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So sadly there are no pics to show you all what I want, but I am looking to making a new marine army for the release of the new dex. So the more I thought about it the more I realized I didn't want, black, white, red, or blue. That didn't leave me with allot. So at the moment im thinking of a few options. And any color suggestions would help me allot.

So the first one that I am leaning towards currently is a grey with red details. And im thinking straight grey not space wolves grey. To blue for me.

Second I was looking at the mantis warrior color scheme, which is basically emerald green armor with a red strip down the helm.

Also I was thinking maybe a yellow or purple army of some sort. Let me know what ya all think

ORANGE!! it looks cool plus orange goes good with alot of colors

My vote is for yellow with dark purple trims. It would look really nice.






Twister....

Grey may be good.Its not a common used color but it fits with most other colors,like red/green/yellow/orange.
Yellow is a challenge to paint :S but it is a bright color that looks good with a second darker color,perhaps green.
Purple has to be mixed by yourself,but may look good if you use it only partially.

Forgot: is your plan a one-color or two-color scheme? Halved/quartered sheme or armorpieces like shoulderpads
done in different colors?

I suggest also : Insignium astartes (book), the SM-painter from B&C, "show you mine ,show me yours" thread at B&C.

if you choose codex grey,you can always claim your plastic models as painted,even when they're not

orange with any trim. I like blue

Maybe this article on the uk gw site could help a bit. Tons of color schemes all done up for you to check out and help figure out what you like on the models and what you don't. You might even lift one of the schemes wholesale ^_^.

I recommend purple with red and white (EPS colors)

HFN

may sound weird, but try painting them yellow and applying a thin wash of watered down fiery orange, looks great

or, on a random note, do what my GF done, love marines XD
random pink marines with red heart shoulder pads XD
(her idea, not mine)

For some reason I like Adeptus Battlegrey as a main color and either Tausept Ochre or Inyanden Darksun or the secondary. The Ochre looks a lot like gold dress military colors used on ropes and other such things. It at least looks good on IG.

hmmm, too much iron on this thread
go with a metalic colour

Hey I like how you think, metallics are always in style

manowar2 wrote:So sadly there are no pics to show you all what I want, but I am looking to making a new marine army for the release of the new dex. So the more I thought about it the more I realized I didn't want, black, white, red, or blue. That didn't leave me with allot. So at the moment im thinking of a few options. And any color suggestions would help me allot.

So the first one that I am leaning towards currently is a grey with red details. And im thinking straight grey not space wolves grey. To blue for me.

Second I was looking at the mantis warrior color scheme, which is basically emerald green armor with a red strip down the helm.

Also I was thinking maybe a yellow or purple army of some sort. Let me know what ya all think

you could do chaos space marines insted, or you can paint pre heresy Emperers children, there pink

could try gold?
nothing wrong with chav marines

but on a serious note, its best to get some old models that have a nice flat surface and some detail and try out as many colour schemes as you want, then compare them and pick the 1 you want.
i only chose iron hands due to the fluff and the look of loads of bionics.

I say grey. 40k can never have too many grey marines.

Thanks for all the help guys. I think im going to scrounge p some old crap marines, and try out a few colors. Then if I can get a camera post some pics up here and see what you all think.

I like warlock purple with bleached bones trim. you can highlight the purple with midnight blue and the bone with white

plaid!!

Try this out to test Space Marine colors.

Well thank you all. I should have my color scheme chose by the end of the week. I am using the marine painter that stjohn linked me to, and trying out a few different ideas. I am hoping to get one marine painted, and photoed to be the start of a new army blog coming up here this weekend. Thanks everyone hope that my guys turn out awesome.

stjohn70 wrote:Try this out to test Space Marine colors.

That thing is great. This is my current color scheme

Marine color

ChaosDave wrote:This is my current color scheme

Dude, you could have saved us all the click by saying: Ultramarinz, HURR!

JohnHwangDD wrote:

ChaosDave wrote:This is my current color scheme

Dude, you could have saved us all the click by saying: Ultramarinz, HURR!

naw the actual blue is closer to crimson fists. Navy blue is quite different from the Ultramarines baby blue.

Heres my idea for manowar2 make it quartered with a dark orange and black for the trim on the shoulder pad use a lighter orange and make the shoulder pad on the orange quarter black. make the knees and all the raised thingies black with light orange highlights

Only British readers might get this:

Pink Marines? Call them the Angels Delight

I'm painting gold Thousand Sons. I start by mixing in Shining Gold with Scorched Brown to give a nice deep base. I've never seen a marine all one metal colour, but I'm giving it a go. All gold, with blue robes.

Well right now I am thinking a light almost concrete colored grey, halved with scab red. Gunna try it out tomorrow and see how I like it

I think you'll get better results quartered. Or using the red for shoulderpads.

Ya think quartered will work better? Alright I will see what I can do

Yeah, quartered looks a little more "balanced".

The nice thing is, for your first batch, it really doesn't matter that much. Just paint a few test models and see what you like better. If I were you, I'd paint all 3 variants (grey with red pads, grey & red halved, and grey & red quartered). One of them will stick out as your "winner", the others wil be repainted. Repainting 2 out of 40-50 models is no biggie.