battle sisters paintscheme?

[chaplain belisarius]

am trying to choose a paintscheme for my battlesisters-im thinking a nice red with black detailing? any ideas?

[Verythrax Draconis]

Well, I never tried red on them myself, but I personally prefer brighter color for contrast. That white/gold/black from the Soulstorm game as example, made me regret the decision of doing my army black/blue.

[Momento Mori]

Lol! it's taken me a good 6 months + to finally decide on a scheme I wanted. Have a play around, the only way to help you decide really is to slap the colors on a model, you can always strip it if you don't like it :lol:

[WAR]

like the bloody rose paint scheme?

[ValourousHeart]

I used bone armor and red robes... and what i found out about black is that it looks like i didn't paint part of the model.

This is particularly the case with the hair color... which i use as my squad identifier... it was really hard to get black hair that didn't look like i just left it primed.

 

so i would recommend limiting the black detailing to very small sections... and not something as concentrated as the top of the head.

[WarriorFish]

Black can be done very easily with a Charadon Granite highlight/drybrush. It takes the "void" look off the black and doesn't make it look like you haven't painted it :)

 

As for white - it looks very good but is a pain in the backside to get looking good. I'd suggest trying out a few methods of painting white to see which works best for you (if at all...) before deciding.

 

Why not try out the SoB painter here on the B&C and post up a few ideas?

[Chengar Qordath]

Well, for my SoB I went with Boltgun Metal and a few details in Mithrial Silver for the armor and red robes.

 

White is a nice color, but as others have said it can be a real pain to get looking right; the only way I've found to really make it work is to use multiple coats of paint. It does look nice once it's done, but plenty of other colors can look just as nice with much less trouble.

 

Using tools like the SoB painted WarriorFist linked or the army painter in DoW Soulstorm if you have it can be handy for the early ideas phase, but ultimately you'll have to paint a few models and see how they turn out. I'm still miffed about my two squads of Sisters that seemed real nice with their gold paintjob in my head and on the various programs I used to guess at how they'd look, but ended up looking gaudy and ostentatious when I actually painted them.

[SJumppanen]

I just recently painted a squad of Dominions realy easily: I took those sisters and spray painted them with Army Painters pure red primer (some of the sisters were already in black primer, some not. Then i painted robes with bone white (vallejo) and faces with Tallarn flesh (GW). I may paint weapons et all. with some other colour in the future and maybe dip them into quickshade, but right now they look realy nice.

[Sister Rosette Soulknyt]

Well for me i used a 4 to 1 Shining Gold and Tin Bitz mix to creat a sort of bronzy gold and highlight with Shining Gold. And a tabard of Scab Red.

Hair i use Space Puppy Grey highlighted with White.

Comes out really nice and i followed tht all over the army and tanks.

 

But as suggested i think experiment is best, paint 4 sisters different ways and see what you like.

I took 7 colour schemes before i was happy, guess im fussy :)

[chaplain belisarius]

the bloody rose paintscheme sounds interesting...hows it look?

[WAR]

It is an actual GW paint scheme

 

here is the one I did using the army painter here on the B&C

 

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l270/war009/sisterCA62FISI.jpg

 

some of the gold piping should be silver but I like the gold

 

from the lexancium

 

The Order of the Bloody Rose is one of the Orders Militant of the Adepta Sororitas, or the Sisters of Battle, founded in honour of Sister Mina. They are based on Ophelia VII within the Convent Sanctorum.1-p65 Their colours are primarily a bright blood red colour with black cloaks on the outside and pure white inside. The weapons are the same black as their cloaks.2-p19

 

from wikipedia

 

Saint Mina had a reputation for being fierce, mysterious, and deadly in battle. She was murdered by a blood cult, whose agents had attacked her while praying. Her body was found along with the shrine, covered in the blood and the corpses of twenty of her attackers. Her symbol, the red rose, represents her strong character and her final death. Thus, the Order of the Bloody Rose was created to honor her spirit and her martyrdom.[5]

[chaplain belisarius]

Sounds cool....thanks mate!

[Apogee]

 

This is mine, in AP. Can't get the bronze on the faceplate and gold on the Imperial symbol quite right, but there you go. I went for a more intense, "crusade-y" look - my Sisters don't run!

 

*edit* aaand that right leg oughta be red too.

[Race Bannon]

So, it's fluffy to keep the red/black/white. Obviously there can be deviation from this but it's on a personal level correct?

 

What about hair color? I'm seing standardization there as well, but does there have to be?

[Apogee]

So, it's fluffy to keep the red/black/white. Obviously there can be deviation from this but it's on a personal level correct?

 

What about hair color? I'm seing standardization there as well, but does there have to be?

I jsut did all mine black, because it's easy and looks mean :). However, had I more time, I'd give them all the normal shades of hair (no blue or purple or green in the Imperium!)

[Grey Mage]

Mine are Grey, with royal blue robes and white trim. I really like the red ones though, very striking.

[Hellbreaker]

My scheme is like this.

 

 

Yes, only the right hand is gold.

 

Now that nearly no models are painted is another thing... And the 2 'things' going out from the fleur is white and the little band on the fleur is gold is another thing... Crappy army painter... :lol:

[Luc O' Luck]

 

Is the scheme that I'm running at the moment. Nice and striking, with my blood red inquisitors and slate-grey space marines along side. At a full 2000 points, the range of colours is really quite nice, with every section distinct and unique.

[Artein]

My Order of The Martyred Word, Followers of Silver Martyr.

[blindcider]

Mine are white with red robes.

 

ADVICE: Don't paint Battle Sisters white, It's time confusing, unforgiving and the GW white paint does not cover very well. :angry:

 

Any suggestions for a 'competing' white to skull white gratefully received

[Race Bannon]

Vallejo white is not bad stuff. I'll use a White primer, then paint a very light grey, then highlight with white.

 

I'm thinking of going with variable hair color (like in the real world). Or red hair. Red hair is hot.

[blindcider]

Thanks I'll try that in future!

 

After much experimentation the best method I have found is to:

 

1. prime them black

2. base coat of ice blue

3. Paint white over the top of the blue

 

This method needs the least amount of paint applied! I don't like to prime in white as it doesn't allow for the same brightness on the finished model

[Race Bannon]

Not a bad idea there! For me, I hate painting - again - the same area. With the above scheme, I'd be painting over the blue and trying to avoid all the fidgets. Bump that! BUT, it does give the desired effect and that's undeniable.

[Zerib]

This is what my sisters will be looking like.

 

[Captain Ienai]

When I get to where I am painting my Sisters their armor will be a champagne color with lite pink filigree on the armor. I want all the models to be standing on marble flooring with sakura flowers around the floor and perhaps falling from certain areas of their armor.