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Hello all, I am new to the game. I have played with two games at my local hobby store. I picked up the space wolves codex and have the rule book. I love the back ground story of them. I do not like the yellow color on the shoulders. so I think I am going to make my own space wolves chapter.
Here is the color lay out that I want to use.

I hope it will still look like space wolves. most of the models will not have helmets. I plane on making them look more wolfy then most of other space wolves army's.

So what exactly is your question?
Do you want feedback on your idea or are you looking for painting tips in general?
I dig the style at least.

Looks good. Be sure to show pictures when you get models finished

 tommse wrote:
So what exactly is your question?
Do you want feedback on your idea or are you looking for painting tips in general?
I dig the style at least.

I am just looking for feed back on the paint style that I want to go with.

Painting a halved scheme is very time consuming and has caused several people I have known to give up on their army. Unless you are masking one half off and either airbrushing or spray painting the other half it can get really tedious to basecoat the models half and half.

I do love the look of halved and quartered marines but you should know that it's far more tedious and time consuming than a solid colour.

I think that its a brilliant paint scheme that I would love to see translated to a miniature. I will however agree with what LUTNIT said with the difficulty of halved schemes. They are a lot more tedious to work though.

 stratassj wrote:
I think that its a brilliant paint scheme that I would love to see translated to a miniature. I will however agree with what LUTNIT said with the difficulty of halved schemes. They are a lot more tedious to work though.

This sums up my feelings on halfed schemes but that said, they are damned fine when completed

Its not too bad painting half/half. I am working on a yellow/purple half/half and its really the worst on vehicles.

Assembly line the marines painting the lighter color first, so its okay if it spills over. Next, paint the darker color so you only have to worry about precision once. We're really only talking about the groin, collar and backpack that need to be split between two colors.

Use tape to give yourself a straight line on vehicles and go for it!

I would recommend painting the black bit on the bolt weapons red too for consistency across the weapons.

For what it's worth, you can run a Space Wolves army and not have any yellow shoulders. Even by-the-book builds, the only guys who pretty much have to have yellow at all are Blood Claws, and my recommendation is not using Blood Claws, anyway, unless you either genuinely like the fluff or genuinely want to spam infantry. Wolf Guard have the option of yellow, but you can also just do black on blue. Grey Hunters and Long Fangs, no reason for yellow at all.

That said, your scheme looks good. I don't think I'd want to try the half and half, look, but I'm not a skilled painter by any means.

I answered your post in army lists tool. Yea if you are just starting I would go for a solid color. The blue and white half/half reminds me of more of a regimented army. If you want to mix colors you could add the chosen color of your shoulders to the knee pads or leg guards. You could also add a different color trim to the shoulders.

With all the extra things to paint space wolves: fur, skulls, emblems, chains you will have your hands full too.

I think it's fine, but as it stands isn't particularly Space Wolfish. Would be fine I imagine with Space Wolf bits. As others have said, even traditionally painted Space Wolves don't all have yellow shoulder pads.

The reason you see it so much is because that's how Ragnar Blackmane's Great Company is painted, and he's the Chapter's poster-boy, well...now he is.

I play Space Wolves, but I do Sven Bloodhowl's Great Company. His left shoulder pads are red, so the only yellow is on Blood/Sky/Swiftclaws, and Wolf Guard, and it's minimal. I also paint my guys more grey using Vallejo Model Air Dark Sea Grey, Medium Sea Grey, and Light Grey. I do like the look of half and half paintjobs, and there's absolutely no reason a company couldn't paint theirs that way. Space Wolves don't give a damn.

My army is Krom Dragongaze's Great Company, and the only yellow I use is the sun of the Sun Wolf icon.

Love the color scheme. can't wait to see some models.

I like your idea, I think the best way to avoid it being time consuming and yet keep it cool and in place with a great company of your making would be to keep that particular paint scheme for the command staff/company master or maybe even terminators. For regular marines etc perhaps painting one of their shoulderpads up like that?

Go for it!

Tips:

Do not glue on the shoulder pads, nor the backpack. Paint those seperately. Save time by spray basecoating entire model the grey, then block in the darker blue by hand. Give the entire peice a dark blue wash and paint the red elements.

Use a nice sharp and wet brush, larger than you expect to do the crisp line between the two colors. Run the line all the way done THEN paint the remainder.
Good luck finish your 500 combat patrol and get to playing!

Unfortunaley space wolves have a TON of detail, skulls, fur, pelts, charms, runes etc. best bet is to basecoat and then wash sparingly. spend time on the shoulder pad detail and the bases. I know my space wolves take a long time!