Darajian Underground/Trench Regiment

[Haraio [MALAL]]

Hello all^^

I don't know if this should really be in the conversion/painting forum, but I take the chance that it belongs here, since it's still at the idea stage^^

So, I've been thinking about that I might want to collect a guard army eventually (years in the future, maybe once I've created enough Nids). Of course, this might never happen, but I'm just playing around with ideas. I want a regiment that by the fluff specialises in underground (I.e digging, mining) and trench warfare. So I was wondering how I could represent this on models and vehicles?

I was thinking about ropes, shovels, rebreathers with gas tanks on the back and such. Maybe some legged vehicles or something, or exclusively Sentinels. Oh, and a drill as power weapon for Kasrkin Sgt! Deep Striking by digging up through the ground, oh yeah!

Lastly, any suggestions in traits and such I could choose, or paint scheme? I want something different from my Nids^^

Thank you for any and all help^^

[zark]

You could just collect Death corps of Krieg, they are trench warfare specialists, and plus FW does some awesome models for them though they are a tad expensive. I myself am thinking of doing a drop troop army consisting entirely of the elysians from FW for my next army.

[Haraio [MALAL]]

Well, I do think the Krieg looks cool, but the thing is that I want to create my own, unique regiment, and that means none of the GW-created regiments^^
Besides, if I'm gonna do Guard at one point, I really want to convert them alot, since I hope I've gotten better with green stuff 'till then XD

[zark]

You can make your own regiment buy use the Krieg models and convert them abit, I can bet my bottom dollar you will not face another opponent that will field an entire FW krieg army, well there is a very slim chance.

[Haraio [MALAL]]

Yeah, I could do that, but then again the FW models are pretty expensive
And I don't think I will have that much money to spend on Warhammer in the future, with me going to University in a year or two *chuckles* But thanks for the suggestion^^

[zark]

Forget education, get job feed you addiction!

[Haraio [MALAL]]

lol, yeah that may work^^
Sadly, I need three years education for the work I want^^

Before you ask, I want to be a teacher. Yeah, am I sick or what? XD

[zark]

You have courage thats for sure!, when you become a teacher clip those brats accross the ears for me

[Haraio [MALAL]]

Oh, I will^^
Don't worry about that

Anyway, back on topic?^^
What would be a good paint scheme for a trench/underground regiment?^^
I was thinking dark colours, but I want some relief too^^
Any suggestions?^^

[zark]

You could do any type of colour you want, as long as you give them a few washes in brown ink and make them look dirty, they are fighting in trenches after all and underground not in a pristine space hulk.

[Haraio [MALAL]]

Thank you, I didn't think of that^^
I'm gonna do that. I was thinking of going with red (my favourite colour), but I've already got a lot of red on my Nids, so...
I don't know^^

[zark]

Try to do the opposite of your nids to give you a bit of variety.

[Haraio [MALAL]]

Yeah, that was what I was thinking too^^
So, no green or red *chuckles* I was thinking about doing dark blue suits, and some kind of metal armour (maybe bronze), plus armoured boots for climbing caves and such^^
What you think? Would that look nice?^^

[zark]

Well the good thing about doing something other than nids is doing metalics, I have almost forgotten how to do this properly lol damn it was hard to do the gold trim on the night lord that is hanging on my flyrants talon, and dont get me started on the lightning motif. but back on topic.

I would probably go for dark browns and tans to give a more camo look to your guard as they dont really want to stick out as your nids to they value their lives the only problem with the brown and tan scheme is getting them too look dirty, it would be easy on wite and blue but, just experiment find what you enjoy painting. If you dont like your scheme you will find that it takes you ages to paint them

[yoritomo]

It's a good project. I'd suggest you do some research to find out what people who work underground look like. After a quick Google search I've got some links:

rogerphilpot.homestead.com/CoalMiners.html
www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/miner.html

I didn't look through these very carefully, so they may not be 100% right.

I think you can use any color you want, but I would suggest going with an earth tone. You can do red, or green, or blue, but you'll need an earthy feel to go with the browns you'll more than likely be painting.

One of the most important and often forgotten parts of making a themed army are the model's bases. The base gives people the feeling that your model is at a location. Since your theme has a lot to do with location you can get a good effect if you do your bases properly.

Also, don't just think of military thing to put on your models. If they're working underground then they'll be wearing reflective bands for safety and flashlights on their helmets for convince. It's these little things that make them look like they've been underground and not on the battlefield.

As for where this should go, I don't think it belongs here. You'd get more help if it was in the painting or converting forum. However, since I can't decide which one it should go in I'm just going to leave it here until I (or another moderator) decided where it should go.