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Five days is hardly threadomancy, metallifan - though I know what you mean about the challenge of getting comments from anyone but yourself in a plog

What Elysians were you lucky enough to receive, by the way?

I seem to remember the scheme Forgeworld had 'em painted in in the Taros campaign book was quite cool...

Well, for what it's worth, for my old Warzone guys I painted my drop troops with a sort of sky blue fatigues and white body armor, streaked with a similar sky blue and very light gray for a sort of tiger-striped camo look. I'm not a great painter, so it didn't come out all that well, but having seen it on models I still feel like the idea was sound. I wish there was an IG painter like the marine painters on Bolter and Chainsword, so I could try and mock it up to show you.

Owain - Thanks for the tip . I'll definately go back and readress the baldies with that once my grey death is gone. I might use my Elf Flesh instead of Bleached Bone though


Dys - It felt longer. There was a void in my soul created by the silence



I don't have IA: Taros, I'm afraid. What was the scheme they used, if you have a pic?



Shane - I know what you mean about a painter. I started a thread asking that exact question, but nobody seems to have found/made an IG painter yet.

Again, can you get a pic of your troops for me to look at?

The first problem with an IG painter program is which regiment do you choose to base it on? After all, there've been models released for Attilans, Cadians, Catachans, Death Korps of Krieg, Elysians, Mordians, Praetorians, Steel Legion, Tallarn and Valhallans - and that's ignoring various Storm Troopers, Ratlings and Ogryns.....

The scheme they used is below, though I note it is from a painting, rather than a painted model:

Well, this may be a little late, but I have seen a cool thread that converts IG into WWI style British soldiers. All you need is your cadians, some Empire Handgunners, and Gas masks.

http://commissar.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=picpost&action=display&thread=2731

Dysartes: I wouldn't complain no matter which miniatures it was based on. Anything would be a start.

Metallifan: Those drop troops I mentioned have gone the way of the dodo. Or the way the dodo would have, if I had decided I was never going to use it again and threw it away. My guardsmen, however, I will post pictures of. One day. Once I have one of them painted.

I might have just delayed that further by changing my mind on the color scheme.

Awesome Apoc gun.

Shane - I'd love to see a finished pic of one... Someday... When you've finished one of them...

Zack - Once my plastic mountain (okay, it's more like a sprue hill) is cleared out and done, the gun and cathedral will be getting more work done on them

So, I've finished washing/cleaning the Elysians and I'm just letting them dry before assembly/painting. As I haven't gotten much for suggestions (because that comment button is just SO hard to find...) I did some digging. I was thinking about doing them in the uniform of Canadians in the Bosnian conflict during the early 90's:



What say?

Don't you point that finger my way, I gave you my two cents!

Seriously, though, I think that scheme looks good. There's not a lot of contrast though, so I'm not sure how well it will translate to a guardsman. I had to drop my first idea for a paint scheme for that reason, the first step in my continued non-painting of my guard army.

I said I didn't get much for suggestions, not that I didn't get any Thanks for yours though

The contrast is something I thought about too, and I figure that if I did their shoulders black with Catachan Green trim, as well as some bits and pieces of their armour in the same fashion it might help.

I am a big fan of keeping them dark , I find that the drop troops would do a lot of night drops more like specc ops . I would go with an all black theme maybe do a black and grey tiger stipe patteren , and they would fall in line with the rest of your forces while still standing out .

I second the dark pattern, with grey or perhaps even violently coloured tiger-stripe camouflage. You want these guys to look fierce, confident and fast.

Update! (Warning - Contains Forgeworld Goodness)

The Elysians came out of their bath of Lemon-scented Dawn and Hot Water yesterday, and took a good scrubbing with a brush:



And I assembled a tester. If you have photoshop, feel free to tweak this image and repost it here with your colour scheme



And this is the uniform of the Ariminium Naval Air Corps. Pilots, Crews and Infantry attached to the Naval Air Corps wear these uniforms:

(Ignore the mold lines - he's just a tester) I might go with this for my Elysians, minus the blue helmets. I'll likely paint theirs black or green. I'll likely do up a Platoon or two of Air Corps troops once I get a Valk flying.

Again, here's the referance pic I based him off of. Courtesy of forces.gc.ca

I think you should make some fluff for this army before going further. This is just me, but I tend to be better able to think about my regiment after I think of its founding area. If these guys come from an Ice world, then do alot of blues, greys, blacks, and whites.

I would suggest you take a look at photos of pilots from WW1-2 and pilots today. Take the personalization of their uniforms/planes adn use that for this regiment.

If you could do that sort of dark, blue-black metallic that you see in some old helmets it might be awesome. I have no idea how you'd achieve that look with paint, though.

Brotheralexos wrote:I think you should make some fluff for this army before going further. This is just me, but I tend to be better able to think about my regiment after I think of its founding area. If these guys come from an Ice world, then do alot of blues, greys, blacks, and whites.

I would suggest you take a look at photos of pilots from WW1-2 and pilots today. Take the personalization of their uniforms/planes adn use that for this regiment.

I have fluff. God-Emperor help me, I have fluff.

Hell, it's the whole reason I started this army and gave them a similar scheme to my Marines. I've got fluff for about 6 different Regiments and 3 special branches - the ANAC being one of them - I just changed the paint scheme to the one featured here after I ran the test on the above mini.

But yea, if you want fluff/uniforms/regiment or branch names for any of the system's forces, just ask

Shane wrote:If you could do that sort of dark, blue-black metallic that you see in some old helmets it might be awesome. I have no idea how you'd achieve that look with paint, though.

Black basecoat, drybrush a mix of 50/50 Boltgun Metal/watered down Shadow Grey, then give the whole helmet a wash of Asurman Blue or a wash of extremely watered down Midnight Blue

Huh. I don't know if that's instinctive, or acquired knowledge, but I wish I could do that.

It's sort of a mix. I've been painting long enough to know exactly how to get something to look the way I want. It's not hard - you just have to be willing to screw up lots in the process to get there.

To all waiting for Elysian pics: I'll probably start them this weekend, instead of weeknights. They (weeknights) leave me feeling so rushed with only four hours of painting time before I call it a night :(

Four hours is a rush? That's about the longest session I put together in a week, usually on a Sunday

I've got to say that the pose for that Elysian confuses me - is he looking to see what he's just trodden in?

It looked to me like he might be leaning into a forward roll, or maybe ducking as he runs toward cover under heavy fire.

Well, It looks really nice. There, I commented, Happy?

I think that Elsyian looks really good in that pose, plus I love their Lasguns.

Dystartes wrote:Four hours is a rush? That's about the longest session I put together in a week, usually on a Sunday

I've got to say that the pose for that Elysian confuses me - is he looking to see what he's just trodden in?

For Forgeworld, anything less than 6 hours per model is rushed

For some reason, they made the legs in a terribly stupid sculpt. The only place it would actually look normal is if I had him sitting in the side door of a Valk, leaning one leg over the edge. But I lack a Valk, so I made him sort of duck (albeight badly)

Shane wrote:It looked to me like he might be leaning into a forward roll, or maybe ducking as he runs toward cover under heavy fire.

Heh, I was going for the latter

Tim the Biovore wrote:Well, It looks really nice. There, I commented, Happy?

No. Where are my cookies?

Vet Sergeant Travis wrote:I think that Elsyian looks really good in that pose, plus I love their Lasguns.

Thanks, I tried to make those legs work somehow. If you have a camo/uniform to suggest, lemmie know.

I dont have a picture but for the armour perhaps a german pea dot colour scheme, the ones the shutzeshtaffel "SS" used. For the fatigues Just the ones in the picture.

P.S. Type how to paint pea dot camo into google.

I kinda like the blue-grey style helmets. Makes them stand out some

Whilst I favour a dark, night operations camo scheme, i don't think it'll work on the Elysian minis now i look at them.

Perhaps the scheme you've gone for, with the padding bits in a different shade or contrasting colour.

This is some really nice guard here, love all the cool ultra modern looking equipment. Nice Campaign tiles too.

metallifan wrote:UPDATES FOR THE UPDATE GOD!
And frontal

This trooper made my day, so frigg'n badass.

Yes I agree that the veteran sergeant is badass. I think that the infantry look better with fully enclosed helmets, but that's just me.

For your drop troops, I would do the same pattern as your main army, but with weapons that look more the part of drop troops, such as lasguns with wired stocks and man-portable anti-tank weapons. They need more ammo than most troops, so have a bunch of las ammo strapped to their bodies somewhere.

Well, I don't know if you meant this by axsing, but I would love to see the fluff for your regiments.