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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 2:36 pm
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What feels like ages ago I had set out to tear a part my original 3rd edition Space Wolves army and completely rebuild them by including pieces from the newest line of sprues to give them new life and attitude.
I started off by dumping every miniature in a cleaning solution called 'Simple Green' for a week because it is excellent at chewing away at the paint and leaving even the plastic miniatures underneath unharmed. Now granted for some models which had more than one coat of paint on them (ahem... I was a newbie once... lol) I had to scrub off what paint I could with a hard denture brush before putting them back in the simple green bath for another week to remove the rest.
Once done, it was a matter of carefully cutting the limbs off and in some cases power packs and heads before giving them some new equipment while giving the older pieces to some newer age bodies to give the over all army a bit of new and old school image.
My old 3rd editions rhinos to say the least had seen far better days and since I really wanted to go more armour based for this army, I started asking friends and family to buy me tanks for birthday and christmas gifts which worked out quite nicely despite taking awhile to accumulate all that I required. Either way, I went about building them one after another and go the idea to add bullet holes and gashes in the hauls to look like they were really in the heat of battle. I tried not to go too over board though as you don't want your tanks to look like they're on the verge of being a scrap pile! (Unless your an Ork player... you might then!)
Any who, paint removal, miniature restoration and war torn details complete, I sprayed the entire army a base of Chaos Black and spent a fair bit of time deciding on just exactly how I wanted them to look. I knew right from the start that I wanted to avoid the typical bright space wolves grey scheme as it just doesn't strike me as a rough and tough sort of army. I eventually dry brushed them to exactly that but then covered them in a wash of Badab Black to tone them right down to what I can only really describe as a stone grey and found that I really enjoyed that look. So I went about painting in the details while still deciding on which great company symbol to use and how I'd approach pack markings... which I have more or less figured out now but is always subject to change as I go along.
Now with the story of my long adventure to getting to this point complete, I'd like to share the first photographs of completed work with much more to come in the following weeks as I finish off each pack and vehicle. So to start off, here is my Drop Pod from a front view closed up, side view closed up and finally with all hatches open!
What do you think?
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:01 am
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 7:10 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:46 am
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:28 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 1:06 am
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:33 am
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 8:16 am
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 7:29 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 7:59 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 7:23 am
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 1:13 pm
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It really depends on how you want your wolves to look in the end Zero.
Most tend to go the traditional codex colour scheme with that bright space wolves grey colour but I like to be a little different and so my wolves have a darker, more rock/granite look to their armour.
So... that being said, here's my painting order, keeping in mind I'm an old wolf and don't use the latest and greatest paints (until I'm forced too because my old paints run out anyways lol).
I start by basing the entire model with an even coat of chaos black spray paint. Once done, I dry brush a layer of shadow grey on to it followed by a dry brush of space wolves grey. I then take Badab Black Wash and as evenly as possible run a coat of that over the model because what it does is even out all the dry brush work, darker the recesses and make the now painted armour have a sort of rock/granite grey look to it.
After that is done, I go about painting all the details. Most details get a base of scorched brown and then depending on what it is I change up the mixtures. I say mixtures because I don't use straight out of the bottle paint at this point, everything is scorched brown + something for the mid tone and then that same mix now with bleached bone to make a lighter shade. I then hit it with a brown wash to tone it down.
I find for fur pelts I tend to mix red gore or vermin brown to give them varying fur like colours (I generally save black/grey pelts for leaders consider the lore behind Ragnar Blackmane).
With the banners and scripts that adorn armour, I tend to do scorched brown with increasing levels of bleached done with skull white high lights before hitting it with a wash. This is also for the wolf teeth decorations.
If you pick any of your men to have helmets off, painting their hair is much like the wolf pelts... just pick a colour and go for it.
As for the flesh, I paint each guy separately and remix to give each a slightly different skin tone to make it more diverse and interesting. Not just to avoid the cookie cutter look that most guardsmen players fall into (power to them for putting up with painting that many faces!) but also because in the Space Wolves lore, the troops come from all over Fenris and while some are more land based, others are more ocean or mountain based and it is described that different tribes have pigmentation variations as a result, so I try to represent that in my army.
This... was probably a lot more than what you were asking for but hopefully it helps, if you have any more questions feel free to ask. I'm happy to help. ^_^
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 8:24 am
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 9:03 am
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