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Hey guys just picked up some DE but I have a primary paint color stuck in my head, metallic purple.

So far i got that part pinned down fairly well thanks to thanks to Viva Metallica.

I am worried however it might be to monotonous

My biggest problem i have is a secondary color possibilities for highlighting the plates i tried mithral silver it was ..meh

I keep going back to shining gold as a possibility but then i tough maybe just use warlock purple to lighten up the plates

Any thoughts?
Thanks

Secondary color as in the right shoulder plate kind-of secondary? If so, try a dark red. Purple+dark red looks good.

No the shoulders will be gold most likely im referring to the traditional ridge highlighting on the plates

Ok this is what my test looks like at the moment i was thinking about adding some color to the ridgelines of the armor plate.

Any thoughts?

Looks pretty good to me.

Those are nice for a basic undercoat. I'd highlight the gold with a thin Mithril Silver line and then wash the metal with Asurmen Blue. For the armour I'd so a 50/50 mix of hormagaunt purple and warlock,do odd armour plates with this. The wash with Leviathan purple.

RandomSauce19 wrote:Those are nice for a basic undercoat. I'd highlight the gold with a thin Mithril Silver line and then wash the metal with Asurmen Blue. For the armour I'd so a 50/50 mix of hormagaunt purple and warlock,do odd armour plates with this. The wash with Leviathan purple.

While i agree with you on the gold this is undercoating let me give that odd plate thing a shot might add depth you really cant see the metallic my phone's camera is crappy

Thanks

Quick update I took what you said and added a twist i mixed 2 parts red gore 1 part warlock purple and 2 part mithril silver with some mixing base and used it to accentuate my armor sort of a magneto look if you will.

Here's some pics keep in mind this us a test model so no the neatest (mainly the eyes i was trying several colors now they looks caked up)

I am also looking some ideas on the guns.

Maybe try painting that gold bit yellow? then you can highlight with the gold and the fine gold lines will bring your eye to make it not look so flat-ish.
Or change to something like red like someone else suggested, then highlight through orange and line with yellow. You could get away with doing nothing else with the purple if the focus is on the special parts.

TheExilEdArcHitECt wrote:Maybe try painting that gold bit yellow? then you can highlight with the gold and the fine gold lines will bring your eye to make it not look so flat-ish.
Or change to something like red like someone else suggested, then highlight through orange and line with yellow. You could get away with doing nothing else with the purple if the focus is on the special parts.

Are you referring to the symbol at the top of the helm or all the gold?

What exactly is looking flat other that the eyes i already know the look awful i was just trying to find something that the purple didn't drown out.

Thanks in advance

Shoulders and knees are the yellow parts.
The helmet looks cool with gold bits

Sorry, forgot the gun part. Maybe paint the gun something?
The purple looks flat, but thats just to me. When i say flat i mean it doesnt have a depth type look. But thats ok. Sometimes plain looks alot better and you can "accessorize" with other bits.

TheExilEdArcHitECt wrote:Sometimes plain looks alot better and you can "accessorize" with other bits.

I agree. If you keep the purple plainish then you have the freedom to go wild on the extra bits. Take the time to really make the eyes, tabard, gun and any dangly bits look good and the basic armour colour won't matter. You can even do as I do and paint glyphs onto the armour itself. Perhaps in golden yellow, to bring out the purple or enchanted blue to really stand out. Just don't go overboard and have too many separate colours in one model.

You also can jazz up the back a bit by doing the pouches and knives a bit fancy (glyphs/bright colours/glow effects) and the poison tubes could have bubbles in or even a colour gradient to represent a mix that has settled a bit.

The only other idea i have is the more "tradition black plating" but i have a nice looking glowy blue paint i thought about a tron looking theme perhaps ad some circuitry patterns if i get bored.
Im at work so i can paint one as a test at the moment.

Here are some pics of a test warrior with glowy blue tron lines they are from my cell camera so mind that.

what armor them do you guys think would look better across a whole army?

I love the "Tron" thing. I don't know how well it would look on models in Wych suit armor though. WOuld have to do a test model.