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I wanted to make him proper wolfy-looking to theme up with my Wolves. So he got some pelts added. First, I took his hanging tabard, clipped off the fringe at the bottom and added fur to the back of it. Then I started wolfing up his shoulder pads and eventually came up with this:
It might look familiar- there's a variant Space Wolf shoulder pad that looks just like this. That's what gave me the idea. For my first attempt really sculpting anything from scratch, I am very pleased with how it turned out.
I am going to paint some runes along his armor as well, but as far as conversion work goes, that's about the end of it. I didn't want to over power him with all kinds of crazy stuff. But I did dig through my bits box and come up with a few choice pieces to add to him for a little more character.
Originally, I was thinking of painting him mostly white with bronze accents, but I am wavering on that now. It was going to be difficult to paint and I was looking forward to the challenge, but now I'm not convinced that it will really look all that good on the table.
I've envisioned him as a Freeblade, so I've really run a little wild with his history. He's aligned himself with the Wolves, so his heraldry would reflect that. I'm thinking of calling him The Boot of Russ.
I am thinking of a heraldry consisting of a dexter wolf head and a sinister Imperial Eagle. I was going to have the wolf black with red background and the Eagle black with a yellow background. Red and yellow are the accent colors on my Wolves, so he'd tie in with them. Not sure on any of the colors now, as I am rethinking his whole scheme.
The sculpting is nicely done. I wish I could do fur like that. Did you use a press mold for the fur?
ReplyDeleteWhite and Bronze I think would look ok, but I think it would be really hard to pull off. It would look good for a Winter Wolf kind of theme. Maybe more of a creamy white than a pure white? I was thinking P3 Menoth White Base, Menoth White Highlight, and White higherlights. Just thoughts.
I'm sure anything you do will end up looking good.
For the fur, I actually used a Thunderwolf's tail. I pressed it into the GS to give it the basic texture and then used my sculpting tool to work it a little more.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking of abandoning the white altogether. Maybe going with my first idea of doing him light blue. I dunno.
Why not paint him as one Giant Space Wolf?
ReplyDeleteThat is what I am planning with mine. One Giant Dark Angel.
I think of all the space marine chapters, Space Wolves and Dark Angels would look awesome with a Giant version.
And that was a cool idea for the fur. Probably cheaper than the press molds, and smaller too.