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So, I was looking over my armies, and I noticed that all of them have one colour where, if I were to look at them quickly, that's what I'd describe them as.

Cygnar: Blue (of course). While there is definitely plenty of yellow and grey, Blue is the first colour that you really see, and it is fairly constant across models.

Ogres: Brown. Lots of Rusted weapons, Leather, bone and skin. Metals are all rusted, and painted using non-metallic paints. The brighter colours are even kept quite dull, and are varied throughout the army, preventing any one colour from dominating.

Lizardmen: Green. Green Scales, Turquoise shields. My skinks are more colourful, but as I mostly use my (green) chameleon skinks, they don't really dominate. Gold is also stronq, but there is less of it, making it more of the compliment.

Dwarves: Silver. Lots of Warmachines, lots of armour. Prominent weapons. Cloth is mostly greens, greys and browns, in very earthy shades, so not really that noticeable.

Tyranids: Yellow. Arguably the most frequent colour, not only is it presented on the most visable surface (top) of the model, but the other frequent "colour", black, makes it really pop.

Dark Eldar: Red. Red Sails, Highlights, and Armour. Like the Tyranids, contrasts sharply against the shiny black I use as a secondary colour.

So, what one colour would you describe your armies as? Please answer only once per army, as I'm mostly wondering what the most common dominant colour is.

My dominant color is Black primer

I say my army is blue, but many people say they see it as purple. I suppose it is technically indigo, but that's not an option on the poll.

Sisters of Battle- Green robes and tanks. Lots of gray, silver, gold, and red are mixed in there, but the dominant color is green.

Dais: That color is really brilliant. How do you get indigo that saturated and bright?

 Stormfather wrote:
Dais: That color is really brilliant. How do you get indigo that saturated and bright?

I base with VGC sick blue, shade with a mix of blue and black ink, and highlight with reaper indigo sky and pale indigo. The ink shade keeps the color vibrant and intense for the sade as the highlights gradually desaturate.

I'm getting ready to paint my Grey Knights (still finishing the assembly aspect with the new plastics to expand upon my old metals). I already did some test schemes, and I've settled on using purple with gold trim. Cloth and gun casings will be in red.

My first army, the Skaven, are white rats with primarily red cloth and bronze armor.

My second army, the Bretonnians... well...

My third army, the Dark Elves, are traditional dark purple and blue.

My fourth army, the Dwarves, are primarlily armor colored with some red cloth.

I know I'm doing Lizardmen next, and I'm torn between doing a traditional Lustrain green-blue scheme, or a neat desert lizard scheme I saw online. It's still a tossup at this point.

Tau: Crimson armour, black body cloth, white sept markings and grey here and there on the model. Want it to be my schools colors so i can be motivated to paint them well.

Tanith: black, green armour shoulder pads, grey camo cloaks with brown and green high lights on the cloak. silver on the lasguns and wooden brown stocks

Except for the female commissar:

orks: Ice blue

Dark Eldar: Orange

Marines: White.
Eldar: Blue
High Elves: Blue
Grey Knights: Silver.
Guard: Red.

'Nam-style,1st Aircav Catachans...
OD Green EVERYTHING

That would be red.

Necrons: metal and crimson. I expected blue to be more prevalent, I guess it is to early for the hordes of ultramarine fans

My Nids are green with black carapace. Green is the most predominant, but to to the way they stand, you see more black.

The Grey Knights are silver.

The Lizardmen are green Saurus, blue skinks/Krox.

PreHH Iron Warriors ftw!

Pink.


I have lots of Horrors.


I choose red though because Im painting my DE at the moment.

Went for green as both standard Cadians and Dark Angels. Although I guess the Cadians could also be tan.

Green! But more detail the actual colour is Death World Forest, with a HEALTHY lashing of Agrax Earthshade

I play Ultramarines, so that makes it easy...

But I also used blue as the primary accent color on my old chaos WHFB army, so that's the only main color besides black washed metal.

Glancing at my old undead army it's hard to say anything but white. But that's the skeletons talking...

SM: Blue
Necrons: Silver
CSM: Black

Black Templars... should be obvious.
Cadians are orange with yellow and brown.
Catachans are... green but I don't play them anymore.

Debating what to do with my DV marines. Not sure if I want to paint them green, or some other new color. Maybe pink.

Cygnar is Blue. Not sure on what I will do my other game systems colors yet.

My Khador are mostly brown, I hate brightly coloured soldiers. My Elysians have middlestone aircraft and brown uniforms.

Yellow

Red

Green!

My sisters are maroon robes and silver armor with gold accents, the vehicles are white and red accents. my chaos army is black and gold mainly. But khorne red and gold is part of the army too. My emperors children are pink and black. Ill try to post pictures later

Black Templars: Black with white, silver and red trim. HQ's have gold instead of silver.

Crimson Fists: Dark blue

Orks: Green and leather

New Disciples of Horus: Light/medium blue.

Black as I'm a lazy painter

Demons:
Khorne: Red
Slannesh: Purple
Tzeentch: Blue
Nurgle: Green

Eldar: Black

Custodes: Gold

Necrons: Thats a hard one... its Chamelion paint (color changes)

Tau: Tan

Khador: Red

Cygnar: Blue

Trollbloods: Turquoise

Skorne: Black with red and gold trim

Mercs: Olive Drab

Ultramarines: Blue duh

Iron Warriors: Silver/Gunmetal with black and gold trim (just added hazard stripes to my Chaos Lord

Imperial Guard: Cadian color scheme (olive drab and tan)

Pandora Crew: Dark Blue Green with Pink and Purple (an eyesore, but a damn fine sight )


I think that's enough D:

Space Wolves: blue (I refuse to believe that the colors specified in the book are actually "gray" )
Orks: uh...well, I guess I'd say green, simply because there are slightly more models painted green than any other color. I'm kind of aiming for having the amazing technicolor Ork army eventually, so there really isn't just one dominant color.

Red. Secondary color Yellow. Trolls are skinned purple. Stalin is proud.