5 Tips to Choose Color Schemes – HC 371

I really want to do White and orange scheme, similar to the 30k World Eaters White and Blue, but I cant find a model or army that fits this idea

Watching this video from the woods. It's been 5 days, but I think it may now be time to return to civilization and paint some of those gray minis I ran away screaming from.

I have to ask, is that Jerma in your intro?

Hey Vince I've got a strange army colour scheme problem that is admittedly entirely self inflicted that I was hoping you might be able to give some advice on how to execute it.

When I was doing my "looking for inspiration" step with the Lumineth, I ended up coming across an image of a Dawnrider painted in this amazing Rainbow colour scheme that I was so inspired by I ended getting my first box of Wardens as a result.

The problem is, I don't know how to realize this colour scheme on an army wide level. I have tons of cool ideas for the leaders and centerpieces (like having the cathallar have a dress that's red at the neckline but goes through the rainbow until it's purple at the bottom, or having the E&E twins each be half the rainbow, one warm one cold, or sticking a rainbow led in eltherion, or having the mountain cow be made of gemstones or bismuth instead of boring rock, or having the banner be an massively ornate pride flag) but I'm at a loss as to how to have that theme present on the smaller and more numberous battle line models.

Like, the wardens for example, I've got the start of an idea (white armor, gold trim, rainbow plumes in their helmets) but then… How do I do their cloth skirts? The three ideas I've come up with are 1) have each member of the squad have a different primary cloth colour so that when they're lined up they make a rainbow together. 2) is just have every battleline squad have a different cloth colour and achieve a rainbow that way (like, red squad, orange squad etc.) And 3) is to just give up and have the primary cloth colour be the same across the entire army (maybe like blue or purple to contrast the gold)

You haven't done a HC episode on rainbows in any capacity (I imagine because it's generally a mistake to try to include that maybe colours on a mini) but I'm committed enough to my cool leader idea that I want to make this work somehow, and I was hoping you'd either be able to tell me which oh my ideas work best, or have some fourth option I hadn't considered, or just some advice on how to pull this army concept together.

Also, p.s. while my lumineth remain unpainted, HC as been invaluable for my Dark Angels and assorted d&d minis. So thanks for making all these videos.

Ι cant stand the dark angels been shown with green shoulder pads and red bolters. I want to puke at the red bolters. So I changed these, the shoulder pads of the command staff and veterans I paint gold, and rank and file silver. For the bolters I switched it to a very light white. As you said those pictures are suggestions and by no means a set in stone scheme.

There are great open source alternatives to things like Photoshop, Krita for example. Just in case you might want to see if a big scary program will help you, don't worry though, they're not so scary really. They do have some significant advantages though: Layers, different ways to combine the colour information on those layers ( a big one here is using a layer set to multiply or screen on top of an image of a grey model, as this is kind of like actually painting on the model), better selection tools like lasso, polygonal lasso or the magic wand (using those you could also do fast mockups of kitbashes up front)

If I am not using more or less something that already exists, I'll usually go searching on here to see what goes with what, the rest of this is well beyond me. 😀 Well, even in the first example I'll usually come here to get help along the way.

Just came back from the woods, to finish my Octarius stuff 😎 Thanks for the content, my dude ✊🏻

One thing my Lumineth have taught me (brutally) is don't paint trim a different colour on troop models.

I learned from the Spanish painters to use impressionist fantasy & sci-fi concept art. Boris Vallejo sorta stuff. Gave me alot of ideas for colours & also how lighting works.

Any recommendations for choosing combinations of mostly browns? I paint Sylvaneth.

I paint my armies in the colours of my workplace incase I donate for them to sell later in life… (I work for a charity hospice).. purple, white with green bases <3
Luckily purple is also my fave colour.. lol

What's up Vince. I found your channel through Ninjon. Man, Holy crap you're a great painter!! I love your work!!

I am once again in need of this content

Thank you for this!