Post your imperial guard colour schemes here

i hope someone replies as not many people reply to my theads (is it because im new or what?)

heres mine. standard catachan green with a drybrush of skull white to show the idea of whitewashing.

That's a really nice effect dark6. I recently struggeled to coem up with a scheme for my guard. I think generally speaking it pays to keep it simple. For me camo never looks right.

now thats better than mine! Mine are chaos black armour with codex grey cloth as main andthen i put little chaos black spots on with some white spots. Have any idea how to improve the design?

ummm, i guess look on google and copy the old US choc-chip desert camo pattern, just to your specifications. otherwise i cannot think of much else

some of my IG stuff, hope you like it

Cheers SoO

Thanks i would post pics but i don't have a camera but ill try to post some when i can. Also my valkyrieis one of my best model that has freehand


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SONS of ORAR wrote:

some of my IG stuff, hope you like it

Cheers SoO

Wow thats great thanks mate

oh great SoO has to come on and show off lol =D
i'm hoping to purchase imperial armour model masterclass to get my painting skills up. i'm getting some new Dark Angels so ill post some pics up of them within the month

Some of my "Silent Co. of Korsk" army

Ok ive got some pics on the pc (Borrowed my dads camera) so how do i upload them to here?

Mordian scheme, based on the Napoleonic era British 95th Rifles. (Green ans Black)



Every one in the army that is not a Mordian (Stormtroopers, Ogryn, Ratlings, Tank Crews, etc...) gets the British redcoat paint scheme



Standard camo with the tanks...

Nice mate!

I havent got any vehicles painted up yet, but heres the basic colors Im using.

these are the guys i started before deciding to discontinue it until a better time since i needed a lot more $ than i thought i would.

(old pic)

ok heres mine

more on my project log

Here's mine, the Harakoni Warhawk Veterans.

nice i saw them on your project log!

here's my old scheme before I shifted back to my Death Korps

sorry about the crappy photo best I could find

Here are some snaps of my two IG armies
The blue scheme was my first, then I re-painted it all black and white
LOTS OF PICS!

Penal legion, tabletop quality.

Wow thats orangey

really like your models THis iz Beef.

i dont have any pictures of mine, but maybe if i find time after word i'll shoot a few. i use the games-workshop deathskull ork skin stage-by-stage for the clothes, with a layered red/orange for the armor. i was sick of painting typical color schemes.

i'm not the best painter but i like them.

Im abit indecisive so there are 2 colors :/

Thats one nice sentinel!

stuipid computer quadruple post!

Thats one nice sentinel! i mean two

Thanks xD
here is the green one after i was told to "winterize" it

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?

here is my army

SlaveToDorkness wrote:Some of my "Silent Co. of Korsk" army

That's lovely, my favourite of the thread. It's looks really different, bit of a Russian feel to it.

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.

Wheee! Nice work all!@ ThisizBeef - Why the change from blue. It looked pretty neat.

@ SoO and Luna - Godlike!

Here is my contribution. I might get around to weathering at some point, but quite happy with how it all came out in general.

Tanks


Command


PBI

Ahh its those heavy bolters! i love those flinty

( because all the tripods are given to my autocannon , so the hvy bolter were just sitting in my bits drawer )

I'm with Luna on this one those Heavy bolter conversions are just awesome Flinty.

Pretty subtle, greens and blues and browns. Looks quite real-wordly, which I prefer.

sA

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

Here is my 10 pence worth,

An inquisitors personel gaurd.





There's more here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/272476.page

@Granesh, there's some very nice stuff there.

Is it just the photo or something, but the Hydra looks like it has droopy guns.

Assasin , what happened to the sergent's face?
Its pale like he pooped his pants xD

Where are all the Catachans at?

The Sergeant of my Vet Squad:



My Officer of the Fleet:


And one of my Lemon Rusts:

Ok here's a picture of my IG color scheme for my armor.

LunaHound wrote:Assasin , what happened to the sergent's face?
Its pale like he pooped his pants xD

It's all in the fluff - he's a voidborn.

sA

nice stuff

I need to get a decent air brush to paint my tanks.

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.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/244602.page

Thank you I read hers on tanks, I missed this airbrush one.

Your welcome. Now I'm going to find the thread on tanks that I missed.

Thanks

Well cheap air tanks not how to paint tanks.

I paint mine using this technique:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=400032&pIndex=3&aId=2400008&start=4

Unfortunately the end result isn't that good





I also do an urban pattern:

Went with a desert theme. Lots of tan and like a clay red.





Army in progress

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.

Henners... Does the side of that turret say "Thunderhorse"?

...as in...

"Thunder... Horse! Thunder... Horse! ThunderhorseThunderhorseThunderhorseThunderhorse!"

<3 Metalocalypse

It says Thunderchild, surely.

(uuuullllaaaaaaaaaaaaa)

Thunderchild

It's a reference to this:



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

Henners91 wrote:Thunderchild

It's a reference to this:



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

Love that name, in Dark Heresy, our party were aboard a Mars pattern warship called Thunderchild once, it was inducted by Ordo Xenos...

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

Henners91 wrote:Thunderchild

It's a reference to this:



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

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.

Henners91, where did you get those heads? I want those for my BT Neophytes.

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:

@romeo.lima - The heads you are referring to are probably the Pig Iron Heavy Infantry heads. They are lovely things to work with and I'm surprised more folks don't use them

romeo.lima wrote:Henners91, where did you get those heads? I want those for my BT Neophytes.

If you're referring to my Urban Vets/Master Chief ripoffs they're Pig Iron 'Heavy Infantry' heads:

http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/hd5-heavy-infantry-mixed-head-sprues-p-12.html

Ah, thank you very much, guys. I'd rather have "faceless grunt" neophytes than clones.

These paint schemes are all very awesome, by the way. Makes me want to start an IG army. If only I had the time to go through so many models and vehicles...

i seriously have not worked on this army for a long time, i better get back to it

I liked seeing the stuff on this thread so much I decided to get out my Steel Legion and finish them off. I thought I'd add them to the thread now even though I've not finished the bases, not got the right flock at the moment. I want to use brown grass.

here are my two IG color schemes one is the Turok 142

shown here:


and the catachin 10th. here is the commander:

Do the men of the 142nd hunt Dinosaurs in their spare time?

Good life is back in this thread!

hpw is every one else able to paint so well its hard for me as it is.

Flinty your IG are still one of my favorite armies out there. Keep up the good work man!

I have a WiP shot of a couple of my melta guys... they're since been finished (the clothes were redone, bases and weapons finished as well as red touched up a bit) but I don't have pictures of them like that. I'll get some ASAP.

Big up the Pig Iron heads!

My vets have the same ones

I know, they aren't all finished and I can see some paint chipping but most of these minis have been in the field since second edition.
Members of the 12th Tallarn Sand Wolves

indiana1000 wrote:
i hope someone replies as not many people reply to my theads (is it because im new or what?)

Ummm...yes?

Good idea for a thread though...gonna have to bust out the camera soon, methinks.

@Caffran9 - I'll see what I can do I like the guy reading the instructions on how to work a Melta Good work on the red as well.

of course they hunt dinos!!

i love the idea of this thread

My Guard are pretty traditional:










And my Stormtroopers get a more "Russian" feel to their colors:


My armor keeps to a flat green mostly:




Although Duke Nukem doesn't need to wear the uniform provided:

There's some nice stuff here. I especially like the red-clothed catachan.

So here's my scheme. The fluff is that the armor is brown because it has a type of solar power paint smeared on it so that their armor slowly recharges their laspacks over the course of a sunny day.

The uniforms are white on the top and camo on the bottom because the planet isn't willing to spring for both a set of dress uniforms and fatigues, so they just get a half-and-half:



The neat thing is that it sort of acts as camoflage for the same reason zebra's camo works. Imagine your sergeant tells you to pick out the meltagunner before its too late:



Even in action shots, it sort of creates a kind of visually confusing static:



As for vehicles, they're just sort of painted up like the troops:

Figured I'd make a contribution to the excellent work that is showing up in this thread. I'm pulling together a Cadian army which has made it to a decent size (at least I can cover the minimums in a FOC) even if it is pretty badly imbalanced. Currently my troops would have to draw straws to get to see who rides in a chimera (which aren't fully painted yet anyway) and who has to walk.

Just 3 types of Guard colors:

Pic1: Plastic Cadians requested from the =I=...
Pic2: Metal Cadians as Mech Infantry, part of a fully mechanized army in greys.
Pic3: Plastic Catachans for the old mini-dex, soon to be Air CaV.

I'm painting up some urban camo Guard for a commission right now:

Rangerrob wrote:Mordian scheme, based on the Napoleonic era British 95th Rifles. (Green ans Black)

Huh. The Praetorians that make up my first platoon are based around the same unit's uniforms!

Everyone else is done in the same color scheme.

My vets for an idea on how they and the Steel Legion that make up the rest of my Mech Guard look like:

Im trying to do the cadian 39th camo but its my first time painting and I need some help with an easy color scheme

Some of my Inquisitorial IG

Here's some of my Steel Legion I just started working on. It's a dark green gray scheme inspired a bit from WW2.

I use the British DPM pattern on the guardsmen (Vehicles have a NATO inspired three tone green and black - no pics of the tanks sorry)

Usually I'm not a fan of typical, contemporary guard schemes, but this is so well pulled off that I can't help but to admire. These guys definitely look like something I'd expect to see in the real world (of the 40th millennium, that is).

Just have to do the belts with black leather and boltgun buckles

My force is Inquisitorial Detachment.

Really Like the DPM scheme, very well done, i like the green webbing belts/buckles too.

Just posting to put this thread on my subscribed list and to congratulate everyone on their incredible armies, i'll post my in-progress scheme when i can find a camera.

I went for a pretty standard woodland theme with my Guard (still somewhat WIP; I need to do faces)

mine is black armor with grey cloth and black and white dots on the cloth. i know someone said that but its mine to

Amazing weve thought of the same scheme Zing!

well here is mine.

Oooh they look nice!

Interesting. My original army theme was red fatigues and grey armor just like that. After painting a couple of minis I decided to re-work. This involved upping the contrast (red became brown and grey became white), and flipping the color scheme.

It's interesting to see what my army WOULD have looked like if I would have stuck with my original theme.

Here's my Vogen 122nd IG (urban fatigues)

The DPM scheme looks great!

Enamel paints are the devil. Avoid them. Otherwise, I like the blue and black

Those aren't Acrylic, Metalli. Those look like Enamels.

I am building an IG army. My first 40k attempt.

WOW, this is sad. You guys using GW paint? i painted all my guys w lasguns...and none turned out this good. I have no idea how you get the faces and perfect lines inbetween things. Keep it up. -i use folk art btw-

ImpGuardPanzies wrote:WOW, this is sad. You guys using GW paint? i painted all my guys w lasguns...and none turned out this good. I have no idea how you get the faces and perfect lines inbetween things. Keep it up. -i use folk art btw-

Very small brush, very steady hand, and water the paint down some so its easier to work with.

I seem to be a little lacking in practice/steady hand since I got back into this so I have an alternative. Washes. My favorite is Payne's Gray. Do an easy two-tone on the faces to give some highlights, then do a wash. The wash brings out detail really well and is more than good enough for table top. Most of my IG were done that way, I only painted eyes onto the key minis, or ones with the most expressive faces.

Ok. ya, i usualy put water in all the paint, usualy 1 drop. and i stir it. My camera suckas and pictures turn out like blobs so i cant post anything. Stupid camera.And my hand alwayse spazes out it starts shaking sometimes. I only have 25-30 people painted. Ive been trying to come up with a color to paint my vendetta. And my 3 tanks.

ImpGuardPanzies wrote:WOW, this is sad. You guys using GW paint? i painted all my guys w lasguns...and none turned out this good. I have no idea how you get the faces and perfect lines inbetween things. Keep it up. -i use folk art btw-

Yes, except for my brown. It's based off of Koh-I-Noor's Burnt Sienna. I've recreated it using a combination of grey, GW's Dark flesh, and Folk Art's dark brown color.

Admittedly, this is the only exposure I've had to folk art, but I've noticed that it covers rather poorly. If you don't want to spring for GW paint, perhaps you'd consider Delta Ceramcote. They're also cheap, and available at craft stores, but they tend to be much smoother and require way fewer coats to get the same effect.

As for the clean lines, it's all about practice. Just keep trying hard to get it to look right with every mini, and eventually they will without effort.

Kanluwen wrote:Those aren't Acrylic, Metalli. Those look like Enamels.

Yea that's what I meant

A lot of sweet stuff in here. Here is my own. Kind of an urban/winter theme.

Demolisher and Collosuses/Basilisks


Chimeras and Sentinel. The one on the left was kind of a test to make it look more Panzer-esque without the white wash.


Plasma Vets


Regular Vets


StormTroopers

Unfortunatelyl, I don't have any good shots of my infantry up, but here is a pic of my vehicles. I use a 2-tone camo scheme that uses Tamiya Desert Yellow and Deep Green:

very nice!

mechrite red filthied up with various washes can't remember how i did the fatigues

any one have any pics of their psyckers?

I'm doing a black armor/grey fatugies scheme. I'd post pics, but I'm a noob painter and I rly only care about making them nice enough to play lol. Still, love the paint jobs here!

I went Imperial Guard - Galactic Empire colour scheme. Soldiers have white armour, black guns and no other colour. Middle officers are grey whilst the highest ranks (company commander, commisars, Inquisitors) are all black.

I'll slap up some pictures if I remember.

Sageheart wrote:any one have any pics of their psyckers?

Sure. A detail shot, the whole squad, and one about to get capped for getting a little too in touch with the warp.

And here is a Veteran squad I just completed. By regular guard have knarloc green as the base color for their armor. These guys I went with codex gray. They are kit bashed from Cadian troops with some command squad accessories, Catachan heads, SM scout shotguns, SM meltas, and Secret Weapon Miniatures backpacks.

Well, this is some guys from my old IG army, regal blue + chaos black, a more "sneaky" night force. I did have a red LED light in my valkarie but it ran out of battery and i could not change it as it was stuckin it XD

Heres mine:


Bleached bone, gore red and some devlan mud.

Sorry for it being so big, not sure how to reduce the size :\

Wow its nice to see people posting in this thead again!Hemlighest thats a nice colour scheme youve got there!

Thanks Just a bit worried how my tanks are going to look, haven't decided if I'm going to wash them, since I heard it's hard to get it looking good when washing vehicles. Any of you used wash on yours?

I'm actually uploading some images of my army right now... I have a couple of tanks with washes... Mainly my basilisks... So give me a few and I'll toss some photos up.

I washed my valkyrie but only in the gaps in the armour plates

I like yours, citizensmith!

So voila my Schemes, I'm WIP right now transffering my old scheme to a new one... So what you see is either a bit of my old stuff, or what I have finished, or am willing to show of my new one.

My CC squad.


Quick Flyover of a portion of my Army.



My Vet Squad.


Close Up of a Guardman.



Old Scheme but I have to show Lt. Coffee... He's what I think of the Arty boys...



And, last for this post, I will have more in my Gallery, my Valkyrie.




More in my Gallery, still adding some.

Gallery : http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-search.jsp?u=32987

Here's mine, a vet with shotgun:

This is my as yet generic Urban themed Guard!