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Hey everybody, today I purchased a warriors of chaos battalilon, and I was contemplating the paint scheme. I decided that I want an undivided paint scheme, but I was wondering....do the warriors still need to be identical in their color schemes? and one more thing, Would you guys help my out by suggesting some undivided painting schemes you have seen or used that you liked?

They're your minis, you can paint them however you want. If you want to make them look like mismatched rabble with a bunch of different schemes, go for it.

As for actual color ideas, why does it matter what I like? What kind of colors do you like? What kind of feel do you want for your warriors?

Vene wrote:They're your minis, you can paint them however you want. If you want to make them look like mismatched rabble with a bunch of different schemes, go for it.

As for actual color ideas, why does it matter what I like? What kind of colors do you like? What kind of feel do you want for your warriors?

i wanna know if it will look good, and honestly im just looking for scheme ideas

If you are painting to look like a particular group of Chaos Undivided then you can go with the established paint schemes.

Black Legion
Iron Warriors
Night Lords
Word Bearers

All have established Schemes.

The warriors who make up the legions that became chaos have great pride in their legions and fight for the leaders of that legion with pride.
This was still accepted when they went over to chaos so I would say they still take pride in the colors their leaders show for their legions.
Much like the Luna Wolves became Sons of Horus and then The Black Legion when they turned to chaos. At each stage they all changed to color of their armor to represent the new colors of their legion.
At least in the fluff.

No that being said most groups in 40k are lead by a major leader or primarch or in the case of chaos a demon prince. The problem with this is there are many demon princes and sometimes warriors defect from their branch of chaos to another. So if you wanted to put a black legionare in your group he would be a defector from that legion to another. So if a group of them got together then they could make a new legion that worshipped chaos as a whole.

So basicly what im saying is if you choose to go with a legion that is established I would keep the established paint schemes.
If you make a new legion up do whatever you want it's your army. But if you choose one scheme it makes painting a whole lot quicker.

-D-

Dysturbed wrote:If you are painting to look like a particular group of Chaos Undivided then you can go with the established paint schemes.

Black Legion
Iron Warriors
Night Lords
Word Bearers

All have established Schemes.

The warriors who make up the legions that became chaos have great pride in their legions and fight for the leaders of that legion with pride.
This was still accepted when they went over to chaos so I would say they still take pride in the colors their leaders show for their legions.
Much like the Luna Wolves became Sons of Horus and then The Black Legion when they turned to chaos. At each stage they all changed to color of their armor to represent the new colors of their legion.
At least in the fluff.

No that being said most groups in 40k are lead by a major leader or primarch or in the case of chaos a demon prince. The problem with this is there are many demon princes and sometimes warriors defect from their branch of chaos to another. So if you wanted to put a black legionare in your group he would be a defector from that legion to another. So if a group of them got together then they could make a new legion that worshipped chaos as a whole.

So basicly what im saying is if you choose to go with a legion that is established I would keep the established paint schemes.
If you make a new legion up do whatever you want it's your army. But if you choose one scheme it makes painting a whole lot quicker.

-D-

Warriors of Chaos is not 40k

And having a variety of schemes would make your army look like disorganized rabble. If that's what you want, go for it. But I don't know the fluff for fantasy so I don't know if it would make sense.

yea I understand, and yea thanks but warriors of chaos is not part of 40K

I think dysturbed might be on to something.

You could still apply that colour scheme to a WoC force in fantasy, ifou think about it the only difference in the two forces is the tech level. I mean they are both almost all clad fully in heavy armor, wielding big weapons and as spike and skull-festooned as each other. Simply take the scheme for, say, black legion (black armour, gold trim) and apply it to the WoC!

It may need some tweaking (e.g. techniques used, overall shades and highlights) but it could in fact work!

http://www.jrn-works.dk/

Check out Jacob Rune Nielsen's site, he has a good example/tutorial in his "Tutorials" section!
Hope this helps!

Thanks,

Tom

Its so cute that the lords of corruption have their fav colours!
I always thought WoC look good with mostly cold metallic armour made dark/dirty/ancient looking with washes of , say, watered down "tin bits" (my personal favourite). I think its a good idea to try to make them look a bit individual, that makes them look more knightly in my oppinion and is reasonably easy to do if you make most of the armour metal and leave the variations for the capes, weapons, horns etc. Black is also a good unaligned colour i guess.
Good luck

Undivided usually means black and gold to me. I hate highlighting black though, so it's up to you.

I'd go with a dark silver theme.
Dont see why the armour has to be black.

Just paint it chainmail, wash with brown and black then chainmail highlights.
Keeps a nice knightly theme going and doesnt point towards any gods.

My chaos undivided are all orange - but things like the berserkers are black and red + fade to orange at the top in order to keep them looking part of the group.

I plan on having orange be a part of each of my figure's colors but they can vary a good amount as well.

Really, do whatever you want as long as you like it!

that sounds really interesting attomsk!!! would you mind posting a picture?

I would have to say use dark colours un-associated with any of the existing gods, you can't go wrong with black and silver, but to mix it up I reccomend maybe some browns and dark greys. Also tin bitz for a rusty look would looks great if you wanted to make them look like ancient warriors.

You should paint them with Rainbows

Girthman wrote:that sounds really interesting attomsk!!! would you mind posting a picture?

I am keeping a painting blog with pictures of my progress in the P&M Blog section. Here is the link!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/313691.page

It all depends very greatly on the hue and darkness of the colours you are using. If you use a dark red then its khornate... if you use a bright red then its... still khornate. Bad Example. I'm using a Greenish Grey, with Bronze Trim for my chaos undivided, and it (shockingly) didnt turn out too nurgley. It all depends. Search 'Skyrar's Dark Wolves' thats the closest I can come to describing the colour I use.

Thanks guys for all the help, all the suggestions were very interesting, I have decided on the paint scheme I will be using on my warriors, you could see the paintjob I chose and how the rest of my Woc army will turn out on my P-Log.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/313253.page