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Hey, i was wondering if any body could tell me how to get my space wolves the same colour as the GW ones, prefebly a simple way. My wolves are grey atm but i want to be able to paint the light blue-ish colour for when the new wolves are realised.

Thanks.

-Forlorne

Buy some space wolves grey.

i already have space wolf grey and its too light when applied to my wolves any helpful advice on how to get the armour the same sort of tone as that on the box ?

1.) apply more.
2.) Put a dot of blue up in there.

get yourself some foundation Fenris Grey (2 if like me you decide to use it as the base color) another pot of space wolves gray and two spare pots.

Now poor one fenris grey pot and one space wolves grey into a plastic cup (or other suitable container) and mix them up, poor the new colour into your 2 spare pots and hey presto, you have a nice colour for your wolves.

Base fenris grey
paint on your mix leaving only the recesses showing fenris grey.
you could at this point just higlight with space wolves grey, but you can first mix up a 1:1 mix of space wolves grey and the custom colour to blend up to the final higlight for a smoother transition.

Get a larger paint pot...you can find them at most art stores and Michaels. pour in a whole pot of shadow grey, and about 3/4ths or so of space wolves grey.

Fenris grey is too thick and will clog the detail.

Enjoy!

I always thin my paints before application, probably should have mentioned that... lol

here is a link that should at leasta little helpful.
http://www.paintingclinic.com/operations/spacewolves.htm

they use codex grey and fortress grey.
for some reason they don't use SW grey on SW

Classic space wolves were Space Wolf Grey base coat, Shadow Grey shadows, and Skull White/Space Wolf Grey highlights.

thats how I paint mine, but thats because Ive been playing since that was "just how you painted Space Wolves."

Ive tried basing and mixing yet my colours never come out quite how i want them to. always either to light or to dark.
if not then there completely blue/grey/other.

Im going for a lost company style of army. yet i was thinking on just using the almost white space wolves grey. didnt work at all looks like ragnar from the sons of fenris book.

Hi, I did mine as follows:

Basecoat- shadow grey
Maincoat- 50:50 shadow grey:space wolf grey
Recesses- devlan mud
Highlight- space wolf grey

I premix the shadowgrey:space wolf grey in an empty pot with a few drops of water and a good shake, so I have enough to paint several models consistantly.

ah ok. i tried the last part. never works. should i use a syringe to extract and measure it out?