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Howdy folks,
I have been painting a block of 40 skeleton spearmen and I wanted to go with a unique color for traditionally drab skeletons.
I have decided to paint them with saffron (faded orange yellow) textile scraps to contrast with dark rusty armor and black belts.

I like the orange so far and think it will look better after final highlighting and mud drybrushed on edges.
The problem is that I have already done a unit of ten graveguard + wight king with faded blue fabric and dark grimy bronze.
I was thinking that I could add some accents to the spearmen with some blue scraps but I thought this might be too much garish contrast.
Should I go with the spearmen all saffron and keep it good or try and add in the blue accents for army coherency?

Saffron = Averland Sunset/Fuegan Orange/Averland
Blue = Kantor/Altdorf/?lighter

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See below for test models. Thanks for feeding my hesitation.

The contrast is VERY strong, but if you keep it to just very small patches it looks fine.

You don't have any other major contrasts, so it doesn't become a mismatched pile of contrast colours.

I would, personally, say that what you have so far looks pretty damned good, and doesn't need changing - meaning the orange with a few touches of blue.

I think it looks fine with both. The trick will be keeping the blue minimal on yellow models, using blue as just a spot color, and possibly think about using yellow as a spot color for blue themed units, so they share a bit of a common palette.

In my opion orange without addons looks better than orange + blue accents Maybe there should be other color to get better contrast :/

But remember thats its totally up to you because everyone have different taste in color mix

Thanks for the feedback folks. This is one of those potential errors I might make just to get the two units cohesive. I don't think it is worth it to make the 40 spearmen look too cartoony.
Maybe an accent color of parchment and dark red instead? I think the blue will fight too much.

dark red is likely to dominate the orange and detract from it, I think