Urban and Winter

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I am struggling to decide on a paint scheme for my new IG army any one able to help? My army is fighting on a snowy world amid great loyal, proud, politically mined cities. They are bold and brave, will fight to the last and use stealthy tactics to complete mission objectives. But now sit pondering what uniform to choose. The scheme needs to suit some of the above information, Can anyone help?

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I would recommend maybe a dark grey and maybe an dark sort of off-white color, something like bleached bone, but with a tad of codex grey slapped in it. what kind of models are you using for your army? More than likely cadians, but i wanted to be sure since some people have vostroyans or catachans or some such.

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I have a friend that also have a Guard army and I think his colour scheme would fit your description of the army. He use the Grenadier doctrine and Veterans enabling him to have a lot of specialist squads and he fancies his army as a City Fighting one

Here is how his paintscheme looks like:


Now you could add patches of snow by using PVA glue and baking soda and youre done.

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That is an amazingly well painted model... tip of my hat to your friend anatoli

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I will tell him that boosting his ego

If you want to check out some of his other miniatures here are some links to W.I.P site

His Deathkorps of Krieg with a winter scheme, his DKoK Sgt won this months poll btw
z11.invisionfree.com/Work_In_Progress/index.php?showtopic=7293

And here is his Space Marine chapter, 13 pages but you can check out how he is improving the paintjob over time its amazing. I acctually thought his first models looked great then he repainted them slightly and now they are really awesome.
z11.invisionfree.com/Work_In_Progress/index.php?showtopic=4425

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[glow=red,2,300]Cheers for all your help. And yes i'm using cadians for the army. Again thanks for the ideas and by the way those minatures are really awesome.[/glow]

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Your welcome

His Deathkorps of Krieg Scheme is quite difficult so I would go for the stormtrooper Sgts colorscheme and add patches of snow to the base.

[knight (M.I.A)]

I use the 122. Cadian "Battle for Vogen" scheme. It's pretty easy to paint, even if it looks difficult to paint the camo at the beginning.

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for my winter army i used Valhallens.I bought mass quantaties when they were still readily available in the stores years ago.I started with a black base and built up to white.It took some time but it looks nice.Alot of drybrushing and wet brushing( don't know the name for the techneque) but they turned out well i think.good luck wiht it,can't wait to seethe finished products =)

[Cadian 117]

God I hate painting but those are good. For ur army I was thinkin maybe grey with an off white.


Cadian

[thefishki345]

my colour scheme is sort of urban winter, i do shadow grey clothes, black armour and black gun, and shadow grey helmet, with stripes of white, my first ones had heaps of stripes but now i find that the white doesnt look very good so ive restricted to only having about 1-2 stripes of white now.

you could use my scheme or adapt it, mine was adapted from the "battle for vogen" thing i think, minus the black stripes and good paint job XD

[Cadian 117]

Ya i do my army a mix of tans and greens in such a way that none look alike but they all fit together. They are a wartorn Cadian company.



Cadian

[thefishki345]

if you want to do quick, good effect looking camo, sponge it, get a sponge, dip the corner or flat surface in paint and sponge it on in random places, it looks good and provides a more random effect.

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That sponge idea sounds interesting, I will try it out on some troops after I've painted my new Eldar units.

[thefishki345]

cool, my help is spreading
XD

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I have used the sponging effect on tanks where it looks great but never on guardsmen .It seems to me they are too small and a sponge too big but i guess you could use a small sponge and try not to touch it too hard onto the model.Sponges have a tendency to soak up alot of paint and then drop alot of it onto what you touch.I think that a sponge type of cammo would look pretty cool though, kind of like the new style of cammo the american army is using.