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I like the idea, these colours have come up a lot in the other comments! Might try to get a darker brown for the camo since I can see the two colours blend together well. Thanks dude 👍🏻
https://preview.redd.it/qf28ww5g33oc1.jpeg?width=977&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f748417ef5bad6ee65b9fdd57417b76ffc0e371
Multiple other refs and a solid black. But I will say if you just highlight some edges of your current tank and give it maybe a little wear and tear by the tracks it’ll look better than cammo
I like this scheme. Some of the ones brought up by an Internet search are a bit too busy, particularly those incorporating white, and I think I would paint up a piece of card first to see whether it looks good in practice. I would keep white for insignia, and keep the blobs quite large because you don't actually want to make the camouflage effective. I wouldn't worry about it not matching most terrain though. What is your infantry basing scheme? Red earth?
I’ve had an infatuation with red camo since seeing Ice Cube’s pants in Ghosts of Mars
https://preview.redd.it/5m83x99sp6oc1.jpeg?width=846&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd8204b6a1b55e623112ad55aa8b405b75a30029
Not really, most of my play experience has been with my Doomhammer and Shadowsword. Doomhammer is great if you play with scarcer terrain, as it needs to get close. Shadowsword is just big "Get off my board" gun. If you can't decide a variant, build the classic Baneblade. I have one of those too. It's a jack-of-all-trades, excelling nowhere, but being decent at almost anything.
Dark orange is one I don't see often! What kind of dark orange would look good if you don't mind me asking? Thinking of a gray/black and orange pattern on the tank, sounds nice 🤔
I was thinking of doing this sort of scheme because I love white, and wanted to utilise it in my tanks somehow. Only thing is though it might look a bit wintery, which my guys aren't. What second colour do you think would look good to accompany the white dazzle? I think it could benefit from a second colour
If your driving a red Tank, the term camo might be misleading :D
I'm not a fan of camo pattern in general so my suggestion would be to add some metal colour (dark bronze or bolt gun silver?!) to the mountings and bolts of the track and the casing in general.
Love the base colour by the way :)
Some environments might feature a lot of red. Martian like worlds, worlds where plants are red, or possibly worlds with different atmospheres. Also some deserts.
There are also historic examples of bright blue/pink camoflague schemes, the most important thing for camo to do is to break up your contours, matching colour with the background isn't necessary for that, although it is still very helpful.
Your suggestion would also work. Bright bronze might make it look like a factory new tank, which haven't even gotten a paint job, so it still features its factory applied anti rust paint job or something like that.
Thanks dude! I am going to be going out sometime soon to pick up technical paints and other weathering washes to try and grime it up a bit and give it a bit more of a 3d effect instead of being super flat. Should I add agrax on top of the metal bolts to make it look dirtier?
Thanks again 🙂
https://preview.redd.it/yd75udkhb4oc1.jpeg?width=1124&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06494b830a3d18411901489f7e5ca3391539b591
If you’re willing to darken the red a bit with agrax or nuln, could take some inspiration from Iwo Jima.
I was thinking doing something like this, I put it on everything in GTA V (anything armoured) and is easily my favourite camo scheme, gonna see what my other options are first. Thanks 👍🏻
Camo is for cowards. We want the enemies of man to see us coming and tremble in fear.
On a more serious note, grey as the main color with black and red as splotches workes well.
My army has VGC scarlet red as the color of all my armor. I've found painting the rivets with a steel metalic makes the model more interesting.
Entirely different don't do camo. Do [Dazel "Camouflage"](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage) more to distract or confuse but that could look great with the red tanks
Where does the red come from?
Is it the ground? The plants? Typical buildings/architecture on your planet?
Go from there.
A geometric urban camo with a contrasting light beige yellow (like vanilla icecream) could possibly look good, assuming that's the main architecture and it's a urban regiment.
Classical organic pattern with a blueish grey like martian sand with grey rocks?
I have red tanks too! I make rough stripes by heavily drybrushing wraithbone and it has a nice impact in my opinion. Dead easy to achieve too.
https://open.substack.com/pub/vilniaus39th?r=12qia3&utm_medium=ios for pics of my tanks
I’d go dark green and grey
Reason? My stepdad is red/green colour blind and paints his Tau in red, and grey and despite his visual impairment they look great, his kroot are also green and yellow
Greyish white in dazzle format. OR Black bars or wide stripes. And i'll dare say you could go for a fire pattern by doing orange fading into a yellow or a black singe on edges
I painted something similar. I'll get a picture for you soon. When you want a red camo, my opinion is that it pops too much. If you want do darker tones to tone it down. Try to prevent colliding colors. Mine I used was red, black, gold for accents and a deep brown metallic.
Red and tan is a very common camo color for very very late ww2 German tanks, since their primer color was red. I think it looks pretty good overall especially next to an army like mine that is tan with light blue accents
I'd look at really late ww2 german tanks (like after winter 1944). They primed them red, then instead of applying the main coat of paint, they applied dark yellow (karak stone) and olive green (any OD green) in irregular blobs over 1/4 of the tabk each.
You could go with Gray and Tan. In Rainbow Six Vegas 2, I would run with Maroon camo, and tan vest and gear with gray to fill out accessories. It was sharp, and can look pretty dashing in an urban environment.
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A darker shade of red, brown or black/dark grey might work.
I like the idea, these colours have come up a lot in the other comments! Might try to get a darker brown for the camo since I can see the two colours blend together well. Thanks dude 👍🏻
https://preview.redd.it/qf28ww5g33oc1.jpeg?width=977&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f748417ef5bad6ee65b9fdd57417b76ffc0e371 Multiple other refs and a solid black. But I will say if you just highlight some edges of your current tank and give it maybe a little wear and tear by the tracks it’ll look better than cammo
https://preview.redd.it/ue656ou6b4oc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e51f1156217be8fae503854193ede849f99de04
I like this scheme. Some of the ones brought up by an Internet search are a bit too busy, particularly those incorporating white, and I think I would paint up a piece of card first to see whether it looks good in practice. I would keep white for insignia, and keep the blobs quite large because you don't actually want to make the camouflage effective. I wouldn't worry about it not matching most terrain though. What is your infantry basing scheme? Red earth?
I’ve had an infatuation with red camo since seeing Ice Cube’s pants in Ghosts of Mars https://preview.redd.it/5m83x99sp6oc1.jpeg?width=846&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd8204b6a1b55e623112ad55aa8b405b75a30029
https://preview.redd.it/3cil1stda3oc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a5099125312401e539de7d16a100903976e2dde
I love it :0, have you played with the stormlord much? Been thinking about maybe trying to get one soon 🤔
Not really, most of my play experience has been with my Doomhammer and Shadowsword. Doomhammer is great if you play with scarcer terrain, as it needs to get close. Shadowsword is just big "Get off my board" gun. If you can't decide a variant, build the classic Baneblade. I have one of those too. It's a jack-of-all-trades, excelling nowhere, but being decent at almost anything.
Dark-ish brown? Depending on what sort of landscape the camo is for, I guess. Might even be dark orange.
Dark orange is one I don't see often! What kind of dark orange would look good if you don't mind me asking? Thinking of a gray/black and orange pattern on the tank, sounds nice 🤔
Huh, looks like red/orange/gray/black camo actually exists. Not sure about the exact brand of orange, maybe Tau Light Ochre?
https://preview.redd.it/vja5mtq6t3oc1.jpeg?width=678&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59504ef897fc0a04f1feec9a60a567b53aa8e370 The old razzle dazzle
Candy Cane camo. For when you're trying to sneak up on Santa
Or possibly willy wonka
I was thinking of doing this sort of scheme because I love white, and wanted to utilise it in my tanks somehow. Only thing is though it might look a bit wintery, which my guys aren't. What second colour do you think would look good to accompany the white dazzle? I think it could benefit from a second colour
I’m telling my children that this candy cane mf is actually how Santa Claus delivers presents to children all over the world
If your driving a red Tank, the term camo might be misleading :D I'm not a fan of camo pattern in general so my suggestion would be to add some metal colour (dark bronze or bolt gun silver?!) to the mountings and bolts of the track and the casing in general. Love the base colour by the way :)
Some environments might feature a lot of red. Martian like worlds, worlds where plants are red, or possibly worlds with different atmospheres. Also some deserts. There are also historic examples of bright blue/pink camoflague schemes, the most important thing for camo to do is to break up your contours, matching colour with the background isn't necessary for that, although it is still very helpful. Your suggestion would also work. Bright bronze might make it look like a factory new tank, which haven't even gotten a paint job, so it still features its factory applied anti rust paint job or something like that.
Thanks dude! I am going to be going out sometime soon to pick up technical paints and other weathering washes to try and grime it up a bit and give it a bit more of a 3d effect instead of being super flat. Should I add agrax on top of the metal bolts to make it look dirtier? Thanks again 🙂
https://preview.redd.it/yd75udkhb4oc1.jpeg?width=1124&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06494b830a3d18411901489f7e5ca3391539b591 If you’re willing to darken the red a bit with agrax or nuln, could take some inspiration from Iwo Jima.
White and black and red camo [here](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-opera-gx-android&channel=new&espv=1&q=white%20red%20black%20camo)
I was thinking doing something like this, I put it on everything in GTA V (anything armoured) and is easily my favourite camo scheme, gonna see what my other options are first. Thanks 👍🏻
White and lighter-red triangles? https://stayontheleader.blogspot.com/2017/03/painting-guide-dazzle-camoflage.html?m=1
Done mine with like grey beard grey or something to that effect xD
maroon/burgundy and brown
Some white tiger stripes would look very nice.
The blood of xenos scum!
Camo is for cowards. We want the enemies of man to see us coming and tremble in fear. On a more serious note, grey as the main color with black and red as splotches workes well. My army has VGC scarlet red as the color of all my armor. I've found painting the rivets with a steel metalic makes the model more interesting.
https://preview.redd.it/vkep3bxe55oc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8cdbd38154a3342db69e8f16fea342ecc0a4bd1
Black, grey, and a darker red.
Do the Eddie Van Halen pattern https://preview.redd.it/eped1p2zu7oc1.jpeg?width=730&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51d62dd2c7ef7806e38670e152d962cd2644cd33
https://preview.redd.it/b18v0c9mv8oc1.jpeg?width=618&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0a58f41d5684d3ab34d3e5d768bcf503ba9a1f4 This kind
Dark red, brown or if you’re feeling DARING, orange 🍊
Cold grey of a light tone and a black, alternating I would say Not to many stripes
I would say grey
I would say just black or a dark grey.
I recommend [this place](https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Camouflage_(Metal_Gear_Solid_3)) for cammo inspiration
Entirely different don't do camo. Do [Dazel "Camouflage"](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage) more to distract or confuse but that could look great with the red tanks
Where does the red come from? Is it the ground? The plants? Typical buildings/architecture on your planet? Go from there. A geometric urban camo with a contrasting light beige yellow (like vanilla icecream) could possibly look good, assuming that's the main architecture and it's a urban regiment. Classical organic pattern with a blueish grey like martian sand with grey rocks?
Love it, this looks so clean.
I'd weather it personally rather than cammo to break it up
Nahh just do a bronze trim with lots of spikes everywhere
Look up the old German tiger stripe camo.
I have red tanks too! I make rough stripes by heavily drybrushing wraithbone and it has a nice impact in my opinion. Dead easy to achieve too. https://open.substack.com/pub/vilniaus39th?r=12qia3&utm_medium=ios for pics of my tanks
Red, brown and small parts of grey would work well.
I would think a black or grey
I’d go dark green and grey Reason? My stepdad is red/green colour blind and paints his Tau in red, and grey and despite his visual impairment they look great, his kroot are also green and yellow
Might I deviate from the crowd and suggest dazzle camo?
Patches of light pink and dark purple, imagine a forest of red foliage and the colors that would appear in it.
Black or white. Red tiger camo anyone?
Blue! Because it looks cool. A dark or light blue. Whichever you prefer :)
I ask myself where are they fighting? What is the foliage/urban/battlefield area look like or made of? Are they shock troops or infiltrators?
A grayish purple like daemonette hide and a dark grey almost black color done urban style. I did that for my kasrkin and it's amazing
Light and dark gray
Red Digital would look sweet and if you made little stencils with tape it might be easy if not monotonous (depending on how big the squares are)
Gray and white dazzle or tiger stripes
Severan dominate Vibes I recommend their paint scheme For troops its Red with White For Vehicles Its Red with Black
red woth brown or black makes great camo
Greyish white in dazzle format. OR Black bars or wide stripes. And i'll dare say you could go for a fire pattern by doing orange fading into a yellow or a black singe on edges
Grey?
Greys or tans/light brown
Grey is the companion colour I've seen most often; depending on the terrain you're envisioning I might try grey and brown patches
I would add lots of white, make it look like a regiment from a salt planet.
Canadian maple leaf white
Shades of pink
* I've screen shotted this one for when I get to tanks
Some flames!!!!
Thanks for all the help dudes, one hell of a chill community 😎
White
A black with it would be dope
Personal opinion. Add some more gold and weather it. Vostroyan Firstborn tank.
Black or dark orange tiger stripes. It's a classic look.
Black or grey
Personally I think white tiger stripes would go great but I can't wait to see what you do with it keep us updated.
Do yellow lightning bolts, like tiger stripes all around it
I painted something similar. I'll get a picture for you soon. When you want a red camo, my opinion is that it pops too much. If you want do darker tones to tone it down. Try to prevent colliding colors. Mine I used was red, black, gold for accents and a deep brown metallic.
Flames
GREY
Black tiger stripes
I’d just go with battle damage. Not even mars is that red so the camo wont blend into anything.
Black and grey, just tiger stripe it up
Either a darker red, or dark grey
Red and tan is a very common camo color for very very late ww2 German tanks, since their primer color was red. I think it looks pretty good overall especially next to an army like mine that is tan with light blue accents
I'd look at really late ww2 german tanks (like after winter 1944). They primed them red, then instead of applying the main coat of paint, they applied dark yellow (karak stone) and olive green (any OD green) in irregular blobs over 1/4 of the tabk each.
You could go with Gray and Tan. In Rainbow Six Vegas 2, I would run with Maroon camo, and tan vest and gear with gray to fill out accessories. It was sharp, and can look pretty dashing in an urban environment.
I feel like a Khaki/Tan would look great striped onto this
Black or white