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So I found some miniatures I had assembled & primed last year when I was trying to build a chaos army. This was before I knew how to mould line etc. so they're pretty messy in places, but I decided to put some paint on them as I was between projects. After my first time painting miniatures with a squad of Dark Vengeance marines, I had stepped back & tried to sort of grab the basics on some historical figures - just blocking in colours, no highlights or shades or nothing, just getting even coats & developing brush control. Since I was between projects I decided to try & test out what I'd learned in that time & see how they turned out!
So, my idea was for some Word Bearers cultists. Because they were Word Bearers I wanted them to look different from usual cultists, so no Mad Max black leather & bare chests So I went with a kind of bishop/Gregorian style almost, very baroque catholic church with white cloth and red cloaks. Afterwards I decided to add green to the accessories like belts, pouches, and the clip on the guns - slightly out of the Word Bearer colour scheme but having worked with that colour combo on the Dark Angels I knew it worked well. I also did all of the metallic parts in Ironbreaker instead of Leadbelcher because I thought frantically religious word bearer acolytes would keep their weapons something more like polished silver than raw iron - though its come out considerably less bright in the photographs unfortunately... They were primed black, and basecoated with burnt umber (apart from the areas to be painted off-white or left black). Anyway, here they are:
Not too bad mate, however, beware of getting too many contrasting colours.. It can sometimes start to make the miniatures look like the flag of a caribbean nation. Im this case i think the green is too much. Id keep the shoulder pads a dark colour, black or a dark metallic maybe. Keep the odd colour for small details like the tubes on these guys.
I would lean in the opposite direction and assume since they are chaos and pieced together from the fanatics of countless planets that their attire would be a real dog's breakfast with maybe a key color to tie them together as a unit.
Btw.....the Word that the bear is now known.
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I'm going to think of this sometime tomorrow and start giggling uncontrollably. None of my friends at work play 40k and I will be SOL when they ask me why I'm laughing.
The cultists look incredible btw. I painted mine in a garish black/blue/red/purple/whatever other colors I had at the time because I didn't feel like coming up with a color scheme for throw away units.
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I went to Hershey Park in central PA this year, and I have to say I was more than a little disappointed. I fully expected the entire theme park to be make entirely of chocolate, but no. Here in America, we have "building codes," and some other nonsense about chocolate melting if don't store it someplace kept below room temperature.
Rickfactor wrote: I would lean in the opposite direction and assume since they are chaos and pieced together from the fanatics of countless planets that their attire would be a real dog's breakfast with maybe a key color to tie them together as a unit.
Btw.....the Word that the bear is now known.
Well, i see your point but i think sometimes you have to use artistic license over a possible realistic scenario purely in terms of visual aesthetics.
Not too bad mate, however, beware of getting too many contrasting colours.. It can sometimes start to make the miniatures look like the flag of a caribbean nation. Im this case i think the green is too much. Id keep the shoulder pads a dark colour, black or a dark metallic maybe. Keep the odd colour for small details like the tubes on these guys.
Yaaah I started to feel that way actually. Complementary colours can be not very complementary at all at times :/ I think it works a lot better on the Dark Angels because green is the predominant colour with red details rather than vice versa - I was sort of disappointed in the green... I may have to switch to thinking about Harmonious colours rather than complementary ones.
@Rickfactor
I would lean in the opposite direction and assume since they are chaos and pieced together from the fanatics of countless planets
How many countless planets can three guys occupy
@Paradigm
They look good, you've certainly got brush control down and can now start looking towards more advanced techniques.
Thankyou! Any direction you'd recommend moving towards next?
Next I'd look into a method of adding some depth or highlights to your colour. Edge highlighting looks good on solid objects, simple layering looks good on cloths and washes help on everything. There's plenty of tutorials on here and YouTube, so you should find something to work with.
So I went with a kind of bishop/Gregorian style almost, very baroque catholic church with white cloth and red cloaks. Afterwards I decided to add green to the accessories like belts, pouches, and the clip on the guns - slightly out of the Word Bearer colour scheme but having worked with that colour combo on the Dark Angels I knew it worked well. I also did all of the metallic parts in Ironbreaker instead of Leadbelcher because I thought frantically religious word bearer acolytes would keep their weapons something more like polished silver than 
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