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I always found this curious.

One of my best friends is red/green colorblind, yet plays Dark Angels and rather than do a successor chapter, does it in the green and has red squad designations on the shoulders with red boltguns and chainswords. He still basecoats them right because he just makes sure he reads the labels on the bottle of paints before applying it, but there are definitely a lot of bleeds on his guys that he just can't see.

And I recently made friends with another guy who's color blind. He plays necrons and doesn't have to worry about the colors he can't determine because of the scheme he's got, though he has told me because a proper paint job almost always has red in it somewhere he's had to do the same thing where he's just had to pay attention to the name on the bottle rather than being able to tell what it really looks like once put on the model.

Anyone else have color blind friends? If so, do they utilize color schemes they can't make out?

It's funny because I can't see red/green (It's all brown!) so I paint everything blue. Ultramarines, Trollbloods, blue themed Tomb Kings...

It's my favorite color because I can see it!

There is a lot of red on my DE, but because it's not next to green I can tell it's red. But when I play my pal who does DA/BA? Forget it.

same boat for me. I am totally colour blind, so I stick to very bright contrasting colours (I had pink and green marines for a while), but I have a friend who insists on showing me his newest paintjobs everytime I see him, the latest being his whfb red/black chaos warriors, or his brown and green nurglings.they all look the same to me

 Zygrot24 wrote:
It's funny because I can't see red/green (It's all brown!) so I paint everything blue. Ultramarines, Trollbloods, blue themed Tomb Kings...

It's my favorite color because I can see it!

There is a lot of red on my DE, but because it's not next to green I can tell it's red. But when I play my pal who does DA/BA? Forget it.

What do dark angels look like to you? Are they just a brown mass of color? Also I imagine Orks would be hell to paint with that type of colorblindness given their love of red and inherent greenness.

As far as I know, I'm not colorblind. Apparently there used to be a guy in my area who had severe color blindness but overcame it by learning hues and complementary colors. Even though he couldn't see a difference, he would constantly double check his colors to existing schemes or test models, as well as asking friends if it "looked right". I never met the guy, so I have no idea if this is true or if the locals are pulling my leg though.

Yeah I know a guy who's a really good painter but colour blind, he just works off the paint pot labels. Every so often when he brings in a freshly painted unit to show us we say "oh that's a great [wrong colour] scheme" and observe his face during his moment of complete panic.

I have "red-green colour vision deficit", which basically is a weakness of seeing the red and green colours. I see pillar boxes as red and grass as green, but I can be fooled by various types of tartans, and dull red-greens in low light conditions.

I've never tried to paint with colours I couldn't see, but I sometimes make mistakes and pick a colour selection that looks good to me but makes normal sighted people's eye melt.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
What do dark angels look like to you? Are they just a brown mass of color? Also I imagine Orks would be hell to paint with that type of colorblindness given their love of red and inherent greenness.

As far as I know, I'm not colorblind. Apparently there used to be a guy in my area who had severe color blindness but overcame it by learning hues and complementary colors. Even though he couldn't see a difference, he would constantly double check his colors to existing schemes or test models, as well as asking friends if it "looked right". I never met the guy, so I have no idea if this is true or if the locals are pulling my leg though.

Really dark DA schemes look basically brown. But if it's bright or highlighted brightly I can see the green. But if you put them on the table next to Blood Angels? Forget about it, it's all brown. I have similar problems with blue/purple, and other similar hues can mess me up (warm tans are pink!).

I do once in a while try to name a color and people giggle. Other times they try to convince me that a color I see is actually something different.

From waaaaaaay back in the day on the old Dakka site (the Invisionfree one) wasn't there a guy who was colorblind but had an IG army (Snow Leopards?) and Slaasnesh army? ArchMagosAlchemys, I think? I could have sworn he said in a post he was colorblind, but that was so long ago I don't 100% remember.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
I have "red-green colour vision deficit", which basically is a weakness of seeing the red and green colours. I see pillar boxes as red and grass as green, but I can be fooled by various types of tartans, and dull red-greens in low light conditions.

I've never tried to paint with colours I couldn't see, but I sometimes make mistakes and pick a colour selection that looks good to me but makes normal sighted people's eye melt.

Similar with me. I'm just colorblind enough to give people a little thrill when they are testing for it and to look silly when I can't distinguish similar colors or misidentify a color (like growing up thinking my mother drove a purple van). I paint just fine though.

Well my visual problem is mainly with green-brown, some shade of pink and violet.
I found a lot of help with vallejo color bottles, a lot of premade shades and the color name is a clear indication of the content.