Inspiration, y u no come?! AKA what scheme?

[syphon]

So, I am working on a second army.
The Jangovingian 27th Heavy Brigade, nicknamed the Plasmahounds.

But I am running into major trouble.
What scheme do I use?

I try using Knarloc Green armour with Straken Green fatigues, but no such like: It looked stupid.

Then I painted over the Straken with a light grey, almost white. Didn't look very appealing either. And it looked too much like regular Cadians.

Removed the grey, went with Averland Yellow or whatever that new basecolour is called. Looked even dumber!

Does anybody have ANY idea what to paint this damn regiment with? Because I am at a loss.

[zeke]

Well, since they are the plasmahounds, what color do you paint your plasma weapons? Maybe paint their fatigues around that color? Like I use a bright blue, maybe use like a dark blue?

[ogguardsman]

Decide on a primary color that you like enough to use for your army and then use a color wheel to find a complementary color. Experiment with different shades until you find a combo that makes you happy. As long as it looks cool and you're happy with it you can invent all kinds of fluff reasons for a particular camo scheme.

[optimat]

Yeah it kind of depends if you want a camo scheme or something a little simpler (or both, like my army will turn out to be eventually!)

If it's simple, do what ogguardsman suggests and pick yourself a strong colour and use a colour wheel to pick a complimentary colour. Add a darker tone of which ever colour pick to the model and you get the nice and easy two-tone guardsman. The trick to this is picking the right first colour. Something too in-your-face and you get a red and blue army (which! I have seen done well, but probably isn't for everyone).

I you apply heraldric colour theory (which is usually used for space marine chapters) a metal colour cannot be used with another metal colour. This means that White/Yellow schemes are out of the picture but Grey/Blue schemes are in.

The other one is a camo scheme which would usually use a triad of harmonising colours (look this up with a colour wheel) arranged in whichever pattern you find appropriate for your men. Almost all camo schemes can be stripped down to three basic colours, but some have multiple hues. Think Green/Yellow/Black for british desert or Green/Black/Orange for Flectarn camo.

Maybe that helps a little. The 'theme' of your army will likely dictate which style you go for.

[syphon]

I think I am going to go with a deep blue. I am personally a sucker for navy blues, so probably that will be one of the colours. So, colour theory would probably say go with purple on a dark navy blue, if I recall my colour wheel correctly. Or perhaps green. Blue green? I like the idea...might test it on a test mini.


Also, I've already used grey and blue together, so that's out of the question.

[optimat]

Well there's a few options. I took some liberties with which lightness variants I chose here but it gives the general idea:



In order of appearance - basic complimentary, Triad (evenly split the circle into three, so this gave red/yellow), split complimentary (take either side of the basic complimentary), and harmonising!

[syphon]

Hmm...blue and salmon pink? No thanks! I'm running an army, not a bordello!

So...green is out of the question?

[Deleted]

Blue/tan might work. My suggestion is to try a few sample arms and see what you like.

[optimat]

Salmon Pink? Our computer screen colour settings are clearly not the same!

The paler colours are all shades of the yellowy/browny colours taken from the wheel shown.

Blue & Green might work but would be very sharp and unless the right shades are chosen you'll end up making peoples eyes hurt!

[hendrik]

you could try out a lot of colourshemes in dawn of war, winter assault, also let's you test out those same shemes on the vehicles too

[ogguardsman]

If you don't want to go with a standard green/brown combo you could experiment with shades of red or use some xenos for inspiration and go with green/yellow which looks good on Striking Scorpions.

[syphon]

I've been dabbling with a few of your suggestions and I feel that I'm going to stick with green and blue. That said, I'm afraid of using what I have now: Knarloc Green and Mordian Blue. It is my fear that Mordian Blue is too light so that its new equivalent will be too, but what I think is Kantor Blue is too dark. And I can't go around mixing everything, my budget is too limited for that. (Yes, I collect WH and I'm not rich. I WONDER WHY?!) What is the new equivalent of the Knarloc foundation?

[optimat]

There's not *much* between Mordian (now Maccragge [sp?]) and Kantor Blue. I would say Kantor is pretty close to 'navy blue'. I have to darken it with the dark blue wash to do my Crimson Fists.

[Lord General Armstrong]

Seeing as no one else has done it.

I've always enjoyed codex grey armour and Russian urban camo for fatigues.

[syphon]

I just tested a different scheme. Khorne red armour and mech grey fatigues. It's not all bad but something is bothering me. Are these maybe chaos cult colours? Volscani traitors?