#40K IMPERIAL GUARD COLOUR SCHEMES HOW TO#

Though Sevara is also nice in that swampy green color. Necron: Lorn V for sure, that black + brown's sexy. Imperial Guard: 252nd Kaurava Conservator(with a slight edit to the 'gold color'), 180th(Brown) and 412th Cadian are very nice as well. If I'm allowed to take out of the game schemes, Lugganath and its colors rock! As is Ava-Nile, Biel Tan and, somewhat, Il-Kaithe. Next IвЂ™ll should you how I do the armor and weapon, so stay tuned.Chaos: World Eaters / Word Bearers(WE, Red + Brass, is better, but if talking vanilla colors, WB), Children colors are also very interestingДark Eldar: Bloodied Claw(though I like my almost WE design better - Red + Brass) / Emasculators(Purples, yes? Nice scheme)Д®ldar: Menaan is nice. These will also look great on forest bases that IвЂ™m planning to put them on.

A squad should only take an afternoon to paint, but they will still look good on the table. This is good for an army that can be very infantry heavy. Obviously, it brings out the folds and lines of the model that the camo maybe blurring out however, it also helps blend the colors together so thereвЂ™s not such a stark contrast between grey, green, and brown.ДЄll told, I think the painting time is maybe 10 minutes, but I would wager itвЂ™s lower. This does a number of things on the model. If there are spots the foam is not reaching, I take a small used paint brush, load it up with a little paint, and gently stab the areas I want.ДЇinally, I wash the model with black wash. At this point, you can jump between the three colors to get the right mix of camo on the miniature. The brown is Vallejo Model Saddle Brown, and itвЂ™s done in same way as the green was done. You donвЂ™t want to go too crazy because youвЂ™ll be putting on another color, and youвЂ™ll want your previous two colors to still be visible. I then dabbed the foam loaded with paint on a piece of paper before I started stabbing the model with it. I dabbed a small piece of foam in the paint. For this, I used Vallejo Model Russian Uniform WWII. Not only is this stuff great for making paint chips, but it turns out itвЂ™s also does a good job giving the illusion of a digital camo pattern. Once thatвЂ™s done, now comes the actual process of putting the camo pattern on. ItвЂ™s easier to put the dark colors of the camo pattern over a light base color, so I painted all the cloth material and anything that will receive the camo pattern in this color. The base color is Vallejo Model Stone Grey.

This dries to a very smooth finish, and the neutral color will keep the colors bright until I put a wash on it. Now, letвЂ™s get down to painting.ДЄfter prepping the model, I airbrushed VallejoвЂ™s Surface Primer Grey. In my opinion, I thought the black would be too stark and obliterate the other colors, so I went with the grey/khaki color, the brown, and the green. I figured getting the actual digital effect would be impossible on an infantry model, so I figured I would have to give the impression of a digital pattern. Because I was going with something that is foreign to what most Americans would model or paint, matching the colors was a challenge however, spending time with experience scale modelers helped. I felt this color and pattern would be foreign enough to most the players here in my area that I would seem original and possibly from another planet. I drew inspiration for my color/camo scheme from modern military particularly modern Russian SURPAT. For my upcoming Imperial Guard army I wanted to do something a bit more interesting than the usual paint scheme demonstrated above.

#40K IMPERIAL GUARD COLOUR SCHEMES HOW TO#

As promised, IвЂ™m posting my quick little tutorial on how to paint camouflage on Imperial Guard infantry.

40k imperial guard colour schemes