This week’s model is the first from my box of the newly designed space marines. and I’ve painted him in the Space Wolves livery. These minis are a bit bigger than the old style, probably about 4mm taller, and they’re a bit more detailed. Overall, I think they’re a nice update (although it doesn’t make up for GW discontinuing Bretonnians!) to the space marine minis, and they’re certainly fun to paint.

Getting a good match for the Space Wolves colours was a little tricky, but I think I’ve gotten pretty close with my Vallejo paints. What do you folks think?

This is my first post-lockdown paint job, with about a 3 month break, and the time off has definitely set my progress back. My motor skills were less polished and getting neat lines was more challenging than I recall, and most of the detail work required quite a bit of cleaning up afterward.

I didn’t get a particularly good shot of the shoulder decal, but I’m happy that it seems to have gone on even better than the previous one on the Crimson Fist I painted last time (which you can find here). Hopefully I’ve got these down now, and will be able to keep getting good results with them going forward as I think they definitely add to the end result. Perhaps one day I’ll be good enough to paint these symbols on freehand, but I don’t think that’ll be any time soon!

I decided to go helmet off for this guy, as I wanted to do something a little different, and I thought the sculpt on this one was pretty cool. I’m not a 100% on the metallics approach I took on the gun, so I may go back to NMM for these on the next couple of minis.

I’ve also finally worked out how to make the images clickable and expandable, so you can now get a closer look, and even play a game of how many mistakes you can spot, if you’re really, really bored!

I haven’t quite decided what chapter colour scheme to go with next, so if anyone has any suggestions, feel free to drop me a line! My general approach has been to try painting each mini in a different colour scheme, or at least in a different tone. Perhaps something orange??