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Hello there, I am an ex collector of 40k this going back around 7 years ago. I was at a very young age when I used to collect and believe it or not I never actually played a single game! my army was Imperial Guard but I was such a noob with painting and the rules around the game that I feel the experience was wasted on me.

Going forward, I recently found the dust Imperial Guard figures in my garage, along with the poor Valkyrie that was never taken off of the spruces. This spurred my interest and I took a visit into my local GW store yesterday, it's safe to say I was instantly hooked again, after speaking to the manager there about the general changes to the game and armies in the recent years I left the store with the following:

Imperium Index: 1
Starter building kit
Various paints
Space Wolves Paint Kit
Start Collecting Space Wolves starter kit

I'm very excited to get started again and share my experiences with the fellow people of this forum, I would also love to hear your experiences etc.

The best part of all this for me has to be that going back 7 years ago my one regret was that I loved the Space Wolves look and stance but I was caught up in my Imperial Guard army and too young (no bank balance to just change)

Now I'm back and ready to start my Space Wolf army! I'm also thinking about adding some Scions and Cadian Snipers to my squad as I really like there agile scout kind of look. I know that can mess up certain bonuses etc so I'm gonna read more about it.

Thanks for taking the time to read

Welcome back to the hobby, and to Dakkadakka!

Guard and Space Wolves sound like a great combo. I'm not much help when it comes to the game (I'm mostly a painter/collector), but the General Discussion board and Army List sections will be perfect for you to ask any questions you have and get some good answers

Enjoy your time on the forums!

G.A

 General Annoyance wrote:
Welcome back to the hobby, and to Dakkadakka!

Guard and Space Wolves sound like a great combo. I'm not much help when it comes to the game (I'm mostly a painter/collector), but the General Discussion board and Army List sections will be perfect for you to ask any questions you have and get some good answers

Enjoy your time on the forums!

G.A

Thank you very much for the welcome GA! I'm very excited to get back into this all.

As stated in my OP my previous collection was painted very badly and I am looking to take a very steady pace this time, do you have any general tips on painting and what to buy?

For example I have seen people prime there figures in the black spray paint from Citadel.

All I have so far is a few general Space Wolf paint colours.

Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.

CJoriginals wrote:
Thank you very much for the welcome GA! I'm very excited to get back into this all.

As stated in my OP my previous collection was painted very badly and I am looking to take a very steady pace this time, do you have any general tips on painting and what to buy?

Sure, I can give you some general pointers:

- Rule no. 1 when it comes to painting is to use a palette, and to thin your paints. It means that the paint applies much more smoothly on the model, and you can keep control of the paint on your brush too. You can use a wet palette (which you can make yourself, or purchase on the net), or thin paints manually with a regular palette - whichever feels more comfortable.

- Follow and watch the painting tutorials done on WarhammerTV. I cannot recommend these enough, as they helped take my painting to the next level (even my old gallery is not up to par with my skills now ). The techniques used there are very easy to replicate with a little practice and can help you produce Tabletop + level models in no time.

They even have some tutorials on painting Space Wolves (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=warhammer+tv+space+wolves), which will also give you some guidance on what paints you might need, so get cracking!

- Don't be afraid if you screwed up your models - paint stripping can be very easy and can help you go back to a clean model to try again, or to help you experiment with new advanced techniques that may not have paid off first time round. I did a tutorial a year or so ago on using Isopropyl Alcohol to paint strip, and I highly recommend you pick up a bottle or two to give you a backup if things don't come out to your liking, or to even revive some of your old projects that were gathering dust in the garage.


Hopefully that's given you stuff to work with; my PM is always open if you want to ask questions, or alternatively you can jump onto the P&M forum and ask there to get a more community wide answer


Happy hunting!


EDIT: I missed the bit you mentioned about priming - you'll have to forgive my sleepiness I would personally recommend Army Painter's matte black primer, as you get more for your buck, and the finish is just as good as using Citadel's.

GW also offer a spray paint in the colour of The Fang, which you can apply over a black primer to complete the stage of painting the base armour of the Space Wolves very quickly and easily.

 General Annoyance wrote:

CJoriginals wrote:
Thank you very much for the welcome GA! I'm very excited to get back into this all.

As stated in my OP my previous collection was painted very badly and I am looking to take a very steady pace this time, do you have any general tips on painting and what to buy?

Sure, I can give you some general pointers:

- Rule no. 1 when it comes to painting is to use a palette, and to thin your paints. It means that the paint applies much more smoothly on the model, and you can keep control of the paint on your brush too. You can use a wet palette (which you can make yourself, or purchase on the net), or thin paints manually with a regular palette - whichever feels more comfortable.

- Follow and watch the painting tutorials done on WarhammerTV. I cannot recommend these enough, as they helped take my painting to the next level (even my old gallery is not up to par with my skills now ). The techniques used there are very easy to replicate with a little practice and can help you produce Tabletop + level models in no time.

They even have some tutorials on painting Space Wolves (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=warhammer+tv+space+wolves), which will also give you some guidance on what paints you might need, so get cracking!

- Don't be afraid if you screwed up your models - paint stripping can be very easy and can help you go back to a clean model to try again, or to help you experiment with new advanced techniques that may not have paid off first time round. I did a tutorial a year or so ago on using Isopropyl Alcohol to paint strip, and I highly recommend you pick up a bottle or two to give you a backup if things don't come out to your liking, or to even revive some of your old projects that were gathering dust in the garage.


Hopefully that's given you stuff to work with; my PM is always open if you want to ask questions, or alternatively you can jump onto the P&M forum and ask there to get a more community wide answer


Happy hunting!


EDIT: I missed the bit you mentioned about priming - you'll have to forgive my sleepiness I would personally recommend Army Painter's matte black primer, as you get more for your buck, and the finish is just as good as using Citadel's.

GW also offer a spray paint in the colour of The Fang, which you can apply over a black primer to complete the stage of painting the base armour of the Space Wolves very quickly and easily.

Thank you very much, I really appreciate the advice, I will order the black primer and the fang spray paint.

Welcome,

There are a lot of people returning to the hobby at the moment, I am one of them too and in a similar fashion, collected and painted at a young age but never once had a game. Best of luck and I look forward to seeing your progress!

Army Painter's Wolf Grey primer may be worth a look...

Hi,

Welcome to Dakka