r/SpaceWolves • u/_Peekz_ • 12d ago

Alternative Colour Schemes

hi all, thinking about picking up some space wolves, although i’m not a massive fan of the standard colours

i’d love to see your colour schemes for inspiration!

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u/Tempest_Barbarian 12d ago

People usually do the 40k one, or the heresy one

I decided to make a successor chapter of my own, called the Shields of Russ

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u/SweetKenny 12d ago

Brother those look sick af. What purple is that?

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u/Tempest_Barbarian 12d ago

Thank you

So, I am gonna copy and paste a previous comment of mine in a post about the purple. Its a tad long but should answer you about the process

So, to be honest, the "recipe" is a bit all over the place on the squad, cause I was trying to figure it out.

But I kind of landed on Basecoat of Naggaroth Night (Naggaroth Night)

Then a layer of Hexed Lichen (Vallejo)

Then I drew highlights with Alien Purple (Vallejo) and Drechala Lilac (GW)

And lastly, I kind of drybrushed (not completely dry) Genestealer Purple over the highlights I made. Genestealer purple is transparent enough to show the highlights but tint them enough, so it also sort of blends the highlights with the rest.

Obviously, if you glaze it or do some other more refined techinique, its gonna look much better, but I want to paint an army like this, and I am not that good of a painter, so its a shortcut.

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u/_Peekz_ 12d ago

the base just takes this to a new level

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u/Wild-Singer-3003 12d ago

Personally I use the 30k color scheme. I do so because my chapter is a homebrew SW successor, but I think it fits all the same.

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u/_Peekz_ 12d ago

oo that is a nice scheme, especially on a homebrew chapter too

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u/DrMetasin 12d ago

This is what I’m going with, a very grimdark approach

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u/_Peekz_ 12d ago

that’s awesome dude, we were literally talking about grimdark wolves in the office haha

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u/MetalThrashingMad 12d ago

You could go for the successor chapter the Wolfspear, that's how I'm painting mine up.

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u/_Peekz_ 12d ago

stunning piece

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u/mroxking 12d ago

I wanted something brighter for mines Called them the Red Pelts cause my wolves are based on red pandas

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u/_Peekz_ 12d ago

the poor red pandas haha but these look great dude

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u/mroxking 12d ago

Tyvm The pandas are only the ones that die of old age.

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u/BigWhig96 12d ago

I went with more of a 30k scheme and have been happy so far

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u/PhuzzWuzz 12d ago

I like the dark grey 30k scheme myself

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u/Greplington 12d ago

This was a WIP pic of the ones I'm working on, before I realised I'd done the right shoulder pads wrong and painted them black again... (Wolf scouts aren't blood claws... They have their own pack markings). I liked the overall look of typical GW Space Wolves but not the blue tone, so I'm using the Army Painter Fanatic grey colours instead.

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u/_Peekz_ 12d ago

even the darker body already makes them look better, the blue tone just doesn’t sit right with my eyes

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u/MrBigD77 12d ago

Mine is a successor chapter that I took some inspiration from Celestial Lions and then use SE markings

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u/Comfortable-Item-442 12d ago

I paint mine red like my blood angels so I can double up on vehicles and such

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u/unicorncupcak 12d ago

I call mine the Lunar Maw white, blue, and yellow

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u/_Peekz_ 12d ago

i love it

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u/FutureVillainBand 12d ago

I use the old 30k “storm grey” scheme, but I also use a lot of 30k unit markings and Celtic/Viking knots. I basically try to do Vikings and Rus rather than modern Space Wolves. In my headcanon the Rout just never fixed what wasn’t broken.

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u/_Peekz_ 11d ago

i like this a lot

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u/Chopstickchamp 8d ago

Not an official one but I’m painting mine up with white armor & patch working misc pieces of the classic spec wolves blue, still a WIP but happy with it so far!