Colour Scheme ?! Dragon Ogre Lord

[Dark Seraphim]

Hey guys! I\'m soon gonna partake on a journey to paint my Dragon Ogre Lord, I\'ve changed a bit on him since I took the pictures:

Dragon Ogre Lord 1

Dragon Ogre Lord 2

The Tail has been replaced at the middle (where the lump is) with a plastic dragon piece, and added greenstuff to sculpt the difference and scales that went in the process, re-used the end of the chaos dragon tail.

As for colours, I\'m thinking a Split complementary color scheme:

Utilizing Yellow (orange) as the warm colours and Blue, Darker blue and bright teal as the cold colours. Included in this would be white.

Here is how I picture him at the moment, ANY comments or help would be appreciated:

Dragon Body: White belly to Greyish towards the scales.
Dragon Scales: Underlying dark blue, blue to teal scales/spikes.

Ogre Body: Orange ?
Ogre Armour: Chrom, SENMM metalic yellow ?
Cloth: Yellow / Orange
Sword + Chain: NMM Grey
Hair: Black ?

Shield: (Not pictured, but is a Tzeentch symbol) Blue ?

For the base I want to do snow piles, with some rock plates sticking out and some static grass.

Let me know what you think, and what colours you think I should use/not use

Cheers!

 

[Avelorn]

The orange and blue colorscheme is risky business. It\'s like using Fire and ice and can look both cool and awful IMO. I suggest if you want to use that scheme that you tone down them and try not to make them dominate the mini. For example your skin color could only draw towards orange as in bronzed flesh for example.

But I think you should experiment and try out stuff.. sometimes you find non-obvius colors that match.

 

[Dark Seraphim]

I\'ve got some Warmaster Dragon Ogres (they inspired me to do this huge conversion) where I painted the skin a dark brown highlighted with dwarf flesh and the armor blue... I might stick to that instead of going too crazy with all kinds of colors.

Blue, white and brown seem to compliment eachother alot.

 

[Dark Seraphim]

<kick> Anyone else got some comments? Could use a bit more input... specially about the color of the armor / cloth.... I\'m in a bit of trouble there...

 

[emopainterguy]

Looks good so far... I think your colour plan is pretty solid right now. I think planning it out can only get you so far, once you start painting it makes it a bit easier to see where the colours will or won\'t work. Start with the colours you know you want for sure and go from there. Good luck and keep posting pictures.

 

[Dark Seraphim]

Thanks Emo, I\'ll do that... Just modeled on a tabard piece to go down his upper spine part of the dragon body, turned out nicely I\'m about ready to start painting!

Reason why I want to get it right, is I want this to be the pride of my minis, I\'ve worked on the conversion for years and I\'m very fond of it, don\'t want it to turn out bad

 

[emopainterguy]

I can understand that. There\'s a point where you have to realise that no matter how much planning you do, at some point you have to actually start painting before you can really know how it\'ll turn out. I\'ve seen what you can do, and I\'m sure this could easily be the pride of your minis. Untill you come up with some thing else that blows everything out of the water. Good luck.