Ideas for scheme.

[Kickingraccoon]

So i want to start painting my saurus warriors from the start collecting box, and I have a few paint scheme ideas floating around. I want the opinion of the community on a good base and layer to achieve a solid scheme.

So for the saurus I wanted to do maybe a light skink blue with purple scales, and was wondering what purple you feel would look good, Xereus or Genestealer? What should I base coat before the purple and skink blue, and can I get away with a chaos black prime? Another idea I had was maybe blue saurus with orange war paint scales.

I was going to get a skink starpriest as well and do a dark purple skink with black and orange feathers if that is a good idea?

I just started my painting journey, so doubtful I can pull it off to look nice, but worth a shot.

 

[Egres]

So i want to start painting my saurus warriors from the start collecting box, and I have a few paint scheme ideas floating around. I want the opinion of the community on a good base and layer to achieve a solid scheme.

So for the saurus I wanted to do maybe a light skink blue with purple scales, and was wondering what purple you feel would look good, Xereus or Genestealer? What should I base coat before the purple and skink blue, and can I get away with a chaos black prime? Another idea I had was maybe blue saurus with orange war paint scales.

I was going to get a skink starpriest as well and do a dark purple skink with black and orange feathers if that is a good idea?

I just started my painting journey, so doubtful I can pull it off to look nice, but worth a shot.

If you want a light blue like skinks prime with a light colour other wise you’ll have 10 coat of paint on before you cover the black primer!!

 

[pendrake]

So i want to start painting my saurus warriors from the start collecting box, and I have a few paint scheme ideas floating around.

Do you already have the paint colors you mentioned? or are you asking prior to buying?

@Egres is right about priming. Bright colors will look dull over black primer.

If you already have the paints buy some craft sticks. These are craft sticks:

Grab one and prime one end White and the other end Black. Let that dry and then do test stripes across the stick, of the colors you mentioned.

A bag of those will only be $2-3 or so. The wide ones like in the picture are pretty decent as painting stands for 3 to 4 figures.

I like the idea of the light blue Saurus with the orange tipped scales and bumps. Particularly if you shadow him first with a really dark blue. (So that the cracks between the scales are usually an indigo/midnite blue.)

 

[pendrake]

I was going to get a skink starpriest as well and do a dark purple skink with black and orange feathers if that is a good idea?

Dark purple, Black, and Orange. (?) I would discard that idea.

Again, a craft stick makes a great place to put the colors next to each other and find out what they look like once they’ve dried.

 

[Kickingraccoon]

Thank you both! I do not have all of the paints so mostly just asking for some opinions before I buy some paints. I have Kantor blue and Temple Guard blue, but no orange, and not sure which orange i want to go with. I will do the craft stick method with the primer as I'm sure the wife has a bag kicking around somewhere.