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Hey guys,

After getting some more bits to finish up my renegade guardsmen, I've been wracking my brain trying to come up with a paint scheme to justify such great models. I finally found a really cool colour scheme that I want to try out. I believe it's the concept art for the Space Marine video game. Unfortunately, my painting ineptitude is hindering my ability to translate it onto the miniatures...




Anyone have any suggestions on a recipe to recreate it? There are certainly a lot of different hues and colours, but if someone could help me recreate the colour scheme (with obvious differences), that would be fantastic.

I'll post pictures as WIP if someone could give me a decent recipe.

Thanks in advance!

For the fabric you could probably slather the model with an even coat of bleached bone or Ushabti Bone and then give it an even layer of brown wash. The metal parts you should be able to pretty easily paint over those with chainmail silver type color and then strategically dab either brown ink or wash onto the places where you want to shade...be careful with ink though, it covers very well and is tricky to work with. For flesh, I like to use Tallarn flesh to base skin, then I use a reikland flesh shade wash, then I highlight with either dwarf flesh, elf flesh, or more Tallarn flesh to the desired color. For these guys you'll probably want to stay away from elf flesh except on the bridge of the nose and just a dab on the cheeks.

Hope that helps.

edit: highlight the fabric with the same color you used before you washed over them, and base coat the models in black

I'm pretty comfortable painting the skin/armour, it's actually the cloth that's giving me the hardest time. In particular, the second picture's grays are hard to replicate.

I'm using Mechanicus Standard Grey, washed with Nuln Oil as a base.

I'll post some WIP's soon.

Chardonite Granite.

Or the new version of Chardonite Granite.

Thanks much for posting those pics!

The gray fabric is a very warm gray, almost brown. I would start with a medium gray (possibly even a light gray) and then play around with multiple layers of GW black and brown washes.

tim