Jarl Bloodwolf Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 Topic says it all but I'm not sure if it was ok to post it here or if it should have been in the Painting and conversion section. Please look at the following schemes and deside which one you like best and which one looks more celtic. Keep in mind that the colors are ment to replicate the woad tattoos and iron armor of celts/saxons from the fall of Rome era. If you have any suggestion as far as combining the schemes or putting certain colors in certain areas let me know and I will try them out. Thanks Number 1 Number 2 Number 3 Number 4 Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barret Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 I prefer the 4th myself, but then I'm a sucker for halved and quartered schemes. Also, to the Liber! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2429886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Bloodwolf Posted June 10, 2010 Author Share Posted June 10, 2010 I prefer the 4th myself, but then I'm a sucker for halved and quartered schemes. Also, to the Liber! I am actually not a huge fan of it myself but I kind of like it in these colors. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2429889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Bloodwolf Posted June 10, 2010 Author Share Posted June 10, 2010 Heres a few more ideas I've thrown around. Again opinions are welcome, c'mon guys help me out here :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2429935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
templargdt Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 For Celtic Marines I'd like to see some green mixed in personally. My family's tartan has a lot of green, blue and yellow in it, and it seems a lot of tartans have strong green components. Not a fan of the split side colors, myself. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2429994 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typical Cricket Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 I agree with templargdt. Take number two and replace the blue for a light green and I think it would look better. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2430028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grey Hunter Ydalir Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Personally I think green is a bit overdone. You look at the celtic (ish) warriors that first opposed the Romans in Britain, they painted their bodies with coloured woad paints, blue being popular for reasons I have no idea about, this is the extent of my knowledge right here. I think blue is good. I think using firey, passionate colours would be much more interesting than the very well-worn out use of the iconic celtic green. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2430032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchell93 Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 I think the top one looks best. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2430111 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dosjetka Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 For Celtic Marines I'd like to see some green mixed in personally. My family's tartan has a lot of green, blue and yellow in it, and it seems a lot of tartans have strong green components. Not a fan of the split side colors, myself. Something like this? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2430132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemal Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 I'd like to see lighter greay and darker blue, and maybe the blue smeared on as woad would be in terms of hand-painted honour markings etc. It would be more in keeping with the Celtic warrior imagery I think. Tartan could identify company or squad markings and other stuff would be nice to have as well, of course, but perhaps all the warriors carry small bucklers and spears or long swords as theior auxilliary weapon? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2430162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
teddybear9152 Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 There are also the Cornish Celts and there tartan is Yellow, Black, Light Blue and white. Just to give you some other colours to consider. :D http://www.stevecolgan.com/Cornish%20Folklore%20Site/cornwall/CornishNational1567%20small.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2430170 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Bloodwolf Posted June 10, 2010 Author Share Posted June 10, 2010 Personally I think green is a bit overdone. You look at the celtic (ish) warriors that first opposed the Romans in Britain, they painted their bodies with coloured woad paints, blue being popular for reasons I have no idea about, this is the extent of my knowledge right here. :tu: I think blue is good. I think using firey, passionate colours would be much more interesting than the very well-worn out use of the iconic celtic green. Exactly. Green is generic for celtic space marines as everyone thinks of the Irish (not a bad thing, my family is from Belfast) and sadly I originally created a marine whos colors where based off of Irelands flag. And as I said before my chapter is influneced by the Picts and Saxons present in Britain during the fall of Rome. The Picts didn't use tartans in this time period but instead used woad paint (due to the fact that the plant made to use the dye was abundant, also a little bit of it could be applied to a large area), and the grey is going to be more of a metalic iron color like what was used by the Saxons in making their armor. Squads will be designated by runes, so while I appreciate the advice I wont be using green or tartan colors. I have decided on the grey and blue I just don't know which scheme works best for the colors I have chosen (The orange and blue was more from boredom than anyting) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2430328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heart of Oak Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Number 3 Number 4 I generally am not too keen on halved and quartered schemes, but in this instance numbers 3 and 4 work well - I particularly like number 3. They have that Braveheart look :wacko: http://www.core.com.my/threeds/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/Braveheart.jpg Perhaps lighten the grey a little. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2430782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Bloodwolf Posted June 10, 2010 Author Share Posted June 10, 2010 A few people have told me to lighten the grey so I'll see how it works. I was debating just having the helmits be halved as I'm not a huge fan of it either Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2430854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemal Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Why not have the helmets striped? The main pattern can be halved, but a stripe on teh helmet may look nice. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2431178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Bloodwolf Posted June 11, 2010 Author Share Posted June 11, 2010 Why not have the helmets striped? The main pattern can be halved, but a stripe on teh helmet may look nice. What do you mean striped? Like what William Wallace had? His face wasen't just half blue half normal in the movie it was kinda striped (though my paint scheme isnt based off of Braveheart) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2431468 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemal Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 yeah - exactly - and you could even have rank markings with different stripe patterns. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2431498 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Bloodwolf Posted June 11, 2010 Author Share Posted June 11, 2010 yeah - exactly - and you could even have rank markings with different stripe patterns. You double posted brother. I've been tossing around the idea of having the helmits of the individual marines all be painted with a differant pattern. The squad/rank insignia as stripes again goes a little to close to the tartan for me and since my chapter is based off of british picts, saxons and celtic mythology all combined I think I'm going to stick with runes to represent unit type. Instead of the arrows and crosses and such on the shoulder pads I'll have a rune that represents tactical squad or veterans and such and for the squad markings im going to put a seperate rune on the right knee pad. Also I will be using SW bits so they will have pelts and such and im using dwarf weapons and sheilds as well as the scibor miniatures celtic shoulder guards (only for my terminator models) so they will hopefully fit my theme in more than just their paint scheme. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2431534 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodgers37 Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 What are you using to get those colour shcemes made up? (the images...) Whenever i want to look at colours, i go on DOW :) I quite like the idea of Celtic Marines, and am tempted to have a go myself, but would want to work out a nice colour scheme first.... I quite like the on Battle-Brother Ludovic Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2433154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Debonair Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 What are you using to get those colour shcemes made up? (the images...) Whenever i want to look at colours, i go on DOW :P I quite like the idea of Celtic Marines, and am tempted to have a go myself, but would want to work out a nice colour scheme first.... I quite like the on Battle-Brother Ludovic You want the space marine painter. Look for 'SM painter at the top of the forum, just under the very cool Dornian Heresy banner. :lol: I personally am all for the halved/quartered schemes, and I agree the blue/grey mix looks pretty neat. I think colour scheme number 3 of the ones you have is the coolest looking one. :angry: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2433168 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodgers37 Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Thanks....i have used i before....so not sure why i forgot it was there :lol: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2433178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Bloodwolf Posted June 14, 2010 Author Share Posted June 14, 2010 So I've had yet another idea and this one is a little harder to show in the SM painter so I figured I'd just explain it and see what people thought. What I am thinking is having the armor of the marines look like it was actually carved from stone and then I'll have all of the details and celtic designs be in either gold or bronze. The eyes and exhaust I will paint orange to look like the glow from a furnace. Only problem is I dont know how to paint stone? and I don't mean just flat smooth stone I mean stone with like cracks in it and all that. I am thinking a grey type of stone (I'm looking for referances) anyone have any ideas? a freind suggested getting those tectured spray cans and spray everything seperatly but I think thats kind of cheap. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2434998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemal Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 I think that things like crackle paint or salt are your firend - I know that there was a painter on Warseer painting a large scale UM figure but I am sure that similar etchniques could work to give you quite convincing stone. Maybe the armour looks like marble or granite? In that case I would use a similar technique to painting lightning effects on power weapons, just starting with a mid grey base and adding lines of red, white and darker grey on it. The alternative is to use the RL way they paint "false" marble collonades - using oil paints and using a soft brush to blend in the lines with their surrounding. For granite, you could start with back and add lines of green, blue and white A stone effect like basalt could be made using metallics mixed in small quantities with black paint, as most rock has a crystalline structure that glistens. A wahs of badab black to deepend the shadows and a single quite subtle highlight might be worthy. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203808-celtic-marines/#findComment-2435463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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