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I always thought it was purple. Is it personal preference or is there a "offical" colour?

Colors that you never heard of.

It's octarine, the colour of magic.

But seriously, usually purple, see the DoW series

Jabbernocky with swirls of Charmrak IIRC

Ugly colours that hurt your mind.

Well I'm going for a phase in out of the warp thing going on with the weirdboy.
I just want to know what would be the most sensible colour other than colours that hurt you mind

A swirl of bright vibrant colors. Purple, Red, Green, Blue...

But how could I convey that into a model half phased in and out of the warp.
The colours clash and probably wouldn't work.
Is their a prominent colour?

Yes, no, maybe so, ask Tzeentch

Purplish orange and sometimes greenish red.

I'm confused here. You want to know the color of warp energy when being used by Orks?

Green! GREEN! WAAAGH!!!

It is pure chaos... Any color will depend on who is doing what and how much the mind of the onlooker can handle before deciding to not see any more of it. If there's five witnesses they're as likely to see different things as the same scene.

Well, you can only use colours that are within the human retina, so anything from ultra violet and smaler and infra red and higher up is out of the questions (witch should indicate that warp colours messes up your mind and not the retina.)

If you want a cool efect then eather do negative colours, preferably with the lightest being where the shadows should be and vice versa.

I would think of it as a sort of rainbow, ith all the colors being muted and dark.

KrimsunBaron wrote:Is it personal preference or is there a "offical" colour?

This, I think. The vast majority of details in 40k change depending on the author who writes what you are reading. At the same time, you can simply make up what you want and it wouldn't be "wrong" either. 40k is a very customizable setting.

Me, I'm also running with the purple, though. It's just the colour I've seen in most sources during the time as I grew accustomed to the setting.

It's also the warp, having a standard colour for it would only take away from it. Most of the time I think the reason for the darker colours is simply for added grimdark. By the very nature of the warp it would be every colour and no colour at the same time constantly flickering with unheard of colours; inciting madness in the minds of any who even look at it let alone try to make sense of it.

Pure warp energy is invisible to non-psykers. There are some colours that only madmen can see.

Warp Energy can interact with the physical universe and mutate its colour randomly.

Purplish-Pink, that is how DoW II portrays it.

This is the warp we're talking about, people! It is every color known to the material dwellers, as well as colors that aren't known, colors that are impossible, and no color at all. It only makes sense because it shouldn't.

Warp energy is whatever color it feels like being at the time. The Warp energy in Space Marine, for instance, tended to be red because it was being used to summon Bloodletters and Khorne likes red. Summoning Pink Horrors produces blue and silver fire, summoning Plaguebearers produces sickly green, summoning Daemonettes produces odd shades of purple and pink.

In short: whatever the current environment in the Warp at the location the Warp fire is being summoned from looks like will influence the color of the Warp fire at the destination.

Blurple

If it's every colour under the sun then how could I portray that, without it become a mess or a regimented rainbow?

I was thinking of perhaps of a mottled effect of loads of colours?

Then what for the part phased out?
What would something phased out from the warp look like, invisible, or the same as the visible warp?

If it's phased out from the Warp, it's in real-space and appears as it normally would. This is not necessarily a Good Thing, as that item might be an extremely baroque version of Hellraiser's Pillar of Agony.

If it is phased out from realspace, passing into the Warp (or another dimension) it's entirely invisible and intangible to the physical world. Necrons make lots of use of this technology (though they do not make use of the Warp).

I'm thinking of a more in and out look. Wreathed in warp energy. Partially fading out and in at the same time.

Not sure you can duplicate that effect with small plastic miniatures, unless you are in possession of Science! from the notebooks of Nikolai Tesla.

Warp energy is the colour of Death and destruction. It is a colour that hants mens dreams
and gives children nightmares.
It is the colour of chaos itself.
So in other words Pink.

KrimsunBaron wrote:If it's every colour under the sun then how could I portray that, without it become a mess or a regimented rainbow?

I was thinking of perhaps of a mottled effect of loads of colours?

Then what for the part phased out?
What would something phased out from the warp look like, invisible, or the same as the visible warp?

Mate, I gotta say this; you're asking a question to which there is no real tangible answer. People have given their opinion, it's time for you to make the decision regarding your model.
It is impossible to say what something phased out from the warp would look like. Do you know what it looks like in any other dimension [right] now?

Solution; paint the model to the best of your abilities with the information provided. No-one, absolutely no-one, will give you an answer that you're going to be satisfied with. You are, after all, dealing with something as potent, something as unreal, as non-tangible, as the warp. No-one knows beyond guess work and the minimal artistic style GW have rolled with.

666nm so light blue?

I always imagined the warp to be similar to warp space in B5 but that's just me

The color is yes. Any color you can think of, name, imagine, fear or dream about exists in the warp.