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Well here are a couple pictures with a little more true color to them. It could be better, but I really do not want to drag out my mobile studio equipment...

Here is the one before, the darkness of the red shows a bit more.





The other one is a try at a more gradual change. going from the darker blue as before to the same purple tone that was atop the first razorback. Its quite a bit more subtle, but no idea if as "good."





Again, thank you for your help,
Travis Walthall

Firstly, I'll suggest that this sort of stuff should go in the Painting and Modelling Forum, I'm sure you'd get more replies that way.

Secondly, I keep coming back and looking at these to try and make up my mind whether I like these or not.
Most highlighting starts with the darker colour (purple in this case) at the bottom with the lighter colour on top, so these are 'different' (which is not necessarily a bad thing) and interesting. I think it would work well with vehicles from armies like Eldar or Dark Eldar, but I'm just not sure that it works with the space marine aesthetic who are generally more... square? Trying to describe what I mean... more distinct area of 'colour A' and other distinct areas of 'colour B' like a chequered heraldry or something.

All that said, don't let anything I've said deter you. They're your models, you're going to spend more time (much more!) looking at them than anyone else so pick the scheme that you like more. I know that's kind of a cop-out answer but it's true.

They are your models paint them how you like them. My personal taste? I do not like the schemes ESP the one with the purple and red.

Again, I'm feeling Rainbow Warriors, or Evil Clowns.
The colors are too bright/colorful for my particular tastes. After all this is the Grim Dark Future we're talking about.

So go with bright yellow like the fists or bright blue?

I will just do the same thing as my tau I guess: brown, olive drab, and kahki.

Thanks for the responses, I appreciate the input.

I think it's the choice of colors that seem off to me, it seems like there's more purple then anything, maybe if the transition from red to blue was smaller it would look better, you can only see the blue on the very top.

Perhaps you could consider making the overall colours darker? I prefer the blue/purple blend, but I think it would really show off better if the colours were darker.

Version three is up in painting.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/492554.page#5040810

Thank you again everyone,
Travis Walthall

When I saw these paint schemes I was quickly reminded of an article about a mod for World of Tanks.



http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/11/24/my-little-pony-megamod-cutsifies-world-of-tanks/