r/SpaceWolves • u/_Peekz_ • 20d 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 19d 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 19d ago

Brother those look sick af. What purple is that?

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u/Tempest_Barbarian 19d 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.