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Hello,
I have a template for a paper stormtalon which comes in either ultramarine or blood raven livery.
After I built the ultramarine one my son asked me to build him a dark angel one.
I have started modifying the coloring on the template but I am not very knowledgable with regards to marine's livery and I was wondering if someone could comment.

Attached I have the first page of the template as a blood raven and as I converted it to dark angel (still need to change the emblems, please only comment on the colors).

Here is the process I use to convert the pdf files (on a mac)

The color used in the blood raven version are the following:

#84282e; red
#d83b41; light red (borders just before the black line)
#f79aaa; lighter red (tabs color)
#5f2629; dark red ( few places)

I am thinking to replace them by those
#445016; dark green
#668000; light green
#cdde87; lighter green
#112B00; darker green

For a result which looks like the attached image (note that I have note replaced the symbol).
Do you think those colors are right, do you have any suggestions (best if the suggestion come with either hexa code for colors or a small picture with said color.

Also if you want to do such a recolor, I don't know what is the best solution but I am doing it the following way:
1) I open the pdf file in inkscape and ungroup until the individual elements are not grouped
2) I save as svg
3) I ask inkscape to show me the xml of the file
4) I identify one of the element I want to recolor in inkscape by tapping on it and I look in the xml what is the color of its fill
5) I change the color to the one I want and find the code in the xml
6) I open the svg in a text editor and replace all instances of the old color code with the new one.

This works well for a small example like this but could get boring quickly.
I think there is an inkscape functionality to do it without the text editor but I can't get it to work on my mac.

I am open to suggestion of a better way.

I'd say the green needs to be generally darker. The light green you're using for the tabs looks a bit odd - I think you'd notice it too much when you fold along the lines. Could they be the same colour of dark green?

On the logo panel, bone should still be the contrasting colour, but made lighter. Obviously, a DA logo in black or red instead of the Blood Angel one.

Hope that helps!

I think that I would actually go with black. Seems more of a fast ravenwing thing than a general army thing.

Ravenwing would be black and grey correct?
Would there be any contrasting colors?
About the regular dark angel colors, did the 3 greens I chose look alright to you?
I'll post an update probably tomorrow with a DA Logo.
Regarding the light green on the tabs, on a finished talon they don't show at all, I'll attach a picture of the finished ultramarine and the first page of the template so you can see.

I would say with the green, make it a little more green. It's a bit olive and drab, make it darker and maybe a little more vibrant.