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I'm currently building a Warlord titan to go with my 1k sons army and I'm looking for some advice.

I finished the head, main guns and shoulder cannons. While I'm happy with how they look, I've come to realize that if I continue like this, I'm going to have a very bland paint job.

I'm looking for something that could break up the blue while still retaining the feel of the legion. I was thinking about making some of the panels red, 1k sons pre-heresy colours. However, I feel like it might throw some people of.

Another idea I had was just adding yellow stripes to the knees and shoulders.

Any other ideas I can add to my rmour platings to make it more interesting?

While I'm at it, here you can see one of the finisjed guns to give you an idea of what the thing looks like: https://m.imgur.com/a/C8ZCa

Orange if the direct compliment to blue. Alternatively yellow and red would be its split compliments.
The yellow could be some gold trim or the yellow stripes like you were thinking. Red accent lines anywhere you can put them.

Lance made some quality points that I will second.

However I also find that when you want to break up a colour but don't want to use a direct compliment, something like a white with the complimentary colour's temperature works nicely.

So for this instance you'd want to try building a warm white colour to break up the cool blue (Build it up from a light brown, maybe?). It's a generally a subtle effect but it makes a big difference with the depth of the colour scheme.

Perhaps you could use some kind of OSL effect somewhere since thousand sons use magic and all that. You could use green for that, or maybe yellow orange and red for a more fiery kind of OSL.

Power Elephant wrote:
Perhaps you could use some kind of OSL effect somewhere since thousand sons use magic and all that. You could use green for that, or maybe yellow orange and red for a more fiery kind of OSL.

Yeah I'd say red for all the lights and glowy bits.

 TheManWithNoPlan wrote:
Lance made some quality points that I will second.

However I also find that when you want to break up a colour but don't want to use a direct compliment, something like a white with the complimentary colour's temperature works nicely.

So for this instance you'd want to try building a warm white colour to break up the cool blue (Build it up from a light brown, maybe?). It's a generally a subtle effect but it makes a big difference with the depth of the colour scheme.

And where would you put that warm white? The armour platings themselves are flat with little detail. Use it as highlights?

Peculiar question maybe, but what is a "warm white"? I'm colourblind and I get cool blue, but a warm white is a foreign concept to me.

DaPino wrote:

 TheManWithNoPlan wrote:
Lance made some quality points that I will second.

However I also find that when you want to break up a colour but don't want to use a direct compliment, something like a white with the complimentary colour's temperature works nicely.

So for this instance you'd want to try building a warm white colour to break up the cool blue (Build it up from a light brown, maybe?). It's a generally a subtle effect but it makes a big difference with the depth of the colour scheme.

And where would you put that warm white? The armour platings themselves are flat with little detail. Use it as highlights?

Peculiar question maybe, but what is a "warm white"? I'm colourblind and I get cool blue, but a warm white is a foreign concept to me.

The color wheel is split basically 50/50 between cool colors (violet indigo blue green) and warm colors (rich purples maybe red orange yellow).

You get every color by picking one of those (actually called a hue) and adding white (tints) grey (tones) or black (shades). If you were going to make a warm white having a creamy yellow aged white is much better then a red based one. Red with white always ALWAYS goes pink immediately.