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Hey guys!

Finished putting together my Space Wolves, played some games. Now it's raining all the time I'm going to look at painting them fully. I'm not expecting steller results, simply a good tabletop standard. So naturally I'd like some advice before I begin.

Everything is sprayed with Army Painter Wolf Grey. So it's the typical blue-grey looks some like (some hate!). Questions below;

i) Should I apply the wash (Nuln Oil) to the entire model or just into recesses? (Would Agrax Earth Shade be better here?)

ii) Should I use seperate washes for seperate colours? Nuln Oil on Armour, Agrax Eachshade on gold/bronze areas and fur. Reikland for skin etc..

It's worth noting my orginal plan was to Spray - > Wash compleatly in Nuln Oil - > VERY lightly drybrush with a pale/grey-blue - > Highlight extreams with near white grey - > Then do the golds, skin, fur etc.

Thanks!

i) I would put just into recesses. Neater the better. If you are feeling brave touch up afterwards
ii) Separate wash would be my way to go.

I agree with tneva. Pinwashing only along lines and recesses looks much neater if you're going for a clean style, and you will want to shade each color accordingly with the right wash.

One thing you may want to keep in mind is that it's much easier to touch up a standard base color than one that has been washed or otherwise modified. It will be almost impossible to manually recreate a natural color gradient that you established using one method by touching it up with a different method. For example, if you base coat with an airbrush like I do and work up a zenithal highlighting gradient, you can pretty much never just come back with one of the colors that you used and brush it on because it will not match up.

I would block in all of my base colors first, and then wash them, because if you make a mistake by painting "outside the lines" with your base colors you can just go back and touch it up. Trying to touch up a base color that's already been washed will usually not render desirable results.

All comments make sense!

I'll go ahead on paint all the colours and shade acordingly. Something like;

Spray -> Paint gold/bronze - > Paint Skin -> Paint metal/bolter then shade the lot. Then highlight!

Thanks very much!