Thousand Sons painters - What color do you basecoat your Rubricae with?

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**TapedTempest**

Explanations to your choices are welcome.

**leopard**

Base mine with silver (well metallic black through chrome), then airbrush Tamiya clear red over

**Arcanis161**

I use Retributor Armor spray, then use Red Ink or a mix of Vallejo Air Red and Air Blood Red, depending if I'm doing actual Rubric Marines or 30k Marines.

**nareik**

Red. The blue just looks more authentic this way.

**Rybrook**

Wasn’t the original colour enchanted blue?

**leopard**

Rybrook wrote:
Wasn’t the original colour enchanted blue?

Well go back to 1st Edition an Thousand Sons were Magenta and gold, or Magenta and yellow (was kind of hard to tell), moved to a red. (box art on V1 Space Marine)

The blue is more recent.

I think the red/gold with metallic red looks way better but a metallic blue/gold would work on the newer models I think

**jullevi**

I am going to paint mine in gold and blue colour scheme and basecoat Retribution Armour. I would assume it is easier to paint blue armour panels on gold basecoat rather than gold armour trims on blue basecoat.

**techsoldaten**

White, then washes. Blue and yellow are both really hard to cover with another layer.

**Kap'n Krump**

I started my rubrics with a basecoat of blue, and it was a mistake. Dem thousand boyz have a TON of gold filigrees that made me wish I had started with gold and painted blue.

But for their big critters and wagons, I base in blue.

Also, for the rekord, I'm a big fan of the thousand son's GW color. Gotten a couple comments on it too, it's a nice blue.