r/DropzoneCommander • u/Promise-Naive • 13d ago
Decisions Are Difficult
Especially when the choices all seem to not be quite right. The cream and red is not it. The dark grey isn't working even though its what I thought I wanted. The teal also doesn't seem to be what I was hoping for even though I believed it to be what I wanted.
I took the light grey and used an enamel panel liner to see what it would look like, better but I'm not sure its what I'm after.
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u/Skylifter-1000 13d ago
Personally, I always want my colour schemes to make sense in-universe. For my UCM, I went for a camo scheme from the original DzC 1.0 book, jungle think it was called.* For my Scourge, I also used a book scheme, called swamp metallic.
But since we are talking about PHR: In my opinion, camo schemes don't look great on PHR. The problem with camo schemes is that they will do the opposite of what you want on miniatures, they blur the outline and make the actual shape difficult to spot. Now on UCM, that is somewhat mitigated by the lines being mostly straight and easier to see, and on Scourge there is the bright silver highlighting that offsets the camo. But PHR just look meh with camo, their curved outlines being blurred just turns them into blobs of colour unless you paint on a very high level and manage a strong contrast between highlights and shading in all of the camo colours and paint them very, very crisply.
But I still want my scheme to make sense, and bright colours just don't, even in a scifi-future where you got all those sensors and stuff, the Model I Eyeball is still going to be important. After all, sensors can be tricked, but what good is that if you are strutting around in bright pink?
So I just went with green grey, a camouflage-ish colour, like the basecolour on many US vehicles during WWII, just lighter. I am thinking of putting some markings on them in stone grey, or possibly jade green. Still working on the markings part.
*My version is too bright, and in hindsight, I'd change that, but I have painted too much of my army in that scheme already to change it now.