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so true...

'Nuff said

Ok so no flash conversions today, just a few pics of my Haramaki (read Samurai) colour scheme... though the word "colour" is a bit deceptive as I ended up with a very monochromatic model.

First I was thinking of a red and grey scheme, something like this...





But I found I wasn't making enough use of all the armour plating by painting it in metallics and after I finished I looked up and saw my two 40k armies..... all in black and red!

I figured that since at most I am going to paint 5 Haramaki ( the 4 in the set I already have and the missile launcher is in the mail from Maelstrom) I decided on a more intensive paint scheme than is normal for me..... I went white!







Now white is not normally in my palette but I have always wanted to learn how to paint with so I am having a go, this guy is built up from black, with a foundation grey then the white is what seems like a hundred layers of thin white.

Again not something I would have chosen for an army of 60+ models but when I only have 5 pieces to do I am pretty confidant I will be able to get through it

There are still a few armour plates that need some more white coats and then I will have a go at adding the JSA stripes along the bottom edge of the trousers and perhaps a few details on the shoulderpads and various other armour plates, not sure yet.


Well thats my plan for the Haramaki, C&C is very welcome!

Cheers,

BLACKHAND

Oh my God! A non-red Blackhand army??? What madness has befallen the world?

Looks great, the thin layers certainly pay off, super smooth. Though i feel your palette could do with a couple of "warm" accents. All the colours are cold, which is fine, but a spot colour or a super warm base would go a long way towards making it pop more.

Thanks Vits, I know what you mean about colour and I will be adding a splash of something. Everything in me leans towards a bright red, a la Sin city but I think if I use red again I will actually implode into a parody of myself

The question now is what colour to use? The usual colours for the ninja are black and green so I will stay away from green for the time being in case I end up using it on them.... that leaves a blue perhaps?

In any case it will be just a few spots to break up the black and white....

..... of course this is a Japanese Army so a red rising sun on the shoulderpad would make sense.....

Blue... orange perhaps. Love the figure and your patience with the white really paid off.

-applause- the white is amazing. I agree with Blue.

Wow BH, the white looks beautiful!
ill put my vote in for blue as well, its a classic combination for a reason

How about silver for the"Silver Samurai"

Silver.. ehh..

Thanks guys, I have been moonlighting over on the Infinity threads as well and the general consensus has been to stay away from red as well.

Oh and Miss Dee you are spot on the money, the normal colours for a Haramaki are black cloth , silver armour and red helmet but as I am such a rebel I decided to do a non standard paint job

Since I may as well make a decision at some point and the votes are all in ( ) I will give a blue a try, probably paint up a marine in white and test a few different shades before I go at the Haramaki.

All you need now is the Ol' Knuckle Head.

Problem is that blue is a cold colour as well (iirc). It would look cool but depends on whether you want to keep the "cold" palette or not.

Orange would be cool as well. Tbh, if you went super-bright red it would still be different to your usual broody dark red.

beautiful models! love the Samurai. The white works really well with those models.

Nice. Like the white look, has a pretty cyber-ninja vibe to me, more on the cyber side than the ninja. If you're going with blue accents maybe a touch of red or orange on the base for a warm contrast, or a very bright red for the eyes if they'll show on the model.

And I hear you on the black and red thing, that seems to be my default unless I try really hard to go another route, and then I normally find it's snuck in somewhere without me realising.

@Miss Dee - If you mean Wolverine then you need to check out my Sabre Legion blog, I have a space marine wolverine on a stretched out SM bike...there's even Deadpool!

@ Vitruvian - True, a crimson would be out of the ordinary for me and would suit the japanese them more, but I am not averse to a cold scheme anyways

@Sageheart - Thanks bud!

@Monkeytroll - Yeah its funny how easy it is to get stuck in a painting rut colourwise, my hope is to try and break out of it with the Infinity models.

Got a link sweetie?

Nice start bro! I'm looking forward to seeing where you take them too!

@ Miss Dee - About half way down this page is the Deadpool I made up

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/291910.page

And here is the Wolvie on Chopper, again about the middle of the page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/390/291910.page

@Perplexiti - Thanks man.

Deadpool <3 EDIT: no homo

I remember seeing Deadpool before, but I managed to miss Logan in there somehow. Awesome stuff man!

Thanks for the comments everyone,

Ok pic time!

Here are my Keisotsu Butai, they need some more layers on their skin and a couple more layers of highlights on the charcoal armour and grey pants... but are painted enough for demo games at my club





Obviously I am following the same monochrome scheme as my Haramaki and I have yet to decide on a highlight colour for my army. I have a few resin bases for them, problem is they are urban bases and will likely end up in shades of grey as well.... oops!

Oh and here is my Oniwaban, I saw this colour scheme somewhere on these forums and loved it straight away..... if I only could remember who's blog it was on I would thank them







Please pardon the quality of the pics, I thought my phone's camera was doing better than my distinctly average camera but tonight I just can't get a nice shot.

C&C welcome as always,

Cheers

BLACKHAND

Looking good my friend. Love that swordsman!

great work BH, the samurai (ninja?) especially looks top notch

You know what Im tempted to get some grey knights and turn them into Exorcists

@Gitsplitta - Thanks

@Reiko - Cheers

@Miss Dee - Ok.....

Loads of great work here since I last checked.

The Dreadknight is fantastic, I especially like the job you did on the Psycannon

Looks great Blackhand, I'm thinking of starting with haqqislam, just gotta get my head around the game.

@Tipios - Thanks, keep an eye on Gits thread as he will be adding some finishing touches to it no doubt.

@Perplexiti - Cheers, don't worry so much about the rules of the game itself as it plays fast and ruthless ( snipers can be a stone cold bi&*h, get in a ton of solid terrain) it is the sheer amount of special rules that bogs you down. My firend an I have solved this as much as possible by learning to play with the most basic troops we have and adding more specialized troops as we progress.

Sweet as, yeah I've become a huge terrain fan, especially after starting malifaux a while back. Even when I've played 40k or fantasy I've been stacking the board with loads of LOS blocking stuff.


I'm really looking forward to getting in some games with proxies, moneys too tight to go out and order them yet...