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So I'm doing my guard up all dark grey(eshin grey) to resemble world war 2 germans, but i don't know what colour would look good for the armour, i am trying to avoid black as I'm not that great at painting black.

I would go with a darker gray and then wash it with black ink.

like an eshin mixed 50/50 with black?


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because i wash the clothing with black also, so i want it to be distinguished as 2 different colours

Some kind of dunkelgelb? A dull one, so it won't look unusually bright yellow against the grey.

Drab green/olive would probably work quite well. A maroon would also work; you don't want anything too bright, but most colours will contrast reasonably well.

I'd go for a blue, like Alaitoc, to give them a night/urban ops feel.

i was thinking of a maroon, the colour i had in mind was sanguine base by P3, its nice and deep.

I also was thinking of an olive such as what skollvarden suggested.

anyone have any models that are primarily a dark grey to show that could be used to compare?

Like this?

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s245/fwerbwernt/fixedtroopplatoon.jpg

that looks pretty slick, its a the sanguine base is much deeper though, its a deep maroon maroon

Dark pastels are great. for contrasting against grey. Black is good, how are you having trouble painting it?

i either don't edge well enough or make it look grey

I'd go for a dark olive green.

Are you trying to be historically accurate, or paint the 40k/WHFB Citadel style of high contrast, boldly defined edges?

If you're looking for bright and scifi (with a dark grey base), may I suggest that you pick a bright color instead of another dark color which will not provide contrast.

If you look at my Sybarite (painted to codex), the base color is Incubi Darkness, which is a very dark bluish grey, but the very bright (almost white) green highlights and the fluorescent green around the eyes gives the entire model a distinctive green tinge. To provide contrast, the tabard, weapon and banner are very bright.



By the way, 2 suggestions -- dark shades of grey/black, look good with almost any bright color highlight, fenrisian grey, temple guard blue, moot green, fire dragon bright, screamer pink, etc. You can easily test this by priming a sprue, and painting the edge the highlight color. If, instead of trying to inject color, you want to enforce black/white, highlight with dawnstone and do corners with administration grey (and wash with nuhln oil, of course).

Also, Eshin Grey is actually not *that* dark. If you want a very rich dark grey, Vallejo makes a wonderful color called Black Grey, that is several shades darker (it's like Eshin with 50/50 black). I wish they made one that was even darker than that, but Black Grey is a pretty nice color to have in your toolbox.

I also has been considering a good olive including exactly what skollvarden suggested.

commissarbob wrote:
I would go with a darker gray and then wash it with black ink.

Eshin grey is already quite dark, if you were trying to contrast with an even darker colour I'd just go straight to black.

But grey is the sort of colour that almost anything goes with depending on what you are going for. You can use a lighter grey to create contrast, you can use browns of almost any description on bags/belts/holsters to create a bit of colour. Red works well as a spot colour to make them pop a bit more without going crazy high contrast.

You can also try green greys or blue greys to create a bit more visual interest. Eshin grey I believe is a very slightly blue grey, so you could try other lighter blue greys to contrast. Not as blue as Shadow Grey/The Fang/whatever-the-hell-they-call-it-now, but maybe mix 1 drop of Shadow grey with 3 drops of a mid brightness grey.

If you're going for WW2 german sort of look, they made extensive use of green greys so that's the way I'd probably go. Do some green greys with black bags and maybe darker grey armour.

I switched my colour to mechanicus standard grey, its not super grey but i feel like it could go well with a few colours. I think i may try red, or even a tan colour like bane blade brown.

The bane blade brown would pop, i don't want it to take away from the rest of the model though

I know I'm a bit late to the party but have you thought about having the armour as just bare metal?

i have, i didn't know how it would look though,

that and it's flak armour, is flak armour metal?

anyone seen metal flak armour on guard before? with grey?

Grey and metallic grey would most likely make your army look like one big grey and shiny blob. I'm not sure how much brown would pop either, considering both grey and brown are neutral colors.

Maybe maroon with a sepia wash?

BaronVonSnakPak wrote:
Grey and metallic grey would most likely make your army look like one big grey and shiny blob. I'm not sure how much brown would pop either, considering both grey and brown are neutral colors.

Maybe maroon with a sepia wash?

I dunno, I quite like my grey on grey with silver highlights Imperial Guard.



They could probably use a spot colour of maybe red or yellow, but not everything has to have contrasting colours to look good, I think contrasting greys with a small spot colour looks fine.

That said... I don't really like the idea of metallic flak armour. I think it would look a bit odd.

all seeing,how did you achieve this look

It's really simple. White undercoat, Celestra Grey for the light grey areas (but I just do the whole model as it's faster), Mechanicus Standard Grey on the flak armour, black on the gun, boots, belt and bags with a edge grey highlight on the black areas. Leadbelcher on the imperial eagles and metallic bits of the gun.

Wash the whole model with a black (used to use Badab black, now swapped to Army Painter's Dark Tone washes).

Pick out the edges of the imperial eagles with Runefang Steel to make them pop.

I could paint them to look better, but painting them the way I describe gets me through them quickly which is important when you have a ton of them to paint

awesome, I'm going to steal that from ya, using darker colours tho,