Logan Grimnar - Finished

Hi space puppy fans,

Just a quick post today to show off my finished Logan Grimnar. If you are interested in how I painted him I will detail each colour section on the Space Wolves blog which is why I bought and painted this guy up. I am actually really happy with how he turned out for a quick job and it is one of my all time favourite models from 40k, very iconic to me personally. 

Also the skin underneath the cloak looks awesome but I couldn't get any pics of it after I glued it on :(

Till next time,

Peace out,

Rob

Side Projects - Logan Grimnar - WIP

Hey internet,

So as much as I like to play, I don't get to do it regularly, with that in my mind I suppose the majority of my hobby is as a collector and modeller. I am intending to really try and get in a game a week or so in the new year, but I won't play with unpainted miniatures as it just feels plain wrong!

So I often browse ebay and pick up models I just fancy painting, I have a squad of genestealers sitting on my to-do bench because I've always liked their aesthetic. Because I am writing for the Space Wolves blog I decided to pick up a couple of Space Wolves models as cheap as I could and paint them up for some blog posts. I ended up getting the metal Logan Grimnar, Ragnar Blackmane and Ulrik the Slayer models for about £13 so a nice cheap group of iconic models (if very dated for Ragnar) to paint. I also picked up a metal space wolves sergeant missing an arm in the same lot. 

Today I'm just going to show you a few of the WIP pictures of Logan Grimnar. I picked to paint this one first as I love the model and it is the only Logan Grimnar that their is for me. The new model is nice, but well, this one is better! The bit I've painted is actually finished more or less, but I still have his arm and cloak to paint separately and the base to do.

Basecoated

Washed

Layered till done 

I'm quite pleased with how he is looking considering this was a couple of hours work discounting the drying stages for the wash. I have some arctic tundra grass tufts that I thing will go on his base along with gravel and a bit of snow effect which should look nice. 

Thoughts always welcome :)

Peace out,

Rob

Space Wolves - I'm going to be a contributor!

Hi Readers,

No doubt many of you are aware of the Space Wolves blog run by Adam Smith. If you aren't then you can find it on my blog roll down the right hand side ---->> hint hint nudge nudge. Adam has made a massively popular and extremely excellent blog which centres solely on the wild kin of Fenris with battle reports, tactica, conversion guides and more. He recently put out a call for other contributors to help him keep up the good work, and after a few exchanged emails I have been added as a writer to his blog roll! I plan mainly to contribute tactica articles written from the enemies perspective. I.e. I will describe counter tactics for my armies when facing Thunderwolf cavalry for example and then show how I space wolf player could counter this, either through deployment, duality, redundancy or tactics.

This is very exciting for me. As I progress through my current career path as a bio-medical researcher, I become more and more aware of the ceiling to the progression you can make. This comes in the form of limited grant money, limited fellowships, limited lectureships and basically limited everything! This makes competition for all these jobs extremely fierce, and whilst I have a pretty damn good CV, so do many others. Incidentally if anyone is curious I can post a link to some of my academic publications should you want to see what I do?

With this in mind I have decided to focus quite a bit more effort on writing for this blog and writing for other blogs as much as I can. I feel this would be a good string to my bow should I wish to go for any editorial jobs within science or even if I wanted to take a completely different route all together. I hope you'll jump over to Adam's blog and see all the great things he's got to offer, and if you have any general advice for increasing my reach, getting on to other blogs, or even would be happy for me to write on your blog please do chime in and let me know. All advice is taken kindly with great thanks :). 

That's all for now folks!

Peace out,

Rob