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Besides basing and varnishing, let me know what you guys think:

Look nice, but seem a bit too blue to be space wolves for me. They look closer to being smurfs then space wolves. Still, they do look nice.

^^^My thought exactly. If I had know better, I would have gone for the true grey like astronomicon or adeptus battlegrey like from the space-wolves.blogspot website.

Some highlighting on them and they will look great!

Yeah, I'm gonna check out some tutorials on some simple highlighting effects. Also need to thin down the mecherite red a bit more, looks like some of the shoulder pads came out too blotchy for my taste.

Nice work for your first minis mate.Keep it up and with some practice you will have them looking great.

Thanks, practice definitely makes perfect.

very nice.

some highlighting with a ice blue or fortress grey or a mixture of both would go a long way

spacewolf407 wrote:Yeah, I'm gonna check out some tutorials on some simple highlighting effects. Also need to thin down the mecherite red a bit more, looks like some of the shoulder pads came out too blotchy for my taste.

Paint the shoulder pads white or cream before painting the red on. It will make the colour look better. The red paint (and yellow) are very translucent, so whatever is underneath shows through.

Like everyone already said, they're a little bit dark. It could be the picture though. Take the picture on a dark/black background. Right now the camera sees all the white and thinks it's bright, so it closes the aperture which makes the picture dark.
Use some brighter colors to make it pop. Highlight the skull ornaments with some bleached bone or even white.
Use blood red, or even some diluted orange to bring out the shoulder pads.
Maybe burnished gold, whatever you're using now looks almost like bronze.
Gotta do the eyes.
drybrush the wolf pelts. I do mine in grays, it looks like you do brown (?). If that's the case, then drybrush the base of the pelt with bleached bone, paint the tip bleached bone and drybrush white on the tip. (see pelt on dread melta)