Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Work keeps me busy, but I do love to ignore my fiance and spend my free time painting things My latest work, Fenrisian Wolves which I tested a fur coat color scheme for my next project, Thunderwolf Cavalry. These are also my first bases using Woodland Scenics snow and I love it much better than the GW "white grass". I'm still working on my whole picture taking skills, I almost find that tougher than painting!

Very nicely done

Impressive! I would have sworn these were taken right off the pages of WD.

You really know how to handle a brush man!

Wow... That is incredible...
Really good job on the fur.

Top work.

Thanks guys! I think I'm going to be using this fur coat scheme, though probably a bit darker for the Thunderwolves.

They look better than the GW paint job. Which in my opinion is a great thing to have done. Great job can't wait to see more.

Very Good.

Any chance you'd post a color and method breakdown?

terrainguy wrote:Any chance you'd post a color and method breakdown?

Sure! I went pretty simple on the colors here, I just used grey, white and black with an airbrush. I've got a variety of Reaper paints that I used for this. I started off with a white basecoat and started building out a pattern on the coat for the grey. I built on that with two to three layers of deeper shades of gray to a very dark gray, but not full black. The airbrush helped out with getting finer details done, especially around the face.
I painted the eyes, mouth/teeth, paws and nose with a brush and then gave the figures a wash in sepia. It's a bit hard to see in the pictures but it gives them nice light brown patches on their fur along the white areas. I also gave it a black wash in some of the darker grey areas.
I finished it up with some drybrushing to highlight a little bit of the fur as well as to bring the white back out on the legs, face and tail. It was pretty helpful taking a look at a bunch of reference photos of wolves to get the coat design I wanted.
I hope that made some sense!

They look almost real!

Wow, those are really good, good job.

These look fantastic - your paint job really brings them to life, they really look alive! Looking forward to seeing your cav!

AWESOME! Reminds me of The Grey.

These look awesome my friend. It is hard to find wolves painted in the gray/white color scheme. Most impressive work brother.

Very fearsome, realistic looking wolves. Splendid job on the basing, as well.

Awesome. The bases really add a lot. Well done.