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I finally found a color scheme for my IG army that I really like and because my painting skills are pretty bad I have no idea about how to paint this. I am asking all you guys out there that can paint better than I can to give me so pointers and advice on painting this scheme onto my troops. Here is the picture:



So any tips, advice and steps would be greatly apprectiated. Thank you.

Spray Chaos Black, paint armour with codex grey and highlight with skull white (or 50/50 codex and skull) and drybrush the tunic with codex grey. (or drybrush codex grey, wash with badab black)

Looks simple enough to do.

black base coat on pants, dark grey basecoat on armor. Then paint fatigues a dark grey, armor a light grey and trim with white.

RayvenQ wrote:Spray Chaos Black, paint armour with codex grey and highlight with skull white (or 50/50 codex and skull) and drybrush the tunic with codex grey. (or drybrush codex grey, wash with badab black).

Yeah, I'd do this (except I'd drybrush the clothing before I did the armor).

With the armor, though, it looks like it was painted codex and then heavily hightlighted with fortress grey. Alternately, if you wanted a lighter color armor, you could paint it fortress grey and then highlight it white, or a fortress-white mix, or just a lighter grey.

Do the Imperial Guard symbols (wings on weapon and helm) have to be white or black? Can they be a different color such as red or blue?

They can be whatever you want, so long as you like the color scheme.

From my own aesthetic, having the model be monochrome with just the symbols picked out in a bright color is likely going to look somewhat odd.

If you're wanting to put some color on the model, given that your guardsmen are going to be otherwise so quick to paint, you may want to consider adding a little color detail in the form of camoflage on either the armor or the fatigues.

I would spray it white, wash the tunic in badab black (as many times as you need to get it as dark as you want), paint armor in codex gray, and then lightly dryburch the edges to highlight with white. For the face, paint elf flesh and wash badab black.

Easy enough.

Fatigues: Adeptus Battlegrey with a Badab Black wash
Armor: Codex Grey with a Fortress Grey highlight
Metallics: Boltgun metal with a Badab Black wash
Eagles: Skull White
Skin: Dwarf Flesh with Ogryn Flesh wash

All over a black (or grey!) undercoat of course.

Ailaros wrote:They can be whatever you want, so long as you like the color scheme.

From my own aesthetic, having the model be monochrome with just the symbols picked out in a bright color is likely going to look somewhat odd.

If you're wanting to put some color on the model, given that your guardsmen are going to be otherwise so quick to paint, you may want to consider adding a little color detail in the form of camoflage on either the armor or the fatigues.

What would you suggest? Any images? I have no idea how to paint camo. Believe me when I say that I suck at painting. I mean I don't even know how I am going to paint this Leman Russ I am building right now.


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I appreciate all your advice but I think I am going to stick with the standard GW Cadian color scheme. It gives me something solid to build my skills off of. I think I will pick up the GW how to paint Citadel tanks book and read through that for how to paint my tanks. Thank you again for all your advice.

Duh, it says it right there in the picture.

1) Codex Grey

2) Chaos Black

3) Done.

But more properly spray black, drybrush with a mix of space wolf grey and black, then a drybrush of spacewolf grey. Paint the armor codex grey then highlight with codex grey mixed with white.

Considering it's Guards, I'd invest in a spraypaint similar to Adeptus Battlegrey, sprey the whole mini, block out the armours in Astronomican Grey, belt, gun, metal bits and pouches in Chaos Black and the face and hands with Tallarn Flesh. Pick out the metal bits with Boltgun.

Next step, heavilly dilluted Badab Black over the armour, less dilluted Badab over the fatigues and metal bits, Ogryn Flesh over the face and hands.

Drybrush or blend adeptus onto the fattigues, Astronomican Grey onto the armour, Tallarn Flesh onto the face and hands.
Edge highlight about 50/50 Astronomican Grey/Skull White on the armour, 50/50 Tallarn Flesh and Bleached Bone on the face and hands, pure Chainmail on the metal bits, 50/50 Chaos Black/Rotting Flesh on belts and straps, pure codex grey on the gun.

You can, of course, add considerably more stages to this, for that extra touch, but this is a batchpainting friendly method without too many stages or brush finesse.