Vallejo paint scheme

[narhay]

Hi,

I am painting the nid battle force and am trying to come up with a color scheme using vallejo paints. please give me your thoughts and suggestions. This is my first color scheme so I would like some help and suggestions.

For the carapace, I would have

Chaos black as a base
Feathering into cold grey
Feathering into stonewall grey OR heavy blue grey
Highlighted with verdigris

Will this be too dramatic a change? Black to light grey.

For the body, I am unsure. I would like a relatively darker somber orange with highlighted with 2 shades of progressively lighter oranges but keeping away from bright colors. I want to stay away fom the neon or comic look. Thoughts?

Finally, I am looking for gun/claw colourand gun piece accents/body accents. Possibly a midrange grey blue for the guns and verdigris for the body piece/gun accents?

I will wash in black. Do you have any comments or suggestions? Feel free, I am open to all opinions. Make my color scheme the best it can be.

[Evan Quinn]

Paint a gaunt with the current colors your fixed on so we can have a better idea of what colors your working with and give you ideas on what to do for the skin hard to help with just colors

[yoritomo]

You can do a black to white fade and have it look good. However, it can be a long process; and if you don't take the time to do it right it will look awful.

I don't recommed you try it.

[VoragoTitan]

Mar 21, 2012 12:48:38 GMT yoritomo said:

You can do a black to white fade and have it look good. However, it can be a long process; and if you don't take the time to do it right it will look awful.

I don't recommed you try it.

going from black to white is really tricky, especially with acrylics. If you want to do that, I suggest you get paint additives so you could wet blend correctly

There are also these "water soluble" oils that have hours of time for you to play with, I can't remember what they are actually called but I have heard some nice things about them.

In my opinion a "black and white" scheme is kinda bland looking though, I would suggest you add some color somewhere. black and grey can work find for just the carapace OR the skin, but not both if you ask me

either way, I wish you luck

[Rakuall]

Mar 21, 2012 13:58:31 GMT VoragoTitan said:

In my opinion a black and white scheme is kinda bland looking though, I would suggest you add some color somewhere. black and grey can work find for just the carapace OR the skin, but not both if you ask me

Mar 21, 2012 6:51:54 GMT narhay said:

For the body, I am unsure. I would like a relatively darker somber orange with highlighted with 2 shades of progressively lighter oranges but keeping away from bright colors. I want to stay away fom the neon or comic look.

I see more than just black and white.

[narhay]

Hi guys. Thank you for the comments. If the dark to light carapace is not ideal, do you have any suggestions for a dark to grey carapace? Or mid-range grey to light?

[rpricew]

I just slapped the paint on mine, but if you took your time... You could try something like this and really make it pop!

Basecoat: gloss black
Drybrush: silver
Accent: red





It kinda follows that black to light theme your looking for.

[Covalent]

www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=7300010a

The Trygon is black and white and isn't too bad. But as you can see, the details really don't stand out on the model, so you're not doing yourself a favor. (in my opinion)

[narhay]

I can see your concerns with the black to light not really popping. I will have a look around and see some more schemes.

Neat little army you posted. I don't think that was the look I was going for but you've done a nice job with your army.