painting help

[mactire]

posted this on wolf forum as well. does anyone have colors for the mech shoulderpad that comes with the rhino gunner ?? (pics extra helpful).

[Kalamadea]

admech symbol on the shoulderpad and engine casings on dreadnoughts/land raiders are traditionally bisected down the center. The right half of the skull part is white, the left half is black. The gear/cog that the skull is on is the opposite, the right half is black and the left half is white. I've seen photos where that is backwards too (some of them GW studio models) so it really doesn't matter, so long as half the skull is black/white and the opposite half of the gear is black/white. In most chapters, the gunner would actually be from the Armory, not any specific company, and would wear red armor with the left shoulder pad in chapter colors and the admech pad on the right shoulder (in red). Space wolves gunners/drivers would almost certainly be from the great company itself and use whatever color scheme you use for your army and probably wouldn't use the cog symbol at all, since only the Iron Priests are trained by the adeptus mechanicus. If they did, you would have a red field for the shoulder pad, and the rest of the armor would probably match your army colors.

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H0v3CdWyUWY/TmfY2XFXYKI/AAAAAAAAAAc/a11JHpy--Gw/s1600/ad_mech_logo.jpg

[Grimdarkness]

What he said. Most chapters well have the red shoulder pad black white skull and such. Those chapters closer to the admech might have red arms or torso imho.