Very educational. Jon Bius sent me over. You have a steady hand (which at 67, I no longer have) and a very vivid imagination. I learned a lot watching the video, and will definitely be watching more! Thanks for sharing. Happy days and model on! 😎🇨🇦
I can totally relate, sometimes I spend longer trying to get a color scheme than painting, (and I’m a slow painter). Lately I’ve just been sitting down and slapping what I think will look good on, it definitely helps a lot.
I think the hardest part for me the complimentary extra bits. The main one or two colors come easy but getting a good color for the leather, trims, etc can really trip me up. What I have enjoyed lately though is to take a look at existing schemes and find something that really stands out and then tweak to my liking. I did that for my Necrons where I loved the silver, red, gold and white but instead of green energy weapons I really wanted to try my hand at a vibrant orange.
Thanks for watching and we really hope you guys enjoyed this one. It sure was fun to make and be inspired to create a colour scheme. Feel free to leave a comment below and let us know what inspires you or what schemes you've created that you are proud of. Oh, and if you enjoyed the content, feel free to leave a Like and Subscribe to the channel (Hit that notification bell too.). Cheers, Dunc & Rog.
This is also one of my favorite parts of the Hobby; I sorely miss the 3rd edition Codices where it looks like everyone in the studio got a model and made their own scheme (The Tau book was especially good for this). Honestly, some of my paint schemes come directly from there! Another place I look is across Universes: My Votann paint scheme is HEAVILY inspired by the Kharadron Barak Nar colors. Even down to noting that one of the stripe colors on the skyships is black, giving me leeway to use it as an accent on vehicles, or a squad marking as needed. Other times it just comes down to a color I like. Why are my actual Kharadron mainly Lupercal Green? Because I like Lupercal green and I didn't have an army that used it yet.
Great video! I've been trying to find out from your other videos but either I missed it or you didn't mention it - what do you use for your pallette? I find my paints dry out really quickly on my pallette, which is a problem when I'm mixing them.
Seeing the void knights always makes me smile. One of the things I remember being taught was varying the vibrancy of your color choices. Green and Red are great complimentary colors but with the same intensity, can look very Christmasy. But if you mute one and make the other brighter, you lose that effect. I liked the blue as your spot color but thought it being so bright made it compete with the orange. So looking at a more muted or grey blue would have been my move.
Im having this exact issue right now with my first ever warhammer box. dark angels combat patrol. I love the caliban green but can only see christmas on the box art. Not a huge fan of the paint scheme on the box. Any suggestion for the weapon color?
I feel really silly because I've painted so many test models and never thought to just put paints on the palette next to each other. I usually use the test model to refine everything, but I often paint a color - like orange - and then paint over it if I don't like the tone. Simple tip that I think will make a big difference for me :)
I always come back to my ppxwalker hord when i try out a new colour scheme. It is sometimes hard when you just have an killteam and not a lot of "spare models" for testing
I remember my first custom scheme was a group of Vampire Counts Skeletons and a Vampire. I loved the idea of using a royal purple to contrast with the light white bones and show off a very well-to-do Vampire Lord. Was so much fun and I think I spent just as much time thinking up a background for the army as I did painting it.
I was gifted a Combat Patrol: Drukhari for my birthday a few months back. I knew I didn't want to paint a "darkly colored" Dark Eldar army, but I also had a hard time nailing down a solid starting point. After some experimentation with alliteration, I settled on my color scheme: Black, Blue, Bone, Brass, and a bit of Blood". Felt good to put such a bright/cold color scheme on such a dark army.
I agree with your planning technique prior to actually painting. I didn't want my Emperor's Children to be plain black and pink so I planned to integrate concepts relevant to Slaanesh and our own world, such as greed, need and chase to have more and more, as well as a lot of opulence. It also allows me for way more freedom with ideas. I had a wild idea of converting Henry the 8th from the Glutos Orscollion kit to represent greed, gluttony etc, one day I might get round to it Lol. First up I have to create the Land Raver!
@@acemechapilot I decided to follow Juan Hidalgo's method of purple in his "I painted a meme" video. It's really luscious and rich but takes time to do properly!
I've been watching your tutorials for years now, and I don't intend to mean this as a dig, but one of the reasons why I value your advice above anyone else's is because in your showcases, I know if I really look, I can find minor imperfections. As someone who will never be "golden demon" worthy, to know a master like you does this, removes the anxiety I have when I get to the "stop painting and move on to the next mini" stage. Cheers Duncan
am i the only one who heard a "black and yellow, black and yellow!" coming from the background music? I really like how these videos do sound super relaxed. No attention seeking, just some expert's advice from someone who looks like he loves what he's doing.
With around 4 years into the hobby, I'm still a very inexperienced painter. So last year when I joined a competition to build and paint a new army over a certain time and have a tournament with them at the end I needed to come up with my first own colour scheme. I decided to build Necrons and, as you said, sometimes it's really just a colour you want to use and for me it was "Thousand Sons Blue" because I really like the colour and started to work around that. I went for an overall icy theme inspired by "The frozen Plague" scheme of Death Guard I saw a while ago. I use Leadbelcher as undercoat with heavy washing of Drakenhof Nightshade to darken it down and give it a blueish colours. Thousand Sons Blue for all the glowing effects and parts of Tesla and Gauss weapons, eyes, melee weapons or even the wings of the Necron croissants. Then an overall heavy drybrush with White Scar to make the metal look frosted and the blue parts iced. It's quite simple scheme with only a few colours but it's a good start that doesn't scare a beginner like me and the people at the tournament liked it too which was a great feeling. :)
Awesome paint job, it looks like the lego Mars mission sets from the early 2000s which was a very similar paint scheme I was looking into to contrast with my necrons colored in like the aliens from the same lego theme.
Picking a colour scheme has to be the most fun and exciting part of the painting process. Your dwarf looks great by the way! Really really good looking, the off white looks fantastic.
I think my favorite original schem I've ever done is for my AOS free city, Starheld using brass mossy greens and bright fuchsia really pops while giving the scheme a worn jungly vibe. I've used it on my stormcast and aelves so far and I'm looking forward to expanding it to some freeguilders
Im really enjoying the editing style you guys are exploring. There are some really cool cinematic shots that no one else in the mini-painting space is doing. I guess it helps to have a dedicated camera man!
When I found my first functional colour scheme I really fell in love with the hobby. Made a successor blood angels chapter called Penitent Knights of Baal. I used dark reaper (citadel) for unpainted power armour, Mephiston red shoulder pads and retributor armour for detailing. It works really nicely with codex adherent schemes too - yellow helmets on close combat and blue for dev squads; I was really happy with how they definitely look like blood angels but a little less flashy. I don’t field any sanguinary guard or gold armoured characters as fluff wise they renounce the artistry of the blood angels to focus themselves on purging their gene seed of the red thirst.
This is my favourite part of the Hobby, it always has been. I remember playing Dawn of War 1 (as a kid) and being blown away with choosing my own colour schemes. The hardest part for me is always the “Naming your Sub-faction”.
The video I’ve been waiting for! Bought a couple of different sci fi minis because I wanted to paint them myself without going of a pre made color scheme. BUT I soon realized that creating a color scheme is quite difficult and a slow process for me, I mean, I did almost fail art in school and I suck at visualizing colors on grey plastic. Something that helps me a lot is using online color wheels. I don’t necessarily stick to exactly the nuances it suggests but more use it to see how colors look together and to get a broader idea of which color look nice together. Very helpful, Duncan and team!
@@EdAllen that’s a great idea! I’ll give that a go as well! Better to try it digitally than try and strip it without hurting the plastic when it ends up looking like a clown, which is a bit difficult when all I got I acetone…
Somebody on Reddit described the Votann aesthetic as "Slightly Nordic NASA-punk". You basically took that quote and ran with it. It looks really good. The orange and white make him really pop out.
This video right here has made a 46 year old man buy a load of space dwarfs and pick up a miniature paintbrush for the first time in at least 30 years. Found myself this afternoon relaxing, making minis and testing colour schemes for my Votann. Just want to say thankyou for reigniting a passion for a hobby I had when I was a teenager that I thought I'd lost forever.
@@DuncanRhodesDRPA just the truth to be honest, your vids have been invaluable to catch up on new materials and techniques and are a joy to watch. Thank you.
Not so much as coming up with your original but something I get great satisfaction from is when I’m painting something like Fallout and color matching it pretty spot on with the source material. Something really gratifying with just using your skills and color theory to nail Nick Valentine’s trench coat!
This is a great video Duncan, possibly one of your best. I loved your Greek inspired Sigmar army when I first saw it and it's great to hear more about your process
i've been watching a few of your videos recently just to sort of scratch the itch i have to engage with the hobby after being a fan of the IP and various video games for years at this point, but this is the first video that really made me want to seriously consider actually getting into the game for the first time. the flavor and resonance of giving them an "Industrial Moon-Miner Astronaut" appearance fits SO perfectly while still being unique and divergent from the "intended" color scheme -- i'm sure you'll have many imitators of this amazing colorway.
As somebody who fairly recently started with warhammer, i painted my first custom color scheme being my metallic purple hot rod guardsmen and it has been my fav group that i have painted so far
When I got into the hobby I picked up the Battle for Macragge starter set, and made my main army Ultramarines. I loved their paint scheme, and when I returned to the hobby at the beginning of 8E, I picked them back up. But I wanted the scheme to be different. I didn't know how to go about that so it was a slow growing process with individual changes: bone-white shoulder pads for sergeants or characters, burgundy for tabards or cloths, bronze melee weapons, different colored helmets for different battlefield roles, etc. But the army really came together when I was inspired by a Babylonian stele covered in cuneiform. All those bone pauldrons became papyrus covered in cuneiform. It changed the entire theme from off-brand Ultramarines into an ancient Babylonian/Mediterranean custom chapter. The recent release of the Black Templars caused me to add a secondary paint scheme of more purples and reds to denote internal chapter struggles between pragmatic or zealous forms of warfare. I'm sure something else will come along that will add another layer to the army. Its good to remember that making a cohesive paint scheme when you first pick up the brush isn't necessary. Feeling inspiration from the outside world, or in the middle of a painting session is normal, and I would highly recommend it.
I personally just finished painting a small Necron army (abt 600 pts) using mostly metallics, with the primary color being Retributor Armor Gold, a secondary of Runefang Steel, and then the spot color being a bright purple and lilac glowing effects on the energy blades, tubes, and eyes. Turned out really sweet looking imo.
@@DuncanRhodesDRPA thanks! They were actually some of the first minis I'd ever painted, alongside a Tau Pathfinder Kill Team I painted Maccrage Blue with dark blue as a secondary, and bright yellow as the spot color for stripes and such. Called them the Ike'A Sept XD
I love how you guys get into all parts of the hobby. In this video especially, how one army or colour scheme can evolve over time due to different influences. It encourages to do the same and just go nuts on inspiration. Keep up the awesome work!:)
A number of years ago I created my own Eldar Craftworld, the Cravic Craftworld, with totally unique base colour. I started out in 2nd edition, and in those days where was frequent use of red to yellow blending (such as Lascannon barrels, or cables on Chaos Black Legion)... and I adopted that into the theme of my army. Games Workshop have never produced their own paint, they subcontract that to a paint supplier and provide them under the Citadel brand. In the 90's when I first started, Citadel's paint came from the Coat de Arms company. I wanted something completely different for my Eldar, so rather than picking a specific colour from the Citadel list, I mixed 'Jade Green' and 'Hawk Turquiose' together to give a more greeny turquoise shade. The helmets are black with dots for stars all over, the facemasks blend from red to yellow, with Enchanted blue eye's, and the guns are black with fluorescent orange barrels, which really makes them pop. The Eldar have lots of gems, but I decided to keep the gem colours very limited, with deep orange gems on anything that's turquoise, and blue gems on the orange guns. In order to keep a consistant colour, highlighting and shading throughout the whole army, I bought four pots of Jade Green and Hawk Turquiose from Coat De Arms, and pured them all into a jam jar. I then syphoned them back into their individual pots, but in one I added a little white for a general highlight, in another I added more white again for a very pale highlights. In another I added a little black for a pot of darker turquoise for shadows, and took a little of that, and create a shade from distilled water, a couple of drops of washing-up liquid to break the surface tension, and finally a couple of drops of airbrush flow improver (which helps it flow into the recesses without pooling stains. Here's some Storm Guardians I painted last week. drive.google.com/file/d/1NMorcCu3agtHtFz4cF7yfXq5fnz9hv4j/view?usp=share_link For Windrider/Skyrunner jetbikes, Vypers, War Walkers and skimmers, the tops are black with starscenes on them. Here's a couple of examples: Fire Prism: drive.google.com/file/d/1HN6Qu6oWltdITIhkUAx4tHno6hqdnj17/view?usp=share_link Autarch Skyrunner: drive.google.com/file/d/1Eqr3gORcxf9onvQDdKBBDog2OVj0QOAf/view?usp=share_link With the red to yellow theme, I followed the old Baharroth model and gave the wings of an Autarch a full rainbow of feathers. drive.google.com/file/d/1Qnjj-zCsiJuvo7rq__b0lQc3oFtVm7TB/view?usp=share_link I also themed him based on the current Aeldari codex. On a third Autarch, with a jump generator, I game the backpack a starscene nebula effect. drive.google.com/file/d/1--MTmFSZVjm9iRwEZ9b26F3pCN1ky8kI/view?usp=share_link For Aspect Warriors, I use the usual colours, Blue for Dire Avengers, Bone for Banshees, Green for Scorpions, etc... but I add elements that tie them to the craftworld, such as sashes and red to yellow facemasks. Overall, my Eldar of my favourite army, and as such get lavish attention when compared to other armies.
You do a brilliant job explaining why you do different things. Great to hear why you use the medium for the wash for instance instead of just using it.
I managed to pick a good color scheme for me and it’s a good gag/lore bit. My Kin are the descendants of a Dark Age Tech pharmaceutical company so I picked the colors of the Umbrella Company. Black void suit, mostly red armor with white panels.
I always had a big respect for people that could make these color schemes up by them self. And keep going with it until they have a whole army or battalion.
You can do it. Just follow the basic principles and go for it, and have fun. You are right though, the challenge is definitely painting an entire army, but it's a fun challenge for sure!
As someone who recently finished painting House Lucaris Chaos Knights after following your Desecreator guide initially, this couldn't have come at a better time as I'm now wanting to paint a loyalist house but in my own scheme, thanks! It makes a lot of sense.
I love this! One of the cases that I did this myself was when the White Scar supplement came out. I enjoyed diving into the lore of my favorite founding chapter, and one section in it stood out to me, when they talked about some of the various Primaris founding chapters. The name Astral Bears kept coming up, but no art, iconography or color schemes existed so in that I found my inspiration. I had custom decals for the chapter logo made, and invented a white and ice blue color scheme inspired by my other favorite spirit bears in gaming, the Clan Ghost Bear Mechwarriors. Ironically I have only painted a couple of them, but they really stand out in my display case. Friends always ask me about them since they look like nothing seen in books.
Really nice scheme! When I decided to do a successor chapter for the Dark Angels, I wanted to bring something from the first Legion into the scheme. Ended up with something really easy: The Pauldrons are black with a white rim, rest of the green wing is like the DA themselves. On vehicles I look for wide areas, where the black can separate several parts of green, the white chapter symbol is the third colour completing the scheme there. To separate Firstborn and Primaris from each other, the Details like the Aquila are Silver on the Firstborn and golden on the Primaris. Not that much of a difference at first, but really popping out on the field and giving a unique touch to my army. Also my Raven- and Deathwing are in a different colour scheme than the primogenitor chapter, so that's a thing, too. I'm at roughly 6k points fully painted at this stage. Thank you for all those great videos of yours, aways a motivation to get back to the table to paint! (Sorry for any mistakes, greetings from Germany!)
Hey Duncan! Firstly, for a name for these Kin, perhaps the Orantis Mining Company? If they’re all dressed as industrial workers and grab weapons when needed, maybe it fits that they’re traders? Secondly, my colour scheme! I developed this with my older brothers Chaos Marines. His have a base of mid tone grey, with a purple right shoulder and left shin and yellow left shoulder and right shin. The purple and yellow were too much to put over all of the model, so the grey as a main colour balanced things. Now, his chaos warband is called the Last Castellans, so when I started getting Primaris Marines, I called mine the First Castellans. Mine have the same grey armour and yellow left shoulder, but the legs are left grey and the entire right arm is a brighter purple. In our narrative, mine were supposed to be the Primaris reinforcements to the Last Castellans but were made into their own Chapter once his turned traitor. I wanted the purple arm because they are the “right arm of the Emperor.” The reduced yellow makes it a spot colour and the purple as the secondary.
When I started to put thought into my paint schemes, it was with my Admech. I wanted to throw the usual dead and dreary forge world for a twist by having my force originate from a lively forest world, and that theme built my colors from the cloaks and armored bits up to the subdued faces with softly glowing red eyes under hoods. The process made painting dozens of light and mechanized infantry so much more fun with a vibe behind it.
When I decided I was going to get my Votann, I knew I wanted to do something very visually different than my other armies. I ended up going similar but darker than you with black armor (black templar), orange undersuit (gryph-hound orange) and red spot color on the weapon casings and visors (flesh tearers red). I haven't gotten past base coats yet, but I can't wait to see how they pop once I get onto washes and highlighting.
Thanks for showing the colour selection process! For my thunderstrike stormcasts, I took inspiration from a picture of a dark storm cloud, leading by trial and error to a colour scheme of shades of grey and blue, with spots of white and gold.
I recently painted a Primaris Dreadnaught with the aid of one of your previous how - to videos. (I actually uploaded to YT!) thanks for your clarity and amazing neatness. 👍
I used the rebel pilot colour scheme for my Ironhead Squat Prospectors and the new orange contrast paint is a great base colour for the cloth and massively speeds up the process when applying this scheme over a larger force.
This kind of thoughtful and thematic video is brilliant. It's the sort of thing that is missing in today's video on demand reality. The process and introspection of colour schemes is great. It hits a specific point. Also, maybe green for the visor, for the 'eyeglasses' alone.
Something I've found to be helpful when stuck trying to decide on a color scheme, is to look at professional sports teams, especially American football (pro or college) for Space Marines. They tend to spend millions in the development of their colors, and the players in full pads and helmets look the most like Space Marines, so you get an idea of how it would look.
From the get go, I've always chosen my own unique color schemes. I've put a lot of thought into my color schemes. and, truthfully, at this point, I dont think I'll ever go with a traditional color scheme. Coming up with my own color schemes has been one of my favorite things about this awesome hobby!
I’ve tried Googling things like ‘science fiction colour schemes’ or ‘cyberpunk colour schemes’ to get swatches of colours used in combination by designers and cinematographers. That’s given me some complicated schemes with lots of vibrant colours that still work together.
Sweet. I might try and use a darker shade of that orange to replicate the orange and black armoured marines from the Astartes teaser, who were busy ripping and tearing (until it is done) those termagants. I think the most helpful this advice will be is in coming up with a custom paint scheme for Titanicus legion. It's damned hard coming up with something original, especially with the level of quality titans deserve.
That was awesome video that really helped me through finding my color schemes for my beloved Votann. You have definitely won a subscriber, keep up this amazing work
For my Cadian Shock Troopers, I did red armor over white fatigues. This was initially just because I liked those colors, but eventually turned into a whole system of color coding. Medics got blue armor, combat engineers got orange armor with silver high-vis stripes and yellow helmets, officers got the infantry color scheme but reversed (red uniform, white armor) and so on
This video is a very nice tutorial for what every mini painter does but now, I feel like I can do it more consciously before I actually start painting. I like the additions of the non-standard camera shots in this one.
I remember watching a fantastic video uploaded by Darren Latham before he was forced to take his channel down and I remember how enlightening that was for me. I'm so happy to see a video of similar and high quality from yourself Duncan! It's a really overwhelming decision for some people, so this goes a long way to helping.
My Votann army box was delayed by two days because of Hurricane Ian (I’m fine, don’t worry), so I was thinking of going for a stormy theme for them to reflect the circumstances that I got the army under. I was gonna go with a grey for the under suit, and dark blue for the armor, and (with the benefit of knowing what spot colors are) a vivid yellow for lights, visors, and energy stuff like plasma blades. This is a great vid and a good source of information for creating your own color schemes!
I use a mix of colour schemes for my ad-mech, the infantry were influenced by the NCR veteran rangers from Fallout New Vegas, brown leather coats, olive drab armour, and red lenses, I gave the coats orange linings too so there's a splash of colour, the vehicles came from my long years of military scale modelling, I used UK light mud (pale ish khaki green colour) with dark green over the top in a version of the 'cloud' camouflage pattern used on British trucks and transports during WWII, again with red lenses off white bits like legs for dunecrawlers and ironstriders
I color scheme I came up with by complete accident was for my Admech where I painted the long coats with Zandri dust, since I had a lot of it, and painted the metal bits with Leadbelcher all over a Chaos black base and it gave them a kinda of Jawa feel that made me dub them the "Scrap Legion"
My idea for the name of your League. I love the classic star wars rebellion color inspiration so we need something that references that. Based on the focus on industry in the LoV "Alliance" would be a perfect organizational description. Your reference picture showed Poe Dameron, whom I really like, so let's try to use part of his name but not make it too obvious. Your mention of Mining gear and work is an easy include, so then we have: "Damerik Mining Alliance". When you have enough inspiration these things just kind of create themselves :) Thanks for all your videos too, you're great Duncan :)
I like to try color schemes by finding a coloring book like piece of art (for games like star wars there are actual coloring books), I imagine a good artist could make a template like that for a space marine or figure like this one. My orange + color scheme was inspired by the rebel soldier on the front of the FFG source book for them (orange pants, brown jacket with a white stripe down the side). So it was fun to see a similiar scheme painted so well, the brush work is just so clean. I guess I need to do more #two thin coats!
Funny I should see this video now, as I'm also trying a custom colour scheme for the first time with the Leagues of Votann. None of the 5 League schemes in the Codex really jumped out to me even though I was interested in painting some of the faction. The scheme I'm going for coincidentally looks really similar to the Kantor Blue based Overlords at 2:44, it's partly inspired by the Empire of Mor Ardain from the videogame Xenoblade 2 (because they have hilarious Scottish accents, which are often associated with Dwarves). I'm partway through a test model but I'm liking it so far.
Definitely returning to this when i paint some spare marines and wanna experiment! I haven't really done any customization on my two mains (admech & necrons) just because i love the red cloak on tan and white, and the necrons' silver with iridescent green. But after seeing all the stuff with votann, where ppl are applying lego space sets and tmnt color schemes, and now this, it's really got me wanting to branch out!
Sports teams are always a great source of colour scheme inspiration I find. You can refine and tweak the look once you've done a test model but I've done hull city space marine. Miami dolphins colours on models, all great fun!
Thank you for that video! it was a huge inspiration when I started making my Votann army. I went with a Deep Red/Royal Blue/Silver look for the hearthkyn warriors, because I felt they were very "imperialistic" in the way they do "business" on some planets. For the higher rank, like the Kâhl and the Theyn will be gold instead of silver.
Incredibly cool color sheme! I gonna paint my votann in colors inspired by the spacesuits the belters wear in the expanse. Always really liked the blue/black suits with yellow helmets.
I actually did my own custom color scheme for my Sisters of Battle. I used Iyanden Yellow contrast paint for the armor, and diluted Shyish Purple for the cloth on them. I have since switched to Luxon Purple, and although it won't match my earlier models it looks far better. I'm currently working up a test model for my nascent Leagues of Votann army, using the Grineer from the game Warframe as my inspiration.
My favorite color was green. My favorite faction was Admech. I really liked dark forest green colors, so that's what I chose. Then I looked to another faction painted that way in 40k, the Dark Angels. I saw they often used red as a spot color and accent, so I decided I'd use red, but in a very specific way. I wanted red in my Admech army to signify command and respect, (it's the color of Mars, the birthplace of the Admech, after all) so I would only use it on the squad leaders and HQs. Since I couldn't use the red on basic troops then, I would use a bone color for markings instead. Really loved the dark brassy color of Balthasar Gold, so that became my main color of all the metals in my Admech army, with some silvers mixed in if I wanted to break them up. Orange became a natural color for lenses and weapon effects. I actually wound up with that color completely by accident. I used citadel's spiritstone red over too bright a metallic, and it came out looking more orange than red, but I liked it and just ran with it. Put in a little bit of purple with the purity seals, inspired by Blood Angel painting videos (with a few other green admech schemes I saw), and it was a great touch. It had a little bit of planning, a little bit of serendipity, and a little bit of adjustment on the fly, but I really love my Admech Color Scheme. They're one of my favorite armies.
Picking color schemes has always been the hardest part for me
Very educational. Jon Bius sent me over. You have a steady hand (which at 67, I no longer have) and a very vivid imagination. I learned a lot watching the video, and will definitely be watching more! Thanks for sharing. Happy days and model on! 😎🇨🇦
I can totally relate, sometimes I spend longer trying to get a color scheme than painting, (and I’m a slow painter). Lately I’ve just been sitting down and slapping what I think will look good on, it definitely helps a lot.
I think the hardest part for me the complimentary extra bits. The main one or two colors come easy but getting a good color for the leather, trims, etc can really trip me up. What I have enjoyed lately though is to take a look at existing schemes and find something that really stands out and then tweak to my liking. I did that for my Necrons where I loved the silver, red, gold and white but instead of green energy weapons I really wanted to try my hand at a vibrant orange.
Hard, because there's so many ideas out there and you have to commit to usually one style.
Yeah I usually do 4 or 5 passes over a mini with different ideas before I figure it out.
How great is it that Duncan now runs his own channel and his own paints company without any non-compete clauses coming to haunt him ^_^
I would love to see your interpretation of the vehicle scheme for this faction! Man, Leagues of Votann are sick.
Watch this space
Thanks for watching and we really hope you guys enjoyed this one. It sure was fun to make and be inspired to create a colour scheme. Feel free to leave a comment below and let us know what inspires you or what schemes you've created that you are proud of. Oh, and if you enjoyed the content, feel free to leave a Like and Subscribe to the channel (Hit that notification bell too.). Cheers, Dunc & Rog.
Excellent video! I will say, I do miss the little inserts that would pop up on the left showing the brands of paint that were being used.
Any chance you could say where the shield bits were from, the ones with sun/moon motif? Thanks for great vids!
What happened to the color and tools markers that you used to post at the top left?
This is also one of my favorite parts of the Hobby; I sorely miss the 3rd edition Codices where it looks like everyone in the studio got a model and made their own scheme (The Tau book was especially good for this). Honestly, some of my paint schemes come directly from there!
Another place I look is across Universes: My Votann paint scheme is HEAVILY inspired by the Kharadron Barak Nar colors. Even down to noting that one of the stripe colors on the skyships is black, giving me leeway to use it as an accent on vehicles, or a squad marking as needed. Other times it just comes down to a color I like. Why are my actual Kharadron mainly Lupercal Green? Because I like Lupercal green and I didn't have an army that used it yet.
Great video! I've been trying to find out from your other videos but either I missed it or you didn't mention it - what do you use for your pallette? I find my paints dry out really quickly on my pallette, which is a problem when I'm mixing them.
Seeing the void knights always makes me smile.
One of the things I remember being taught was varying the vibrancy of your color choices. Green and Red are great complimentary colors but with the same intensity, can look very Christmasy. But if you mute one and make the other brighter, you lose that effect. I liked the blue as your spot color but thought it being so bright made it compete with the orange. So looking at a more muted or grey blue would have been my move.
Im having this exact issue right now with my first ever warhammer box. dark angels combat patrol. I love the caliban green but can only see christmas on the box art. Not a huge fan of the paint scheme on the box.
Any suggestion for the weapon color?
I feel really silly because I've painted so many test models and never thought to just put paints on the palette next to each other. I usually use the test model to refine everything, but I often paint a color - like orange - and then paint over it if I don't like the tone. Simple tip that I think will make a big difference for me :)
I always come back to my ppxwalker hord when i try out a new colour scheme. It is sometimes hard when you just have an killteam and not a lot of "spare models" for testing
Always loved the Rebel flightsuits and these just look great in that motif.
Well said! Thanks for making the connection!
This is what Darren mention once, and having a paint journal can keep track any colour that you used
This channel makes my favorite painting videos, thanks for all the great stuff!
Wow, thank you!
I remember my first custom scheme was a group of Vampire Counts Skeletons and a Vampire. I loved the idea of using a royal purple to contrast with the light white bones and show off a very well-to-do Vampire Lord. Was so much fun and I think I spent just as much time thinking up a background for the army as I did painting it.
I was gifted a Combat Patrol: Drukhari for my birthday a few months back. I knew I didn't want to paint a "darkly colored" Dark Eldar army, but I also had a hard time nailing down a solid starting point. After some experimentation with alliteration, I settled on my color scheme: Black, Blue, Bone, Brass, and a bit of Blood". Felt good to put such a bright/cold color scheme on such a dark army.
I agree with your planning technique prior to actually painting. I didn't want my Emperor's Children to be plain black and pink so I planned to integrate concepts relevant to Slaanesh and our own world, such as greed, need and chase to have more and more, as well as a lot of opulence. It also allows me for way more freedom with ideas. I had a wild idea of converting Henry the 8th from the Glutos Orscollion kit to represent greed, gluttony etc, one day I might get round to it Lol. First up I have to create the Land Raver!
Also that astronaut theme is sick!!
What colors did you ultimately decide on? I'll be honest, that's the hardest part for me too, I overthink things like this.
On a test model, I did an Emperor's Children Marine with Turquoise as the main, with redish-violets and pinks as secondaries.
@@acemechapilot I decided to follow Juan Hidalgo's method of purple in his "I painted a meme" video. It's really luscious and rich but takes time to do properly!
@@SignoftheMagi I think I did two purples with several gold colors and then dirty leather because it was a master of execution
I've been watching your tutorials for years now, and I don't intend to mean this as a dig, but one of the reasons why I value your advice above anyone else's is because in your showcases, I know if I really look, I can find minor imperfections. As someone who will never be "golden demon" worthy, to know a master like you does this, removes the anxiety I have when I get to the "stop painting and move on to the next mini" stage. Cheers Duncan
am i the only one who heard a "black and yellow, black and yellow!" coming from the background music? I really like how these videos do sound super relaxed. No attention seeking, just some expert's advice from someone who looks like he loves what he's doing.
Well looks like I got a colour scheme for my Nomads from Infinity! Awesome work!
Great video. Really love your brush control. Painting the red stripes free hand is very impressive.
I love how your first mini was in the lineup of your models!
Pride and place! A Veteran for sure!
Thank you! This video broke my painters block as I was stuck on deciding my army color!
Awesome! Glad we could help a little.
With around 4 years into the hobby, I'm still a very inexperienced painter. So last year when I joined a competition to build and paint a new army over a certain time and have a tournament with them at the end I needed to come up with my first own colour scheme.
I decided to build Necrons and, as you said, sometimes it's really just a colour you want to use and for me it was "Thousand Sons Blue" because I really like the colour and started to work around that.
I went for an overall icy theme inspired by "The frozen Plague" scheme of Death Guard I saw a while ago.
I use Leadbelcher as undercoat with heavy washing of Drakenhof Nightshade to darken it down and give it a blueish colours.
Thousand Sons Blue for all the glowing effects and parts of Tesla and Gauss weapons, eyes, melee weapons or even the wings of the Necron croissants. Then an overall heavy drybrush with White Scar to make the metal look frosted and the blue parts iced.
It's quite simple scheme with only a few colours but it's a good start that doesn't scare a beginner like me and the people at the tournament liked it too which was a great feeling. :)
Awesome paint job, it looks like the lego Mars mission sets from the early 2000s which was a very similar paint scheme I was looking into to contrast with my necrons colored in like the aliens from the same lego theme.
You got pictures of them?
@@akumaking1 nah I haven’t started them yet, still working on my deathguard, if you wanna see the scheme though just search lego mars mission.
Picking a colour scheme has to be the most fun and exciting part of the painting process.
Your dwarf looks great by the way! Really really good looking, the off white looks fantastic.
I think my favorite original schem I've ever done is for my AOS free city, Starheld using brass mossy greens and bright fuchsia really pops while giving the scheme a worn jungly vibe. I've used it on my stormcast and aelves so far and I'm looking forward to expanding it to some freeguilders
That sounds awesome. I love the idea of it.
Im really enjoying the editing style you guys are exploring. There are some really cool cinematic shots that no one else in the mini-painting space is doing. I guess it helps to have a dedicated camera man!
When I found my first functional colour scheme I really fell in love with the hobby. Made a successor blood angels chapter called Penitent Knights of Baal. I used dark reaper (citadel) for unpainted power armour, Mephiston red shoulder pads and retributor armour for detailing. It works really nicely with codex adherent schemes too - yellow helmets on close combat and blue for dev squads; I was really happy with how they definitely look like blood angels but a little less flashy.
I don’t field any sanguinary guard or gold armoured characters as fluff wise they renounce the artistry of the blood angels to focus themselves on purging their gene seed of the red thirst.
So cool!!! I want to paint my own version too! 😃
Awesome! We may have a full tutorial in the near future 😃
Really appreciate the alternate camera angles and editing on this video, more fun to watch.
This is my favourite part of the Hobby, it always has been. I remember playing Dawn of War 1 (as a kid) and being blown away with choosing my own colour schemes. The hardest part for me is always the “Naming your Sub-faction”.
The video I’ve been waiting for! Bought a couple of different sci fi minis because I wanted to paint them myself without going of a pre made color scheme. BUT I soon realized that creating a color scheme is quite difficult and a slow process for me, I mean, I did almost fail art in school and I suck at visualizing colors on grey plastic. Something that helps me a lot is using online color wheels. I don’t necessarily stick to exactly the nuances it suggests but more use it to see how colors look together and to get a broader idea of which color look nice together.
Very helpful, Duncan and team!
It's our pleasure and we are glad it helps.
@@DuncanRhodesDRPA btw, the name of your new faction should be "The United Cosmonautical Syndicate" UCS for short :)
I've seen some people that digitally paint over a picture of the minis to try out color schemes before committing to paint.
@@EdAllen that’s a great idea! I’ll give that a go as well! Better to try it digitally than try and strip it without hurting the plastic when it ends up looking like a clown, which is a bit difficult when all I got I acetone…
Somebody on Reddit described the Votann aesthetic as "Slightly Nordic NASA-punk". You basically took that quote and ran with it. It looks really good. The orange and white make him really pop out.
This video right here has made a 46 year old man buy a load of space dwarfs and pick up a miniature paintbrush for the first time in at least 30 years. Found myself this afternoon relaxing, making minis and testing colour schemes for my Votann. Just want to say thankyou for reigniting a passion for a hobby I had when I was a teenager that I thought I'd lost forever.
Wow, thanks so much for this, it's made our day ☺
@@DuncanRhodesDRPA just the truth to be honest, your vids have been invaluable to catch up on new materials and techniques and are a joy to watch. Thank you.
You haven’t lost a step. Thanks Duncan
Quality tutorial Duncan. love your process
I am enjoying the b-roll being mixed in for this video, it is a nice addition.
... beautiful-work, Duncan. Really love this army and color-scheme...
Not so much as coming up with your original but something I get great satisfaction from is when I’m painting something like Fallout and color matching it pretty spot on with the source material. Something really gratifying with just using your skills and color theory to nail Nick Valentine’s trench coat!
Duncan really does make some of the best painting content on youtube.
Thanks, both Rog and I try our very best
I love the newer format that your producing your videos in.
This is a great video Duncan, possibly one of your best. I loved your Greek inspired Sigmar army when I first saw it and it's great to hear more about your process
i've been watching a few of your videos recently just to sort of scratch the itch i have to engage with the hobby after being a fan of the IP and various video games for years at this point, but this is the first video that really made me want to seriously consider actually getting into the game for the first time. the flavor and resonance of giving them an "Industrial Moon-Miner Astronaut" appearance fits SO perfectly while still being unique and divergent from the "intended" color scheme -- i'm sure you'll have many imitators of this amazing colorway.
As somebody who fairly recently started with warhammer, i painted my first custom color scheme being my metallic purple hot rod guardsmen and it has been my fav group that i have painted so far
Those freehand lines are insanely good. Well done!
When I got into the hobby I picked up the Battle for Macragge starter set, and made my main army Ultramarines. I loved their paint scheme, and when I returned to the hobby at the beginning of 8E, I picked them back up. But I wanted the scheme to be different. I didn't know how to go about that so it was a slow growing process with individual changes: bone-white shoulder pads for sergeants or characters, burgundy for tabards or cloths, bronze melee weapons, different colored helmets for different battlefield roles, etc. But the army really came together when I was inspired by a Babylonian stele covered in cuneiform. All those bone pauldrons became papyrus covered in cuneiform. It changed the entire theme from off-brand Ultramarines into an ancient Babylonian/Mediterranean custom chapter. The recent release of the Black Templars caused me to add a secondary paint scheme of more purples and reds to denote internal chapter struggles between pragmatic or zealous forms of warfare. I'm sure something else will come along that will add another layer to the army. Its good to remember that making a cohesive paint scheme when you first pick up the brush isn't necessary. Feeling inspiration from the outside world, or in the middle of a painting session is normal, and I would highly recommend it.
I really love that white space marine colour scheme
Thank you for bringing up what used to be at the core of the 40k hobby : "having fun making your guys".
I personally just finished painting a small Necron army (abt 600 pts) using mostly metallics, with the primary color being Retributor Armor Gold, a secondary of Runefang Steel, and then the spot color being a bright purple and lilac glowing effects on the energy blades, tubes, and eyes. Turned out really sweet looking imo.
That sounds awesome!
@@DuncanRhodesDRPA thanks! They were actually some of the first minis I'd ever painted, alongside a Tau Pathfinder Kill Team I painted Maccrage Blue with dark blue as a secondary, and bright yellow as the spot color for stripes and such. Called them the Ike'A Sept XD
I love how you guys get into all parts of the hobby. In this video especially, how one army or colour scheme can evolve over time due to different influences. It encourages to do the same and just go nuts on inspiration.
Keep up the awesome work!:)
Really nice colour scheme. And many thanks for the words of wisdom about planing and then applying a colour scheme.
Glad it was helpful and it's our pleasure
I love the astronaut look for the Votann!
A number of years ago I created my own Eldar Craftworld, the Cravic Craftworld, with totally unique base colour.
I started out in 2nd edition, and in those days where was frequent use of red to yellow blending (such as Lascannon barrels, or cables on Chaos Black Legion)... and I adopted that into the theme of my army.
Games Workshop have never produced their own paint, they subcontract that to a paint supplier and provide them under the Citadel brand.
In the 90's when I first started, Citadel's paint came from the Coat de Arms company.
I wanted something completely different for my Eldar, so rather than picking a specific colour from the Citadel list, I mixed 'Jade Green' and 'Hawk Turquiose' together to give a more greeny turquoise shade.
The helmets are black with dots for stars all over, the facemasks blend from red to yellow, with Enchanted blue eye's, and the guns are black with fluorescent orange barrels, which really makes them pop.
The Eldar have lots of gems, but I decided to keep the gem colours very limited, with deep orange gems on anything that's turquoise, and blue gems on the orange guns.
In order to keep a consistant colour, highlighting and shading throughout the whole army, I bought four pots of Jade Green and Hawk Turquiose from Coat De Arms, and pured them all into a jam jar.
I then syphoned them back into their individual pots, but in one I added a little white for a general highlight, in another I added more white again for a very pale highlights.
In another I added a little black for a pot of darker turquoise for shadows, and took a little of that, and create a shade from distilled water, a couple of drops of washing-up liquid to break the surface tension, and finally a couple of drops of airbrush flow improver (which helps it flow into the recesses without pooling stains.
Here's some Storm Guardians I painted last week.
drive.google.com/file/d/1NMorcCu3agtHtFz4cF7yfXq5fnz9hv4j/view?usp=share_link
For Windrider/Skyrunner jetbikes, Vypers, War Walkers and skimmers, the tops are black with starscenes on them.
Here's a couple of examples:
Fire Prism: drive.google.com/file/d/1HN6Qu6oWltdITIhkUAx4tHno6hqdnj17/view?usp=share_link
Autarch Skyrunner: drive.google.com/file/d/1Eqr3gORcxf9onvQDdKBBDog2OVj0QOAf/view?usp=share_link
With the red to yellow theme, I followed the old Baharroth model and gave the wings of an Autarch a full rainbow of feathers.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Qnjj-zCsiJuvo7rq__b0lQc3oFtVm7TB/view?usp=share_link
I also themed him based on the current Aeldari codex.
On a third Autarch, with a jump generator, I game the backpack a starscene nebula effect.
drive.google.com/file/d/1--MTmFSZVjm9iRwEZ9b26F3pCN1ky8kI/view?usp=share_link
For Aspect Warriors, I use the usual colours, Blue for Dire Avengers, Bone for Banshees, Green for Scorpions, etc... but I add elements that tie them to the craftworld, such as sashes and red to yellow facemasks.
Overall, my Eldar of my favourite army, and as such get lavish attention when compared to other armies.
You do a brilliant job explaining why you do different things. Great to hear why you use the medium for the wash for instance instead of just using it.
Great stuff Duncan. Great to see the process you use to come up with your home brew colour schemes.
Thank you! Cheers! Glad you liked it ☺
I literally had an idea yesterday that led me to make my own chapter and I was choosing a colour scheme! Thanks for the advice in this video.
I managed to pick a good color scheme for me and it’s a good gag/lore bit.
My Kin are the descendants of a Dark Age Tech pharmaceutical company so I picked the colors of the Umbrella Company.
Black void suit, mostly red armor with white panels.
I always had a big respect for people that could make these color schemes up by them self. And keep going with it until they have a whole army or battalion.
You can do it. Just follow the basic principles and go for it, and have fun. You are right though, the challenge is definitely painting an entire army, but it's a fun challenge for sure!
As someone who recently finished painting House Lucaris Chaos Knights after following your Desecreator guide initially, this couldn't have come at a better time as I'm now wanting to paint a loyalist house but in my own scheme, thanks! It makes a lot of sense.
Thank you , DRPA .
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I love this! One of the cases that I did this myself was when the White Scar supplement came out. I enjoyed diving into the lore of my favorite founding chapter, and one section in it stood out to me, when they talked about some of the various Primaris founding chapters. The name Astral Bears kept coming up, but no art, iconography or color schemes existed so in that I found my inspiration. I had custom decals for the chapter logo made, and invented a white and ice blue color scheme inspired by my other favorite spirit bears in gaming, the Clan Ghost Bear Mechwarriors. Ironically I have only painted a couple of them, but they really stand out in my display case. Friends always ask me about them since they look like nothing seen in books.
I just love this guy! The scheme is great and you made the whole process sound so exciting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Really nice scheme! When I decided to do a successor chapter for the Dark Angels, I wanted to bring something from the first Legion into the scheme. Ended up with something really easy: The Pauldrons are black with a white rim, rest of the green wing is like the DA themselves. On vehicles I look for wide areas, where the black can separate several parts of green, the white chapter symbol is the third colour completing the scheme there. To separate Firstborn and Primaris from each other, the Details like the Aquila are Silver on the Firstborn and golden on the Primaris. Not that much of a difference at first, but really popping out on the field and giving a unique touch to my army. Also my Raven- and Deathwing are in a different colour scheme than the primogenitor chapter, so that's a thing, too. I'm at roughly 6k points fully painted at this stage. Thank you for all those great videos of yours, aways a motivation to get back to the table to paint! (Sorry for any mistakes, greetings from Germany!)
Awesome work Mr. Rhodes, the orange and white really "pop" and you can notice them from far away. Smart detailling too!
Hey Duncan!
Firstly, for a name for these Kin, perhaps the Orantis Mining Company? If they’re all dressed as industrial workers and grab weapons when needed, maybe it fits that they’re traders?
Secondly, my colour scheme! I developed this with my older brothers Chaos Marines. His have a base of mid tone grey, with a purple right shoulder and left shin and yellow left shoulder and right shin. The purple and yellow were too much to put over all of the model, so the grey as a main colour balanced things. Now, his chaos warband is called the Last Castellans, so when I started getting Primaris Marines, I called mine the First Castellans. Mine have the same grey armour and yellow left shoulder, but the legs are left grey and the entire right arm is a brighter purple. In our narrative, mine were supposed to be the Primaris reinforcements to the Last Castellans but were made into their own Chapter once his turned traitor. I wanted the purple arm because they are the “right arm of the Emperor.” The reduced yellow makes it a spot colour and the purple as the secondary.
When I started to put thought into my paint schemes, it was with my Admech. I wanted to throw the usual dead and dreary forge world for a twist by having my force originate from a lively forest world, and that theme built my colors from the cloaks and armored bits up to the subdued faces with softly glowing red eyes under hoods. The process made painting dozens of light and mechanized infantry so much more fun with a vibe behind it.
All the colors of the dutch flag got represented in that mini 😉 layed it out perfect on the pallet haha! Love your color scheme!
plus all that orange that you guys seem so obsessed with! :D
@@ecMonify yes! we also have an orange pennant at the flag, meant for certain occasions.
I really like the new format/filming style!
You could use "failed" spot colours as rank markings if you still want to add that colour in
Really enjoyed this, definitely one of the best you've done for me. Getting a peek inside the method and thought process. Thank you.
Very inspirational. You picked my college's colors - I'm kinda inspired to get this army.
When I decided I was going to get my Votann, I knew I wanted to do something very visually different than my other armies. I ended up going similar but darker than you with black armor (black templar), orange undersuit (gryph-hound orange) and red spot color on the weapon casings and visors (flesh tearers red). I haven't gotten past base coats yet, but I can't wait to see how they pop once I get onto washes and highlighting.
Thanks for showing the colour selection process!
For my thunderstrike stormcasts, I took inspiration from a picture of a dark storm cloud, leading by trial and error to a colour scheme of shades of grey and blue, with spots of white and gold.
I recently painted a Primaris Dreadnaught with the aid of one of your previous how - to videos. (I actually uploaded to YT!) thanks for your clarity and amazing neatness. 👍
I used the rebel pilot colour scheme for my Ironhead Squat Prospectors and the new orange contrast paint is a great base colour for the cloth and massively speeds up the process when applying this scheme over a larger force.
This kind of thoughtful and thematic video is brilliant. It's the sort of thing that is missing in today's video on demand reality. The process and introspection of colour schemes is great. It hits a specific point.
Also, maybe green for the visor, for the 'eyeglasses' alone.
Thanks. Green could work as it goes nicely with orange
Something I've found to be helpful when stuck trying to decide on a color scheme, is to look at professional sports teams, especially American football (pro or college) for Space Marines. They tend to spend millions in the development of their colors, and the players in full pads and helmets look the most like Space Marines, so you get an idea of how it would look.
From the get go, I've always chosen my own unique color schemes. I've put a lot of thought into my color schemes. and, truthfully, at this point, I dont think I'll ever go with a traditional color scheme. Coming up with my own color schemes has been one of my favorite things about this awesome hobby!
It is a great part of the hobby for sure :-)
I’ve tried Googling things like ‘science fiction colour schemes’ or ‘cyberpunk colour schemes’ to get swatches of colours used in combination by designers and cinematographers. That’s given me some complicated schemes with lots of vibrant colours that still work together.
Sweet. I might try and use a darker shade of that orange to replicate the orange and black armoured marines from the Astartes teaser, who were busy ripping and tearing (until it is done) those termagants. I think the most helpful this advice will be is in coming up with a custom paint scheme for Titanicus legion. It's damned hard coming up with something original, especially with the level of quality titans deserve.
Oh yes, for sure. Titans deserve something unique. But if you follow the principles, you can do it for sure.
That was awesome video that really helped me through finding my color schemes for my beloved Votann. You have definitely won a subscriber, keep up this amazing work
For my Cadian Shock Troopers, I did red armor over white fatigues. This was initially just because I liked those colors, but eventually turned into a whole system of color coding. Medics got blue armor, combat engineers got orange armor with silver high-vis stripes and yellow helmets, officers got the infantry color scheme but reversed (red uniform, white armor) and so on
I recently saw on Twitter someone that painted their Vokann based on cans of pop. My particular favourite was the Irn Bru colour scheme.
Thank you for this. I have genuinely just done this for my necron idomitus minis. Painting a test model then going for it 🖌
This video is a very nice tutorial for what every mini painter does but now, I feel like I can do it more consciously before I actually start painting.
I like the additions of the non-standard camera shots in this one.
We wanted to try something a little different 😊
I remember watching a fantastic video uploaded by Darren Latham before he was forced to take his channel down and I remember how enlightening that was for me. I'm so happy to see a video of similar and high quality from yourself Duncan! It's a really overwhelming decision for some people, so this goes a long way to helping.
What forced Darren to close his channel?
wow, this chipping is amazing
Thanks, if you've never tried it, you should give it a go. It's really easy and fun to do!
My Votann army box was delayed by two days because of Hurricane Ian (I’m fine, don’t worry), so I was thinking of going for a stormy theme for them to reflect the circumstances that I got the army under. I was gonna go with a grey for the under suit, and dark blue for the armor, and (with the benefit of knowing what spot colors are) a vivid yellow for lights, visors, and energy stuff like plasma blades. This is a great vid and a good source of information for creating your own color schemes!
I use a mix of colour schemes for my ad-mech, the infantry were influenced by the NCR veteran rangers from Fallout New Vegas, brown leather coats, olive drab armour, and red lenses, I gave the coats orange linings too so there's a splash of colour, the vehicles came from my long years of military scale modelling, I used UK light mud (pale ish khaki green colour) with dark green over the top in a version of the 'cloud' camouflage pattern used on British trucks and transports during WWII, again with red lenses off white bits like legs for dunecrawlers and ironstriders
I color scheme I came up with by complete accident was for my Admech where I painted the long coats with Zandri dust, since I had a lot of it, and painted the metal bits with Leadbelcher all over a Chaos black base and it gave them a kinda of Jawa feel that made me dub them the "Scrap Legion"
My idea for the name of your League. I love the classic star wars rebellion color inspiration so we need something that references that. Based on the focus on industry in the LoV "Alliance" would be a perfect organizational description. Your reference picture showed Poe Dameron, whom I really like, so let's try to use part of his name but not make it too obvious. Your mention of Mining gear and work is an easy include, so then we have: "Damerik Mining Alliance". When you have enough inspiration these things just kind of create themselves :)
Thanks for all your videos too, you're great Duncan :)
This is the color scheme I was thinking about. I'm glad I have seen it before trying it. though I would go for a paler orange
I like to try color schemes by finding a coloring book like piece of art (for games like star wars there are actual coloring books), I imagine a good artist could make a template like that for a space marine or figure like this one. My orange + color scheme was inspired by the rebel soldier on the front of the FFG source book for them (orange pants, brown jacket with a white stripe down the side). So it was fun to see a similiar scheme painted so well, the brush work is just so clean. I guess I need to do more #two thin coats!
Funny I should see this video now, as I'm also trying a custom colour scheme for the first time with the Leagues of Votann. None of the 5 League schemes in the Codex really jumped out to me even though I was interested in painting some of the faction. The scheme I'm going for coincidentally looks really similar to the Kantor Blue based Overlords at 2:44, it's partly inspired by the Empire of Mor Ardain from the videogame Xenoblade 2 (because they have hilarious Scottish accents, which are often associated with Dwarves). I'm partway through a test model but I'm liking it so far.
Definitely returning to this when i paint some spare marines and wanna experiment! I haven't really done any customization on my two mains (admech & necrons) just because i love the red cloak on tan and white, and the necrons' silver with iridescent green. But after seeing all the stuff with votann, where ppl are applying lego space sets and tmnt color schemes, and now this, it's really got me wanting to branch out!
Sports teams are always a great source of colour scheme inspiration I find.
You can refine and tweak the look once you've done a test model but I've done hull city space marine. Miami dolphins colours on models, all great fun!
Great color scheme. My favourite one for the Votann so far is one based on the classic lego Ice Planet 2000 range.
Thank you for that video! it was a huge inspiration when I started making my Votann army. I went with a Deep Red/Royal Blue/Silver look for the hearthkyn warriors, because I felt they were very "imperialistic" in the way they do "business" on some planets. For the higher rank, like the Kâhl and the Theyn will be gold instead of silver.
Incredibly cool color sheme!
I gonna paint my votann in colors inspired by the spacesuits the belters wear in the expanse. Always really liked the blue/black suits with yellow helmets.
I actually did my own custom color scheme for my Sisters of Battle. I used Iyanden Yellow contrast paint for the armor, and diluted Shyish Purple for the cloth on them. I have since switched to Luxon Purple, and although it won't match my earlier models it looks far better. I'm currently working up a test model for my nascent Leagues of Votann army, using the Grineer from the game Warframe as my inspiration.
The Great Duncan League !
100% using this as the guide for my flight suit Luke
My favorite color was green. My favorite faction was Admech. I really liked dark forest green colors, so that's what I chose. Then I looked to another faction painted that way in 40k, the Dark Angels. I saw they often used red as a spot color and accent, so I decided I'd use red, but in a very specific way. I wanted red in my Admech army to signify command and respect, (it's the color of Mars, the birthplace of the Admech, after all) so I would only use it on the squad leaders and HQs. Since I couldn't use the red on basic troops then, I would use a bone color for markings instead. Really loved the dark brassy color of Balthasar Gold, so that became my main color of all the metals in my Admech army, with some silvers mixed in if I wanted to break them up. Orange became a natural color for lenses and weapon effects. I actually wound up with that color completely by accident. I used citadel's spiritstone red over too bright a metallic, and it came out looking more orange than red, but I liked it and just ran with it. Put in a little bit of purple with the purity seals, inspired by Blood Angel painting videos (with a few other green admech schemes I saw), and it was a great touch.
It had a little bit of planning, a little bit of serendipity, and a little bit of adjustment on the fly, but I really love my Admech Color Scheme. They're one of my favorite armies.
This turned out great! The colour scheme I landed on for my votann is very similar but I went for the turquoise on the armour instead of the white
Ohh that sounds nice.