War Hounds Update - Non-Veteran Colours

27/7/2014

If you've been keeping up to date with the ongoing War Hounds Space Marines Project, you may remember the issues around working out the colours for the War Hounds - the Great Crusade-era progenitors of the World Eaters Space Marines.
The only illustration so far is the one in The Horus Heresy: Book 1 Betrayal., and that is of a veteran rather than the standard Marine of it's time.
After much testing and an email to Forge World, I finally have the colours for the War Hounds Space Marines.

+ + For more head over to the Project War Hounds Blog + +

2 Comments

Border Prince

28/7/2014 08:21:00

Looks good. my only quibble is that from a distance the head, usually the focal point of a miniature, will be hard to pick out.

I'd consider doing something to make the blue head stand out from the blue chest, blue shoulders and blue backpack. The problem is more acute with this armor compared to 40k marines, simply because the backpack comes up higher, removing much of the outline of the head of the mini.

You're not giving the models an eye glow, which would be one route to emphasising the head, so perhaps add some white to the backpack, like on the veteran? That would add a frame to the head, which would then be more obvious.

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28/7/2014 08:31:33

Good point, Border Prince. Will take that on board.
The head does need some work. Still fiddling. Not a fan of the MKII helmets at all...
There is red in the eyes, but maybe I need to experiment with the glow - it is very dark!
The white on the backpack could help too!

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