Which color to paint my Land Raider's interior?

[Knight of the Raven]

I'd like to make a Prometheus for my Word Bearers, but I'm having trouble deciding which colors to paint its interior. My usual color scheme is based on Rakarth Flesh, but I'm wondering if it's not too light and bright for a Chaos Legion like the XVIIth. I've been thinking about using some kind of dark red for the inside like in that antediluvian Painting Workshop on a Word Bearer Rhino from an old White Dwarf, but I still am not certain.

Here are pictures of my current paint scheme:

Which colors do you think would fit Word Bearers?

Please and thank you.

[WarriorFish]

I think a cream would work well, maybe the "usual" colour but I also think it'd work to complete the nice red Word Bearers have Rakarth Flesh is a nice colour though, so I reckon it would also be good as is.

 

Just don't carefully paint a nice grey scheme as I did once only to find it looks suspiciously like unpainted plastic

[Chaplain Raeven]

I'd vote for the Rakarth flesh, I used that scheme for both light and black-coloured vehicles. A similar colour is used IRL in armoured vehicles (at least in the battalion I was stationed).

If you don't use lighting in your interior, anything darker than Rakarth will be hard too see.

[Magos Takatus]

I agree with the light Rakarth Flesh idea. If you later want to model/paint some horrible ritual in the back there it will be easier to see. Things like paint scratches and wear and tear would show up more easily as well. These would stop it looking too cheerful in the back there.

[Machine God]

Niblet Green and Warpstone Glow highlights for that eerie chaos effect.

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Light color would be best, as someone mentioned. After painstakingly painting the interior of my first LR and then discovering how little of it can be seen after assembly, I'm not going to bother on any future ones. Edited May 27, 2017 by Brother Chaplain Kage

[Ovidius Incertus]

I use Radom Tan from Vallejo Model Air or Interior Green or Cement, also from VMA.  The real trick is weathering the interior up.  Vehicle interiors are usually not any special color, but they are worn and dirty, so that's where you get your flavor.  But, like said, if you go HAM on it and button the vehicle up, you might be frustrated by how little of it can be seen, even on something like a Sentinel cockpit that you worked so hard on....grrrrrr.....

[MaliGn]

When doing my word bearers rhino interior I went with a light green, I think I mixed scorpion green with bleached bone (old colours) to create a muted light green colour and added plenty of worn bits and damage, making sure to think about where the wear would take place. I plan to use the same scheme for future vehicle interiors when I get to them.

[Venerable Jazzman]

Ok, from experience, you can't see much more than about 2" back into a Land Raider unless you have a light source, so don't sweat it too much.

I fully painted my first one, OSL lighting on the engine (crap OSL, but hey..), leather seats, weathering. And unless you're holding it up to eye level with the sun directly behind you, or have a Maglite, I might as well have painted it black.

 

Pic 1, into the light, no side doors on so there's some light in there

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/fatjazzer/lrc_interior_wip.jpg

 

pic 2, notice from the light on the front of the Land Raider and the Star Wars poster exactly where the sun was when the pic was taken.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/fatjazzer/baal08.jpg

[Knight of the Raven]

Thanks for the answers everyone, they gave me much food for thought.

[Major_Gilbear]

You might be interested to know that in WW1/WW2 the interiors of tanks were often painted white (or a very light off-white colour). This is because there was relatively little light inside the vehicles, and the pale colours helped to reflect what little light there was around the interior for the crew.

 

Of course, I realise the SM can see in the dark - even without autosenses - but as the 40k aesthetic has heavy WW1/WW2 influence, I always think it's fitting to see such "real world" details carried forward onto models, as it helps to make them feel more believable.

 

The other thing about a light colour is that you can give it a simple shade, some sponge weathering on ramps and such, and then pick out a few glowing panels/lights pretty quickly for low effort. That also happens to be about the limit of what you will ever see once the model is built anyway, and the white/off-white interior tends to suit most exterior colour schemes as well (what with it being a usually "neutral" colour).

 

Finally, would also advise that if you wanted to have any effects like slime or blood applied to the inside at all, they are much more dramatic when applied over a lighter colour. :)

[Knight of the Raven]

Thanks for the advice.

 

The main reason I'm posting again though is to say that the problem solved itself since Forge World discontinued the Word Bearers' chaotic land raider doors and as such my project is done in.

[The Mad Hermit]

You might be interested to know that in WW1/WW2 the interiors of tanks were often painted white (or a very light off-white colour). This is because there was relatively little light inside the vehicles, and the pale colours helped to reflect what little light there was around the interior for the crew.

 

Of course, I realise the SM can see in the dark - even without autosenses - but as the 40k aesthetic has heavy WW1/WW2 influence, I always think it's fitting to see such "real world" details carried forward onto models, as it helps to make them feel more believable.

 

The other thing about a light colour is that you can give it a simple shade, some sponge weathering on ramps and such, and then pick out a few glowing panels/lights pretty quickly for low effort. That also happens to be about the limit of what you will ever see once the model is built anyway, and the white/off-white interior tends to suit most exterior colour schemes as well (what with it being a usually "neutral" colour).

 

Finally, would also advise that if you wanted to have any effects like slime or blood applied to the inside at all, they are much more dramatic when applied over a lighter colour.

 The Major has the right of things and I was going to mention the light colored interiors to help with lighting myself.

 

I've been in a few pieces of armor in my day and it's more or less the same when I was active duty.

 

Plus... in my opinion... a lighter color on the interior will help it be seen better when it's visible at all.

[Xenith]

My BA all have cream interiored tanks, formerly bleached bone, then rakarth flesh.

 

Zandri dust is a good alternative, and comes in a spray can. Karak stone is also good. 

[Gordon Shumway]

Light color would be best, as someone mentioned. After painstakingly painting the interior of my first LR and then discovering how little of it can be seen after assembly, I'm not going to bother on any future ones.

But you will always know... you will always know...and it will eat away at your insides every night during the witching hours that you didn't give your men the proper ride they deserved.