Three Patriarchs. Three Cults. Three Colors?

Still haven't gotten anywhere with a name. I am holding off on grabbing social media until I have either a name for the project or a name for the Army. But I have made some more decisions lore-wise. 

Now because I can take as many cults as I like I am going to limit myself to choose from three. Each of them is related to a Patriarch so I will eventually have three Patriarchs to go with each cult. I want each of the cults to share all but one colour. The cults will all have their own colour, then I will add two more major colours to the patriarch plus black and white. Now that isn't to say that I want to have no other colours on the models or that I won't use other painting techniques to unify the force. But as of right now I am trying to limit myself to 5 major colours throughout the entire army. 

Is this good? I don't know. 

Right now I am trying to sort out a palette and typing these sorts of things out helps me make a more rational decision. 

Other influences I want to remember. I want all of this to feels somewhere between a 40k "old west" and the "wasteland raider" ideas I have in my head. 

Let's start off right here and now. I am unlikely to take the colours that are on the box art for any of the factions. Yes, my current squad of GSC are painted in classic Rusted Claw, but I am not convinced I want to keep rolling with that. There are a couple of reasons.

1) I don't like the dark blue carapace on the tyranid or "star children" parts of the models. I didn't like it when I painted it and my opinion on that matter has changed very little in the intervening year. The model I like most from that set I painted is the add-on Magos I bought to dabble in commanders. 

My Rusted Claw Magos 
You'll notice I didn't really give her a dark blue carapace or really anything else because no. 

2) I think all the official tyranid paint schemes are dorky. Just straight up dorky. They aren't mating, so why are they bright colours? These are all fucking worker bees and shit. Why in the name of the Four-Armed Emperor are they neon colours?

If I am going to make up my own cult (using the regular cult rules that came out with The Greater Good at the end of 8th ed.) they are going to be bad. So I am simply going to draft from the rules that already exist and say that I can mix and match cults. 

What am I using for inspiration?

Sepia, burnt umber, muted greens, purples...all of this stuff shows up in modern "westerns" and I like it. I also like intersectionality with movies like Fury Road. So I am using a couple of specific film colour gradients to pull from One being Mad Max Fury Road. The other being Django Unchained. 

I like these palettes because neither of them is distinctly ol' west, or western, or southwestern. But, both palettes play into the colours I am looking into. Instead of bold azure and prussian blues we're looking at muted turquoise and steel blues. We're looking at red browns in Django and cooler browns in Fury Road. 

I am not going to decide right now. I just wanted to keep looking at inspiration. 

Also I looked briefly at agricultural logos...and vibrant colours are all over the place. I guess you want to make your red or violent green tractor stand out. I'll never understand industrial product design. I'll be back in a bit. 

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