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Hey Chaps

I've been working on an Angels Encarmine scheme for a few blood angels lately, I've finished a Rhino and have been working on 3 black reach tac marines with bolters. I was hoping to get some thoughts on what colour people thought the boltgun should be, its either going to be black or red, but Im not sure if more black will push it over the edge, or if more red will make the black too minimal.

Attached below are the pictures I have taken of everything so far, at various angles. Apologies for the really low quality, I'm terrible at photos. Its also worth a mention that this was taken under a super bright light I use for painting and with my camera flash, so some of the contrasts are a bit starker than you would expect in a usual setting (plus I've tried to follow the general guide from the blood angels painting book).

Anyway, what do you think, black or red, and I guess any other thoughts?

Edit: Its been pointed out to me that this would be better as a poll, so trying to make that the case.

Those look good, I would go with black for the bolters, with some metallic silver color for the metal parts of the bolter, should look good then.

My vote is for black as well. I think it balances out the red shoulderpads on the upper half of the body.

Thanks for the votes and messages chaps, I went black and agree that it was the right choice. For anyone who answered and is curious, the final result:

Very nice!

(I posthumously voted for black too!)

Nice job on these. The black was a good choice. Hope to see more of this army in the future.