Hi, all, I've recently picked up watching some videos about WH40K table battles and while I probably won't ever play/field an army due to the cost of materials simply to assemble a tiny 1000pts force, the consistent painting of the models always looks incredible and after seeing some of the Imperial Guard tanks, I'm wondering if some of you guys could help me determine what paints to use for a project down the line as there is a tabletop gaming store that sells Citadel paints not too far from me, and since some of you guys have shown off just as impressive painting familiarity with Games Workshop stuff you would have the experience necessary.
The reason I mention the tanks is because this project I hope to do in the future is also a tank. Sort of.
It comes molded in one color...the
wrong color, at that, which ultimately doesn't even matter since this thing isn't uniformly monochrome (somewhat hard to tell, but the "chest/head" portion under the tank cannon is supposed to be a dark blue-gray, the rest is dark olive green). Being Bandai, the instructions suggest to use their in-house Tamiya paints but as I said earlier, Citadel should work just as well (along with being cheaper by merely not having to be imported).
Here's the translated paint guide from the instructions:
And here's what the "official" full paint job looks like - granted, officially the green is actually supposed to be darker than this but in truth the light green-brownish color works better with the darker colored chest, personally.
After some quick research, it
looks like my best paint match choices would be:
- Main Body Green: Death World Forest or Zandri Dust (depending on if I want more green or not in my final decision)
- Main Body Grey: Daemonette Hide or Mechanicus Standard Gray
- Machine Gun: Leadbelcher
- Cannon Ejection (basically the part behind the gray head/chest): Abaddon Black
Any tips or suggestions from you skilled Citadel paint experts would be greatly appreciated.
(And yes, logically I could just go to that store and ask for tips about the paint there, but I don't actually
have the kit so no point in buying paints now.)