Colour Scheme Narrowing

Well, I have had a little bit of time this afternoon to futz around with coolors.co and have found a couple of schemes that I am willing to explore further. They are all "similar" in the following ways. 

1) Three patriarchs, three colours

I want each of the cults to have their own accent colour. This will help me keep rules straight on the tabletop while also letting the larger army be based around similar colour schemes that will generally apply. 

2) I want to keep the colour in the wasteland family

I am going to keep all of my cult colours in the wasteland colour family of reddish-brown tones using a golden yellow and deep black-brown as the maximums of those colour families. I haven't sorted out how light the "main" colours will be. 

3) Sepia filters

Unlike MOST of the minis I have ever painted I want to use a warm white as the highlighting mix instead of the usual neutral/bright sunlight zenithal lighting I normally use. This also means that I want a really consistent sepia representation to bring into shadows as well. We'll see if this sticks through to the final paint job as right now I am blowing it out on the internet. Nothing here is written in stone. 

That being said. Here are the first batches of colours that I am considering. 




I feel like I am still stumbling around on the cyan/aquarmarine/green blue of it all I think that Tritriarchy I still has my three favourite cult colours but I am still leaning towards the golds and blacks from the other schemes. 

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