Death Guard Marines - choosing an army scheme.
It's a new year, time for new beginnings and for me, that meant - deciding on a new armour colour scheme! Determining a new painting scheme is an interesting process. I really struggle to visualise how colours will look on a model (I've mentioned this before particularly - here ). For the Death Guard army I've been building up as part of the Conquest Magazine subscription. The thing is - I never really understood why Death Guard changed uniform colour during their time lost in the warp. I can imagine the palette shifting, tainting somewhat but having a total uniform change in the warp just seems weird. So I'd decided to go for a more traditional, pre-heresy aesthetic. I knew I wanted to introduce the bone colour in the zenithal as a three stage - black, bone, white. So that was simple... until I applied it and realized it was still too white. I glazed with FW Lemon Yellow which shifted the overall colour a little towards green (thanks to filtering effect from t