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Hey guys, I'm about to paint my Jugger lord for 40k, for my night lords army. As many out there I just added a backpack and a boltgun to the fantasy one, so it is ready for painting, however my scheme is a Night Lordish one (dark blue with gold/red) and though that the color given by 'eavy metal to the juggy would look great, however I'm not sure which colors are the ones needed to get that wine color. At my FLGS mephiston red was suggested but I ain't sure if that one is the base, and if so which other would be ideal for highlights/shades.

Here's the color I want to replicate (jugger):



And the scheme of my army:



Thanks for your help guys

I..... don't understand what it is you are asking for. Do you want to replicate the thing he is riding on, or do you want to replicate the rider?

The thing being ridden on: Everything black. Something like 3-1 parts black-to-desired color, maybe 2-1.... onto wherever the light hits, and the highlight with 1:1 black-desiredcolor. Then hit some specific edges with your color. And varnish.

I'd say just experiment with mixtures on test models till you get what you want. Don't have test models? Get someone else's ruined models off ebay for dirt cheap...

Yeah i want to replicate the thing he is mounting (juggernaut), i want to achieve the same color, but with the new range of paints i have no idea which one is the one i need. Black and red/purple i guess, but which tone.

The bottom pic is just my actual scheme which would be the one on the chaos lord who is mounted on the juggernaut, is there only so that if someone says, damn!, that would look awful i might think on changing the color on the juggernaut

Okay. Yeah, if you have a blue color scheme, i'd stick with a blue tone to the juggernaught.

Way back when (in the hexagon shaped pots) GW produced a sexy color called midnight blue. Its a really dark blue, which if painted over black, looks like an incredibly dark purple. I'd try to replicate this. A really deep blue, with a dash of purple, darkened down to form the first layer of color over the black. then a light coating with a less-dark...

looks to me like:
-black base
-Kantor Blue with a tiniest touch of purple and a bit of black added to it
-watered kantor blue where the light hits it
-Kantor blue with a tiny bit of white just on the edges

GW used to have a great color range.......

 poda_t wrote:
Way back when (in the hexagon shaped pots) GW produced a sexy color called midnight blue. Its a really dark blue, which if painted over black, looks like an incredibly dark purple. I'd try to replicate this. A really deep blue, with a dash of purple, darkened down to form the first layer of color over the black. then a light coating with a less-dark...

Fear not; that color lives on as Vallejo Game Color Night Blue (#019) and it is a wonderful color indeed.

 poda_t wrote:
Okay. Yeah, if you have a blue color scheme, i'd stick with a blue tone to the juggernaught.

Way back when (in the hexagon shaped pots) GW produced a sexy color called midnight blue. Its a really dark blue, which if painted over black, looks like an incredibly dark purple. I'd try to replicate this. A really deep blue, with a dash of purple, darkened down to form the first layer of color over the black. then a light coating with a less-dark...

looks to me like:
-black base
-Kantor Blue with a tiniest touch of purple and a bit of black added to it
-watered kantor blue where the light hits it
-Kantor blue with a tiny bit of white just on the edges

GW used to have a great color range.......

Actually those marines are painted with my last pot of midnight blue, it is far gone by now though :(. And I was trying to get away from the blue jugger since my blood crushers failed terribly and I'm deciding either to strip the paint on them or keep going and apply several dark washes to extinguish the live out of that blue.



It was a WIP but dunno a blue jugger seemed wrong

Yeah, too much blue. Should have stayed much closer to black. I'd reccomend hunting around for a black ink, or a black glaze, or a very dark blue ink/glaze, and being VERY very very very methodical and patient in the application. One surface at a time type of patient. I wouldn't do anything heavy like a wash, because it would pool toward the cracks and seams