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Hail, Wolfbrothers!

 

I know that the current SW colours are Grey with a mustard yellow shoulderpad.

 

However I've seen some art references, mostly from Heresy era, that show them without the yellow shoulders.

 

When, approximately, was the yellow shoulder added in?

 

(I ask as I'm painting up my epic scale SW)

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Hail, Wolfbrothers!

 

I know that the current SW colours are Grey with a mustard yellow shoulderpad.

 

However I've seen some art references, mostly from Heresy era, that show them without the yellow shoulders.

 

When, approximately, was the yellow shoulder added in?

 

(I ask as I'm painting up my epic scale SW)

 

Actually yellow is the color used by Ragnar Blackmane's Company, each Great Company has different colors and symbols. Logan Grimnar's Night Runners have a grey field behind the symbol for instance.

 

EDIT: My own Stormblade Great Company has a black background.

I myself have never seen one, though there might be one somewhere. As most people make up thier own wolf lords names, they pick thier own colour. Very few use the full list of Wolf Lords as it wasnt kept in our most recent (onlyadecadeold) codex.

 

Except for a few Long Fangs around, I would be willing to bet many of todays wolves have probably never seen the full listing.

No, there is no official list. Each Wolf Lord choose the color and the symbol for his company shoulder pad by personal favor.

Only the symbol and color of the Great Wolf´s Great Company is unchangable: dark blue/black background with the Wolf amoung the Stars, Russ personal symbol.

i kind of went pre-heresy with my guys. though i still use a dark grey color for my back ground. the other shoulder pad is a space wolf grey color to show that they are actually from "current" 40k time.

 

i know it is always said, but.... choose your own colors, be they something you make up or the "normal" gw sw colors.

My Silverfangs use a silver fang scheme on their left pauldron, over a black background. The rest of their armor is a darker grey (Shadow Grey) with lighter grey (Codex Grey) for embellishment. Mostly because I can't even get remotely near the color in the Codex, even though I followed the instructions step by zogging step! :D
Since most all of the SW boxes, etc, showed them with yellow/mustard shoulders, I foolishly assumed there.

 

Haha no worries, it's a common misconception and to be honest I thought the same before I learned more about the Space Wolves.

I am breaking the traditionally SW Gray (which actually looks blue) of my old tourney force and individualizing the squads into wolf packs of warriors following different alphas(battle leaders). It's kinda fun seeing the old gray guys come alive in their own squads. I'm incorporating the feral concepts broached EoT codex with 13th company SW, too. Also, means I'm not looking at models to replace questionable weapon choice options, multi-plasma, art of fist, how many flamers? It's more fun to pull the mini's out now that I'm not trying to make sense of what is legitimately logistical and what is pleasing to paint. I call the groupings clans, not like the Khan, though! Not trying to step on another banner at all. The clans all have individual markings that tie them together as a pack, not an army. The wolf lord is THE alpha of all the packs, the clans make up different aspects to the army.

Clan distinctions by

Moon brothers: bright yellow moon in particular phase against black background

Red claws: black claw marks on red background

Star watchers: silver stars on black background

Blue runes: marked of wolfen body daubed with bright blue wode runes

Iron Hides: blue steel metallic detailed in red.

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