The Wolf Helm of Russ

Forever ago I got a slow start on my rendition of the Wolf Helm of Russ, an ancient artifact of war belonging to the Space Wolves chapter of Space Marines in the tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000.

There are a lot of different renditions of this helmet.  Here's just a couple:


All of the reference artwork I could find tends to show the helmet with slightly different details, so I decided to take a bit of license with the design and streamline some of the goofier details.  Here's the fully-wearable, life-size end result:


To see how I made it, read on...

Space Wolf: a New Twist on my Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine Costumes

A few years back, I made a bit of a splash in certain corners of the internet when I made a handful of Space Marine costumes based on the Dark Angels Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes.  I've always been a big fan of the Warhammer 40K universe and the Dark Angels have a very striking, gloomy, look and feel that offered up a lot of interesting opportunities for custom details.

They were pretty cool, but there's also 999 other chapters of Space Marines to choose from.  So the next challenge was to make another set of armor from my molds and dress it up in the iconography of a completely different chapter.

The result: a Space Wolf!

While the Dark Angels tend to look like they're covered in relics handed down from the Catholic church, Space Wolves are the aesthetic descendants of Vikings.  Their Codex offers up a rich tapestry of bits and pieces to add to the standard armor and I'm really happy with the finished project:


For more details on this build, read more...