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Post by doubleback on Apr 13, 2018 10:17:57 GMT -6
Red looks dope on necrons, I highly recommend. Join me! (Also Russell ) From the beginning I was considering going Red and Yellow for kind of a Roman theme, which also kinda fits their military organizational structure. When I first started I did not figure I had the skills to pull it off. Though I have not gotten any better in the intervening time, I do have a lot more space and equipment to learn on now, and a better space to fix mistakes. I would stick with the regular body color, and probably keep my gauss color (just because it would be a pain in the ass to replace all those rods) and accent it with the red and gold. My Main concern here is actually the vehicles, I am having trouble conceptualizing them with dark red and yellow. Nick P Are you changing up the scheme for different Dynasty's, or keeping them all the same?
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Post by Nick P on Apr 16, 2018 8:56:11 GMT -6
Nope, I'm sticking with my red/white/metallic scheme - it was inspired by the Novokh dynasty, but I'm going to use the same scheme to represent any of the dynasties as I toy around with which one I like the most for my army set up. My take on the xenos dynasties/hive fleets/kabals/etc is basically this - they've never been a focus ruleswise, so no one is going to hold you to them if you just so happened to use the scheme for a now-official faction with different rules. I chose the Novokh scheme because the red armor plates + white stripes/ornaments to show rank really resonated with me, and is easy to pull off and make it look super clean: Just because Novokh now also has its own rules, I'm not going to limit myself to only using that dynasty. That's my 2 cents. As for how it reflects on vehicles - take a look at some of the vehicles painted for other dynasties to draw inspiration. Some use a ton of spot color, covering almost the entire thing, some use hardly any at all - I ended up just painting certain areas that wouldn't see a lot of movement in red, leaving the rest metallic - I figure they wouldn't paint the moving parts, since it would just wear off anyways (or, maybe they DID paint them, but they've since worn the paint off in battle etc) - here's my triarch stalker for reference: I should probably go back in and do some chipping/weathering so they don't look SO clean, but that's for another day. The point is you can make them look as metallic or colorful as you want, whatever you think looks good. Maybe start with the parts you KNOW you want painted red or yellow or whatever color you go with, like cockpits, and add more if you think you need more.
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Post by doubleback on Apr 16, 2018 15:20:25 GMT -6
Thanks! This is a big help, I am really bad a visualizing color schemes on things. I think this with some yellow could work
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Post by Russell on Apr 16, 2018 15:41:13 GMT -6
Red and yellow is a great combination. But you may want to use different saturation levels of color instead of a bright yellow and red to avoid looking like Burgercrons. Maybe Averland Sunset and Khorne Red?
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Post by doubleback on Apr 16, 2018 16:23:57 GMT -6
Red and yellow is a great combination. But you may want to use different saturation levels of color instead of a bright yellow and red to avoid looking like Burgercrons. Maybe Averland Sunset and Khorne Red? Burgercrons just made me laugh out loud at work and I will never be able to explain it to anyone here. I am definitely going for a blood red and a somewhat darker yellow (and the yellow will just be for accents). what are color saturation levels?
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