Are the FW Space Wolves transfers backwards?

[Bloody Legionnaire]

I was looking at the FW Space Wolves transfers and it looks most of the SWs iconography are facing the wrong direction. Anyone having issues with these? 

 

[Dantay VI]

Nope, not really. At least for the legion symbols at the top

 

They do not have a white backing, so they can go on either way round

 

For the more detailed stuff, like te shields, wolves with axes and banners, I am not so sure how they are layered and for banners they are fine as is.

[Machine God]

Perhaps the reversed heads are for the other side's shoulder pad.

[carlisimo]

I also would’ve expected more of the shoulder pad symbols to face left, based on the color plates in Inferno.

[Hellrender]

I asked fw about this when the sheet came out. No they are not in reverse. It is because:

 

1) there is no structure yet for how each is marked. Most legions it doesnt matter as the codex astartes isnt there yet.

 

2) this is even more so for the wolves. They show all kinds of stuff on their armour and have absolutely no guidelines on where to place them.

[Dantay VI]

Lol,

 

The smaller ones with no real detail to them will go on fine if you "reverse" them.

 

What FW said makes a lot of sense, and if you put a studded pad on the left side you'd need the legion symbol on the right, so all is fine.

[Jarl Kjaran Coldheart]

Mind you, this is the same company that released the Wolf bolters and said it was on purpose

[Dantay VI]

Lol I know. Was trying to avoid going down that path :D

[Spinsanity]

Sooo, if this ever was an issue, why didn't anyone ever complain about it when FW released Alpha Legion andSalamanders sheets?

 

(Can't quite make out on the others wether or not some of the symbols are revered, although it doesn't look like it on the IF, IH or RG sheets, and the others are pretty much symetrical anyway).

[ShadowSwordmaster]

They look okay to me.

[betrayer41]

Even if thats the case EVERY deathsworn and void wolf decal is made for the right which stopped me from using em. They should have atleast done 50/50

[1ncarnadine]

Even if thats the case EVERY deathsworn and void wolf decal is made for the right which stopped me from using em. They should have atleast done 50/50

 

Is no one listening to Dantay when he mentions you can flip them...? REALLY easily...? 

 

Transfer facing does NOT matter on FW sheets. Let me repeat that. Transfer facing does NOT matter on FW sheets.

[carlisimo]

Sooo, if this ever was an issue, why didn't anyone ever complain about it when FW released Alpha Legion andSalamanders sheets?

 

(Can't quite make out on the others wether or not some of the symbols are revered, although it doesn't look like it on the IF, IH or RG sheets, and the others are pretty much symetrical anyway).

The Alpha Legion and Salamanders sheets are either 50/50 or have more symbols facing forward if placed on a left shoulder pad.

[Bloody Legionnaire]

Mind you, this is the same company that released the Wolf bolters and said it was on purpose

 

No kidding.. 

 

These aren't even the only transfers I've had issues with, the World Eaters are another case of heart burn for me. All of the World Eaters have white unit markings.. yet all of the ones on the transfer are red. I feel like they will make any excuse to attempt and save face.

 

Back on topic, in all of my years of hobby modeling I've never attempted to reverse transfers.. probably should have occurred to me earlier. 

[Dantay VI]

 

Mind you, this is the same company that released the Wolf bolters and said it was on purpose

 

No kidding.. 

 

These aren't even the only transfers I've had issues with, the World Eaters are another case of heart burn for me. All of the World Eaters have white unit markings.. yet all of the ones on the transfer are red. I feel like they will make any excuse to attempt and save face.

 

Back on topic, in all of my years of hobby modeling I've never attempted to reverse transfers.. probably should have occurred to me earlier. 

 

 

If you had a bit of time and cash,plus did not want to stick the transfers on reversed.

 

Scan, flip the image and print on decal paper. Seal with decal sealer. Bam you got your own transfers. Could do similar with world eaters, and maybe change colour of decal to suit your needs.

 

The quality will not be as good as the FW sheet due to them having a consistently producing production line, but could get you going if you are stuck 

[Bloody Legionnaire]

 

 

 

If you had a bit of time and cash,plus did not want to stick the transfers on reversed.

 

Scan, flip the image and print on decal paper. Seal with decal sealer. Bam you got your own transfers. Could do similar with world eaters, and maybe change colour of decal to suit your needs.

 

The quality will not be as good as the FW sheet due to them having a consistently producing production line, but could get you going if you are stuck 

 

 

If you look closely at the FW World Eaters from the Isstvan III display, they all have painted on unit icon. Either someone at the painting studio really likes freehand or someone decided to paint over the red (I'm leaning towards the latter). So that's what I did.

 

I'll have to test a couple of decals applied reversed with some microsol and see how it goes. 

[gizur]

I've tried it a time ago with the SW Decals. They appear darker and some details get lost, so for my dark metallic colorsheme I does not worked.