To many purple elves?
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To many purple elves?
I see way to many purple elves around, and i was thinking of doing grey instead of the purple?
I havnt worked with purple or grey before, being a dwarf and orc player normally, are either of them hard to paint well? If that doesnt make sense...you know how red paint is generally hard to paint with? Is purple or grey harder to paint?
And i plan on painting my skin light purple, would that be weird with purple armour?
http://images.mmosite.com/photo/2007/12/24/war11jF7h0m7840.jpg
The skin in that picture if what i was thinking of
I havnt worked with purple or grey before, being a dwarf and orc player normally, are either of them hard to paint well? If that doesnt make sense...you know how red paint is generally hard to paint with? Is purple or grey harder to paint?
And i plan on painting my skin light purple, would that be weird with purple armour?
http://images.mmosite.com/photo/2007/12/24/war11jF7h0m7840.jpg
The skin in that picture if what i was thinking of
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Everything's quite easy with the new foundation paints/washes combination. Basecoat, wash, highlight lightly and you're done. But to answer your question, both colours are easy to paint, but purple looks better because it's darker thus more forgiving if highlighting isn't your strong point. Light purple skin would blend with purple armour though, but if you do purple in the recesses but a more fleshy colour on the broad areas of the skin then you should be able to get away with it.
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ThaPinkPownr wrote:yes it would look weird. trust me i know i wanted that to. grey clothes and metalic purpel armour but a red slightly blue armour works better
Red slightly blue armour?! Do you have any pictures of such a colour scheme? Im most interested to see how that works.
As for the OP, I would say to just give it a go, get yourself a test model (spearmen / rxbmen) and see how it goes. Be sure to show us the results.
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I've gone for purple
Although the reasoning is i want this army to not only play well but to look good, i'm spending alot more time per model than i normally do, and i know purple is easy to work with so i've gone with that
EDIT: Plus i tried purply skin, but it failed, so i've gone for normal elf skin anyway lol...cept my scorceress looks like she has a bad tan
Although the reasoning is i want this army to not only play well but to look good, i'm spending alot more time per model than i normally do, and i know purple is easy to work with so i've gone with that
EDIT: Plus i tried purply skin, but it failed, so i've gone for normal elf skin anyway lol...cept my scorceress looks like she has a bad tan
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SaDiStIcItY wrote:Instead of Purple, I choose Red. After all Red cloth with Gold amour also gives a royal feel to your army.
Not forgetting, my Witch Elves wearing Red Thongs and Bra. More eye catching then Purple definitely.
Just curious, why is red hard to paint with?
Red is generally hard to work with because when you highlight it, you have to guard against going pink, or going overly orange, which is difficult.
And to Sarcon: Absolutely. Nothing whatsoever wrong with purple on Dark Elves
That's silly! Playin with little statues, pretendin' they're fightin'! Why not just round up a bunch of real goblins and lettem' whack it out?
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fletch395 wrote:Just wondering, what colour compliments purple?
I need a secondary colour for shields/shades trousers ect ect. Some article on CMoN said to use yellow....i doubt that'd work
Yellow it is indeed.
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That's silly! Playin with little statues, pretendin' they're fightin'! Why not just round up a bunch of real goblins and lettem' whack it out?