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As an avid space wolf player, I spend time creating me wolves and wonder,"How do they get all their facial hair and head hair in there?!" What do you guys think, they shave it? The Warp? Extra Helmet space? Maybe it's a fake and it's detachable any ways what do you think?

There's a reason Space Wolves with long bushy beards don't wear their helmets

beards squish quite well lol

Practically-speaking, yes beards and long hair would get caught in helmet seals and rebreathers, but this is a setting in which armies travel the breadth of the galaxy to fight at close quarters with chainsaws; practicality is not a major consideration.

Quite easy really. They'd pull a balaclava type hood over their heads which would hold the hair in place and then the helmet goes over the top. Just the same as guys with long hair and beards can put on full suits of armour for mediaeval fighting. In fact the hair and beard can even be plaited in a such a way as to provide extra padding for the head.

It's obviously detachable! Have you seen how silly some of those look?

They tuck it down into their chestpiece.

The oil it down and plate it so that it fits.

Their helmets are actually made of beard. They gel it around their head and then cover it with a very thin sheet of plastic so they don't look silly.

Durza wrote:Their helmets are actually made of beard. They gel it around their head and then cover it with a very thin sheet of plastic so they don't look silly.

Now ideas like these take imagination!

They don't wear helmets.... because that is for the weak.

And beard hair is stronger.

Hey if you do manage to squeeze every fiber of
your glorious facial hair into your helmet at least
it will keep your face warmer

Sure there was something in one of the horus heresy books about Abadon wearing his topknot as a scalp lock when he needs to wear a helmet.

Might even have been something in prospero burns about the wolves using leather balaclavaish caps to keep theirs out of the way. I could just be imagining that based on cadbrens post.

And now comes a converting idea: Space Wolf Helmet with opening for beard display. Someone get on that.

Maybe they all wear beards to cover up a manufacturing defect in their helmets.

The breathing filter in the helmet have been broken for thousands of years, so instead of going to Mars to ask the machine-god to fix it, they simply wet down their beards and suck the air through them like the firefighters of old....