Meet the Pack

As some of you know my Great Company was based on Erik Morkai's Great Company with white Shoulder pads and the double headed wolf emblem. For a few months now there's been a few things bugging me about the colour scheme, firstly white is a bitch to paint and unless I get it completely right it looks blobby and messy. Secondly I hate water slide transfers which is what I have had to use on my shoulder pads as I found it impossible to freehand the double headed wolf easily. The last thing was a bit of a fluff issue in that Erik Morkai is famed for using lots of scout which to be honest is a unit I never really use anymore.

So with a new army scheme on the cards I set about choosing a new Great Company. The most Important thing for me was it had to have a symbol I could free hand on shoulder pads. This meant it couldn't be too detailed and certainly wouldn't have symmetrical icons in it i.e double wolf heads. Lastly I would have to like the fluff behind the Great Company, not so much a big issue but something that does bother me (Boo Yaa to all those who thought I didn't give a monkeys about fluff)

Here is a sneak peek of one of my Rhinos.
















With a bit of thinking and test painting I finally came up with a scheme I liked, Gunnar Redmoons Great Company. The symbol is quite easy to paint on a shoulder pad and the red moon on black background really goes well with my dark grey power armour.

It was time to start working on the new project and I was stuck as to where to start. To hell with it I thought I'll start with the big man himself, Wolf Lord Gunnar Redmoon. I wanted this guy to use the rules for Logan Grimnar (yes folks another Logan counts as, haters can start hating now). I tried this conversion before but that guy ended up becoming a Lone Wolf so I had to start again. Luckily I've got tons of Terminator bits lying around and even some Forgeworld torsos.

Ladies and Gentlewolves I give you Gunnar Redmoon.




























The conversion is simple enough, I used the Forgeworld torso and some bog standard legs. The Frost Axe and Powerfist are from the Wolf Guard box set which means so far everything was pretty simple. Next I had to tackle the Stormbolter, I could have wimped out and just ignored it but I've decided I'm going 100% WYSIWYG with my army. I ended up filing down the back of the Powerfist and then filing a Stormbolter to attach to the back. I had a neat little idea to make the Stormbolter belt fed and loop the feed around to the back of the mini, I could imagine Gunnar wanting to fire off as many rounds as possible into the enemies face before he beat the snot out of them. I used the Wolf Guard cloak as its pretty epic and stuck a shield on the back, I was inspired by the Wolf Lord in the book "Battle of the Fang" who kept an axe from his previous life as part of his personal effects.


Next up I have begun work on a new pack of Grey Hunters followed by some Wolf Guard inspired by Adams Pre Heresy Wolves. I've also got some epic Lone Wolf conversions I am dying to show you guys but you can wait for now.