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Ok, I know this should be a relatively simple process probably just drybrushing, but I'm having trouble painting wolf fur. I need tips on painting fur from the little tail things to full pelts to the wolves themselves. Additionally, I'd like it if all the fur didn't look the same, some grey, some brown, some black, etc. Also, if anyone has specific GW paints they use let me know. Thanks in advance for any help.

Nobody knows how to paint wolf fur? Ok, the techniques don't have to be limited to wolf fur, just fur in general. Don't let me down Dakka!

When I painted my wolfriders (LOTR wargriders, but I painted them to be more wolfy...), I used a combination of drybrushing and glazes/washes to get the colors right.

But I cannot emphasize enough: Have some pictures of wolves on hand whild painting. Wolf coloration is not just monochrome, it is a complex variety of shades of black, greys, white, and pale browns. Being able to look at the critter you are emulating is invaluable!

Hi, for my wolf pelts and fur, I generally use a technique I saw in a White Dwarf mag as follows...

1) Base coat in Scorched Brown,
2) Heavy drybrush on edges and a bit in the middle with Bestial brown
3) Lighter drybrush with vomit brown further out on the edges and even less in the middle
4) Using a fine detail brush, add bleached bone to the extreme edges
5) Wash with Ogryn flesh
6) Re-apply the bleached bone on the extreme edges/points.

This method is probably better suited to a pelt rather than a whole wolf and is obviously for a brown coloured fur.

As Vulcan said, using real life pictures of wolves is always a great help in trying to establish the colour schemes to use and how the different colours contrast, e.g. on many wolf heads, you get a strong contrast between the lower half of the face and the upper half - a black top half may have a light grey/white lower half.. google wolf images ftw

On my space wolves:

- Basecoat calthan brown foundation paint over black spray, using a very heavy-handed overbrushing technique to get a solid colour with a small amount of the black still showing.

- Starting at the extremities (ie; tail tips, or the 'ridges' of fur on goblin wolves), carefully drybrush bleached bone. Ideally, there should be bleached bone on almost all the fur, but with more towards the 'edges' or tips of given areas.

- Thick was of ogryn flesh.

- VERY light drybrush of bleached bone again.

I can't remember what colours I used on this goblin, and it's a bit messy, but it illustrates my points about the ridges/edges:

Just paint on scorched brown, then overbrush (a heavy drybrush) either bleached bone, fortress or codex gray, or a lighter brown. Hope that helps.

Another cheap easy way (but awsome results) is to prime them white and use pure washes... I did this for my warhounds and the fur came out grey, just do a wash or two of strait devlan mud and it should come out nice!

Buttlerthepug wrote:Another cheap easy way (but awsome results) is to prime them white and use pure washes... I did this for my warhounds and the fur came out grey, just do a wash or two of strait devlan mud and it should come out nice!

That does work, but I don't think it gives the fur as much of the two tone look it should have.

You can get an interesting effect by substituting the last bleached bone dry brush with a chaos black one, or doing an additional light chaos black one towards the end of tails (the loose ones) or along the spine. If you look at wolves you can see a lot have a brindled effect where the tip of the hair is a different colour to the root. Keep it light and you'll get that two-toned effect. Just go very, very lightly and build slowly, I've found it's really easy to go overboard.

http://www.wildanimalfightclub.com/Portals/41405/images//wolf2.jpg

This is a pretty good picture of how the tail gets darker lower down.

these are great tips, i was also wondering the same things. which color would be best with a white space wolf?

Epic thread necro! What do you mean, "white space wolf"? Is it a space wolf with white armour? A wolf with white fur, in space? A space wolf with white wolf fur on his trophies?

Anyway, I'd say SW grey with a white drybrush, then gryphonne sepia wash, subtle black wash at in any joins or folds, then re-drybrush white.