Hello everyone. I am progressing with my sarus warriors. Last time I posted I had painted 3 without shields and now I have painted 10 with shields. Only six left keep in mind that this is the first warhammer regiment I've painted, besides a couple a long time ago as a kid. Anyway, I had a question. What do you guys think about using orange instead of the standard red color on their shields? I think it works and actually lifts up the turqouise skins/scales better than the red ones. But I'm not complete sure yet, therfor I want your opinions. Have a great weekend! Red VS Orange This is my first shields, used standard red but as you can see I didn't exactly follow the instructions on the painting provided at games-workshops website, and the result wasn't quite what I had expected. They are good enough for me though. This is the ones I made today. I noticed while dyebrushing them with orange before I add darker colors in the middle of the scales that it actually looked kind of neat.
I have never liked the way red shields or crests look on blue saurus, the very ugly red-crested GW saurus unit was actually the reason I didn't go with Lizzies as my first army... So I think the orange looks great, very jungle-y
Hmm in the first pic I like the orange better,but with the lineup I prefer the red ones. The orange makes them look very pale. They both look good though.
You could use different shield colors on different units to set them apart from each other... In other words, I like both.
Yes that is probably a good idea, I have seen the responses and me (and my girlfriend too ^^) was leaning towards orange for this unit. I think that will be my call, thanks for the participation I will keep you updated as soon as I finish the regiment! This monday is the last day I can order without paying for the shipping from games-workshop, so I think I will either buy a unit of skinks and a priest as general. Or replace the skinks with a jungle swarm and a razor-lizzy as I then have two core-units and can go directly to painting rare/specials Any suggestions?
I would take the red ones as I did, mostly because you can highlight them to a very top degree even ending on yellow and that really adds great detail and contrast imo. Check mines, mainly followed GW steps but adding more depth with 2 extra red coats and in special chars like champion even a yellow dot at the very highest lights. Notice of the orange bordering and bubonic brown ending light detail at the corners and prominent parts of the scales: Hope it helps!
May be too late, but you can always order from Maelstrom Games with free shipping (worldwide) and 12% off UK prices.... *Cough* I suggest you just buy the models you really like the look of.
I would just like to update how my work is going. I am currently slowly beginning to move to a bigger apartment, (at last, painting at the TV/dinner/only table in the flat was not really that nice. Soon I will be able to dedicate a whole table to warhammer and warhammer alone ) Anyway, yesterday my skink priest and my razordon arrived, and there is only three units left in my saurus regiment, so hopefully I will be able to finish them soon. I'll upload the results as soon as they are ready.
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