Painting Classic Goblin Wolves (Without Riders)

In this tutorial, a quick and easy recipe for painting the classic plastic mounts of Goblin Wolf Riders.

Undercoat

As always, we start our paint job with a model that has been undercoated in white, and has it’s base already painted (see the Basing for Warhammer The Old World: “Dark Lands” Style tutorial for the base recipe).

In this tutorial, we are going for a typical light grey look for our Wolf, so the white undercoat helps with the vibrancy.

The Wolf’s Fur

This classic plastic model lends itself perfectly for a quick dry-brush, so that’s exactly what we’re going to do:

• We start out with a base coat of Citadel: Celestra Grey, all over the model.
• Then we apply a shade using Citadel: Nuln Oil, again, all over.

• Next, we start our dry-brush, with a heavy coat of Citadel: Celestra Grey.
• The second layer of dry-brushing is applied slightly less aggressive, and focuses more on the top of the model, using Citadel: Ulthuan Grey.
• Finally, apply a very light layer of dry-brushing using Vallejo: Dead White on the very tops, and the most exposed areas of the model.

Details

Whatever colour you choose to paint the Wolf’s fur, the following steps can always be used the wrap up the details:

The images below show the first 6 steps, from having finished the dry-brushing of the fur (Fig 1) to having applied all the base coats of the details (Fig 6).

The colours used here are:

1. This is the starting point, having finished dry-brushing the fur.
2. Use Citadel: Abaddon Black to darken the nose-holes, the inside of the mouth, the eye sockets, and the weird “negative space” between the largest fangs.
3. Use Citadel: Pink Horror to paint the gums and the tongue.
4. Use Citadel: Morghast Bone to paint the teeth (also paint the claws – not pictured!)
5. Paint the nose using Citadel: Eshin Grey (leave the holes black).
6. Paint the eyes using Citadel: Evil Sunz Scarlet.

The next six images show the highlighting stage.

The colours used here are:

1. Citadel: Emperor’s Children to highlight the tongue and gums.
2. Citadel: Emperor’s Children, mixed with Vallejo: Dead White (50/50) as the second highlight.
3. Citadel: Ushabti Bone to highlight the fangs (and nails!)
4. Citadel: Screaming Skull as the second highlight.
5. A dot of Citadel: Yriel Yellow to finalize the eyes.
6. Finally, a layer of Vallejo: Polyurethane Gloss Varnish is applied to the nose, gums and tongue for a glistening wet look.

The Result

And that’s it, a very time-effective paint scheme for these classic Goblin Wolves. If you have questions, let me know in the comments below!

Closing Words…

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