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I am getting some IG for the first time and want to paint them with urban camouflage, the thing is, I don't have any pictures to go off of besides about 2 or 3 I found doing some google searches. I was hoping somebody who knows and have researched guard more extensively than I would maybe know where some good pictures are. I would also be interested if you all had some thoughts on what colors and the camo pattern. I was thinking Black, dark grey, light grey, and white with a tiger stripe pattern as seen in this pic:

or maybe the same colors with multicam:

Or maybe something completely different! What do you all think?

Edited for clarity

Well if you feel like having your soul sucked out through your ears then you should do it

Iv done a little bit of camo on my Tau (which i really should take pictures of eventually :/

I like to start Light grey > white > medium grey > dark grey/black

Seems fairly easy for tiger strips as all you would need to do is cover up a bit of the white and black with the medium grey, keeping the spacing even mostly.

There are tons of styles to look up with an urban camo search on google images but this gallery is pretty nice here on dakka for camo patterns. Desert, urban, winter and all guard units as well

http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-search.jsp?p=1&u=4078&g=14085&ll=3&auction=0&unapproved=0&coolnesslow=0&coolnesshigh=10&paintjoblow=0&paintjobhigh=10&sort1=7&sort2=0&skip=30&en=&st=&utype=&start=30

Cool guys, thanks!

No problem.

I did something similar on my Tau. Its easiest if you use black as your base colour, then paint your pattern over that. Once you get into the swing of things its not that hard to do, and it can save you time in fancy edge highlighting, because it gets hidden behind the camo pattern anyway at a distance

Just remember that camo patterns aren't designed to be painted in the middle of flat plates, they need to disguise straight edges and obviously unatural silhouettes, so runf the pattern over corners and edges.

Why has one of those Tau got a meltabomb? ^^

I did a quasi urban camo scheme with a "blue jean" base color with black and white splotches.

For the vehicles I used the British "Berlin Brigade" urban scheme from the 1980s.

 BrotherOfBone wrote:
Why has one of those Tau got a meltabomb? ^^

Why not? He needed to be carrying something

 Flinty wrote:

 BrotherOfBone wrote:
Why has one of those Tau got a meltabomb? ^^

Why not? He needed to be carrying something

xDD fair enough mate, can't blame you, melta bombs are awesome.. TOO BAD SUCKY TAU DON'T GET THEM YEAH GO SPAHSS MAREENZ

I painted some really simple urban camo for a commission a few years ago. It was just Adeptus Battlegrey base coat, little stripes of Codex Grey, Fortress Grey, and Chaos Black, washed with Badab Black. I did white stripes on some too I think, it was a while ago.