Onehip Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 So I decided to take my top three armies (DG, IF, & AL) and paint them up to see what I like best. If I'm going to build an army, that costs an arm & a leg, I better enjoy it. The problem is with AL I already have another army, for another system, that is using the current color scheme. But, it seems that they were all over the place with colors. " the Alpha Legion has been witnessed in liveries in pale grey, gleaming steel, veridian, dull bronze, sable, indigo, amaranth and azure blue -- both in main and combination." So do you guys feel it even matters what color you paint them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 The usual colours I've seen people depict them have generally been limited to green and/or blue (metallic or otherwise). This generally tends to be the accepted (and officially depicted) colour scheme. Personally, given the variety and nature of the Legion, they are almost a blank canvas. If I had an Alpha Legion force to paint, I might be tempted to use a similar colour scheme to that on the cover art for Legion. Or just go with the flow and do metallic blue/green... :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adeptus-Alaska Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 I personally intend on using a variety of the aformentioned schemes. simply put, I think the XXth is probably the best for avoiding hobby burnout(paint wise anyways) such as; my leadership will probably have that gorgeous metallic blue/green veterans will go with indigo assaulty guys, bronze.... etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimDim Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 I like the idea of a bronze or stealthed out black/grey styled force. The bronze is greek esque and could even link them to the minotaurs (hey they are mysterious, maybe theyre actually AL? They are great at killing non chaos marines ;P) The stealthed out grey would look great for a rapid attack force aswell, very stealthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomus Sardauk Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 I've always preferred a bright blue with gold trim, complete with inverted white Omega symbol for my Alpha Legion. ;) :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Operative Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 I'm a fan of using a dark purple colour for alpha legionaries. Not as bright to make them too similar to the Emperor's Children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spu00sed Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Guiliman thought they looked good in mid blue with gold trim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ak1508 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 I am happy to have found this topic, cause I will be building an AL army and still can't decide how to paint them, so I could start stocking up some paints lol Anyway, I think I will have mine painted mostly canonical to the colours in the book 3, but of course with some variety. I don't want to go too dark on them, but also not too bright either. Will try to find the golden middle. As for trims, i prefer silver/steel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onehip Posted May 27, 2015 Author Share Posted May 27, 2015 It's definitely hard to find anything solid, though guess that mirrors their fluff. I've seen art where they are purple, blue, and now the metallic blue/green. Thinking about a dark armor with green highlights (dark eldar esc.) Felt that was still in the scheme plus, fit their covert fighting style, and still reptilian for scales Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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