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Decided to go with a made up color scheme on the harlequins I just started, these are the first 4 models. This is the second army I have ever painted after my ~1000ish points of Tau, so I am still learning a lot. Used an airbrush on the Voidweaver, fading pink to purple and painting the diamonds with an orange to yellow fade, while everything else is by hand. Using a mix of Vallejo and Citadel. I know my painting could be a little neater and smoother, but would love to hear any other constructive criticism on how to improve!

The colour scheme looks very nice, I enjoy how the purple plays against the warmer yellows and oranges.

However, the highlighting is a bit sloppy. its not a burn at you or your painting, however, I prefer when my highlights are uniforn, for example, on the starweaver, the blacks highlight is thicker in some places compared to others. It's a tricker thing to get down, and I am guilty of doing this too, but it really helps make your models pop.

Additionally, the steel highlight on the gold might be a bit too much, I am generally very tenuous to do that form of highlighting, as it never really looks amazing (even on GW IMHO)

I do really like the bases.

May I ask how you did the diamonds? I have some harlequins on their way, and I am struggling to get the diamonds down on test models.

 gummyofallbears wrote:
The colour scheme looks very nice, I enjoy how the purple plays against the warmer yellows and oranges.

However, the highlighting is a bit sloppy. its not a burn at you or your painting, however, I prefer when my highlights are uniforn, for example, on the starweaver, the blacks highlight is thicker in some places compared to others. It's a tricker thing to get down, and I am guilty of doing this too, but it really helps make your models pop.

Additionally, the steel highlight on the gold might be a bit too much, I am generally very tenuous to do that form of highlighting, as it never really looks amazing (even on GW IMHO)

I do really like the bases.

May I ask how you did the diamonds? I have some harlequins on their way, and I am struggling to get the diamonds down on test models.

Yeah, I know the highlights in particular are pretty bad - I really need to work on that part in particular. Actually a lot of the "highlight" on the black is actually paint rubbed off from handling, haha. Definitely going to clean that part up before I clear coat. I get what you are getting at with the silver too, although I didn't intend it as a highlight, more an inlaid metal of a different shade, hence why I filled in some areas and hit all the bumps with it, instead of just the hard edges. I may go back and try something else though.

As for the diamonds, I used the jester diamonds template from http://www.fallouthobbies.com/

It worked... ok. The templates themselves were great, but using them on something so curvy was tricky, it had trouble wrapping around it. The edges were a little fuzzy in spots, from where I didn't get it stuck down all the way, however with a little touch up it was good to go. It also took a ton of work to mask off the diamonds I did not want to paint, since I wasn't using the whole pattern. I basically ripped pieces of masking tape and filled in the diamonds I didn't want one by one. That being said I don't know how I would have done it without the masks - by hand with an exacto knife I guess. Thats how I did the hexes on my Tau army, and it took forever.

I sprayed white first, then yellow, orange, and a tiny bit of red just at the end to intensify the orange.

The bases were really easy, just glued some rocks from my driveway, prime, wash with nuln oil, heavy drybrush with a tan color, then wash heavy with reikland fleshshade, and finally some white drybrush. then just glue on some static grass.

Thanks for the help!

They look really cool as gummy said I really like the colour choice of purple/black with warm yellow and orange highlights

I also love how the purple sort of blends into a lighter pink really subtly. Very nice effect

Cracking colour scheme, like that a lot.

Nice job, but it just lacks that pop that should be Harlequins.

I wish the black was as rich as the purple. That would really have elevated the vehicles, with their large areas.

But I like the color choices! Very cool stuff and the execution is pretty good too!

Very nicely done

Nice color palette. I like the approach you took with the vehicles.