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Well I have been trying to get a good color for my space wolves, and just was to lazy to go buy the proper paint, so I mixed my own, and was wondering if it could be clasified as a good color.

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Do you like it? If so, it's good enough

Paint the teeth on the chainsword boltgun metal. I think this does look like one, the red looks quite good actually.

J.Black wrote:Do you like it? If so, it's good enough

Well said!

If you like it then that is all that matters in the end.

Personally, too blue for my own taste. But as the others said, if you like it, thet it's all what you need

It looks pretty close to the space wolf that they're showing off with the new paints.

i like the colour its like a grittyer version of the old 4th ed space wolves :]

MasterSlowPoke wrote:It looks pretty close to the space wolf that they're showing off with the new paints.

Do you have a pic of this? I have a full 1000pt army currently getting put together and it will be my first 'new paint' project. Interested to see how the paint change affects the usual Wolf pallet.

I think this is way too blue. I like the original 2nd edition colour best, which was a bluegrey with only a tiny hint of blue. If in doubt, I tend to like flat grey better than too much blue.

In my opinion, honest answer, No.
But like it has been said before, its whether you are satisfied that counts.
You could paint them pink if you wanted, they're your models,so your opinion is the only one that really counts!!

@ all of ^^ Well, I do like the color, because ir applyes very well, and It lookes good. My real reson for choosing this color is because I dont like the really light grey/blue GW uses. I was afraid it might have been to dark like Ultas, but I guess not. Thanks for all of your replys.

Space Wolf armor color is anything from a strong blue to a colorless grey. Do whatever you think is good.

My favorite scheme is more along the adeptus or codex grey side of things, and not blue. So not your color choice. But that doesn't matter. What you like is what matters.

The red words are someone's guesses at equivalent colors.

That makes me laugh!, As if people cant mix two colours in different proportions to get those inbetween shades........ again, more profit!!! They certainly have a good maketing strategy....... if your a gullible kid!

Agreed. Thats why I mixed mine and did not buy them..

Also, thanks for the chart, it looks very similer to my colors!

MasterSlowPoke wrote: PICTURE

The red words are someone's guesses at equivalent colors.

That Wolf is incredibly Blue, it's borderline Ultramarine. Huge colour scheme change...

If you like it, keep it up. Just a word of warning....
WRITE DOWN YOUR MIXING RATIOS!

If you forget how much of each part you mixed to get the colors you achieved, it may be a pain in the future to reproduce a correct match. Trust me from experience...

Winter wrote:

MasterSlowPoke wrote: PICTURE

The red words are someone's guesses at equivalent colors.

That Wolf is incredibly Blue, it's borderline Ultramarine. Huge colour scheme change...

Exactly what I was thinking. Could just be the print/photo/scan but I suspect it's not.

Given the copy of WD I'm reading at the moment (the current one) has a full guide on how to paint SW's that's a big and sudden change in shade of grey/blue.

@ Fenrir1997, I Now! I always forget, and its really anoying! But this time, I planed ahead! I mixed a whole GW Enchanted blue pot to this color, so if I run out....(witch wont be any time soon...) Then I should be good.

deejaybainbridge wrote:

Winter wrote:

MasterSlowPoke wrote: PICTURE

The red words are someone's guesses at equivalent colors.

That Wolf is incredibly Blue, it's borderline Ultramarine. Huge colour scheme change...

Exactly what I was thinking. Could just be the print/photo/scan but I suspect it's not.

Given the copy of WD I'm reading at the moment (the current one) has a full guide on how to paint SW's that's a big and sudden change in shade of grey/blue.

I was in fact thinking of that as I was flicking through the WD in a store. But then most magazines publish around 3 months in advance so who knows studio team might not have known all that much.