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Since it is a 3 color minimum to play in tournys, I was looking at the triad combo on the color wheel.

Should I be looking at split complementary, triad, or something else?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/761997/10104712.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/761997/10104712.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/761997/10104726.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/761997/10104726.page GMT
For example, a pale ochre/bone colour for the skin, with a dark grey-blue (something like The Fang) carapace and black claws edge-highlighted to purple. Or pale yellow-green skin with dark purple carapace and dark red claws.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/761997/10104778.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/761997/10104778.page GMT
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How good are you at painting?
Are you wanting to paint them quickly or paint them well?
Are you after a warm colour or a cold one?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/761997/10105064.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/761997/10105064.page GMT
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There are some arias nids get painted on:
The hard shells
The "skinn" (i like to think of them as cartelage, making the flexible)
The non carapace hard bits, like tallons and hoves.
Teeth (somebody have teeth in another colour then the tallons)
Wings (on some models)
The slits in the skin (the breathing slits, or spore fumes, what ever you prefer to think of them as.)
Weapons as a seperate skinn colour
And lastly markings on shells

Pick 1 colour and black/white/grey.
Pick 2 complementery colours. Possibly black white or grey as a 3rd.
Pick 3 colours that contrast each other.

If you are not a good painter then go for dark, washed, drybrushed lightly and then a spot colour on the shells. That looks really neat. Scales well with big monsters and hordes. The spott colour either on the entire shell, or just some thin matkings along the ridges.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/761997/10105085.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/761997/10105085.page GMT