Non-uniform grays on the tabletop

[TheLastHuzzah]

Brothers,

 

I have come to a bit of a conundrum; my SW models that are completed were painted using shadow gray. The more I see the standard gray colors, the more I like them.

 

I do not have the time or the inclination to repaint all of my SW models; I would venture a guess that my backlog (2 armies each for fantasy & 40k) would take at least a year of dedicated painting/building to complete. I want to paint some of the "elite" units with some semblance of adeptus battlegray/codex/fortress etc. (will dig around on the forum for examples).

 

In my vision, I see all of the character models, wolf guard, lone wolves, and perhaps the MotW models painted as mentioned above; I have the 13th Co miniatures & a Sternhammer, so it would serve a dual purpose in the event that I ever ran the Apoc formation. I feel like it fits the SW theme of sagas and in-your-face heroes, I’m just not sure.

 

Real-world sense about “shooting the one that looks important” aside, how do you folks think a mix of shadow gray and a “standard” gray on the same tabletop would look?

 

Thanks,

 

Matt

[Schertenleib]

I had painted my first squad with adeptus grey when I converted my original Black Reach Marines. Since buying more Marines and the new Codex all of my Marines have been a darker grey. When I started building a real list I found that the first squad needed a few more pieces, so I painted what I needed in that old adeptus grey. I figure you can mix and match as long as the squads look uniform. Not to mention....It's your army. Do what you want. :)

[styygens]

Well, it seems that real wolves don't all have the same markings...

 

http://dummidumbwit.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/wolf-pack-howling-med.jpg

 

Ultimately it's your army. But you're probably going to make the decision based on how the army looks when they deploy together on the tabletop. I could see it working out if other elements of your modeling and paint scheme unify the army.

[WG Vrox]

If you going for paint scores and best painted awards you may get lower scores than if they were a uniform color, depending on the judges or players scoring it. If you can sell the WG/HQ as being a different color idea I can see that being ok. I painted my Arjac a blood red color with accents that match my army but he for sure stands out and I think looks pretty cool in doing so.

 

If your are just going for casual play makes no difference really, I mean when most people don't even have fully painted armies, I don't see odd painted models being a deal.

 

Vrox

[earthpig23]

I added fluff to my army stating how the bloodclaws wore the new shadow grey colors, the grey hunters a light grey scheme (codex) and then terms dreadnauet adeptus battlegrey dark grey scheme. I put the models together and they didnt look bad at all and like the picture posted shows wolves come in many colors within a pack. ^_^

 

here is a pic together they stand out a little but not crazy

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v446/earthpig28/SWArmy.jpg

[Orphus]

Well, it seems that real wolves don't all have the same markings...

 

http://dummidumbwit.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/wolf-pack-howling-med.jpg

 

Ultimately it's your army. But you're probably going to make the decision based on how the army looks when they deploy together on the tabletop. I could see it working out if other elements of your modeling and paint scheme unify the army.

^_^

My wolves have a custom paint scheme so they're all a slightly different dark blue. You could say that that the wolves in the new colours are a new batch of wolves shipped from Fenris or whatnot. If the colour differences are bugging you a quick going-over wouldn't hurt.