Space Wolf concept miniature

July 28, 2009 on 8:45 am | In Painting, Warhammer 40k | 1 Comment

Below you see a concept miniature for a Space Wolves army. As a matter of fact, I collect Blood Angels, but when I purchased used Terminators on Ebay for my Blood Angels army, this guy sneaked into my purchase.

About a month ago, the Kabooom comics and TCG store in Zurich also started selling Warhammer products and they are happy for any displays that help to promote the new product line. Hence I decided to paint this Space Wolf Terminator for a break, you’ll be able to see him in the showcase at the Kabooom store in a couple days:

Update:

The FTW bloggers are running a Space Wolves special so I thought I also describe how I painted the miniature. As usual this is just my way of painting to serve as inspiration. ;-)

  • Basecoat with black spray.
  • Cover entire model with Shadow Grey (weapons excepted).
  • Cover all uper areas of the Power Armor with Space Wolves Grey.
  • After that I lightly drybrushed the lower parts with Space Wolves Grey, too, to reduce the contrast.
  • Highlights with Skull White on the Power Armor.
  • Do a basecolor with Iyanden Dark Sun n anything suposed to be yellow or bone colored later.
  • Paint the yellow parts with your favorite yellow (Badmoon Yellow in my case). After that you can also do the black stripes on the Chainfist.
  • Ink all boney parts with Ogryn Flesh.
  • Paint the red eyes and kneecap.
  • Highlight the boney parts with Bleached Bone.
  • Drybrush the weapons with Boltgun Metal.
  • Drybrush the tip of the Heavy Flamer with Dwarf Bronze and Tin Bits to make it look like the metal changed color because of the heat.

In case you also wanna do the base the way mine looks (I think it gives a nice contrast to the miniature): it’s just sand from the local pet store painted with Badab Black. :-D

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  1. I like the neatness of the detail on the crux, bone and chainfist hazard stripes. The metal looks good too.

    Here’s a few painting tips for you:

    1. Thin your paints.
    2. Hard edge highlights should be thin and crisp.
    3. Mix the yellow with a bit of the iyanden dark sun just to tone it down a little.
    4. Work on being a bit more delicate with your paintbrush – an analogy would be: ‘use colouring pencils instead of wax crayons’
    5. The base is a good contrast but needs more depth – a quick drybrush with a 1:1 mix of chaos black & codex grey would improve it.
    6. Try to avoid drybrushing armour plates, particularly when the highlight colours are very light as it can look chalky and messy.

    Comment by Phil — 06. 12. 2010 #

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