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2010/06/04 20:39:12
Subject: Post your imperial guard colour schemes here
I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:Some really great stuff here. Especially like This iz beef's painting, and slavetodorkness' vostroyan conversions - looks very grim (also dark).
@ xblackdog - those are really good, you've done everything really neatly, but you might find they look even nicer with a wash or highlight on each colour. For example, if you go back and give the red paint a red or brown wash, the black armour a greyish highlight or very light drybrush, and do a very light wash of flesh over the faces and hands, that would make them look terrific.
Lunahound, those sentinels are all just amazing. Do you use an airbrush for the body, or is it all painted by hand?
The white and green one are by hand.
The winterizing of the green one are done by Tamiya fine surfacer. Which is a spray that is compareable to an airbrush some what.
"And what is wrong with their life? What on earth is less reprehensible than the life of the Levovs?"
- American Pastoral, Philip Roth
Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.
No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.
We laughed - knowing that better men would come,
And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.
2010/06/04 21:09:50
Subject: Re:Post your imperial guard colour schemes here
Alrighty I'll throw my stuff up here too. I've gone for a desert style scheme with Mars-style basing to accent the reds and the browns. Oh and no washes except for some metal areas, all the cloth and armour are done by hand.
The army has a lot of character I'm really happy with!
Granesh
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"And what is wrong with their life? What on earth is less reprehensible than the life of the Levovs?"
- American Pastoral, Philip Roth
Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.
No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.
We laughed - knowing that better men would come,
And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.
2010/06/05 11:39:15
Subject: Post your imperial guard colour schemes here
Lorne wrote:I need to get a decent air brush to paint my tanks.
I took Mistress of minis advice from this thread and one they recomended got mine on Ebay for about $25.
The Chimera I pic I posted on this thread was done with the brush I got on my first session using it.
I hope this helps.
Henners91, it looks really good. I think if you cleaned up the white lines more and made the pattern a little more organic/curvy/smooth you would be really happy with the result.
Cypher21 I like the solid squad markings on the chimeras. I may have to use that.
2010/06/05 17:31:33
Subject: Re:Post your imperial guard colour schemes here
To be fair I need to write that again... a lot of people misread it and it was rushed... looks rubbish compared to the Germanic text I've tried to put on my Rhinos
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Flinty wrote:It says Thunderchild, surely.
(uuuullllaaaaaaaaaaaaa)
So yeah, well-spotted
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To be fair I need to write that again... a lot of people misread it and it was rushed... looks rubbish compared to the Germanic text I've tried to put on my Rhinos
Automatically Appended Next Post:
Flinty wrote:It says Thunderchild, surely.
(uuuullllaaaaaaaaaaaaa)
So yeah, well-spotted
Love that name, in Dark Heresy, our party were aboard a Mars pattern warship called Thunderchild once, it was inducted by Ordo Xenos...
2010/06/05 19:34:32
Subject: Re:Post your imperial guard colour schemes here
To be fair I need to write that again... a lot of people misread it and it was rushed... looks rubbish compared to the Germanic text I've tried to put on my Rhinos
Automatically Appended Next Post:
Flinty wrote:It says Thunderchild, surely.
(uuuullllaaaaaaaaaaaaa)
So yeah, well-spotted
Love that name, in Dark Heresy, our party were aboard a Mars pattern warship called Thunderchild once, it was inducted by Ordo Xenos...
Did it meet a similar fate at the hands of similar vile Xenos then? ;P
The front right armor plate on each Chimera turrent is actually painted a different color. I'm planning on painting the right shoulder pad for each corresponding squad the same.
2010/06/05 23:11:54
Subject: Post your imperial guard colour schemes here
My army is the 339th Armageddon Steel Legion from the IG dex. All of my chimeras are done in a bare metal scheme (except for the side boards), the rest of the armor is done in a normal Armageddon camo
Guard Scheme: (on the right, the others are test schemes)
Russ Armor:
Chimera armor:
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