Sculpting fur for space wolves conversions

[L.E.J.]

hi all
Am looking to start a space wolves army and want to do a little work on each model to make the army unique.

obvious way to do this (certainly for the hunter packs) is to sculpt fur in various ways but have never done this so onto the question:

anyone got any tips / how to\'s / article links that could help?

all help greatly appreciated and will add photos of how the work comes along

cheers all...

 

[freakinacage]

this may help:
http://www.miez.nl/putty-n-paint/tutes/sculpting_tut01.pdf#search=%22fur%20sculpting%22

some fur in this one to
http://www.brushthralls.com/modelling/sculpting-102-fixing-joints-2.html

basically small triangles and then add more detail

 

[L.E.J.]

thanks freak - 1st one is excellent and going to give it a try, cant get the second link to work but hopin the first one will b the way forward anyway.
piccies to follow shortly

 

[freakinacage]

try this one too:
http://www.brushthralls.com/Mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=42

 

[L.E.J.]

thanks again freak. have a cpl of models with slight weapon conversions that am going to try this on so will get piccies up in the nxt cpl of days.
not sure whether to put the fur hanging below shoulder plates, or around the groin like the GW models? might try one first n see what u think

 

[RuneBrush]

Personal opinion - shoulders. Just seems to fit in with the SW ethos of wearing one of the great wolves of Fenris that was killed when the marine was an aspirant - rather than just a furry loin cloth.

Pete

 

[L.E.J.]

@rune - agree about the shoulders but was thinking about keeping that for pack leaders and independant characters?
also thinking about a logan grimnar weapons conversion as main character. got one that have been practisin the painting on that will post too.

 

[freakinacage]

Originally posted by RuneBrush
Personal opinion - shoulders. Just seems to fit in with the SW ethos of wearing one of the great wolves of Fenris that was killed when the marine was an aspirant - rather than just a furry loin cloth.

Pete

i agree

 

[Prophet]

Originally posted by L.E.J.
thanks again freak. have a cpl of models with slight weapon conversions that am going to try this on so will get piccies up in the nxt cpl of days.
not sure whether to put the fur hanging below shoulder plates, or around the groin like the GW models? might try one first n see what u think

Mix \'em up. Throw them everywhere. The great thing about SW is there is no need to be uniform:
http://prophet-miniatures.com/gallery/ptdspacewolves/ptdspacewolves.html

 

[L.E.J.]

sorry for the delay in pics - camera being a bit temperemental but hopefully will be up soon.

in the meantime - any palette suggestions? the current GW colors seem too blue to me but dont want them to be pre-heresy death guard either! ONE POINT though, limited to GW paints for suggestions please...

thanks all!

 

[RuneBrush]

The way I painted them many moons ago was a 50/50 mix of blue grey + space wolf grey (blue grey became shadow grey at some point in the distant past) as the base coat and then highlighted up with space wolf grey. The effect was nice and clean, which was the \'in thing\'.

However when I get round to doing them again (new codex rumoured for xmas), I\'ll likely go for the new dark grey foundation paint + shadow grey as the base and then highlight up with a light grey. Obviously I\'ve never tried this, but the idea would be something between the heresey grey armour and modern blue armour.