edit (version three) of Thunder from Fenris. I am very pleased with how this has come out. It’s sounds great. Though I am starting to become aware that not many folks seem to know about it, so if you could spread the word, I’d totally appreciate it. :-) It’s an audio book; it’s Space Wolves versus Plague Zombies (yep, you heard right) and it’s pre-released at Games Day and then in GW stores a few weeks later (and on-line, of course). That’s about all I can tell you without the BL inquisitors hauling my arse in for ‘questioning’."

Here is some info on the recording.

"Just by way of a little insight, the actual recording day was around eight hours - roughly 9am-5pm - and generally consists of the writer (me, in this case) and editor (that’ll be Christian) sat in the directorial suite with script in hand, listening to the actor go through his lines and weave his magic over the microphone with director and sound engineer guiding and monitoring proceedings respectively.

It’s a team effort and, as always, we were surrounded by total pros.

Toby Longworth (who folks will hear voicing James Swallow’s excellent Heart of Rage in the not-too-distant future) really delivered for us (and me, I suppose) again with a stellar performance. He had three Space Wolves to nail and he had them down from minute one. Three very different characters; three very distinctive but wonderfully rendered and wholly apt voices. I couldn’t have been more pleased.

Easter egg - check out a character called Thorgard in the production and see if you can tell where Toby drew his inspiration from. Great stuff.

I’m hoping fans will love Thunder from Fenris as much as I did writing it, and will get the same level of enjoyment I did from hearing it immortalised into audio. I’ve yet to hear the music and fx edit (we recorded the rushes on the day, and another sound engineer will now be set to work adding atmospheric music, bolters, zombie noises and so on, and generally cutting the whole thing together)."

Sounds good to me!

First Grey Hunter painting update

Here is the Grey Hunter with the fist about half finished. The Grey has only the first highlight applied.




I'm really happy with how good the Space Wolves Night Runner badge looks painted!

Shiny model syndrome

So it's been a week since I primed the Grey Hunters for my Space Wolves and I sit here with 6 partially basecoated miniatures. Here's what happened; I was cleaning out my garage and found a box filled with lots of unopened Flames of War boxed sets. I had completely forgotten I about them. So I have spent the week cleaning up and basing them. Grrr....

I came to my senses today and started working on my Hunters again.

Do any of you suffer from the shiny model syndrome?

I really hate getting derailed so easily! I guess it's just the nature of the beast that is miniatures wargaming.

Cheers for now,
Jim

PS: While I've got you attention, if you like Space Wolves you should check out Adams Space Wolves Blog he's make much better progress than I am this week. I've known Adam for a few years as a poster on many of the popular forums, he's a great guy.

The power weapon poll results are......

too close to call, but lean slightly towards blue. :P

What color Power Weapons should I use for the Space Wolves?

Blue 28 (52%)

Green 25 (47%)


I'd like to thank everyone who voted in the poll. There were some comments on other colors that you'd like to see and Purple was a definite favorite.

It looks like it's time to experiment. I'm going to repaint the power weapons on 4 of my old Grey Hunters. One each of the following colors; Blue, Green, Purple and Red/Orange.

Once completed I'll post pics of all four to get your feedback.

Cheers,
Jim

Space Wolf Scouts

You either love 'em or hate 'em, but I've gotta have some for my Space Wolves army. I have always been fond of the Wolf Scout SGT's from second edition. I don't think GW has ever matched their uniqueness in any scout models since. Here are two of them I have from my old Wolf army.



There are a few ways I could accomplish a similar style scout. Fist up I could butcher the existing plastic scouts, but it would be hard to use the 20 Wolf Scout packs I've got. Second is the Prophet miniatures method seen here. This method requires a lot of bits from different kits, but I do have most of them in my bits box.

Which option would you use if you were gonna convert your own scouts?

Space Wolves skin

As Space Wolves get older their skin becomes more tanned and leathery. I've decided to represent this bit of fluff in my army. The following flesh colors from left to right will represent Blood Claws, Grey Hunters and Long Fangs. My Wolf Guard will use a mix of all three tones.

Grey Hunters complete ready for priming

Here are the Grey Hunters with the icons in place! They are ready for priming as soon as I add some gear to the 3rd Mk 4 Hunter.



Here's a shot of the whole groups icons.

3D Great Company Badges are a Go!

That worked out pretty good! The push mold is dry and I'm in the process of putting the Night Runner badge on the Grey Hunters.



I still need to clean it up a bit, but overall I'm excited that it worked out so well!

Friday Space Wolf Update

Here are the first 5 Grey Hunters these will be part of my first Razorback pack.. All of my Grey Hunters will be wearing Mk 4 and Mk 6 armor.The second Hunter from the right still needs the toes of his boots GS'd; they are going to be the striped toes that were prevalent during the RT days. I should have the 6th Hunter wearing Mk 4 armor done tonight. Tomorrow I'll be adding the Night Runner badge to them as the mold should be fully cured now.



Here is an update on the Ven Dread. I decided to give the red DCCW a go and I really do like it. Red is the main contrasting color to my PA Wolves so the Dread need some too.



Skeld also is getting a new weapons option; the often underestimated twin linked Autocannon. This conversion is completely inspired by Grey Death of Paint Corps and Dakka fame.

Galaxy in Flames first Poll question.

I have been working on building my first Grey Hunters pack and it struck me that I haven't chose a color for my power weapons. So I though I'd let you guys help me make up my mind.

Blue is the classic old reliable choice, but green would make for a nice contrast.

Looking at the test mini which color do you think would be a better color for my power weapons?

So vote in the poll and tell me why you chose the color.

Thanks,
Jim

How Big Jim Paints Yellow

I received a couple of requests for the Yellow paint recipe I used on the Ven Dreads pack marking.

First off I always paint yellow over a grey base coat, any mid toned grey will work. I find that painting over a grey base helps keep the color of the yellows with little to no distortion, I use Vallejo medium sea grey.

I use Vallejo Goldbrown as the first step of yellow this will give you a solid foundation for your yellow paint, and give you a shading color for those little recesses that may be in your yellow surface. Once this is dry I paint the entire area with Vallejo Yellow Ochre, this is the base yellow that all your highlights will be built up on.

The first highlight is a one to mix of Vallejo Yellow Ochre and Flat yellow, this should cover one third of the yellow surface. The second highlight is Flat Yellow covering about half of the previous highlight. The final highlight is 3 parts Flat Yellow to one part Ivory; this is placed at the edge of the entire yellow surface.

I hope that helps. If you have any further questions feel free to ask.

Cheers,
Big Jim