I heard something the other day that stuck with me, especially when thinking about the state of modern table top miniature gaming.
People don’t know what they like, but they like what they know.
That pretty much sums up my feelings about Warhammer 40k. It’s not an elegant rules system, the release schedule is predatory, but the miniatures look great and everyone knows about it, hell, most of my friends grew up with it. Getting them to come up from the Warhammer 40k mines is like pulling teeth.
So, in the interest of continuing my gaming hobby with some really nice people that I enjoy hanging out with, I begudgingly started up a Space Wolves army, and had a good time painting the first 1,000 points. But I was kicking and screaming the whole time, I promise!
Last week, though, I saw someone’s army that had been painted up like medieval knights, and I fell in love. I decided to go back and start making these Wolves work for me. If I’m going to play 40k, I might as well enjoy what I’m painting, right? So, I went in and darkened up the armor, making the grey/blue more of an accent. And I’m very happy with the results!
I also decided to re-paint the gold as silver, which really adds a lot of contrast to the armor and allows any warm colors, which I’m keeping for leathers, furs, and skin tones, to really shine. Now, to finish up the other 20-some odd space vikings!
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The original painting was a good gaming army standard, and could even get selected for best army finalist, but the repaint has so much more character, it’s like night and day. I think the light bulb moment happened for you, if I want to carry on enjoying time with my gaming buddies, I will make sacrifices, but doesn’t mean i can’t have my own flair in there as well ! LOL
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I think I can see the improvement in your photography here. The new photo is lessy grainy and more vibrant. I like the new version a lot as it has great contrast. One thing that is true in Warhammer is that a lot of people paint whatever faction with the exact colors GW recommends so Space Wolves = The Fang, Russ Grey, and Fenrisian Grey, for example. That’s fine but it doesn’t make your army stand out very much. Your paint scheme definitely solves that problem in a great-looking way!
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