How to Paint Fur, Fast! Contrast, Wash, Drybrush - Grey + Brown Warhammer Painting Tutorial

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Published 2020-11-11
In this tutorial we're covering How to Paint Fur for your Warhammer 40k, and Warhammer AOS armies. We cover a fast and medium speed method, colours for brown and grey, and arm you with all the knowledge you need to paint whatever fur you need to! The tutorial is packed with miniature painting tips and tricks, and you get a bonus tutorial on how to paint Fenrisian Wolves.

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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:49 Brown Fur
6:53 Icy Blue Fur
12:12 Detailing
13:00 Bases
15:47 Finished Models and Outro

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All Comments (21)
  • @GlobbitsGaming
    Oooh oooh oooh YAY!!! That blue puppo looks ace 😍😍😍
  • @wrongdoer5053
    Love these! I think it’s super smart how you look at real photos ahead of time to give yourself a tighter color scheme. I’m definitely going to make the frosted wolves for when I get to making my space Wolf army!
  • @CalAndAly
    Maaaan I’m just discovering your channel and starting my SW army. Your techniques and methodology is absolutely inspiring!
  • @asambi69
    Really really love the blue/grey colour style of wolves. Gonna give this a go.
  • @S2uBuGaming
    Definitely going to be using this technique when I start painting Fenrisian Dire wolves! Excellent vid again Byron. Keep up the amazing work, always a pleasure to watch, with great explanation and tips. Really helpful and fun to watch
  • @FransNilsen
    This tutorial is awesome!! I have some darklands werewolves and wolves I have been proscrastinating to start on and this tutorial is exactly what I needed!
  • @zakhunt
    Love these tutorials. Keep them coming!
  • @mactheknife801
    really love these videos - continuously inspired to paint from these
  • Fantastic tutorial again, we love your work, it all ties into so many of people's projects.
  • @ger5956
    Another Great video dude, super well done! Love the look of the grey wolf, I’ll definitely be trying this on my Skaven during the week! Thanks for all your hard work! Have fun and stay safe 😁👍🏼
  • @wolfbytes8787
    my eyes have witnessed a miracle a painting video on my favourite squad of my army plus a really cool way to do it ICE WOLFY SOO COOOL
  • @ImperviousSC
    Awesome video, I love how these turned out. That brown fur looks great. I did something similar to your tutorial for the ice blue/grey with my wolves. When I looked online for some inspiration, I noticed that grey wolves actually have a good chunk of black and multiple different shades of brown in their fur (usually black/dark grey near the top, going to dark brown below that and lighter brown below that), so I did things slightly different to try to imitate that. I started with a lighter colour basecoat, just like you did. My next step was to put a very thick and heavy horizontal strip of black near the top, going from the front of the mini all the way to near the end of it's tail , and then a strip of dark brown below that around the tops of the shoulders, and then a strip of a lighter brown immediately below that, partway down the shoulders and belly of the wolves. It looked really ugly at this step. I then did a nuln oil wash on the mini, to darken the recesses and help soften this contrast, and then I started drybrushing, except I started with darker colours and progressively went lighter, ending in a slightly off-white. Each layer softened that hard black or brown contrast compared to the lighter colour fur, and I ended up with a result I really liked. It still had small hints of black, dark brown, and light brown within the fur similar to wolves in nature, while being predominantly grey. I was also able to create a bit of variety really easily in the look of them by varying the placement and amount of black and browns I put on them early on, as the later steps soften the effect. The sculpt of these wolves really lend themselves to techniques like drybrushing. They are some pretty fantastic models, and were a lot of fun to paint. It's a good thing I have more of them to do.
  • @Alf_Hairy-arse
    Well this has made my mind up. I was just trying to decide what to try my new Series D on when it arrives. Looks like I'm painting my wolves! Great video as usual, thanks!
  • @MsBlood01
    Great fur thank you for another awesome video
  • @dirkhermes629
    Very helpful tutorial for everything that has fur on it. Thanks a lot.
  • @wpb5876
    This is so perfect! Im in the midst of painting the Karkadrak model but wasn’t sure what to do with the fur parts. I know exactly what to do now. Thank you!