Felix's wolves....

An article by Felix regarding him painting a full space wolf army for a friend. 

Dear friends of the best hobby in the world,  I am honored by the request to do an article about my Space Wolves.

A short introduction:

My name is Felix and I´m 35. I live in Germany. I started collecting Minis in 2009 and ever since my collecting grew. First there were Orks…lots of Orks. Later I decided to start a Tyranid swarm. Then, after three years the Emperor enlightened me and sent his blessing to me. When I saw the Sangiunary Guard Box I just had to…you know that feeling. 6500 points later finally the Thunderwolf Cavallery came into view. I wanted to have a strong ally in battles to come, so I started collecting Space Wolves.

When I posted my first freehand in a group on Facebook I was overwhelmed by the positive reactions of many painters and collectors.

A week later came Jesse – a guy from Alaska…21 and totally crazy in a very positive way ;)

His enthusiasm was viral -  he so wanted to have this Land Raider.

I had to tell him that it was not for sale, but he kept asking me if I was able to create an army for him. At that time a few of my German friends were selling some old stuff so I was able to start with a few vehicles and troops. Jesse was alright with my idea of making a recycled army from old models to save money and to be able to start a.s.a.p.

Some oft he models were in a real bad shape, but I went on and started the „wolfication“

I put many pelts and shields on the tanks to achieve that special Fenrisian look. I added some bits and tried not to overload the vehicles. The priming was done with „The Fang“ from Citadel and a bit of Wolf Grey from Army Painter.

Soon Jesse came up with the request for a Space Wolves Knight. Form e it was a perfect way to combine my wish to once do a special Knight and making my ideas reality.

I ordered basing material from Scibor Miniatures and started converting the hell out of one Imperial Knight. Jesse flipped around every time I sent him pics and described what sort of adjustment I was thinking about.

I combined the ranged weapons of the right arm by using green stuff fand magnets.  The powerfist was done with some bits from the dreadnoughts and of course – green stuff!

The Base was supposed to be an eye catcher as much as the Knight itself

When it came to painting the Knight we exchanged ideas and I used pen and paper to send results to Jesse.

The results of my work so far: 

This is what I have so far…my own army does not look that great.