Imperial Guard Painting Scheme!

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Imperial Guard Painting Scheme!

Posted by Vinsanity

Hey pinkies, I need your help on deciding which one of these IG schemes looks better. Just guardsmen for now, but I have some tank camo ideas too. Hopefully Kirbasaur can put up a poll for me and that would be much obliged. Leave me some comments about which one you like and if you like neither, also tell me why :p

So Scheme A : Armour - Fenris with HL, Black clothes + HL then badab wash all.

Scheme B : Armour - Black with HL, Clothes - Fenris then streaks of white and black + badab wash all. (This scheme is similar to the 122nd Cadian which can be found in Eye of Terror codex or in the oldschool Cityfight book and also a few pics in the old IG book)

Don't mind the bases for now, I plan to add some snow when I get a few done. So which one (if any) do you guys like? Comments much appreciated!

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DimmyK · 711 weeks ago

I like both - the black armour and blue cloth with white stripes seems a bit more unusual though if you are going for uniqueness

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COmrade · 711 weeks ago

Black armor, camo shirt/pants.

It looks crisper and more intricate. The harder it looks to do, the better you look at painting.

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russde 1p · 711 weeks ago

Scheme B: Great guns! Very similar to a scheme I have (Adeptus Grey hard surface with Fenris Grey over Midnight Blue for the fatigues).

Nice work. I know it's a test scheme, so it might just be a quick job. When painting eyes, get the black dot of the pupil to cover to the top and bottom. They look less like they are shocked or staring and more like they are concentrating/serious. Thanks for sharing.

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The GunGrave · 711 weeks ago

I'd say scheme B

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Cadian 127th · 711 weeks ago

Scheme B - the camo always looks good. If it's a question of painting speed, use scheme B for your elites, or Vets, and use A for conscripts

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Kirby 118p · 711 weeks ago

Second one. I like the black armor more with camo pants.

How are you doing vehicles?

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Vinsanity · 711 weeks ago

Yeh I'm leaning more towards Scheme B too, just looks better. For tanks I wanted to do jagged camo with fenris, white and black with the help of masking tape. Something like: Spraygun or paint an area with fenris then mask it over, spray an area with white then mask and finally spray it all black, then highlight black, peel off the tape and HL each area, then metals, rust, weathering etc and we should be done :D

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ArcadesDolor 24p · 711 weeks ago

Scheme 2. Camouflage is Bestouflage.

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1inchwarriors 39p · 711 weeks ago

I like #2, but perhaps test out a lighter color for the base coat on the uni, like shadow gray. The finger gloves are awesome!

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I_and_I · 711 weeks ago

Scheme B for sure and the finger gloves are awesome too. Having painted an entire 6000+ point IG army in urban camo though I can tell you it is a chore but the end result is striking. Also I never bother with pupils on my minis because they're such a pain in the ass to get right, white dots at the proper place and angle looks fine IMO.

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willydstyle · 711 weeks ago

I like scheme 2, but I think you should consider using a lighter grey for the armor. The black wash really just makes it look like all of his armor/cloth is black. If you started with a lighter shade for the armor there would be more differentiation between the shades.