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How are you making it easy to identify your Lone Wolves and Mark of the Wolfen Figures?
I was thinking about painting the armor a different color.
-Lone Wolves: Black or White
-Mark of the Wulfen: Dark Blue [Darker than Ultra-Smurffs]

A Lone Wolf can be recognized by giving the model a crazed look. If he's holding a power weapon in each hand and screaming, you should be able to tell him from the rank and file Grey Hunters. Mark of the Wulfen can be shown by putting a bunch of tattoos on the model, and going for a similar berserker look.

I don't like the idea of painting their armor different colors. It makes sense for Space Marine librarians and chaplains, as those are part of their symbols of office. Meanwhile a Lone Wolf or marine with Mark of the Wulfen is just a survivor from a regular squad or has recently gone crazy.

Strap as much gear on his back/belt/thigh/shoulders as possible?

Paint "Lone Wolf" on the bottom rims of the base.

Somthing like that.

Borrow the Lone wolf from a friend that plays Space Wolves. They'll look different, and you can enjoy the terrible pleasure of having Loan Wolves.

I currently have 2 Lone Wolves done up.
One is a old Chaos Fig [Storm Shield MotW]
The other is the only one with a Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield
I have plans of a third one planed using the new Wolf Guard Box [Terminator Armor, MotW], he is going to have a Storm Bolter in each hand, the Wolf Pelt and in the extreme running pose.
I will probably make a bunch more just to have options and for the fun of modeling.

The reason for this was in most of my old Grey Hunters it will be easy, the MotW will be the ones with no helmets. The new ones though I was planning on no helms and I was wanting them to be all different, but easy for me to tell them in amongst 30+ Nids or Orks.

For my MoTW guys I use the older wulfen models from the 13th company. You can pick them out of the crowd.

I have not had an issue with running Lone wolves. They are not with units and are generally off by themselves so it hasn't come up. You can't join them with a unit so they are usually in the forward positions.

i'd say give them the most feral heads, alien claws instead of a gloved marine hand, and paint the shoulder pad differently.

For the Lone Wolves, as they're the only survivors of their packs, what about painting some black stripes on his arms, as a sign of lute. That's a small detail that mightwork.

Thanks to this concept I now have a big problem. I took one of my old wolf guard figs as a test bed. Normally my Space wolves are Primer Grey.
This time…
-I painted him flat black,
-Then I painted all of the armor “Blue Bell”.
-Now it looks better than most of my army and now I am thinking of starting over and repainting everything.

I can definitely see Lone Wolves painting part of their armour differently, to ceremonially mark their impending glorious death.

But to me MotW guys still wear the same gear as the rest of their squad; so I'd go for more bestial looking heads/hands instead.

If catchecans really have arms bigger than space marines... kitbash then with a space wolf to have a shirtless marine. A bare-chested marine is obviously feral and humorous.

A Noob writes:

I've just started playing with Space Wolves. Was planning to add a series of black bands to the arms of lone wolves to represent their fallen comrades. The codex has a picture of a marine with a red mark on his face for the Mark of the Wulfen.

A question:
Planning to create a Lone Wolf with the Mark of the Wulfen as a nutcase to send into the middle of an enemy unit and wreak havoc. I'm looking for maximum damage at close range.

A plasma pistol allows him to get the hits on the charge, and a storm shield, coupled with feel no pain, allows him to survive long enough to let his d6+1 rending hits do some damage.

Honest question; Is this cheesy and hopelessly out of character?

I use wolfen models for the marked and paint the lone wolves in a unique way.

Ludo wrote:A Noob writes:

I've just started playing with Space Wolves. Was planning to add a series of black bands to the arms of lone wolves to represent their fallen comrades. The codex has a picture of a marine with a red mark on his face for the Mark of the Wulfen.

A question:
Planning to create a Lone Wolf with the Mark of the Wulfen as a nutcase to send into the middle of an enemy unit and wreak havoc. I'm looking for maximum damage at close range.

A plasma pistol allows him to get the hits on the charge, and a storm shield, coupled with feel no pain, allows him to survive long enough to let his d6+1 rending hits do some damage.

Honest question; Is this cheesy and hopelessly out of character?

I use on 2 of my Lone Wolves MotW, Close Combat Weapon, Storm Shield and if the points are avalible 2 Wolves each. They can eat a Squad a Turn if you have a few good rolls. You alsmost always win a Assalt, then a Sweeping advance later yoou are ready for the next Scooby Snack, it does not work that well with ATSKNF.

I use Wulfen model for MotW and the guy standing by himself is a lone wolf.

I quite like the Codex's idea for Lone Wolves, of having them have singular squad markings.

That, plus the wargear, should be enough to differentiate them.

For lone wolves my friend uses many different memorial things such as SW helmets, pelts as a memorial to his deceased squad members (he even has a story behing each one) he uses armourless arms from somewhere and paints lots of scars and uses an angry face. Im sure there are simpler methods since he is an advanced painter/converter.

Gitzbitah wrote:Borrow the Lone wolf from a friend that plays Space Wolves. They'll look different, and you can enjoy the terrible pleasure of having Loan Wolves.

Gitzbitah wrote:Borrow the Lone wolf from a friend that plays Space Wolves. They'll look different, and you can enjoy the terrible pleasure of having Loan Wolves.

LOL!

My Wolf Gaurd termies are painted space wolf blue and yellow spot colour. For my lone wolf termie, I painted him space wolf blue, but used dark red as spot colour. Easily identifiable.

If I ran Lone Wolves they would be modeled with their respective wargear and then the pack markings on the shoulderpads would be unique to just them. After all they are the last ones of their pack.

Mark of Wolfen get all the pelts and fuzzy bits they can. I also gave them the heads with the most standup type hair (different than the rest of the older looking guys). Mine also are wielding two CCW. Everyone else has a gun of some sort in either hand. I might add some extra green stuff hair coming out their collars if I feel adventurious. I'm also going to paint their skin darker colors and give them straight yellow eyes.

For my Mark of the Wulfen guys in the Sons of Freki (variant Space Wolf homebrew chapter).. I went to a more feral extreme...




really makes it easy to tell which ones are about to go all "horrorshow" on ya..

-Porkuslime

Lone wolves always somehow get their mitts on a storm shield thunder hammer and termie armour.. so its not too difficult to spot them.

I looked more towards the fluff. The lone wolves have forsaken all connection to others in their chapter for a life of morning and vengence. I figured they might cut ties with the chapter in the most extreme mannor by removing the chapter emblem on their shoulder. The best way to do this (there aren't enough emblem pads for everyone else to have one) is to remove the pad all together. The lone wolves in my army stand's out like a sore thumb since he is the only one wearing only one pad

Here's my MOW (wolf helmet and genestealer claw)
http://transmutationinc.blogspot.com/2009/10/simple-mark-of-wulfen-conversion.html

For my lone wolves, I'm using a different great company markings then the rest of the army to make them stand out.
http://transmutationinc.blogspot.com/2009/10/must-have-unit.html

I've seen some interesting ones made by using shadow grey as a base colour. It was highlighted up to the same point as the normal wolves, but gave a distinctly darker tint that still fitted in with the rest of the army, and was quite distinguishable.

The new audio book featuring the wolves has one guy taking the should pad with his squad markings off.

Remember that its he has no pack not that he's been forsaken from the Great Company.