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Just wanted to get some feedback on the color theme on this piece. I wanted to get the right color, the one that I like and suits me best, following the recipe I got from FW. I tried to aim for what FW did with their Legion Terminators. I kind of got the hang of it after a while and altered the recipe a bit to give it a slightly more blue tone, like in the Horus Heresy books.

Do you feel FW's recipe is the right one for the XX'th legion? In some books their armor is described as purple and in some books and text as a different color.
Do you think I hit the spot with the color tone on this one or do you prefer another one? Perhaps you think that Alpha Legion should be purple. If so, why?

Personally I feel this is the most fun one to paint, although it involves a lot of airbrush cleaning between the layers

I like the metalised aspect it has.

Maybe you could add a bit of purple to your recipe to have a blueish/purpleish color but imo keep the color more blue than purple.
Or maybe just wash it purple afterwards, this should do the trick.

Can you tell me the FW recipe ? Or where can i find it.

Offcourse Flo, here you go!

ALPHA LEGION - FORGE WORLD PAINTING TECHNIQUE

ARMOR
1. AIRBRUSH WITH THINNED LEAD BELCHER/ IRON BREAKER (50/50 MIX)
2. AIRBRUSH FROM TOP OF MODEL WITH THINNED RUNFANG STEEL
3. MIX A LITTLE TAMIYA CLEAR GREEN WITH TAMIYA CLEAR BLUE (25/75 MIX) AND AIRBRUSH OVER THE MODEL IN 2 COATS
4. AIRBRUSH ARMOUR PANELS WITH TAMIYA CLEAR BLUE. BLENDING FROM MIDDLE OF FIGURE DOWN, SO THE STRONGEST BLUE COLOUR IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PANNELS
5. AIRBRUSH FROM THE MIDDLE UPWARDS WITH TAMIYA CLEAR GREEN
6. USING AN AIRBRUSH BLEND A HIGHLIGHT ON THE HIGHEST PANNELS (HEAD, SHOULDER PADS, TOP OF BACKPACK) WITH RUNEFANG STEEL WITH A TINY AMOUNT OF LOTHERN BLUE, EXTREMELY THINNED DOWN.
7. WITH A BRUSH, APPLY SEVERAL THINNED COAT OF TAMIYA CLEAR BLUE OVER THE HIGHLIGHT AND BLEND INTO THE SURROUNDING AREA.
8. USING A BLUE GLAZE OR WASH, DRAG DOWN THE WHOLE MODEL ALLOWING IT TO SETTLE IN THE DEEPEST AREAS.

SILVER
1. BASECOAT WITH LEADBELCHER
2. WASH WITH NULN OIL
3. HIGHLIGHT WITH LEADBELCHER IN STRIKING MOTIONS TO CREATED CHIPPED AND WEATHER APPEARANCE
4. HIGHLIGHT WITH IRONBREAKER

COLORS NEEDED
- LEADBELCHER (GW)
- IRONBREAKER (GW)
- RUNFANG STEEL (GW)
- LOTHERN BLUE (GW)
- GUILLIMAN BLUE (GW)
- NULN OIL (GW)
- CLEAR GREEN (TAMIYA)
- CLEAR BLUE (TAMIYA)


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i like your idea of washing with purple. But that might take away the subtle green tones. I could try and mix some purple wash with the guilliman blue.

Tell me the results

And thanks for the recipe

The Alpha Legion are stated to be a whole bunch of colours, blue, green, purple... In Extermination there's a whole section about how they wear loads of different colours.

Really like your blue though.