The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Khador color test

Okay, I need some critical input here.

I've been tinkering around with my Khador color scheme. The traditional red looks nice, of course, but I can't bring myself to do it. Too cliche.

I was scratching my head, and decided to draw on two sources of inspiration for general color theme: Vostroyan Tanks, and Beast 09.

Vostroyan Tank Photograph courtesy of Ifelix.co.uk

Both of them have a sort of tan-green-white color thing going on, with red as the accent color. I wanted to extend this to anything in the Khador army wearing armor - so, Warcasters, Iron Fangs, Man-O-Wars, etc. Other infantry, like Winter Guard or Widowmakers will be in a browner, woodsier scheme.

After spending some time tinkering with this, I mixed up what I thought was a pretty ideal base color by matching the color in the bottle against the picture of Beast 09. I airbrushed it on my Iron Fangs after priming them grey, and picked out one of the pikemen to tinker around with. The image below represents a quick, 10-minute color test where I just got some of the base coats down and hit the whole model with a custom grey wash I've been working on.

Don't look at it for details, look at it for color. I didn't paint the pike or the fur fringe on the cape, they didn't seem as important at the time.

I'm not entirely happy with it yet, but I thought I'd throw it up for review. It seems a liiittle darker than I initially expected, but not overly so. My problem right now is that it's just not reading as "Khador" to me - maybe not enough red accents? I'm considering maybe adding red to the gauntlets, though only one of them'll really be visible once the shield goes on. I also haven't quite found a gold I like, and I'm curious if the armor trim might not look better in brass, rather than gold.

I'm also thinking this probably would have worked better over a white primer, rather than a grey one. The grey took a little bit of life out of the paint.

Right now, I'm thinking about mixing my airbrushed base-coat color with some white and airbrushing in a downwards direction on these guys, to give their armor a rudimentary highlighting / zenithal lighting effect.

What do you guys think? What would you recommend? What do you hate?