Imperial Guard Scheme

[Firestarter]

Hey, I'm new here, but not to forums or 40k.

I'm thinking of beginning an Imperial Guard force, but before I start I wish to have a colour scheme in my mind before I purchase any models. So far I've been browsing different sites and galleries, even old White Dwarfs (Dwarves, whatever), but am yet to come up with a concrete idea.

I'm thinking a Cadian force, heavily infantry based, not much tanks, with a few elite units such as veterans and stormtroopers. Oh, and a lot of lascannons. I kind of have a fetish for them since my Iron Warrior days. I'm not totally sure on the regiment's background yet, so that won't affect the paint scheme.

I was originally thinking a forest camo scheme, but with the over-abundance in camo schemes I'm not sure about it. I also considered a black scheme, does anybody know if that would work well, and with which complimentary/secondary colours?

So basically I'm asking you guys advice on what you think is a good, quite quick to paint, and not to challenging in terms of skill, paint scheme.

[mojo jojo]

besides the normal cadian scheme a saw good and easy scheme ( an example of this scheme is in the showcase in the 4th ed rule book ) the armour is black with grey highlights and very fine light grey highlights , and the clothing is shadow grey highlighted with spacewolves grey and fine white highlights , this scheme looks great and fits your black scheme .

[Firestarter]

Sounds alright, but I wouldn't be convinced until I saw a picture. Unfortunately I don't have the 4th edition rule book, yet, anyway.

The grey sounds a bit bland, maybe adding a small camo scheme on to it would look good? I'm not really an expert on guard schemes so I'm not sure. I'm not much of a fan of grey, personally.

Does anyone know of any green type shemes that didn't involve camo?

I was also quite interested in a WW2 British themed army. Does anybody have any advice or resources for this?

[GreyWolf]

well do you know what sort of game tables your going to be playing on? snow, greenmat, grey/industrial? if your going to be using the same basic tabletop you may want to take that into consideration.

Cadians in my mind are usually grey, but any drab color would work well i think. Although camo doesnt have a rules effect it can have an effect in the actual game. My marine snipers are well camo'd and i have have people actually overlook them. This is AFTER they have shot. The see the black and flames of my legion of the damned..and forget the green guys are out there. My other suggestion is to do a web search of miliary uniforms. There is a great deal of inspiration to be found

[Firestarter]

If I ever play much, it will be either greenmat or industrial cityfight type boards. However I'm more into the painting side and so it wouldn't really bother me too much.

Thanks for the advice.

[K-Tana]

My advice is to never paint camo on units, as it destroys the outline of the model. Which is fine for soldiers, but not what we want for models. Instead, have a clear colour scheme using vaguely evironmental colours (such as Eavy Metal's Cadians) that suits your gaming board.

[IGgeneral]

Hey if you do camo right it can look really good. an easy camo scheme, is a base coat of chaos black, then streakes of catachan green, then streaks of dark angels green. Note the catachan and dark angel green should never touch.

[Firestarter]

Thanks for all responses.

I eventually came to using Black Flak Armour with the Fatigue Clothing painted Catachan Green, then 50/50 Catachan Green and Camo Green, finally highlighted with Camo Green. Then I used Dark Flesh blobs with small Bleached Bone stripes for a camo scheme.

Looks good so far, and I'm very happy with it. I'll post pictures as soon as I can, but my digital camera is many years old so I can't vouch for quality, nor indeed for my own skills behind the lens.

[Spider]

Originally posted by Firestarter@Oct 2 2004, 115
Thanks for all responses.

I eventually came to using Black Flak Armour with the Fatigue Clothing painted Catachan Green, then 50/50 Catachan Green and Camo Green, finally highlighted with Camo Green. Then I used Dark Flesh blobs with small Bleached Bone stripes for a camo scheme.

Looks good so far, and I'm very happy with it. I'll post pictures as soon as I can, but my digital camera is many years old so I can't vouch for quality, nor indeed for my own skills behind the lens.

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I was gonna reply... but well here goes, if I can recall the IG have a jumpsuit and a kevlar vest over it with mil. boots and an helmet correct?

So... jungle green jumpsuit with lighter or darker highlights, the kevlar being chaos black. Drybrush the chaos black with some light grey the boots, chaos black and put down some drybrushed brown on the sole and at the bottom of the boot. Highlight the laces with a dark grey. For the helmet I'm not sure... I'd have to paint one, but from what I can see in my head you can either go with chaos black with the same grey drybrush or the same green as the jumpsuit with the same type of highlights.

In my opinion you should make them look dirty (knees, elbows and boots) cause I've never seen a soldier with a clean uniform on the field (aside from officers... so... dirty boots for the commisar and that's about it?).

[Firestarter]

Good one on the dirtiness. Hadn't considered that, I'll have to try that on some guys.