Steel Legion alternative colour schemes

[Beaky Brigade]

I'm thinking about starting a Guard army using Steel Legion minis. Over the years I've dabbled with various guard minis and conversions and I've never quite found ones that work for me, 3rd party or otherwise.

At the moment I'm tempted to start Steel legion even with them being metal, and the reduced range available. The metal squad is still available from GW and confusingly cheaper than plastic Cadians(!). Ebay prices for the missing special weapons are quite a lot but I could probably cope with just a token amount for flavour and rely on missile teams and vehicles for firepower.

 

I was wondering if any Fraters have examples of Steel Legion minis painted in anything other than their traditional tan trench coat colours.

Search engines do provide some results, but it's usually the stock colours.

As a slightly related question does anyone know the providence of this picture? Is it uncredited fan art or sourced from a GW book? I've followed guard for quite a while but only come across this picture online. It struck me it could be a colourised picture that was B/W in the original book.

 

Any suggestions are appreciated!

[walter h]

I don't see any picture there. Blank. I think if you look up (Apocalypse,WW1),a series on the first World War, you will find a lot of imagesof color schemes you might be interested in.

The French. went to war in a sky blue color scheme.

[Closet Skeleton]

Only official alternate Steel Legion colour scheme I remember is The Death Korps of Krieg before they had their own models. Some of the alternate Krieg colour schemes people have come up with could be adapted to Steel Legion models.

 

Google found this thread on this very forum

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/353628-winter-themed-steel-legion-models/

Edited October 29, 2020 by Closet Skeleton

[WarriorFish]

While the traditional scheme is the one you usually see for the Steel Legion that doesn't mean others can't exist. I reckon you could pick any "normal" trench coat colour and it'd work great, but you could do go further afield if you wished. Camouflage would work nicely as an easy option to transplant them into any environment :)

[GreenScorpion]

The colour schemes below would typically look nice on steel legion soldiers, as would most of the DKoK schemes, as the greatcoat is the most representative element of both model lines.

Hope that helps.

[MedicMike0708]

Almost anything in grey works well, dark grey, light grey, or blue grey (he fang). Usually using a contrasting colour for their gloves and mask (dark brown, bleached bone, etc) matches grey trench coats. Just play around with it until it feels right.

[Cap'm Heckus]

There're these 2 from Codex Armageddon:

Assumingly, the bottom right guys is listed as "Death Korps of Krieg".

EDIT: pic with caption.

Edited October 29, 2020 by Cap'm Heckus

[Beaky Brigade]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, plenty of good ideas to think about. I think something traditional would suit them best.

The picture I meant to link earlier was this one:

It shows up on a few of the 40k wikis but I could never track down the origin. The style seems plausibly like GW of the time they were doing new Armageddon lore, but I'm not sure they a) printed many colour pictures then, or would b) choose such a specifically Wehrmacht style of camouflage different to the usual portrayal, so I wondered if it was a fan colouration or just plain fan art.

[duz_]

A scheme like that would take a lot of time and patience but would be worth it

Not sure about the gun casing though

[Beaky Brigade]

A scheme like that would take a lot of time and patience but would be worth it

Not sure about the gun casing though

Yeah not many people who do camo on guardsmen do whole armies of them :D, my hat goes of to them!

Huh I may have answered my own question https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/File:ArmageddonGuardsman.jpg says it's from 'The Art of Warhammer' book from 2006.

[The Pounder]

That colour scheme would be amazing!

[Beaky Brigade]

The actual models don't have as much visible trouser so it might be worth a try.

 

[WarriorFish]

A scheme like that would take a lot of time and patience but would be worth it

Not sure about the gun casing though

Yeah not many people who do camo on guardsmen do whole armies of them , my hat goes of to them!

I don't need your hat, but thanks for offering. I'll have some pictures of your paint scheme on some models though

[RADU LYKAN]

Just in case the restrictive metal models haven’t been bought yet

https://madrobotminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=9_19&products_id=197

My own will have grey coats, still a bit undecided on the rest