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I have been trying to get hold of this model for ages and i finally did. I painted it with a blue cloak but now that the cloak is done im not sure it looks that good. I am thinking of changing it to Red or Grey. This model isnt finished so dont bother commenting on the base and i know the thing on his back beside his grenade isnt finished.

The blue looks fine, but I am not sure it works with the gold and silver.  Red might be really cool.

Yeah, Xander's right; the blue would look perfectly good except that it clashes with the metallics.

Here's a colour wheel, hopefully it'll help you with your painting scheme:


Notice that the colours that match are:
opposites
colours next to each other
all primaries
all secondaries
(I'm pretty sure there are some other exceptions, but my knowledge isn't that indepth)

Good luck.

Well im just confused now cause i liked the helmet and not the cloak lol

Haha, you could always try to lighten up the blue, that might work (close to sky/white blue)

Totally repainted this guy. And made a fancy base. Ill get a better pic of the whole thing tomorrow. I never had any good light as i finished it at night.

The gold looked good but the beard had too think a basecoat, the blue didnt go with the rest of my army or the helmet and the staff also had a bad paint job and it just wasnt that good. Now its awesome.

Have you considered reverse highlighting the flames?
In other words, have the yellow colours in the crevises then dark red/black on the raised areas with various gradations of colours in between?

Yes, this new version looks much better!  Cool base, too.  I think my favourite part of this model is the grenade (!) that he's carrying.

The base was made by sticking a 40k base on a cavalry base then adding in some green stuff to make it look a bit more like hes standing on rock. The wasll of fire was just a bad attempt at green stuff. I made th basic shape (which completely folded in on itself casue it was so heavy) then i sculpted the flame detail (badly) on top of that.

@wallacer: I never really thought about reverse highlighting.. Since it had a black basecoat the yellow would of looked terrible unless i gave it a massive layer. Or a white basecoat i guess.

I tried to do that first. It was a complete failure.

I think the wall of fire is a bit too thick since the wall i built up the flames onto is a bit too thick. I tried to build it up layer by layer but it was too thin so i just got a big lump of green stuff and built the wall in one go.

Doesn't he just remind you of meta knight from kirby? ahh Childhood memories

Now that you mention it it is quite similar. Only because of the helmet. I am going to master him in SSBB

Or grey.  That would make the yellow look alright, especially if you used foundation yellow instead of normal GW.

Yes. Yes it is.

I cant wait to get my hands on another marauder mage. The next one will be called shadowmancer

Wowza, he looks a lot better. I think your painting skills have improved significantly.

Heres one last pic i had lying around. All it really shows you is the detail behind the rock he is standing on. If Ghrask Dragh wants any pics then ill post more here.



EDIT: I meant to upload this one but ill just leave them both. they both have different parts in focus.

I dont know why but some times when i take pics of my cd's the Blood Red turn into a kind of washed out orangey red colour. So just image all red as Blood Red.

I asked that over on Hand of Hashut and i was told that it was because that at the time this model was made warhammer fluff suggested that people could go to the future. It was something to do with Chaos anyway