The Theory of Gravisy

I promise I had started this Gravis Armour update before the FAQ made them awesome. I'm just a slow painter!

Beginning with the Wolf Lord in Gravis Armour. He's been on my wish list ever since my existing characters hopelessly embarrassed themselves in melee, and I just wanted a leader who could actually be a bit handy in a fight.

Some mild conversions to 'Fenris'' him up a little bit - a wolf helmet and frost axe from the Space Wolves upgrade sprue (the classic one, not the primaris one).

He can waddle forward with his power fist and shock assault (added to the Space Wolves to-hit bonus) and hopefully do a little better than my erstwhile Battle Leader, Sven Rubber-Axe.

And now he gets an extra wound! He's practically a Dreadnought now. One thing for sure, I won't be holding this guy at the backline giving rerolls to the Hellblasters.

Continuing the Gravis theme - I added a couple more Inceptors with Assault Bolters, because they were great before and are even better now. These are the Dark Imperium versions, so they don't get the handles on their weapons (but for a fraction of the cost, I can live with that), but I was able to reposition the arms to give some variety.

And now for the big attraction...

After my wooden spoon winning effort at the last WoffBoot, I sought the tactical sagacity of Kraken, who advised me that I needed some dreadnoughts (so if I get beaten now, it's his fault).

This is the easy-to-build Redemptor Dreadnought (and WOW, is he a big fella), though naturally I couldn't resist throwing in a few conversion bits (all from the Venerable Dreadnought kit, which is also on the painting table to come).

I held off from getting this model (despite it being a considerable saving on the full kit) because the bow-legged stance was putting me off. Turns out, with a bit of sawing and repositioning, he can have a much more dynamic pose quite easily.

The other bit of conversion was to swap the rocket launchers for stormbolters (re: nipple bolters) - made with some drilled-out spear hafts and greenstuff.

And since the base is such a big one, I had to decorate it. Luckily, I'm not short of a few Thousand Sons pieces to place being crushed underfoot.

"Paint me like one of your French girls, Jack."

So that's a bit of heft added to my Space Wolves - who will be taking the field tomorrow at the first Deployment Zone Open Day. It's more of a social event - so just 1000pt armies - which allows me to try out an all-Gravis Vanguard force.

Which is either going to be a bit of fun, or a hellish fusillade of small-arms.

See you on the other side!