"How do you paint your high-tech forces?" Topic

My lower-tech forces are typically painted in modern-day type camo patterns.

I feel like my high-tech human forces (i.e., anti-grav-themed forces) should have a high-tech look, but I'm not sure what that is…

Something impractical? Pink? Yellow? White?

Something exotic? Gold? Black with silver stripes?

What do you do?

For some 15mm Laserburn, I painted the Imperial Marines in Black with Gold trim "Gilded Death". It's obviously impractical but it looks good, and perhaps it is part of Imperial psychological warfare.

The Redemptionists were also brightly painted with a color scheme based on religious symbolism: white for purity, red for sacrifice.

Back in 3rd ed Warhammer 40k, there was a deal on Ulthwe Craftworld Eldar to go with the new Craftworld Eldar Codex. I made the purchase and planned to make my own Craftworld that used the Ulthwe rules. That would have been a mostly black armor, with bright red trim and copper for the metal parts. Never started it, although I still have the figures.

Also, when Ogre Miniatures was first released, the rulebook offered a rationalization for the brightly colored units. They were holograms on a tac table in a command post, and not the actual units. Thus the Vatican Guard units would appear in parade ground white and purple, and not actual field colors for ease of identification. I'm sure the commander of a Combine CP about to be crushed under the treads of the Vatican Ogre Mk V "Dies Irae" appreciates how pretty the hologram representation looks on his tac table! *G*

I do my infinity stuff much like the cards typically, so toned down colours but not necessarily camo, although some get camo.

My rebel minis pan galactic legion are going to be in a brownish colour armour.

I think that going with more traditional tank colours for space armour works pretty well.

My Tau are in a city camo blue colour scheme as are my PHR for Dropzone Commander.

I did the UCM stuff I did in a basic green colour.

I've also done PHR in the white camo scheme with the green pattern on it for winter camo.

FOr my grav tanks and APCs I tried a traditional camo colour scheme but with a bit of an exotic touch, like these blocky camo schemes:

But usually ordinary camo works fine. My Felid aliens wear blue metallic armour however and my Imperial troopers in full power armour are red so that they can double for alien troops in a pinch:

Solid colors so I can identify them on the table. Rational is that what you see is their parade ground colors, right before they engage the holographic camo / stealth suit.

Maybe a gloss coat – give it that "top of the line" look?

Camouflage, but, perhaps when i get round to doing some aliens, ill go for something a bit stranger..

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With shields and opticalflague you can be as disco as eddie izzard in mystery men.

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I go with the terrain & shrubbery they are going to be used against. Most modern vehicles are painted one drab colour, finiky camo jobs are fine, but in reality you only need the worst possible background for them to stand out like neon.

Take my plants, most plastic dinosaurs, chocolate colours simply disapear. Dark green shows up something chronic, but works against rest of scenery- you cannot win!

I have done all of the above. It really depends on what I see their tactics being.

non photo blue?

Well, the most high-tech force I have really would be the EuroFed army blokes found at dividedfuture.wordpress.com and I painted them in an all-over flecktarn. Everything. All of them. Weapons included. It worked superbly!

How about camo pattern variations depending on the battleground? Brown/red on Mars, gray/white on the Moon.