Help painting space wolves.

[gilljoy]

Hey all,

I'm just wondering if you guys could give me a hand with something. I'm trying to paint up my space wolves but I just cant get the colours right. Its quite hard to get them not too blue that they look like ultra marines, not too white that they look like white scars but not that horrible baby blue shade.

Does anyone paint up many space wolves and have any examples and a list of what colours there using?

This is my latest attempt but I think it looks abit too blue.

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Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[RuneBrush]

What colours are you actually painting them currently?

I find the secret is to mix up a good base colour - generally a grey with fenris or space wolf grey added.

 

[gilljoy]

Rough mix of about 1:1 sombre grey to cold grey. Painted up one last night with a 1:1 mix of wolf grey and codex grey but It looks far too baby blue. I'll post a photo up when I get home.

 

[RuneBrush]

One thing that I did see that was really effective was to paint the armour using grey and then adding in a blue to the wash you apply to shade

 

[aranelthemithra]

GW's new paint line sort of fixed this problem by formulating better paint options for space wolves.

The base is a dark blue called "The Fang". Watering it down 4-1 with water allows you to paint 4-5 layers and get wonderfully smooth finish.

"Russ Grey" and "Fenrisian Grey" are both layer colours that you would mix to handle gradients and edge highlighting.

They do have a dry brush pigment too if that floats your boat. But that really does look like baby blue and I doubt you will get the look you want using it.

I had no problem making my spacewolves look just like the packaging with the new pigments. Which was my personal goal with them.

Now, yellow... that's a different deal.

Even with their new formulations, yellow still takes major patience to get smooth.