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@Night Lords Pete, yeah you're right, the lava might take away from the overall effect. Power weapons and plasma are going to be orange anyway, and I don't want one's eye to focus on the bases instead of the models.

I was thinking the base blue would have significantly less purple in it than the indigo or periwinkle. Love the thought to have little splashes of color on the bases... just enough to make them interesting. 

It's funny - I feel like the blog responses have more frequent than those to my forum posts. Granted, I'm guessing my exhaustively detailed Index Astartes isn't going to get the type of response as painting questions...

The model looks awesome. From the pictures, I could not tell if the banner was already mounted. Is there a clean surface for adding the banner? I seem to remember running into issues with an old FW version of the sculpt.

You will have to show us what you do with the magnets. This could be instructional for a lot of people.

The chains are cool, I am just too clumsy to have anything like that on my models- I know I would touch them wrong and bits would just pop off. Very well done though!

7 hours ago, Necca34 said:

Thank you!!

 

So in my head I've been toying with pale blue-gray stone/gravel, lava, or a blasted urban battlefield for the bases. After your suggestion was similar, I think I'll go with the blue-gray stone approach and maybe toss in some "alien planet" elements?

 

For most of the chapter, I'm planning on painting robes a sort of periwinkle blue. The Deathfall (Deathwing equivalent) will be in dark indigo armor with orange edges and dark gray robes, while the Shadowfall (Ravenwing equivalent) will be all black with silver trim and indigo right pauldrons. Planning on painting power weapons bright orange for contrast.

No worries.

The lava thought is interesting as this could look really striking for your chapter, I’d just consider if the brighter base might draw the eye first before it goes to your model - it sort of depends what feel you are after.

I think the dark indigo, orange trim, and orange power weapons will give great contrast to a blue-grey base, and using the silver should compliment the charcoal.

if you are planning on using periwinkle blue as robes it might be worth limiting the blue on a base as it is relatively light and you’ll still want the base to show it off as opposed to overwhelm it.

I think alien elements on a quite plain base could also really work, perhaps some small clutches of red/orange (or even purple?) grass, moss, or plants that compliment the splashes of colour you have on the pauldrons. This could tie your bases to your models and give splashes of colour interest without being too much.

My view is that the base is there as a frame to show off your model so you don’t need to have it do too much or be too busy - sometimes simple wins the day.

All of that said, I’m very conscious that there are FAR more accomplished painters and modellers than me on her so I’d consider:

- Start a thread in the modelling/painting section as others will no doubt have had similar considerations before and will be happy to share what workers/what didn’t. Blogs tend to get less traffic so asking directly in a form will mobilise very skilled people to help. I believe the link is https://bolterandchainsword.com/forum/5-general-pca-questions/.

- Play about with some tests and see how they look against your model and which is your favourite.

Very sorry for the long rambling post, feel free to ignore it in its entirety!

Looking forward to seeing how they turn out and good luck!

I’ve just had a look at the models and I think they have the potential to look really striking and unique. I suspected Chaos Spawn proxies might be an option and I like that you’re having something very unique for this.

Good luck moving through all the painting in the coming weeks and I’ll look forward to seeing these bad boys hitting the blog in person!