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I've been agonising over how to paint my mechanised guard army's vehicles. I want them to be different (just like everyone else) and distinctive.

My fluff has them originating on a shadow world, cold and barren, mostly ice and rock (no snow, because dowsing models in baking soda just seems lazy)

I was thinking something along these lines (a handy template is attached for anyone who wants to join in)

I like it. Could go a little heavier on the white...or even go red instead of white...that would cool and distinctive

tanker19 wrote:
I like it. Could go a little heavier on the white...or even go red instead of white...that would cool and distinctive

Thats actually WW1 blue

Red is.... interesting, but I think it would work better for space marines (or orks)

What program did you use for this? I would love to test out a few ideas for some tanks i have waiting to be painted

I use Gimp 2.8, its basically a free photoshop.
The template is derived from a line drawing in an IA book,

The easiest way to get correct colours is to open a sample image and use the colour picker tool

Maybe you could look at different camo patterns used on modern army vehicles. Also most of them use a 4 or 3 colored pattern. So maybe throw grey and/or dark blue into the mix.

Or if you want something really different why not use a digital camo pattern like that just with your colors of choice:

I might be a little biased as I'm a swede and have been in the Swedish Army, but I find the Swedish camouflage (called M90) to be quite funky. It's a nice pattern to put on tanks and such.



this is a vehicle stripped up with tape to be painted in M90:

Its definitely a cool effect. Is there a preferred way of marking out the pattern or can it only be done by eye?

As with all camo, you need to make sure that the pattern wraps over edges and obviously man-made shapes. The point is to disrupt the shape and make it hard to identify from a distance, not to "hide" the thing at close range.

What flinty said. There is no go-to design that makes it easier or such. When we painted a car (and obviously being so large it's more forgiving) we just ran around slashing up strips of tape until we were satisfied.