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Hi there

I have been playing warhammer 40k for about 6 months now and have painted almost all of my army except my captain.

I have no ideas on how to paint him as he uses pieces from different sets.

He has a thunder hammer +storm shireld as his weapons, a DC jump pack, a grey knight helmet and the rest is from the GW kit.

Any ideas guys I could really use the help.

Thanks, Will

This may come across as a little sarcastic but it isnt meant to be.

Can't you just paint him red? The varying kits shouldnt overly impact your scheme, he has to tie in with the rest of your army and short of a custom job that means about 90% of your force is likely meant to be red.

Other than that if you wanted more specifics, a white helmet can be a great way to mark out a more elite leader. OSL on the power weapon on the shield will take some more advanced techniques but I've seen some amazing results from it.

Also I've seen some people doing light flare from the jump packs engines with OSL that looked pretty sweet.

Sorry if this isnt what you were after.

Paint regular armour red then paint metal/gold on special places eg the grey knight helmet

In the BA codex some some of the HQ's are gold, like Dante, Tycho and the Sanguinor.

Thanks for the speedy replies.

I get the whole red theme but I really meant I am struggling with the jump back / helm. With the jump pack the colours of DC kind of contradict the original colours and disengaged look too good and with the helm I was wondering weather I paint all one colour or paint the lower visor/mouthguard in a metal colour.

Thanks again, Will