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colours question for a banner

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hello fellow druchii

I was thinking on how to do my banner for my corsairs, and while at first I thought about doing the seasnake, or something other in freehand, I think i'll go for the text: "No guts, No glory!"

Now I was wondering in what color i'd best do it, so that it would really stand out on my banner. The banner would have a basecolor of Necron Abyss. (dark blue)

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try white lightning!
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White is a good choice. Or a bright yellow.
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what colour is your army? Having a banner that uses colours that don't appear on any of the models will look odd no matter how cool the banner colours might look.

There are sea serpent transfers available from the dark elf transfer sheet, you could use those on the banner and then paint over them in the colour of your choice.

doing english language words on banners is really hard, it also raises the question why are the Dark elves carrying round a banner with non druchii words on it?

doing a translation of your motto into Druchii runes would be very cool.
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Kargan daemonclaw wrote:doing a translation of your motto into Druchii runes would be very cool.


Do you have a druchii translator / runes?
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MangoPunch wrote:Do you have a druchii translator / runes?
Just type your text here.
qwerty.jpg


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Oh wow, that is awesome. Thank you Calisson! I'm going to have some fun with that...
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Thanks Callison, v.cool.
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My main colour is blue, with green as extra color (turquise as well, as it's in between)
the english would be readable by, the druchii not (atleast not by my opponent)
it would look like this in druchii
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So what color should it be in? white? Red for contrast with the blue?
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<trying to type on keyboard>
no guts
no glory

<double-checking>
it seems that "t" does not exist, that would read "th".
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Well, green on blue would probably not look the best on a banner. I would say White on Blue is a safe bet, and if you want some green you can trim the banner in it.
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Calisson wrote:<trying to type on keyboard>
no guts
no glory

<double-checking>
it seems that "t" does not exist, that would read "th".


What do you mean exactly? (in any case: "close enough!" )

MangoPunch wrote:Well, green on blue would probably not look the best on a banner. I would say White on Blue is a safe bet, and if you want some green you can trim the banner in it.


I'll try that
Since i have a spare banner, i can practise freehanding the runes as well.
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