The Lichborne - Homebrew Warband

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Your colour blends are great - but in particular, that purple is beautiful.  And although I personally would have gone with a greater contrast (I know, we've had this discussion at least twice already ), I think you've done a great job in differentiating the blues in the magic and on the armour.

[Volgon]

Been making progress a little bit at a time, almost done with the blue sections now.

 

Not really sure what I want to do with the etching on the shins. I abandoned my original plan pretty early as it wasn't going to work color wise. I've been thinking of doing the runes themselves (the bits that look like letters or numbers) in red as I have red runes on other minis in the army. The lines I might just leave dark blue, but I had thought about tinting them other colors using glazes:

• darker red than the runes
• burgundy (unifying color between the red runes and the purple cloth)
• purple (don't like this too much as I don't really want the purple runes to meld with the purple tabard)

Actually thought today about maybe using a metallic, that could look cool. Something really dark like the gold I used for the crozius or Warplock Bronze.

[Tallarn Commander]

Looking nice. Yes, doing the runes in a bronzish or metallic color  would work well. I would hesitate to add additional colors to the lines on the shins. That might make the model too busy.

[Pearson73]

I think bronze would look really nice. I struggle to see purple working so close to the robes, and it could get a bit busy with red.

 

I'll echo @Dr_Ruminahui in saying that you've done a great job in keeping the blues distinct and not loosing any details through using similar colours.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Looking great!  I would do the runes the same way you did the eyes of the skull (the one on the skeleton stick, not the spirit skulls), though going up to a brighter white.

Edited July 28 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Volgon]

@Tallarn Commander@Pearson73@Dr_Ruminahui Thanks for the feedback folks! I think I'll probably wait until everything else is complete before making a decision. I do think the shins look a little monochromatic and could use another pop of color. I plan on trying a new recipe for the black trim but it should still read as quite black so that shouldn't change the color composition much. I think a dark color would be best as to contrast with the vibrant blue. According to color theory the complimentary color for my blue is around the red-orange range so those would be the obvious choices, but the line work with a dark metallic is pretty intriguing...

 

I thought about painting the rectangle "plate" that the runes are etched on (that section right below the knee pads) in a metallic, similar to the box art on the new Logan Grimnar model. I didn't end up doing it but I could always paint over what I've done if I think it would look good.