ElectricPaladin
11-09-2013, 01:55 AM
Here are the schemes I'm considering. I'd love your input.
1) White and Silver w/Bloodstains
This is the one I'm most into. It's also the oddest and the most challenging. The plan would be to mostly go with pale colors - pale bones on the skeletons, pale and bloodless flesh on the zombies, pale ghouls, cream-to-white cloth and dark silver armor on the models that are wearing clothes - and then liberally splatter everything with blood. I have gotten very good at doing blood splatter; my Hordes Legion of Everblight is almost entirely blood-splattered. I would follow up the matte varnish with some Tamiya Clear Red, to give some of the bloodstains a little "freshness." To make some connections between the blood splatters and the models themselves, I would probably go with red OSL on all the glowy bits. I think this would be fun and striking on the tabletop, but an enormous pain in the *** to paint. Even going with a cream-based white rather than a grey-based white - even using the Dip - this is going to be a bit of a challenge... is it worth it? I'd love your input.
2) Green and Black
Green is my favorite color. Vampires like to wear black. It's a match made in heaven. I'm reasonably sure that this army will look almost exactly like I always used to make my undead look when I played Warcraft III (rarely, badly) back in the day. This is a safer choice than the one above, to be sure, but not a bad one. I do like the way green and black go together. As these are vampires, I would probably go with very pale flesh tones and tie the models and their clothes together with paler, more electric green OSL.
3) Purple and Black
I don't have any purple armies, and although it isn't green, it's a color I like quite a lot. I've seen some purple Vampire Counts models, and they look quite nice. Purple has neat royal connotations, and I can very easily imagine it being the color of a particularly arrogant house of Sylvanian counts. Additionally, while I already have three green armies (well, two and plans to start a third - also, one red army, two grey armies, one blue army, one entirely metallic copper army, and one multi-colored army) I don't have any purple armies, so it would get some new colors up in my display cases.
The biggest problem? I don't think purple would take the Dip as well as any of the other options, and I definitely want to continue my trend of dipping Fantasy armies. So much infantry... I don't want to try painting that the slow way.
4) Classic Red and Black
This one is last for a reason. But, it is classic, and red and black are the vampire colors. It looks good in the studio models, and it would look good on mine.
So, what do you think?
1) White and Silver w/Bloodstains
This is the one I'm most into. It's also the oddest and the most challenging. The plan would be to mostly go with pale colors - pale bones on the skeletons, pale and bloodless flesh on the zombies, pale ghouls, cream-to-white cloth and dark silver armor on the models that are wearing clothes - and then liberally splatter everything with blood. I have gotten very good at doing blood splatter; my Hordes Legion of Everblight is almost entirely blood-splattered. I would follow up the matte varnish with some Tamiya Clear Red, to give some of the bloodstains a little "freshness." To make some connections between the blood splatters and the models themselves, I would probably go with red OSL on all the glowy bits. I think this would be fun and striking on the tabletop, but an enormous pain in the *** to paint. Even going with a cream-based white rather than a grey-based white - even using the Dip - this is going to be a bit of a challenge... is it worth it? I'd love your input.
2) Green and Black
Green is my favorite color. Vampires like to wear black. It's a match made in heaven. I'm reasonably sure that this army will look almost exactly like I always used to make my undead look when I played Warcraft III (rarely, badly) back in the day. This is a safer choice than the one above, to be sure, but not a bad one. I do like the way green and black go together. As these are vampires, I would probably go with very pale flesh tones and tie the models and their clothes together with paler, more electric green OSL.
3) Purple and Black
I don't have any purple armies, and although it isn't green, it's a color I like quite a lot. I've seen some purple Vampire Counts models, and they look quite nice. Purple has neat royal connotations, and I can very easily imagine it being the color of a particularly arrogant house of Sylvanian counts. Additionally, while I already have three green armies (well, two and plans to start a third - also, one red army, two grey armies, one blue army, one entirely metallic copper army, and one multi-colored army) I don't have any purple armies, so it would get some new colors up in my display cases.
The biggest problem? I don't think purple would take the Dip as well as any of the other options, and I definitely want to continue my trend of dipping Fantasy armies. So much infantry... I don't want to try painting that the slow way.
4) Classic Red and Black
This one is last for a reason. But, it is classic, and red and black are the vampire colors. It looks good in the studio models, and it would look good on mine.
So, what do you think?