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I just started playing 40k and should go get my first purchase of Space Wolf stuff today and my question is this. Since they are a specific chapter are you allowed to change the color scheme of them? or if you wanna do that do you have to make it a successor chapter? but then wouldn't that make them not space wolves and I couldn't use their characters and rules? Sorry but ill say now I is noob lol

Paint them as you like. It doesnt matter if they look like the scheme on the box.

Awesome. Now to pick a color scheme I like

johnscott10 wrote:Paint them as you like. It doesnt matter if they look like the scheme on the box.

This, if you want to be a purist paint them like the box, but you can paint them however you like, it is your army. You can even come up with a new paint scheme, a new name, and a new Chapter history and use the Space Wolves codex as your rules.

Actually what do you guys think about this as a color scheme?

Paint them however you like. Use the Space Wolf codex. Have them as a successor chapter if you want.

And if you like the orange/black armor, then paint away.



The Lamentors armor is yellow and they are a Blood Angles successor chapter. So color really doesn't matter.

Color is just up to personal taste. Im painting a pink blood angels army for my wife paint your wolves however you want and dont let anyone tell you its wrong. The lexicanum is a good place to get ideas for fluff if you want them to represent a different chapter and just use the space wolves codex.

Yeah I am going with that scheme. Just gotta pick a name and work on history now

I'm using a very similar color scheme for my marines. Still haven't decided what codex I am going to base the chapter on tho

Nephos wrote:Actually what do you guys think about this as a color scheme?

Looks like flesh tearers, cool, black is hard to dd, surprisingly, if you are new to it, a 2 tone paint job is also more effort than a traditional single tone, but that would be neat looking, certainly unique! Good luck!

Augustus wrote:

Nephos wrote:Actually what do you guys think about this as a color scheme?

Looks like flesh tearers, cool, black is hard to dd, surprisingly, if you are new to it, a 2 tone paint job is also more effort than a traditional single tone, but that would be neat looking, certainly unique! Good luck!

Thank you! I am actually getting a friend of mine who got good at painting to help me with them. He has painted 8 armies so far for him and others. Since they are gonna be based of Space Wolves I was thinking something like Space Reavers or something similar for the name

Thumbnail wasn't working for me - but the link works and looks good.

Getting clean orange on a black undercoat will be tough. Use lots of coats of thinned paint, and build the orange up, start a shade or two darker then you want to go and with each layer get lighter and lighter till it's where you want it.

Black and orange are both tricky colors to work with. I'd make sure I got a foundation for the orange.

I am actually changing it. The scheme will be as so and I choose the name as the Wolves of Geass.