Rune Priest Kitbash

One of the best things to happen to Space Marine players this year was the release of plastic Grey Knights in Terminator armor and Power armor.  Finally, we have plastic psychic hoods to play with.  Until now we've resorted to cutting up shoulder pads and converting our own with inconsistent snippets of art work as reference material.  The All Father has seen fit to shine his light down upon the faithful.  Its unfortunate that it came in the form of the vile Grey Knights, slayers of Daemons and the Imperium's heroes alike.  C'est la vie, non?

Pics!  I'm still playing with my choice of heads.  I'm leaning towards using the head seen in these pics, but I have not dismissed using a helm head.  I've got a Maxmini Steam Knight helm that I'm very tempted to use for this model.  The legs seem very bare to me, but I'm not quite sure what I could add to them to make them more wolfy without just dangling more wolf tails from them.  I have some brass etched from Forgeworld, but they're poorly sized for ordinary power armor models.


Pieces used in this model include:  Grey Knight torso, Grey Knight Ward Staff, Grey Knight head,  Assault Marine legs, Mk 5 shoulder pad, Space Wolf Pack pistol, Space Wolf Pack shoulder pad, and a power plant back pack from the Space Wolf upgrade sprue sold directly from GW's website(great stuff on this sprue).

And...because I'm in love with my latest purchases.

So I picked up a Venom, a box of Scourges, and a Talos/Cronos kit.  Look forward to these in the near future.  I'm currently magnetizing the Venom and a Ravager.  I'm going to try magnetizing the Talos/Cronos so I can field either/or...not sure whether it'll be successful or not, but we shall see.  I'll be reviewing the Scourges and the Talos/Cronos in the near future.  So far, I'm in love with my Scourges.  My favorite new models without a doubt.  I am, however, disappointed in the sprue.  They only include one of each weapon type.  To field a ten man unit with four Haywire Blasters I either; need to buy four boxes or buy bitz.  Guess which way I'll be going about it?  GW put out a beautiful box of models and then snuck in a little "screw you" to remind us that they love their customers.  Its as if they don't realize how much money they lose from packing decisions like this.

Also, expect the second part of my Secret Weapons Bone Field review to drop this weekend.  I'm been dragging ass on finishing my example, but its done now.  All thats left is to upload the pics.

Misc Painting Progress

Various stuffs.  Rune Priest - Bran Redmaw - Wolf Guard

Primed Rune Priest

The primer is on too thick and its a bit grainy thanks to the humidity.  I should have waited a few days or done it at night, but oh well.  This guy is really just a first draft as I fully intend on making better Rune Priests when I'm not rushing to put an army together for games.

Rune Priest WIP 3

Need to clean up GS on the top of the hood still and cut some guitar wire to connect the hood to the chest.

Rune Priest WIP 2 - Psychic Hood rough

Decided that it was about time I put the hood on my RP.  Really simple conversion.  Most people go with a power armor shoulderpad, but I tried a Terminator pad because I wanted to convert it a little to resemble the RP entry pictured in our codex.  This backfired as I later realized my magnetized Wolf Lord/WGBL/WGT would be without shoulder pads for his various other configs.  Bitz will have to be ordered before I can run him as anything more than 2x wolf claws.(which isn't a bad WGBL or Lone Wolf)
I'm not 100% happy with how this is turning out, but it'll do.  I will be making further changes, but I really just wanted to get the GS gap filling done today so that I can glue on the force axe arm and the power plant.  Fully assembled pics very soon.

WIP Rune Priest

Still have green stuff work to do for the psychic hood.