Space Marine joints, black or metal?

[m0nolith]

Im wondering what everyone here does when it comes to painting the joints between the legs and arms of space marines and what colours they use.

Do you paint them black, metal, or some other colour?

 

Also, what is the lore behind these joints. Are they always black rubber or are they sometimes other colours?

 

[Machine God]

I usually do them with Boltgun or Mithril Silver, but my colour scheme is Midnight Blue or Black anyway.

[Jolemai]

I do my Blood Angels (which includes Death Company and Sanguinary Guard) black.

 

Basically, do whatever suits your colour scheme :)

[Grotsmasha]

I've personally used both black and metal. It really depends on your colour scheme and what you prefer. 

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Since it's supposed to be be a softer material covering the joints, painting them as metal never made sense to me and I've always done mine in black.

[Stercus]

I usually just throw a thick wash of black ink on them so they end up a very dark tone of whatever colour the armour is.

[Firepower]

I always roll with black, and don't even highlight the ridges.  Mostly because it's a pain in the butt. :P

[Lucien Eilam]

Paint dark grey, black wash.

[Halandaar]

For me it depends on the overall colour scheme; for my Minotaurs I paint all of the "soft" items like cabling, armour joints etc green. (Caliban Green, Nuln Oil wash, Warpstone Glow highlight)

 

I expect when i finally get started on my Alpha Legion i'll go for a similar colour, as it'll work well with the Blue/Green armour.

[Machine God]

Here you go an example on a Big Space Marine.

 

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g79/Dragonlover63/IMG_0260.jpg

[God-Potato of Mankind]

It's power armour cabling/fibre/power bundling/wires.

So any colour.

 

I typically go with leadbelcher and lots of nuln for a shiny black.

[ElectricPaladin]

For most of my marines, I don't bother. Between the wash and the drybrush layer, they usually end up being dark enough that they look really different from the rest of the model, so I leave it at that.

 

My new chapter, though, has red joints as part of their color scheme...

[Bryan Blaire]

I do it as metal, since I figure if they have the manufacturing capabilities to produce power armor and lascannons, and we already have the ability to make flexible metal mesh weave, some advancement probably happened to allow a flexible enough metal that can still protect and seal joints. I feel like black rubber just wouldn't be durable enough, but it is likely some other material anyway, not rubber.

[m0nolith]

Thanks for the responses. I think im going to go with both.

Metal for my minotaurs, black for my blood angels.

[Xenith]

Balck on light coloured armies (my BA), metal on dark coloured models (Omega marines, Death co). 

[Ovidius Incertus]

I use black ink, straight without dilution.  Gives a nice glossy black finish.  I don't do anything else.

[OrangeBob]

Black unless it's black power armor and then I just dry brush metal over the black.

[Ming]

I go black.  

 

I know of another who goes grey with a black or rusty brown wash.  

[Firepower]

I'd actually consider doing black on your Minotaurs and silver on the angels.  Black will do better to divide the bronze armor than another metallic paint would, I think.

[Grotsmasha]

I'd actually consider doing black on your Minotaurs and silver on the angels.  Black will do better to divide the bronze armor than another metallic paint would, I think.

 

This is a good suggestion :tu:

[deathspectersgt7]

Both depends on the Chapter colors. But I prefer the metal with a wash'

[Bryan Blaire]

What might be somewhat cool on the Minotaurs might actually be a base dark red with a light black shade to just barely darken the tops of the ridges, but make good shadows down in between them). Seems like it would fit the bronze armor really well.

[m0nolith]

I'd actually consider doing black on your Minotaurs and silver on the angels.  Black will do better to divide the bronze armor than another metallic paint would, I think.

I have a pretty good thing going here when it comes to armour division with the green patina that Minotaurs have. You cant really see it given the lighting that i used in my pictures, but its actually pretty noticeable in real life.

[Firepower]

What might be somewhat cool on the Minotaurs might actually be a base dark red with a light black shade to just barely darken the tops of the ridges, but make good shadows down in between them). Seems like it would fit the bronze armor really well.

Hmm, if good and dark, this could look pretty cool. But too bright and you'll draw the eye away from the shiny bronze goodness to a 'background detail.'

I'd actually consider doing black on your Minotaurs and silver on the angels. Black will do better to divide the bronze armor than another metallic paint would, I think.

I have a pretty good thing going here when it comes to armour division with the green patina that Minotaurs have. You cant really see it given the lighting that i used in my pictures, but its actually pretty noticeable in real life.

Really? I don't see any patina at all.

I quite like them, by the way. I've always struggled with metallic color schemes, especially bronze/gold.

[Tyberos the Red Wake]

I do black because that's what FW's illustrations show. I noticed 'Eavy Metal prefers metal. This makes sense for chapters with black armor and Chaplains.