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That is one ballsy colour scheme - mad airbrush skills! I do think some details could be picked out on the battle suit / wraith knight weapons - some metallic bronze would look awesome with the purple and green!

Can we see some close ups of one of the bikers?

That color! I love it but its just such a radical combo. I feel like it takes away from the smaller details so much. I feel like im looking at 1990s action figures with these crazy colors haha

Good-great paint job, but the color scheme= yuck, dark purple n lime green, looks like some time could of been studying the color wheel.

Intrigued by what you mean by that, Big Mac... purple and lime green are perfect complementaries; opposite one another on the colour wheel.

Next level, I'm usually not a fan of airbrushing because the smoothness ruins the illusion of scale for me; but this work is absolutely sublime. Love the colour scheme, love the execution and think the tonal work is gorgeous.

Smooth, understated and striking. Fantastic! *claps*

shauni55 wrote:
That color! I love it but its just such a radical combo. I feel like it takes away from the smaller details so much. I feel like im looking at 1990s action figures with these crazy colors haha

Agreed. They remind me of the evil transformers, the constructabots I think?

 Apologist wrote:
Intrigued by what you mean by that, Big Mac... purple and lime green are perfect complementaries; opposite one another on the colour wheel.

Next level, I'm usually not a fan of airbrushing because the smoothness ruins the illusion of scale for me; but this work is absolutely sublime. Love the colour scheme, love the execution and think the tonal work is gorgeous.

Smooth, understated and striking. Fantastic! *claps*

Thank you, I expected a lot of "side-ways" looks for these colors and not undeservedly,but I literally held a color wheel in my left hand while painting these.
-Kenny

 Cave_Dweller wrote:

shauni55 wrote:
That color! I love it but its just such a radical combo. I feel like it takes away from the smaller details so much. I feel like im looking at 1990s action figures with these crazy colors haha

the constructabots I think?

I suddenly LOVE these.... I loved the constructicons!

Not sold on the barney the dinosaur colors, but it's certainly well-executed, and those bases are absolutely stunning.

Please tell me those are Space Marines of The Emperors Jokers chapter, and the Tau are from the Sept of N'apier....

 Cave_Dweller wrote:

shauni55 wrote:
That color! I love it but its just such a radical combo. I feel like it takes away from the smaller details so much. I feel like im looking at 1990s action figures with these crazy colors haha

Agreed. They remind me of the evil transformers, the constructabots I think?

That's exactly what I was thinking! While the scheme isn't going to be to everyone's liking it has been very well executed. Would like to see a few more details picked out but I guess time is money!

Purple and green aren't opposite each other on the colour wheel, purple and yellow are, as are red and green.
I can't divorce purple and green from The Joker, Skorponok or Eva Unit 01 from my mind... lol

fething hell, my jaw actually dropped.

 finnan wrote:
Purple and green aren't opposite each other on the colour wheel, purple and yellow are, as are red and green.

Without getting too technical, there are lots of different colour wheels. Most older types leave out or disproportionately weight against magenta (which bridges the gap between red at one end of the visible spectrum and purple at the other), which means the complementaries are similarly distorted.

Most modern colour systems (such as Munsell's) adapt for this – and it's pretty much standard in most additive colour scheme designers. Check out ColorPicker or colorschemedesigner for examples.

That's not to say you're wrong, but it depends what you mean by purple, yellow or green in each case. A red-biased yellow is opposite to a blue-biased purple (i.e. violet); but acid green (i.e. a blue-biased yellow) is opposite to a red-biased purple (i.e. magenta).

What I mean is that the Primary colour yellow is opposite the Secondary colour purple, which is the additive sum of the Primaries red and blue. Green is the additive of the Primary blue and yellow and is opposite Primary red. They're both Complimentary colour schemes, making each other brighter and stronger.

Colour picker is based on HSB and RGB, which are systems based from screen-based graphics and is a subtractive system as R+B+G = white, as opposed to the CMYK system which is used from print which is an additive system. The colour wheel is a separate system again, and places the colours next to each other according to how they appear in the spectrum. Seeing as the colours in the spectrum do not move their positions, red will always be opposite green, and yellow will always be opposite purple. Yes, there will be Tertiary colours, but 'true' Primaries will always be opposite a Secondary. I can't believe I'm arguing about colour theory. I must be out of my mind.