Graffiti Tanks

[Subtle Blatancy]

Hello everybody! Its Subtle Blatancy here, and I've got some questions for the collective mind here on the forums.

You see, in light of a certain rehaul of a game we all know and love, and the new rules book that is to be coming out with this over-haul of the system, I've decided to take my army(s) in slightly different directions than I had previously intended.

While the long and short of it is that I'm going to be collecting two separate armies, to go into too much detail would be to stray wildly from topic. Thats bad.

What this post concerns is the vehicle oriented army. I want my entire army to be vehicles. Now, don't get excited Blitzkrieg-ers, I'm not talking mechanized. I don't mean Armoured Company, I mean Armour Company. Purely tanks, set up using the force organization chart in the first Forge World Book.

Now, I'm not a huge tank-owner going into this project, so I need some assistance. I have no idea how to even begin collecting or painting a portion of a tank company. Any hobby-tips would be cherished like gold over here.

FLUFF STARTS HERE.

The other part of this, though, is some recommendations on the painting. As you may - or may not - know, the Imperial Guard I play is the Carcathan Defense Force. Carcatha, a planet assaulted by Chaos, are desperately waiting for Imperial Assistance, fending off the foul forces of the arch-enemy in their homes and streets. In the initial crushing wave of chaos assault, most of the men, and especially the vehicles, were destroyed.

As such, the integral part of the Carcathan Military in the form of the mighty tank companies was suddenly reduced to practically nill. As a result, the surviving Infantry regard the remaining tanks with the utmost respect. They are the surviving remnants of their former military might, after all.

Seeing the reverence the tanks held to the men, the Tank Commanders and Upper-Command-Echelons slowly allowed soldiers and civilians alike to start Graffiti-ing their vehicles. This made them truly personalized, special, if not grim reminders of the infrequency of the tanks.

FLUFF ENDS HERE

Now that You might have a basic idea, I need some help. I'd like to practically layer all of the tanks under my command with (artistic, not gang) graffiti. Unfortunately for me, I haven't the slightest clue how to go about doing this.

Thus, I come to you, the people of the Imperial Guard Forums, to provide me with some guidance on how to overcome this hardship. Any advice would be excellent. I'll try to post some pictures up if I can come up with any decent examples all my own.

P.S. Sorry for writing so much. I write a lot when I'm in a good mood.

-S.B.

[zumbaz]

Well I think our idea has real potential!
Althought you shouldn't go for graffiti writing, but things like tribal, skulls, pokercards, animals, flames, bullets. You know what I mean?
For graffiti you sure should be good in freehand. So look around the internet for freehand tips. I have only one tip myself; Before you start to paint something, first work out some sketches on paper!

Also I think it would be cool, to get the tank commander an helmet and put some art on that one too.
I really am curious on how this will turn out. I'm deffinatly going to keep an eye open for you!

zumbaz

[syphon]

I assume you mean graffiti like the beautiful women that were painted on the hull of aeroplanes in WW2 and their contemporary equals, shark mouths?

[zumbaz]

I was thinking something abut something bigger then just that. Because what he is talking about sounds a bit special to me. And just a small painting or picture on the side is not really special ut actually quite common.
But hey let's let the anwser hear from mr. sub himself

zumbaz

[Subtle Blatancy]

Ah, a fairly posed question there Syphon. While I would like to be able to do that, someday, maybe with some far-off Imperial Guard army, today is not the day.

Maybe on some fliers, kept unpainted for the ever more important tasks they have to do involving air-raids and insertions, or on the slightly less valued Sentinels/Technicals of the resistance fighters. But for now, I'll have to keep the old call-back to our early war-machines on the back-burner.

Zumbaz hit the ball right on the nose. As he said, painting some artistically beautiful yet, horridly, horribly clichéd war-paint is not what I'm going for.

Take a gander at Google Images, search description of "Graffiti Art". Something along these lines would be the preferred look we're going for here. Resistance fighters, civilians - not Military artists.

Thanks for askin' though. I appreciate the interest at the very least. And Zumbaz, thanks for the tips. I'll think 'bout 'em.

-S.B.

[kommissar]

i fully plan to have cool bits of graffiti on my tanks once they are painted up.