Paint Schemes

THIS IS NOT A TEACHING YOU HOW TO PAINT ARTICLE

but it is a critique of the guard armies I've seen.


ok so, lets talk about my paint scheme, why I chose it, and why I love it so much.

I've never been big on painting, but I do enjoy fielding a vast and pretty well painted army. So, what are my guardsmen wearing these days? For starters, let me just say, I take all my colors and ideas from the United States Marine Corps. I use marpat camouflage, meaning, a forest green, with flecks of tan, and black. Then using a dusty red brown, I paint the armor, and any other gear I like to be brown, meaning sheaths, the occasional boots, maybe gloves, maybe their combat webbing (you have to make that out of greenstuff). Helmets, I usually paint in the camo scheme, but I occasionally leave them black, and the gear I alternate coyote brown (the dusty red brown from before) and olive drab. Representing the phasing of different equipment. I tend to leave the aquillas black, on officers however, I do paint them silver. For the lasguns I leave them black, but drybrush heavily with gunmetal. and for faces, I use a very light skin tone, and give any flesh showing a wash, so it darkens it to a normal shade, and fills in the cracks quite nicely. I tend not to wash the majority of my figures, only the occasional piece of equipment that needs it, they are dark enough.

WHEW that was boring. alright, so there is the how and why, now why I LOVE IT. For starters, I've never seen another like it. Usually its all cadian, how do you know which models are yours if you fight another guard army? lol. but seriously, I see all these really shitty camo schemes, like blue, and captain falcon colors, and grey guys with red helmets, and the occasional all black, but come on! yeah the cadian pattern looks cool, and the rest of that stuff sucks dick, but you don't have to field a lame ass army! Or one that's the same as everyone elses! To you catachan players out there, GIVE YOUR SKIN TONES A WASH! you look like you're fieldin' a bunch of barbies with guns.

Alternative ideas for camouflage patterns:
US Army ACU camo
USMC desert digital (I might throw in a few of these myself just to see if I like it)
USMC urban camouflage (what the Marines wear in the movie "The Rock")
WWII olive drab (now with more olive drab!)
WWII German grey (now with more evil!)
vietnam era tiger stripe (not as difficult as everyone else makes it out to be, just paint yours smaller then everyone else does, that makes it lame)
Paramilitary scheme (think civilian clothes, but olive drab gear, actually not that bad)
star wars storm troopers (you'd have to do a bit of green stuff work, but nothing too difficult)

all I'm sayin is, I'm sick of shitty looking guardsmen, and all cadian guardsmen. now if your army looks shitty, or if you field cadians, or plastic pink catachans, GET OUT THERE AND DO SOME PAINTIN!