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2010/12/11 22:15:07
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Fixture of Dakka
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I was painting something this morning, and started thinking... there isn't a single major faction (either a faction with significant backstory, or established special character from that faction) out of any of the codex that uses Orange as either primary or seconday colour.
Space Marines:
Ultramarines: Blue/White
Salamanders: Green/Black
Iron Hands: Black/Silver
Raven Guard: Black/White
White Scars: white/Red
Imperial Fists: Yellow
Crimson Fists: Blue/Red
Dark Angels: Green/Bone/Black
Black Templars: Black/White/Red
Space Wolves: Grey
Blood Angels: Red, Black
Flesh Tearers (due to Seth): Red, Black
Chaos Legions:
Black Legion: Black, Gold trim. Pre-heresy: White, Grey
Thousand Sons: Blue, Yellow/Gold, Preheresy: Red/White
Death Guard: Pale Green, Preheresy: white/green
Emperor's Children: Black/Pink, Preheresy: purple/gold
World Eaters: Red/Gold, Preheresy: White/Blue
Alpha Legion: Blue/Green
Iron Warriors: Gunmetal/Yellow/Black
Night Lords: Dark Blue
Word Bearers: Red/Grey Preheresy Grey/
Red Corsairs: Red/Black, Astral Claws: Blue/White
Inquisition:
Grey Knights: Grey/Silver
Martyred Lady: Black/Red
Valorous Heart: Black/Black
Bloody Rose: Red/Black
Sacred Rose: White/Black
Ebon Chalice: Black/White
Argent Shroud: gunmetal/white
Guard:
Lots of camos, earthy greens, Mordians in Blue, Praetorians and Vostroyans in Red. No Orange.
Eldar:
Biel-Tan: White/Green
Saim-Hann: Red
Ulthwe: Black, Bone
Alaitoc: Blue
Iyanden: Yellow, Blue
Orks:
Evil Suns: Red
Bad Moons: Yellow
Goffs: Black
Snakebites: Browns & Tans
Blood Axes: Camo
Deathskulls: Blue
Tau:
Tau Sept: Browns
Sa'cea Sept: Blue/Grey
Ke'lshan Sept: Grey/Black
Bork'an Sept: Turqoise/Grey
D'yanoi Sept: Browns
Vior'la Sept: Light green
Au'taal Sept: Browns
Tyranids:
Kraken: Bone/Red
Behemoth: Blue/Red
Leviathan: White/Purple
Why no orange? (Yes, I'm waiting for paint to dry...)
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2010/12/11 22:20:01
Subject: Re:What's wrong with Orange?
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Stormin' Stompa
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I can only think of Eldar fire dragons.
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2010/12/11 22:21:10
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Martial Arts Fiday
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The Pyre. Orange Renegades.
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2010/12/11 22:21:33
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Avatar of the Bloody-Handed God
Inside your mind, corrupting the pathways
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*points to his Eldar* Lugganath Craftworld have orange armour - they are in the codex and everything!  Edit: Though I would agree, they don't have a significant quantity of fluff, so they are not exactly major...
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2010/12/11 22:33:09
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Journeyman Inquisitor with Visions of the Warp
York/London(for weekends) oh for the glory of the british rail industry
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i don't really mind, orange doen't look good on minis i think
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Relictors: 1500pts
its safe to say that relictors are the greatest army a man , nay human can own.
I'm cancelling you out of shame like my subscription to White Dwarf. - Mark Corrigan: Peep Show
Avatar 720 wrote:Eau de Ulthwé - The new fragrance; by Eldrad.
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2010/12/11 22:34:15
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Bonkers Buggy Driver with Rockets
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Yeah, it doesn't help that orange is typically the bright in-your-face colour that kinda makes you stand out in any environment save a volcanic wasteland The only places I'd say it looked ok is Eldar, Tau and the odd Ork Blood Axe camo somewhere.
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2010/12/12 00:07:58
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Battlefield Professional
Empire Of Denver, Urth
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Blood Angels used to be Terracotta. Close, but not orange.
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2010/12/12 05:23:49
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Mutilatin' Mad Dok
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SlaveToDorkness wrote:The Pyre. Orange Renegades.
This one was what i was going to say as well. It's not like its a major faction, but those guys had a snazzy scheme!
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S'all fun and games until some no life troll master debates all over your space manz & ruins it for you |
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2010/12/12 06:08:55
Subject: Re:What's wrong with Orange?
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The Conquerer
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
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Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
MURICA!!! IN SPESS!!! |
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2010/12/12 07:06:22
Subject: Re:What's wrong with Orange?
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Commoragh-bound Peer
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Well, I'm planning on painting my Dark Eldar with a rusty sort of look. Not exactly orange, but kinda.
I think the main reason you don't see it more is that cooler/earth tones say either 'I'm too cool to wear garish colors' or 'I'm too smart to wear something easily visible on the battlefield'; while bright colors say 'I'm such a badass warrior I don't care if you see me coming' or 'my armor's gonna be covered in red soon anyway, might as well save on cleaning'. Orange just kinda falls in between; its too visible to be practical and too ridiculous to be cool looking.
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2010/12/12 07:19:39
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Pulsating Possessed Chaos Marine
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Don't the Tau have a major sept that's orange?
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D.O.O.M.F.A.R.T.'s Night Panda of Asian Lurking |
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2010/12/12 15:18:13
Subject: Re:What's wrong with Orange?
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The Conquerer
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
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Yeah, T'au
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Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
MURICA!!! IN SPESS!!! |
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2010/12/12 15:22:40
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness
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Orange is hard to pull off. But if you manage it, more power to you.
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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2010/12/12 15:28:06
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Battlefortress Driver with Krusha Wheel
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Also, some Tallarn may use orange schemes. I seem to remember seeing an army like that somewhere.
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2010/12/12 17:04:45
Subject: Re:What's wrong with Orange?
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Boosting Space Marine Biker
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Nothing is wrong with orange and it should be more widely used! My own chapter boasts an orange and red color scheme.
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2010/12/12 18:27:17
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Journeyman Inquisitor with Visions of the Warp
York/London(for weekends) oh for the glory of the british rail industry
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that looks more desert brown than orange
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Relictors: 1500pts
its safe to say that relictors are the greatest army a man , nay human can own.
I'm cancelling you out of shame like my subscription to White Dwarf. - Mark Corrigan: Peep Show
Avatar 720 wrote:Eau de Ulthwé - The new fragrance; by Eldrad.
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2010/12/12 18:44:52
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness
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So if that's not orange, what exactly is?
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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My blog |
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2010/12/12 19:42:42
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Boosting Space Marine Biker
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BluntmanDC wrote:that looks more desert brown than orange
It is definitely orange, although a darker orange. I don't want my boys to look like they're candy coated afterall.
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2010/12/12 20:09:43
Subject: Re:What's wrong with Orange?
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Anti-piracy Officer
Somewhere in south-central England.
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I tend to stay away from the red spectrum of colours because my red-green colour blindness makes it difficult to match the colours properly.
I tried to do an orange tank and it came out all wrong.
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2010/12/12 20:24:33
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Emboldened Warlock
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Eldar:
Fire dragons, lugganath, yme loc.
Astral claws were formerly orange
Kilkrazy:
Lemon Russ?
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DC:80S++G++M+B++I+Pw40k99+D++A+++/mWD219R++T(T)DM+ |
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2010/12/13 06:04:26
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter
Australia (Recently ravaged by the Hive Fleet Ginger Overlord)
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Good call, Kilkrazy.
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Smacks wrote:
After the game, pack up all your miniatures, then slap the guy next to you on the ass and say.
"Good game guys, now lets hit the showers" 
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2010/12/20 21:35:14
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I thought Flesh tearers were orange? dont they have a special character, with the mega chainsaw... erm sword?
OOh, NVM.
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2010/12/23 22:40:19
Subject: Re:What's wrong with Orange?
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Stormin' Stompa
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Nothings rhymes with orange, that's why.
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2010/12/23 22:44:14
Subject: What's wrong with Orange?
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Ollanius Pius - Savior of the Emperor
Gathering the Informations.
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undivided wrote:Don't the Tau have a major sept that's orange?
Actually, their color is "Ochre". Which is a more natural occurring color, kind of a mixture of a dark brown with an orange tinting to it. Was a very common color to see on German equipment during WWII on the Eastern Front.
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2010/12/24 14:12:56
Subject: Re:What's wrong with Orange?
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Fixture of Dakka
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This message was edited 3 times. Last update was at 2010/12/24 14:28:15
DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+
JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles.
corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day.
greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid. |
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2011/01/08 13:59:50
Subject: Re:What's wrong with Orange?
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Morphing Obliterator
Elsewhere
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This may sound wierd: I have always taken for granted that the 2nd or the 11th legion were orange.
Reasoning by elimination.
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‘Your warriors will stand down and withdraw, Curze. That is an order, not a request. (…) When this campaign is won, you and I will have words’
Rogal Dorn, just before taking the beating of his life.
from The Dark King, by Graham McNeill.
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2011/01/08 16:13:12
Subject: Re:What's wrong with Orange?
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Stalwart Veteran Guard Sergeant
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Mr Nobody wrote:Nothings rhymes with orange, that's why.
Syringe.
Lozenge.
Hinge (as mentioned).
Binge.
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2011/01/08 16:19:59
Subject: Re:What's wrong with Orange?
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Fixture of Dakka
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"The only word in the 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary that rhymes with orange is sporange, a very rare alternative form of sporangium (a botanical term for a part of a fern or similar plant)."
QFT.
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DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+
JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles.
corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day.
greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid. |
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2011/01/08 16:35:24
Subject: Re:What's wrong with Orange?
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Stalwart Veteran Guard Sergeant
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shrike wrote:"The only word in the 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary that rhymes with orange is sporange, a very rare alternative form of sporangium (a botanical term for a part of a fern or similar plant)."
QFT.
I suppose it depends if you're talking about assonance, consonance, syllabic, perfect, semirhyme or half rhyme, or oblique; my examples above are all syllabic rhymes 
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2011/01/08 16:37:43
Subject: Re:What's wrong with Orange?
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The Conquerer
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
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Ulver wrote:Mr Nobody wrote:Nothings rhymes with orange, that's why.
Syringe.
Lozenge.
Hinge (as mentioned).
Binge.
if those ryme with Orange then i would like to know how the hell you are pronouncing it.
Orange, in the US, doesn't ryme with any of those words.
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Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
MURICA!!! IN SPESS!!! |
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