Distinguishing between squads

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**Weazel**

For IG there are these nifty little sheets of transfers that you can use to mark your squads. Just place a squad number on the shoulderpad of your little dudesmen. No need to mess around with paint job cohesion.

For Orks I'm just painting different colored pants for different mobs.

I guess for cultists it could be a bit trickier since they are a bit of a ragtag crowd, but I guess you can figure out some unifying markings. A different colored wash on the base might do the trick.

**TheFleshIsWeak**

edwardmyst wrote:
My friend has used skin color as his distinguishing mark. It worked because he made sure the units whose color had the largest contrast were placed next to each other while slighter variations were not. This also solved his problem when he wanted them in one unit (he used them in 4 units of 15 or 2 of 30), as it wasn't a big deal to have such variation. He used four main colors for his skin. The light elf flesh, the cadian tan, a dark brown I remember as Skrag brown, and because he was nurgle, a putrid green. All were washed and such but still clear on the table. You could add different colors by your background (the Salamanders coal black coloring would be another good contrast).
I don't remember too many that didn't have skin showing, but this may have been the older models...

Made me think of this: