Camouflage Marine Test

[Pleasuredome]

One older fantasy gamer in my club always flaming about marines shoul not look like too colorfull.

This envoked my plan on having some camouflage marines as test models to be later expanded to a 1500 Pts force as gift for a friend.

 

The Idea was stolen from a tourney player who had a whole SM army of "US Army " future soldiers.

They where called "white stars " for the US Army five pointed white stars used as chapter insignia .

 

The pic is not too big , the Ultramarines shoulderpad can be ignored .

IMHO it looks to nurgle like and too artistic ( because of the NMM)

 

http://www.figuraobscura.com/festung/green.jpg

[Chronophague]

I tried doing a camo marine sometime ago(like 2 years or smth ago) it turned out nice IMO, even wrote some fluff about them being the 8th company of my main army, who have gone astray a bit with their colouration :D

 

http://usera.imagecave.com/kronork/tau/camomarine1.jpg

 

Cheers

[bighatdino]

You probable need more of an olive drab colour as a base, as that's a bit too grey, or place other, similar colours on top in patches (generally a few slightly different shades of browns and greens in small blocks of colour). A bestial brown, or scorched brown mix with catachan or camo green would work.

 

In regard to the older game, SMs probably wouldn't be as bright as some are, but ultimately their relative invincibility means that they don't really need stealth, so don't require camouflaging, an can just wade in. This doesn't apply to scout groups, however, as it's very difficult to infiltrate a stronghold, or fight in forests, while you're wearing bright yellow or red. To be honest, scouts would be unlikely to wear any of their chapter colours while on missions, unless they were riding loud bikes :D

[Pleasuredome]

You probable need more of an olive drab colour as a base, as that's a bit too grey, or place other, similar colours on top in patches (generally a few slightly different shades of browns and greens in small blocks of colour). A bestial brown, or scorched brown mix with catachan or camo green would work.

 

In regard to the older game, SMs probably wouldn't be as bright as some are, but ultimately their relative invincibility means that they don't really need stealth, so don't require camouflaging, an can just wade in. This doesn't apply to scout groups, however, as it's very difficult to infiltrate a stronghold, or fight in forests, while you're wearing bright yellow or red. To be honest, scouts would be unlikely to wear any of their chapter colours while on missions, unless they were riding loud bikes ;)

 

Color :

I purchased some tamya olive drab in the meantime and will post the second attempt soon.

 

Need for camo :

Thats what I told him .. medieval knights would not have worn greens as well ..

Imperial fists/White scars scouts must have exceptional skills :D

[Ignatius]

One older fantasy gamer in my club always flaming about marines shoul not look like too colorfull.

This envoked my plan on having some camouflage marines as test models to be later expanded to a 1500 Pts force as gift for a friend.

 

Whats this Heresy! Marines do not skulk around in bushes hiding, they take the fight to their enemies! They have pride in their colours other wise how does the enemy know the Angels of Death were sent for their deliverance! The Emperor protects that is all they need!

 

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[bighatdino]

Need for camo :

Thats what I told him .. medieval knights would not have worn greens as well ..

Imperial fists/White scars scouts must have exceptional skills ;)

 

Well, they're in the scouts to learn tactics and military skills, so putting them in bright colours would make their job that bit harder. It coulld work in stages, thinking about it, going from camo scout uniforms through to chapter scout uniforms as their skills increase. A bit like in Leon where he states that hitmen go from sniping through to close contact - the better you are at infiltration, the less need you have for complete camouflage. Or maybe I'm overthinking it :D

[Xeno Skum]

Let The imperial guards have there Camo, Us marines have our faith and our bolter (well i think thats how it goes :) )

[boreas]

Haha, I'm doing my marines with an "olive drab 2" tamiya basecoat. Actually, I've moved to knarloc green with a devlan mud wash, but it comes to the same. Pride (as in your colors) is a sin, a bit like Horus' sin. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. My marines prefer to kill more of the Emperor's enemies, even if they have to skulk, slink and hide until they get to the tender throat of the enemy!

 

Phil

 

Ps eeek, didn't spot the threadomancy! sorry!

[pueriexdeus]

I'm a DA player. Long time ago I (2nd ED) I decided to go with a quasi tiger stripe camo.

 

Tac Sqd

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm71/pueriexdeus/PEDColors014.jpg

 

Dev Sqd

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm71/pueriexdeus/PEDColors021.jpg

 

Others

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm71/pueriexdeus/Dec-Apr2008083.jpg

 

I'll not pretend that my painting skills are the best, but they do look good.

 

If you want to go camo, decide on the pattern that you want. I'll have to say that my figures are 11 colors. The basic DA green, assorted colors just flesh out the figure, and then four more colors for the camo. The more colors you use the more time it will take to complete.

 

Depending on the pattern you want you will need two, or three more colors.

Camo

 

Their used to be a GW link for camo on vehicles, cant find it right now, but it could be another good place to start.

[1reeper]

Their used to be a GW link for camo on vehicles, cant find it right now, but it could be another good place to start.

 

Right Here

[BloodRed]

The fundamental problem with camo on miniatures is that it works.

 

The point of miniatures are to be cool smaller scale visual representations of things.

 

The point of camo is to visually obscure something.

 

Think about it. :P

[gil galed]

i'd paint it in an urban camo looks cooler,

http://www.outinstyle.com/Merchant2/graphics/products/detail/F545412063_d.jpg

[nurglespuss]

HA HA! excellent, I really like that colour, mainly because thats pretty much the colour (little lighter) I want for my troops. I think it makes them stand out by not being bright. just out of interest, have you tried and olive drab glaze/wash over your scheme? that might work very well, and providing you avoid too obvious browns, won't look nurgly (best be to avoid nurgle-ism is to add a shouder pad rim colour. one that matches your cammo, but breaks up the scheme).