Brymm
05-10-2011, 05:10 AM
Hey all,
I've always been a huge fan of bright colors on the table top. I have a pretty brightly painted Death Guard army that's finally complete after years and years and I have done some commision work for some friends involving some fairly bright colors.
So on to my question: would the Imperial Guard ever use bright colors? It seems that Space Marines aren't concerned with concealment or camo at all with their outlandish colors all over their tanks and guys, why are the Guard?
I've seen some wonderful examples of armies like the Imperial Fists where they use some absurd yellows but mute it down quite a bit with awesome weathering effects.
Does anyone have some examples of bright Imperial Guard? Does anyone have any ideas of such? What schemes would work? Which ones have been done?
As far as ideas go so far, I was thinking of using hunter/bright orange for the cloth color and perhaps like a bone/ceramic off-white for the armor color. The logic behind that is perhaps the guard unit is from some deathworld in which the native life is color blind but the terrain is heavily covered and cluttered, and in an attempt to limit friendly fire deaths, the command on the planet issued the bright orange to make the men stand out while offering no benefit to the native deathbugs/predators/monsters/what-have-you.
Ideally I want this to be my center-piece army as my painting skills have improved vastly over the past 10 or so years and I believe I can finally make a really high-quality army where I don't have to proxy/rush at all.
Thanks in advance!
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa364/Snugsmike/228617_10150273683866217_637651216_9542580_4206786 _n.jpg
I've always been a huge fan of bright colors on the table top. I have a pretty brightly painted Death Guard army that's finally complete after years and years and I have done some commision work for some friends involving some fairly bright colors.
So on to my question: would the Imperial Guard ever use bright colors? It seems that Space Marines aren't concerned with concealment or camo at all with their outlandish colors all over their tanks and guys, why are the Guard?
I've seen some wonderful examples of armies like the Imperial Fists where they use some absurd yellows but mute it down quite a bit with awesome weathering effects.
Does anyone have some examples of bright Imperial Guard? Does anyone have any ideas of such? What schemes would work? Which ones have been done?
As far as ideas go so far, I was thinking of using hunter/bright orange for the cloth color and perhaps like a bone/ceramic off-white for the armor color. The logic behind that is perhaps the guard unit is from some deathworld in which the native life is color blind but the terrain is heavily covered and cluttered, and in an attempt to limit friendly fire deaths, the command on the planet issued the bright orange to make the men stand out while offering no benefit to the native deathbugs/predators/monsters/what-have-you.
Ideally I want this to be my center-piece army as my painting skills have improved vastly over the past 10 or so years and I believe I can finally make a really high-quality army where I don't have to proxy/rush at all.
Thanks in advance!
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa364/Snugsmike/228617_10150273683866217_637651216_9542580_4206786 _n.jpg