The Wolf Guard with Terminator Armour

What Space Wolf Army would be complete, without it's Wolf Guard in full terminator armour. You can have a unit of 20 figures, and so far I have 13 painted for effect. I have to admit that I have a soft spot for these figures. I think they look great.

Space Wolves: Personality

I only have two of the available Space Wolves personalities for my collection. Who names these guys anyways?

Wolf Lord:  Ragnar Blackmane

Rune priest: Njal Stormcaller

Space Wolves: Long Fang Squad

More of my Space Wolf Warhammer 40K Army.

In a word, the Long Fangs serve as the long-ranged heavy weapon support unit of any Space Wolves army. I re-mounted them on larger metal washers earlier this year because I found the figures too top heavy.

The Sergeant

Long Fang Heavy Bolter & Lascannon

2 x Long Fang Missile Launchers

Close-up of the Sergeant (Before new-base)

" Fear God and Dread Nought"

As I already admitted, I have a dark secret. In years gone-by, I  played Warhammer 40K, and I still possess a Space Wolves Army. My addiction didn't stop there. Over the years I supported Games Workshop by discretely purchasing their miniatures for non-GW sanctioned games.  If that makes me a heretic, then heretic I am.

An early purchase was the Contemptor Class Dreadnought. It is difficult to find images of their early dreadnought models but I found two photos online. One reports to be a GW figure from 1987, and the other is an image from their 1991 catalogue. In my opinion both images clearly identify the figure I have. IMO it wasn't one of the workshops' more successful designs.

Below is an example of a really bad paint job, and I am the person responsible.

 

But the Contemptor does not stand alone. What Space Wolf army would be complete without Bjorn the Fell-Handed and a trusted Iron Priest to keep him running.

Space Pirates

I've had these figures for somewhere close to 20 or 25 years. I painted them up for a Traveller Campaign I was running at the time. I liked the look of the figures, and always thought of Flash Fearless vs the Zorg Women Parts 5 & 6 -Space Pirates when they were on the table.

Away Team

This is a small unit of seven that I used to game in a Traveller  RPG campaign. It served the function of an Away Team. In it there is a communications specialist (behind the science guy), as well as a science office shown with some sort of tricorder (front right). 

The rest of the figures including one that vaguely looks like a member of the Vargr race are mainly muscle to protect the rest. For some reason I painted them in what I thought as an "UN baby blue" body armour.



I honestly have no idea what company produced these figures. Please let me know if you are able to identify them.

My Unit of the Adeptus Arbites

"We determine the guilty. We decide the punishment." —Lex Imperialis.

The Arbites are the dreaded judges, or police within the WH40K universe and I have a unit of them to go along with an Imperial Commissar. It is my dirty secret. I blogged for over 3 years and I don’t think I mentioned WH40K once in Captain’s Blog.

“The above miniatures © Games Workshop 2003. All rights reserved.
Used without permission - models painted by Robert Hingley"

I also have a Space Wolves Army that I have kept hidden. I used to play 40K many moons ago, before I left Halifax. My long time gaming buddy Harris MacPhail, ran a Space Orks army, and also an Imperial Guard force. We were first introduced to Games Workshop via Rogue Trader by Rob Swan and Harris eventually surrendered to the dark side. He kept buying the minis and the rulebooks as they evolved through the years. I stopped with the 2^nd edition.

From reading on the net, my understanding is the Arbites were dropped from the game. It seems that the Emporor’s Chain Dogs had no place on the 40K battlefield. That’s too bad, I like the look of the figures but I can still use them with Traveller.

“The above miniatures © Games Workshop 2003. All rights reserved.
Used without permission - models painted by Robert Hingley"

As for the Commissar, he is present to ensure the loyalty and moral purity of the unit to which he is attached by any means necessary. Another way to look at it, he's in charge of morale.