I am trying out the color scheme for my new lizardmen army...could use some feedback if these images are decent enough to see my idea is to have the scales vary with each unit...so red for the salamander unit, blue for saurus, green for skinks, etc etc..the skin will be the same across the army for all units thoughts and criticism is more then welcome. cheers!
I'm trying to paint a salamander. The skinks are a light green colour and I want my sally's coulor scheme to clash with that of the skink's . Any1 got any ideas?
@ fer: It might just be the picture, but your models seem really flat. Try using some of the Citadel Washes to get some good shading and highlights going on in there. @ Deadmetal: Bright orange would clash with green very nicely. So would blue or yellow, as long as they are very bright to contrast the colors of your Skink handlers.
turns out my issue with the models was many layers of not enough color variation, so looking really close to the model you can see good highlighting and separation, but at arms length they look flat like you were saying.. so these guys have since has a heavy dark wash and starting on my other models I am going for larger color changes and better technique with drybrushing...will post up some of those once I have more done and they aren't primarily the work of the guy giving me advice thanks! As for colors on salamanders, since they breathe fire...RED!!! just be careful they don't end up looking like a xmas tree unit
Thanks guys. I think I'll try with light blue. If that fails I'll strip the pain and try with the yellow. Then with the orange. Not sure about the orange though. But thanks anyway.
I like the colour scheme you've used. Once everything is painted and marching accross the battlefield you'd be able to see the roles they play from their colour markings. It would be interesting too because you could write up some background fluff about the chnages in skin pigments or something?