The Stormclaw box, part 3! Grey Hunters, company choice, and me, actually watching tutorials!

So, I actually started watching tutorials on youtube, both by Games Workshop, and by Miniwargaming, on how to paint properly! ...but only after I was finishing up with these guys, and had settled on what company my army heralds from...

Yes! While assembling and painting my Grey Hunters I decided on what company I want my army to be! Reading through the Space Wolves codex again and again, wrecking my head about which company I want them to be, as fluff is important for me, I was going back and forth between Ragnar Blackmane's great company, The Blackmanes, or Bran Redmaw's company, The Bloodmaws... They all had their "thing", their way of waging war... Krom Dragongaze, an HQ-unit I already had, is... not quite in my taste... Still, though, Ragnar Blackmane is a bit too... popular, I guess, for me to use? I'm not a hipster, it's just that I don't want to use something that's been overused! Also, I read a little into Bran Redmaw, as all the codex said about the Bloodmaws, was that their savagery is legendary, with enemies being torn to shreds, and that they're cunning; "Bran's numerous Grey Hunters will often lie in wait for the foe after the fury of his frontal attack forces their retreat." I found out that Bran Redmaw has the curse of the Wulfen; in laymans terms it would be comparable to him, transforming into a HUGE-ass werewolf-sort of creature in the middle of battle, due to rage. The Wolf takes him, and he slaughters anything in his way.

...so why did I pick the Bloodmaws? Don't know... Sounds relate-able, doesn't it? The rage within a man? It's one of the reasons I picked Space Wolves to begin with, with their pagan, savage ways...

ANYWAYS! Getting side-tracked here... Without further ado...

The Grey Hunters!

Okay, so for these I actually took some progress-pictures! First, the undercoat, then the basecoat, then the layering... Though for these I had to do something differently; couldn't attach their arms just yet. Their bolters would've covered up their torso, preventing me from painting their chest or the "inner" side of the bolter properly, so I had to do them separately...

Once that was all done, the models' torsos and guns painted, it was just a matter of slapping on their arms, curse them for not sticking, and continue with detailing! Note the center-one's power fist. I wanted it to have the company color on it, because why not? Plenty of people paint their Wolves so they have their company color on various pieces of gear (kneepads, gloves etc.).

Shoulder-pads and a banner! Now, at this point I checked that Miniwargaming "layering white" -tutorial. In said tutorial they talked about watering down your paint, so I tried. And I liked it! I started using a palette, adding just a little bit of water to the white when going for the shoulders, AND I LOVED THE RESULTS! ...you can see in the background some Blood Claws with white shoulders, but I'll cover that in a post in the future, how I had improved my skills since initially painting them...

There we go! Their right shoulders painted as well! As regular Space Wolves (not in terminator-armor) have their left shoulder for company-symbol, their right is reserved for their pack-pattern. Here is a standard red base with black "teeth", red/black being the color for Grey Hunter packs. I also tried drybrushing: the plasma gun has a green base, drybrushed with white, and drybrushed with green again for that plasma-shine. The plasma gun -user has his furs drybrushed with Ushabti Bone as well. Didn't really turn out as planned, but live and learn again...

So, there we have it! A Grey hunter pack with a plasma gun, and a Wolf Guard pack-leader, wielding a power fist!