Silver Space Wolves?

[Fred Johnson the 3rd jr]

So after much experimenting and debate, and after further realization that I suck as a painter, I have found that the color scheme I am most satisfied with, that I can actually paint properly myself, is silver with a little black thrown in.

 

I realize that I can paint my Space Wolves any color I want to, but after I decided on this mostly silver scheme I discovered that some succession chapter of Ultramarines has the same scheme. Do any of you consider this to be an issue? More than half my marines are entirely made up of Space Wolves Pack bits, the others are vanilla but have the occasional wolf tail or skull or what not. What say you, Wolves?

[jamsight]

As long as you make it clear to your opponent then there's no issue,

unless you mean that someone is going to call you out on it then simple tell them that GW only make so many paint colours

and there are far more chapters than there are paints.

You'll away get the odd little snot that thinks they know better than you ignore them

[Fred Johnson the 3rd jr]

Yeah my plan is to always tell folks I am playing wolves before we start.

[WG Vrox]

should not matter in the least as to what the color you choose, rather all being WYSIWYG and as few counts as models as possible.

[Fred Johnson the 3rd jr]

should not matter in the least as to what the color you choose,

 

Ok, cool. I am glad I am getting responses like this.

 

 

rather all being WYSIWYG and as few counts as models as possible.

 

Oh noes! I have bikes counting as thunderwolves and thunderwolves counting as bikes! ;) Luckily all my guys are WYSIWYG (besides perhaps an occasional meltabomb on an HQ) and I have no counts as.

[Grey Mage]

Yeah, I think your fine and Id hazard to say anyone who had a problem with it was being horribly rude.

 

The fact that theyre painted makes them a step above many armies Ive seen. Who cares that your iron priest has run out of baby blue dye?

[Thylacine]

Do you just want silver wolves or something different like chrome or polished aluminum? Black chrome reflects everything around it. Grey Hunters reflecting their surroundings would be a unique look.

 

 

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So after much experimenting and debate, and after further realization that I suck as a painter, I have found that the color scheme I am most satisfied with, that I can actually paint properly myself, is silver with a little black thrown in.

 

I realize that I can paint my Space Wolves any color I want to, but after I decided on this mostly silver scheme I discovered that some succession chapter of Ultramarines has the same scheme. Do any of you consider this to be an issue? More than half my marines are entirely made up of Space Wolves Pack bits, the others are vanilla but have the occasional wolf tail or skull or what not. What say you, Wolves?

[Niiai]

Paint tem however you like. :-) I have mine purple/orange with the wolf guard a dark grey blue with red. They look awsome in a 70ts way. Like the jimmy herndrix experience!

[Durfast Spiritwolf]

They need to be WYSIWYG to be tournament legal, so as long as the opponent can recognise them as SW then you will be fine :lol:

[Alaitoc]

My space wolves are silver! Most artwork of spacewolves piture them as silver/silverblue-ish, so...I think that painting spacewolves in silver is a very good alternative for those players who just can't stand that baby blue that 'eavy metal use!

[Quillen]

WYSIYG is for weapon load out. Not the Paint scheme. You tell them in the begining of the fight what list you are using. It means if you are saying it's a power weapon, it needs to be a power weapon not a chain byonet on the end of a bolter. A power fist is that a Fist. Not some wierd looking thing.

 

Paint is all up to you thou. And as every marine company changes their paint schemes for campaigns and crusades it's fine.

[Durfast Spiritwolf]

WYSIYG is for weapon load out. Not the Paint scheme. You tell them in the begining of the fight what list you are using. It means if you are saying it's a power weapon, it needs to be a power weapon not a chain byonet on the end of a bolter. A power fist is that a Fist. Not some wierd looking thing.

 

Paint is all up to you thou. And as every marine company changes their paint schemes for campaigns and crusades it's fine.

 

No, WYSIWYG applies to all parts of the rules and the Codices. It also means that you have to be able to recognise the figure as representative of the special rules it enjoys from the appropriate Codex. The clue is in reading out what WYSIWYG stands for :o

 

So no SM used as Elder or DE used as CSM.

 

Looking like SW would require some wolfing up and not using another well-known chapters colour scheme and emblems, ie DA, BA, BT etc., as they have different special rules - just like a PF has different rules from a power sword.

 

Of course, amongst friends you can do what you like and SW figures in an alternative paint scheme would be tourny legal as long as it could not be confused with another Codex.

[Brother Nathan]

as said do what ever you want. but why not think about making your own chapter that plays as wolves, say silver wolves or silver foxes, etc. and fluff it up what ever way you want. id have no problem ou playing them using thespace woves dex, but i couldnt call them space wolves being so different to my iterpretation of wolves. but then again look at grey knights....

[Fred Johnson the 3rd jr]

but i couldnt call them space wolves being so different to my iterpretation of wolves.

 

Not that different.... Half of my dudes are entirely made up of Space Wolves Pack bits, and a good amount of the other half are partially made up of SWP bits. So the only thing different is the coloring. Instead of gray-blue, or gray like most people do, they're silver with some black. I like the idea of an alternate chapter, a succession chapter I create, though. I am not up on the fluff... are there any official Space Wolf Succession chapters?

[dublindawg]

but i couldnt call them space wolves being so different to my iterpretation of wolves.

 

Not that different.... Half of my dudes are entirely made up of Space Wolves Pack bits, and a good amount of the other half are partially made up of SWP bits. So the only thing different is the coloring. Instead of gray-blue, or gray like most people do, they're silver with some black. I like the idea of an alternate chapter, a succession chapter I create, though. I am not up on the fluff... are there any official Space Wolf Succession chapters?

 

There are no existing succession chapters for Space Wolves. There was one attempt that didn't turn out as expected so since then there have been no other attempts. Generally speaking when a new Wolf Lord takes over one of the 12 companies he can dictate the color scheme of the company so if you want to go with silver, go with it. Or you can just say it's one of the lost 13th Companies.

[Niiai]

Or you know...you can say he lost a bett :)

 

A very cool thing that the space wolves do not have sucsessor chapters I often speculate if it is intended by the Emperor, just to keep them in check.

[Fred Johnson the 3rd jr]

Generally speaking when a new Wolf Lord takes over one of the 12 companies he can dictate the color scheme of the company so if you want to go with silver, go with it. Or you can just say it's one of the lost 13th Companies.

 

Cool. Works for me.