Finally, my Blood Claws are finished. They're not as easy to put together as you might think, because you only get two pistol and chainsword arms in the Space Wolves boxed set.So unless you want all your Blood Claws to be striking one of two poses, you need to do some conversion work.
I've done some minor changes like cutting just below the shoulder, so I can turn the arm more before reattaching it to the shoulder. The bolt pistol that's held across the body is just horrible though. You can't just convert it.
Just like with my Grey Hunters, I've used a combination of Space Wolf and Space Marine components to create my Blood Claws. I've built up quite a collection of Space Wolves chainswords and bolt pistols from multiple Space Wolves pack boxed sets, so arming them all wasn't a problem.Two of my Blood Claws will be carrying melta guns (are you noticing a trend?) and they're led by a Wolf Guard in Terminator Armour who's also armed with a combi-melta and a chainfist. I just need to build a plastic Wolf Priest and this unit will be complete.
I'm really looking forward to converting the Wolf Priest, but I'm going to save him for last as a reward to finishing my first 1500 points Space Wolf army. I plan to use a lot of Chaos Space Marine parts, so stay tuned for that. He's going to look suitably gothic and menacing!
3 comments:
December 23, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Its certainly full steam ahead with your modelling Adam.
Looking forward to getting you pinned down for a weekend of games next year. Just need to find the time. I wrote up a list of tourneys from now till the GT Final and I am currently going to 5!!!!
Don't think D is going to be too happy with me.
Ah well.
Hope you have a good Christmas dude and we'll chat in the new year.
Neil
December 23, 2009 at 1:49 AM
It's not the modelling that bothers me, it's the painting! lol.
Look forward to facing your Nids in the new year :)
December 24, 2009 at 10:46 AM
I just picked up a boxed set of 10 more wolves, that'll be the core of my BC pack. I'm looking to make this set of 10 into 7 bp/cc marines, plus one with flamer, one with p-fist, and one with a plas pistol. They'll be led by a pack leader with dual wolf claws. I'll eventually fill the unit out to 15, and take either a second flamer or a melta (the auto-hitting of the flamer is what's tempting me here). I'll probably take the five remaining blood claws from the second box and begin a unit of skyclaws.
Fun times...
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