 etotheipi  | 10 Oct 2012 12:23 p.m. PST |
Hey! Why not? Irrational Number Line Games has a quick little article on a paint up and minor conversion of GW Space Marines into a University of Texas at DallasSpace Hulk squad.
Wonder what's in there … |
 Wolfshanza  | 10 Oct 2012 1:05 p.m. PST |
Back in the days, a friend of mine that had a store had squads painted up in different train colors. pretty cool, actually <chuckle> Yours came out pretty well  |
| mad monkey 1 | 10 Oct 2012 1:14 p.m. PST |
Thought about doing that with a 18th cent imaginatons armies. Base the uniform colors on teams from the SEC and ACC. |
| Mardaddy | 10 Oct 2012 2:21 p.m. PST |
Immediately thought of Blue Table Painting. They did a Tau army in Ohio State colors: link Love the, "Michigan as stomped rivals," in the bases! And let's not forget our very own TMP's Smokeys University of Florida "Cane's Clan" of orky goodness. |
| etotheipi | 10 Oct 2012 4:51 p.m. PST |
Very cool OSU set. I have a number of forces in scarlet and grey, as well as a few (losing) forces in maize and blue. Never thought to decorate bases with UofM deterius, though. I have an OSU SH set, but I made it from Warzone figs instead of GW ones. Not sure if I am staying with that yet… |
| Insomniac | 11 Oct 2012 2:15 a.m. PST |
I've seen marines painted in the colours of US football teams… but not school colours. It is a good way to add character to your squads… especially if you give them the names and look of your school colleagues :) |
| ancientsgamer | 11 Oct 2012 6:58 a.m. PST |
Reminds me of Ork colors… :-) I am a UTSA graduate myself. I think I like blue, orange and white a little better ;-) Actually, my father's alma matter would be cool but hard to see at this scale; black and blue for Johns Hopkins. Ever the teams end up having white on their uniforms as well. Black and blue don't have enough contrast. Wonder what would be the best color combination for existing NCAA teams regardless of team loyalty? Baylor might be interesting…. |
| etotheipi | 11 Oct 2012 7:44 a.m. PST |
There are lots of color contrast calculators nowadays, as it is an important issue for webdesign. It's especially important for 208 compliance (American disability regulation) to help colorblind and visually impaired people read information on the web. Even back in the day it was important for presentation graphics, sinage, and other architectural elements. link You could Google "color contrast calculator" and get dozens of other ones. But those are only a tool. "Color harmony" is a big area of research. There are a lot of competing theories and issues (as well as formulas and methods). For me, I like pairings that are just at the cusp (above or below) of the W3 standard for contrast and reabability – different enough to support easy discernment of details, but not so sharp a contrast that it becomes difficult to look at over an extended period of time. Given all that blah blah blah, I supppose the optimal answer is "there are infinite optimal pairings" and "it depends". For me scarlet and (a light) grey work well and maize and blue are just too dissonant (though if you bend the maize down toward gold, it can end up with a nice harmony). I have also found nice effect in the opposite approach. When you mix several close colors on a figure, you can see the differences very well at the borders where colors meet, but not so much further apart or over large areas. Thus you can easily "see" all the details, but your brain has a hard time clearly sorting them out into different areas. Like this: link BTW, this is one of my favorite pictures and Mark Harden's Artchive (http://www.artchive.com/) is one of the best long-running resources on teh web. |
| billthecat | 11 Oct 2012 11:05 a.m. PST |
Great idea for a 'friendly' game… I wouldn't play 'blood bowl' but would certainly play USC marines vs. UCLA marines, etc… etc… |
| Ghostrunner | 12 Oct 2012 6:02 a.m. PST |
Dormmate of mine back in the day at the University of Washington (State) painted a plastic 'beaker' marine purple, then added a yellow (gold) paw print on the shoulder. (UW's mascot is the Huskies.) He wasn't much of a painter, but it looked pretty good. |
| Valator | 15 Oct 2012 6:48 p.m. PST |
I have seen two Space Marine armies, one in the Orange & Black of the Massillon Tigers and the other in the Black, Red, and White of the Canton McKinley Bulldogs at a nearly defunct mall a few years ago. Both are high school football teams that have played one another, first as pro teams and later as high school, since the late 1890s. The battlefield was green with white lines to look like a gridiron. Dreadnoughts were kitbashed tigers and bulldogs. Neat stuff. |
