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hello dakka,

looking for a little color scheme advice for a unit of sniper scouts I'll be doing for my salamanders space marine army. I couldn't find any good fluff references for scout armor, so I had to wing it:

1. green for all the armor plates, gauntlets and details on the boots.
2. black for the rest of the gloves and boots
3. a medium to dark gray for the cloth along the arms and legs
4. some sort of camo pattern for the cloaks?

I'm not sold on the gray for the cloth, but with black being the other obvious choice I thought something lighter would be better. maybe a khaki would work better? the green I use for the armor is close to GW's goblin green, so it's not super light or dark.

for the camo cloaks, I'm thinking some sort of dessert camo pattern since the army is based with a dessert rock theme. anyone happen to have a good dessert camo tutorial/reference? I've not painted camo patterns before.

cheers,

v

Here is how I did mine:





I like lots of browns and leathers with the exception of the chest armor and shoulder pads.