{"id":7451,"date":"2019-03-13T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=7451"},"modified":"2019-03-09T14:57:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T21:57:13","slug":"color-schemin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=7451","title":{"rendered":"Color Schemin’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With my first intro game of Infinity under my belt, it was time to start painting up some minis but I really struggled to figure out my army colors. I’m playing Yu Jing but yellow just isn’t my color. Nothing wrong with it but it’s not a color I want to paint with all the time or play with. Red is usually my goto but Infinity has a major faction, the Nomads, that studio paint typically red. And my friend already has his Nomads red and I don’t want to confuse things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lucky for me, Corvus Belli released concept art of the figures in an easy illustrated style that I can quickly mess with in Photoshop to see what I like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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That concept image color isn’t too bad actually. It’s more on the orange side, rather than yellow but looking at the studio-painted models, you can tell they are going for a very golden yellow. That just won’t work for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The “replace color” feature in Photoshop got a robust workout here as I started messing with the concept colors. I split the image to have a dark undercloth\/armor and a bright white one as this would help me decide to prime the minis dark or light. Here is the red concept. I love red and would totally do this if the Nomads hadn’t already claimed it. I could differentiate with the white under armor but either way, it’d be a lot of confusing red on the table once my friend’s Nomads get painted up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Though there isn’t much of change here from the orange, I’m really liking this darker color scheme for the main armor. Kind of a sienna color that seems to work really well with the white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exploring this further, I brought it even deeper to a drab brown. The white here is critical as it will otherwise just look dark and dirty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Staying with the drab, I branched away from the warm colors and moved into an olive mix. I really like how different this moves away from the yellow army concept, again with the white contrast. Unfortunately, it starts to go into the Haqqislam’s studio color scheme as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trying to pull off green, I brighten everything up and find that this can work as a unique scheme for the Yu Jing. It doesn’t track too heavily towards the other factions while remaining unique and decidedly “not yellow.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, though, I keep coming back to that Sienna scheme in white. I really think I can pull that off and it will be unique from the other faction colors but still identify with Yu Jing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The powersuit armored Terra-Cotta soldiers aren’t the only figures, of course and some have a lot less of the main armor showing so I tried out the concept using the other concept images available. Here is the Zhanshi concept. Again, I like the white so will keep that going throughout the army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the more flamboyant figures have accented pieces so I needed to determine that color as well. Here, the Zhanying have an accented overcoat. Ultimately, I didn’t stray too far from the studio accent color on this and went with that teal\/sea green accent that works well with the dark, warm armor. I lightened it up from the studio concept since I darkened the armor choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I went back and added in the accent to the original Terr-Cotta soldier and I’m really excited for the army scheme. Now I just need to prime things up and get to work.
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With my first intro game of Infinity under my belt, it was time to start painting up some minis but I really struggled to figure out my army colors. I’m playing Yu Jing but yellow just isn’t my color. Nothing wrong with it but it’s not a color I want to paint with all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,783],"tags":[787,788,784,44,786],"class_list":["post-7451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-infinity","tag-color-scheme","tag-corvus-belli","tag-infinity","tag-photoshop","tag-yu-jing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7452,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions\/7452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}