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With a sudden urge to like communist colours. Red and yellow. So I paint the shoulder pads of the guardsmen red and probably stencial a hammer and sickle yellow. Don't be triggered.

What do you think? I already Painted 3 guardsmen's shoulder pads like that.

I'd keep it simple and reminiscent of Soviet imagery without going full-on USSR. My Red Army-themed Valhallans have red stars and a sickle painted here and there but I try not to go too far with it.

Okay that's the shoulder pads. What about the rest of the Guardsmen?

(P.S. when doing any theme to do with something potentially controversial in real life (Nazi insignia outside of historicals, etc. at least some people will be unhappy about it, it's going to happen. Expect minor triggering)

 Brother SRM wrote:
I'd keep it simple and reminiscent of Soviet imagery without going full-on USSR. My Red Army-themed Valhallans have red stars and a sickle painted here and there but I try not to go too far with it.

Exactly. I just keep the red shoulder pad. And Keep the rest of the body the paint scheme of the 8th cadian


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 TheManWithNoPlan wrote:
Okay that's the shoulder pads. What about the rest of the Guardsmen?

(P.S. when doing any theme to do with something potentially controversial in real life (Nazi insignia outside of historicals, etc. at least some people will be unhappy about it, it's going to happen. Expect minor triggering)

Not be a little controversial or anything. But I just keep it on one side. (like a banner.... Not to be a Nazi like person btw) I feel like if I painted all of the guardsmen red. I lost the use of my loren forest and castellen green. And I was basing it off of the tactic's of the guardsmen are like (Commissars shoot if they see fear. Charge the enemy.) and so on