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Alright everyone I took a crack at coming up with a color scheme for my Obsidian Fists (other name suggestions?) DIY chapter. I feel like it's not overly unique in the regard that it uses red, grey, and black so i'm trying to vary the colors and how there used enough for it to be somewhat interesting.

I may do the whole 1 black fist for normal guys, 2 black fists for veterans, no black fist for scouts in honor of the Crimson Fists who my chapter are descended from (through way of the Crimson Fists providing the officers who trained the new chapter and took original potions of chapter master, head apothecary, veteran sergeants, librarian, ect.) I think it may be kind of cool because they are the Obsidian (Black) Fists. Thoughts on this?

One thing I do want to point out is that I plan on using Roman numerals for the company number on the kneepad. However, for some reason on the marine painter the roman numerals only go from 1 to 2? I guess I should have still just used them but I plan on making the 3rd company with the actual miniatures so I just used the Gothic 3 to avoid personal confusion. It does look kind of cool though, more violent and chaotic looking and not as neat and orderly as a Roman Numeral. At least that's what it made me think of

Here's the standard marine and sarge


Here's a veteran and sarge


Chapter logo will be a black fists (exactly like the Imperial Fists logo just without the white circle around it). If I can practice up on my photoshop I may make it the fists holding a hammer just to be a little different

Colors used would be Codex Grey, Chaos Black, Mechanrite Red, and Boltgun Metal. Has anyone had experience with the red? I've never used it and don't know how it looks in person but on the marine painter it looks pretty BA. Also one thing about the painter. There will be bits of boltgun metal and gold and other little things on the miniatures. I'll probably put laurels on the veterans but I didn't want them to be green like in the painter. They'd most likely be black or maybe silver or gold

So what does everyone think? Any suggestions?

One of my main problems is figuring out how to incorporate the Codex company colors into my guys. Initially I just had the marine all codex grey with black trim and a gray shoulder pad. This way no matter which company I was modeling the company color would match the chapter colors. Then I realized that was terribly boring and uninspired so I said screw it and came up with this instead. If anyone does have any suggestions on how to use company colors let me know thought. I think having a unique color scheme and just using the number on the knee pad will probably be fine and look better anyway though. It seems like most people don't incorporate the codex company colors in there DIY chapters anyway so I'm assuming that this isn't considered a bad practice to just use numbers?

Thanks!

Looks pretty good, ever thought of giving them green eyes? It seems to be a common thing with red helmets and it might look great with your color scheme.

Murray145 wrote:Looks pretty good, ever thought of giving them green eyes? It seems to be a common thing with red helmets and it might look great with your color scheme.

I agree. Green eyes would look really nice.

I have experience with GW red's. As far as I paint, the go on pretty good. Merchite red is good colour to greys. So I think it's a good choice. You would never have problem painting with Merchite red over any colour

You could do the chest eagles in the company colors.

I like the colors, my two suggestions would be green eyes and if you are going Obsidian Fist don't only paint the hand but paint the hand and forearm on one side black.

Alright good ideas so far. I could probably do green eyes. The silver looked pretty cool but the green would probably stand out more and i like it on the miniatures i've seen. I also kinda liked the idea of the black forearm. I'll have to think that over and maybe try it out on a model or two

how about black as the primary with a gold aquilla then either gold or silver detailes on the helmet with white lines like impurities found in rocks ?? just a suggestion.

Ultrasmurf_no_REALY wrote:how about black as the primary with a gold aquilla then either gold or silver detailes on the helmet with white lines like impurities found in rocks ?? just a suggestion.

Yeah I actually was thinking about that for some of the vehicles and banners and stuff. Honestly I would do it if I thought I could. I'm just not a very good painter and I plan on getting alot of practice before I get to work on most of my guys but I know I wouldn't be able to pull off something complicated like this and be happy with my results. Like I said though I may do it with some of the banners and stuff towards the end of my painting so I'll be more experienced by then

I like the sound of this chapter and it will be cool to see what you come up with.
haha im already thinking of some conversions for this army too XD (id be glad to do any conversions if you'd like me to ^_-)