SO, back on the old blog, one of the resurrected posts I did before moving over here was about choosing colour schemes for 15mm Horus Heresy Legions.
At the time, I couldn't decide on a colour for the Sons of Horus, so ended up deciding to go with/settle for my second choice - The Death Guard.
However... my brain Decided to hyper-focus on the Sons of Horus. The joy of Adhd!
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| Yeah... It's kinda like this sometimes |
I tried a different xpress/quick turquoise - In this case AK Quick Gen Turquoise Green.
A similar to-but-slightly-more-intense, and a little more grey (only it's... not) colour than Xpress Heretic Turquoise
Didn't quite work. but it did give me an idea for a different legion.
A bit more researched suggested I was going the wrong way - the Sons of Horus Green to my eyes, is more of a grey-green with a hint of turquoise.
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| "Sons Of Horus Green Colour Swatch" |
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| Green. |
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| Turquoise. |
Well... I dunno about your eyes... but I'm seeing 3 different colours here.
So. in the end I went sod it. It's described as sons of Horus GREEN, described in the novels as pale GREEN, and the artwork is older then the mini and the paint colour any how (And yes.. I know the amount of retconning in the setting is a bit bonkers but still.....)
I'm going for a greenish, aiming to match the artwork.
Oddly, it only took an evening... and a fair few test models - I tend, at the moment to use some 15mm Vietnam-era marines from 3d breed: as paint test dummies as they have a lot of texture, and I'm replacing them with a stronger resin.
And a few mixes:
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| Paint! |
Incidentally - the palette I use is actually a fidget toy... but being silicone the paint doesn't stick and peels off easily when you pop it out after it's dried.
Eventually, I settled on a mix that I liked. And yeah.. i know this aint the best photo... and a couple of the bits of sepia over the gold studs were still wet... but eh...
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| Tiny Test Heretic! |
Its a little greener in the flesh (crap white balance on my phone) so to speak, but it's good compromise in any case.
I think the key thing was realising it's actually a grey-green, which is handy, as WW2 German uniforms were a greyish-green, which Vallejo do in xpress as Landser Grey. But.. that wasn't quite grey enough.
However, it's ALL XPress paints - which was one of the main aims of the exercise.
The recipe being:
6:2:1:1 Space Grey : Landser Grey: Black Lotus : Heretic Turquoise
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| 6 parts this |
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| 2 parts this |
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| 1 part this |
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| 1 part this |
And bosh. you've got the colours for a very naughty legion indeed using just Vallejo Xpress that I'll be using for 15 & 6mm.
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| I mean.. this covers both Horus and Lorgar really.... |
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