Painting dark mechanicus?

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**gianlucafiorentini123**

I'm planning on painting up some dark mechanicus and I was wondering:

-Do they apply paint to their creations or would they leave the bear metal showing?
-Did they wear red?

**Pharcae**

I think mechanicus and dark mechanicus propably looks quite alike, mechanicus already looks evil and sinister.. the main difference being that dark mech. tend to use daemons instead of biological "ingredients" in their creations. As a side note, "bear metal" sounds like a really interesting musical genre :-)

Rust and blood over faint red sounds like a convincing paint scheme. Some talismans and chaos stars here and there could look nice, but don't go overboard on the spikes.

**CthuluIsSpy**

I believe some visual aids may be handy

Their logo

Spoiler:

What a Heretek looks like, along with his lovely assistant.

Spoiler:

A heretek performing vivisection

Spoiler:

A heretek who somehow stole a necron warscythe (HOW?! Well, ok, acquiring one is possible I guess...but how did it get it to work? I thought only Orks can do that, since you know, waagh field 0_o)

Spoiler:

You know what, I'll just post the wiki page. It has all of the images there.

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Mechanicus

By the way, why do the Techpriests love red so much? Does it have something to do with Mars?

**the shrouded lord**

CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I believe some visual aids may be handy

Their logo

Spoiler:

What a Heretek looks like, along with his lovely assistant.

Spoiler:

A heretek performing vivisection

Spoiler:

A heretek who somehow stole a necron warscythe (HOW?! Well, ok, acquiring one is possible I guess...but how did it get it to work? I thought only Orks can do that, since you know, waagh field 0_o)

Spoiler:

You know what, I'll just post the wiki page. It has all of the images there.

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Mechanicus

By the way, why do the Techpriests love red so much? Does it have something to do with Mars?

It brings out their eyes. And gears.

**Iron_Captain**

gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
bear metal

You made me giggle uncontrollably

. I'm trying to imagine what bear metal looks like. Or what it would sound like if it were a musical genre.

**Engine of War**

I have personally always imagined chared black with red and plenty of symbols and such to "insult" the Admech. judging from the Heretech it seems red lined with silver (in a wavy spike pattern). plus gotta have plenty of demon bits and poky stabby things all over it.

As for BEAR METAL!!

LET THERE BE ROCK!!!

(its "bare" metal)

**Zaki66**

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

By the way, why do the Techpriests love red so much? Does it have something to do with Mars?

Mars is often known (even today in real life) as the Red Planet. I'm assuming that's why red is sort of their "holy" color.