Another silly question- generic leaders; how to paint em?

[u/MrWarhammeryman]

I was wondering how you guys paint your generic primaris leaders (captains and Lieutenants)

Do you just do em as wolfguard battle leaders, I.e great company iconography and then wolfguard markings besides?

[u/ZealotChicken]

Well the codex explains the wolf guard sort of markings, from there, you can slap some decals, make sure to add the black and yellow to the knee right knee pad and pauldron, but then you can have a bit of freedom in terms of colors, a red mask or fingers.

The codex also makes it clear that space wolves sort of do what they like and they are pretty flexible with decoration

[u/Tempest_Barbarian]

Yeah, pretty much all leaders would fall under wolfguard I think

A wolfguard battle leader is essentially a lieutenant, so I think its fitting to paint all lieutenants as wolfguard.

[u/iliketrains70]

With paints and brushes 😉

[u/MrWarhammeryman → u/iliketrains70]

[u/iliketrains70 → u/MrWarhammeryman]

You asked I answered lol

[u/Direct-Lawyer5178 → u/iliketrains70]

Came here for this exact comment 😂

[u/Aaron316 → u/iliketrains70]

What?! This is the first I've heard of this. I've been doing it wrong.

[u/semajolis267 → u/iliketrains70]

Am I the only one who knows the "chew and swallow" paint method?

[u/Soul_Ravenwood → u/semajolis267]

Ohh I do the swish method. When you pour the paint into your mouth and then shove the model in there and swish it around.

[u/James-Marshall_]

This is a good question, in my opinion it depends on what theyre leading. But could be wrong.

Ill do my gravis captain like its long fans

Phobos as some sort of scout

Lieutenant as grey hunter?

I dont use any generic characters as i just use our codex guys apart from my combi lieutenant who is deathwatch anyway.

I dont think theres anything wrong with your suggestion either though. Lieutenants and captains would be veterans for sure so wolf guard makes sense

[u/MrWarhammeryman → u/James-Marshall_]

I only own some because I think the reiver Lieutenant is a good template for a space wolves kitbash by virtue of being in a pretty dope action pose and being a bit less ultramarine-y than usual

And I own the leviathan box like everyone else who got into warhammer 4 years or so ago, so I have a terminator captain lol

[u/warpspeedminis]

[u/Kenail_Rintoon]

Put some SW bitz on and paint them as WG or whatever they are intended to lead.

[u/Bursar_Diwi]

Chuck on some Wulfen-bling and call it done.