Vintage Captains Project: Complete

After a year and a quarter the first of my ongoing projects is complete. This Space Wolf Captain is the final one in a set of six that were introduced by Games Workshop in the early nineties.

This is also the latest in a set of models which I've collaborated on with Poot. He prepared this model with an airbrushed basecoat which was then oil-washed to give it more depth. A full description of the process is available here, and you can see all the minis that we've worked on together by clicking the 'Airbrush Projects' tag below.

My combat cards project has encouraged me to experiment with freehand and I continued on this mini with the markings on the kneepad, shoulder pad and chainsword. I did chicken out from doing the back of the sword though!

Here is our small but growing collection of second edition style Space Wolves. Next we have an old fashioned Bjorn the Fellhanded which I am part way through restoring. Seeing this shot makes me think I'll bump him up the painting queue because he will look lovely when's done using this scheme.

Here's the finished product - the entire set of old fashioned metal captains. This was been great fun, and I've deliberately used as many different techniques and basing styles as possible. I think that my favourite is possibly the Blood Angel but I am very happy with them all.

Here they are in the formation that they appeared in the Citadel catalogue of the time. It was the picture below that gave the idea for this project. Job done!

So close! Space Wolf Captain WIP

I don't like doing Work in Progress posts really, but I would like missing out a weekly blog post even less. I've already given myself a day's extension due to the bank holiday. My vintage captains project is so close to being finished! Here's the last one:

I could have rushed to have him finished today but as you can see chainsword needs some attention because it is looking nasty at the moment! I also want to have the time to take a proper picture of the entire set. This project has taken me over a year so I want to get it finished off properly.

Airbush Project: Oil Washed Spacewolf #2

This is another second edition Space Wolf which Poot gave an oil wash treatment. I wasn't particularly planning to paint this one but I found him abandoned in the Wargarage and decided to take him into protective custody and get him finished off. I can't resist minis this nice, especially when they have a nice basecoat just waiting to have the detail put onto it.

Here are the two minis together.

An explanation of the oil-washing technique is here. My next job in what has turned into about my 200th ongoing project is to restore a white metal Bjorn the Fellhanded that is currently looking rather sad. I've started stripping him etc. and he will go off to be airbrushed soon. 

Here are a few more shots of the Terminator Sergeant: