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SM pre heresy and heresy colour schemes
HunkUmbrella
As a WH30k Horus Heresy and 40k fan, I catch myself always trying to closely make colour schemes for 1st foundation astartes legions before and during heresy.
And if honestly, I am not satisfied with my results, so I decided to share a discuss ideas about this here, with community, so pick up some ideas, suggestions, so actually get more close look for mine or not only mine, for others who wants to recreate some of these colour schemes and see them ingame.
Some of you can say - It is easy, just watch tabletop players colour schemes. The problem is that I did study that stuff, and the colours of the same legion are different for every another wh40k tabletop gamer or artist who painted his army for him. You can see more green Sons of Horus, or more aqua blue Sons of Horus and etc.
I got a Heresy Vision book and nice stuff made by GW on lexicanum and I see them as a lore correct colour scheme sources. Any way it is a discussion one thread, so I am sure we'll find the way how to better and closer recreate this schemes in game.
BTW why i can't [img] url [/img] here?
Thats how it looked like in DoW 2:
Sons of Horus
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=959056594
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=959056628
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=959056697
Thats how I tried to recreate them in DoW 3:
Sons of Horus, after Horus gained to be Warmaster (It seems they must be a bit darker green then this, also I used eldar symbol to somehow recreate the Horus eye patch):
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/858349044230372637/61CD8E0D029CB1C03B012AD49BAB7BBC3CE6AC7F/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/858349044230372953/7159C5B5F9104F3AE6FF6997A985B7FDC6206FB2/
Sons of Horus Catulan's Reavers:
World Eaters after renaming from hounds, pre and during heresy.
World Bearers pre heresy (I tried to make them simplified, grey without shine, so you can deffinetly recognize monks kind, before turn to lunatics, but I made them too grey, so they are like boring):
Alpha Legion pre and during heresy ( they a bit darker then must be?):
Alpha Legion more exotic, blue - green look:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/858348819451032763/DEA08FC2DC097E1504A2A905C9F3AEB9D0FD3F16/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/858348819451032921/8E2F5FD1B46014EFD93FFA3198A47C73020E0D1E/
Thousand sons pre heresy (very red, but matte or brushed paints make it look wierd):
Night Lords pre heresy (they seemed to be much darker then they must be):
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/858348819451033076/DB1AE1FA85948EB32929B9F36E4108B6389728EA/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/858348819451033229/52C629EEB6CC739822F778C80747F466EE7887B9/
Emperor's Children:
Death Guard is on the way, the problem is the Death Guard was simplify grey before heresy or Horus became the Warmaster, then they became grey - green pre heresy, I am fearing to make them look close like grey monks from Word Bearers.
Sorry for using banners from other races, I just didnt want aquila or skulls on all chapters and tried to take something that you can recognize, I hope Relics will make uploading custom banners and badges directly through the game or through workshop able again.
Plz type down what you think, suggest how to make better and closer look, share with your own wh30k colour schemes experience.
Oh forgoted, thats how it appear to be in game:
Alpha Legion exotic and standart comparison:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=958329889
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=958329713
Night Lords and Alpha ambushed the Thousand Sons squad
Thousand Sons strike team
Emperor's Children have joined the fight:
Comments
DmonBlu
This should be in offtopics IMO @Gorb ?Btw spoiler there are some color locked behind heroes so... I recommend u to grind them 1st if u want to paint them in game
Katitof
Nice work there, would be even better if you made a list of colors used for the patterns.
Gorb
Looks DoW III-related to me
Katitof
So go to army painter and re-crate them as op did.
We're not getting them provided by relic, because that's 30k license, which they don't have rights to.
Katitof
That's still 30k IP, which relic(or anyone else) doesn't have access to.
tritol
I like my War Puppies
and my Luna Corgies
sry have only knights screened
HunkUmbrella
I am not agree with you that it is offtopic because really it is all about recreating these legions in DoW 3 only, by using its official painter tools. About locked colours on heroes I am half agree with you, but in other side it will be strange that for example deathwatch or angelos would be in other colours. They solved this in DoW 2 making a new face for force commander for SM (in retribution they did Diomedes face, I dont know why) and changed the Eliphas face for CSM Lord to CSM lord with helmet. Maybe they ll make it again. In DoW 3 it seems they made their colours locked, with the idea that no matter what colour scheme chapter you play, you call for help the heroes from Blood Rvens Angelos or Orion or Inquisition squad.
HunkUmbrella
Yeah thats something Relic's did promise when they announced 1st DoW 3 edition (The DoW 3 that we will never see) after DoW 2 retribution launch, they promised that there would be more customize options, like type of armor you want on your troops, where you can choose you want skulls on shoulders or chains, shields, litanies and etc.
++heresy redacted++, thats so pity they had no time to do this in this build. DoW 3 launch were real rush one.
Gorb
Where is this promise? As far as I remember no DoW III project was ever confirmed at all at that time.
The most you're likely to find is the developers saying where they'd possibly like to take the franchise in the future.
HunkUmbrella
I am not sure that it is connected somehow with 30k rights or license, I mean they have ancient made power armor like Corvus on Assault Marines in both DoW 2 and DoW 3, devastators marines with lascanon have some mixed type of armor in DoW 3. In DoW 2 they have Mark 5 power armor.
I think they did not provide it and would not because it is not about the game, why should they waste their resources if their game part is not somehow connected with these events!? Maybe when they will announce Chaos, we'll see some pieces of old armors.
HunkUmbrella
Lol! Nice schemes, Luna Corgies for Lupercal! Auuuwwwgh!
How did you actually put this img url, i tried to paste by forum tool, I paste a link there, but it do not paste it in my text... or I tried manually by [img]url[/img] but failed, maybe because I am on Firefox!? It's so strange, cause it is working fine on other forums, maybe I need to upload images to Imgur first from steam.
HunkUmbrella
Ehhh If to be honest, I think they are a bit shitty and not so close, I created this thread so real fans could actually help me and suggest colours I need to use in my schemes to make them look real. But ok, ill make the full list and maybe we'll see where is my mistake.
HunkUmbrella
That was in interview with Relic's on E3 or other exhibition before THQ collapsed and people were asking about are they working on DoW 3 and what it will be about.
Next months after this interview THQ collapsed, it took year a more to SEGA actually bought DoW, my SpaceMarine game died there, no server support, nobody was playing DLC's and etc. As I said it was about another DoW3 that we will never know about, after Sega bought DoW, I am sure Relics had to start from a new list of paper.
But it is just a shame that those customize ideas they wanted to bring just died there.
I remember those bright days when you could mix visually different armor types in SGA editor and could play MP with you modded game files, cause it was just visual editing without any balance change and dreams of those time in next time they'll make it legit...ahh those dreams and hopes
Gorb
Ahh, interesting. I think it was a Eurogamer piece. Very speculative!
Katitof
Since you say relic did promised something like that, I'll take it will be easy for you to provide a source.
Sorry, but you don't throw statements like that without source.