What Color My Battlefleet?

[ElectricPaladin]

This is X-Posted to Bell of Lost Souls, but I thought I'd post here where I'm likely to get more attention from people with experience painting battleships.

I'm clear that I want the verdigris look on some parts of my fleet - think the terrain dome from White Dwarf #383 - but what about the rest of the ships? Right now, I see several cool options:

1) Copper with verdigris on the prow and other flat areas, dark green (with brighter green highlights and bright red spot-colors) on the body of the ship.

2) Copper with verdigris on the prow and other flat area, with some other color on the rest of the ship, and a complimentary spot color here and there - which color do you prefer?

3) Copper with verdigris on the entire ship! Bright red spot colors elsewhere.

What do you think would be coolest?

[AndrewChristlieb]

Neat idea, not sure about the science behind it but the warp does odd things... i would say probably #2 im not too sure if the effect wouldnt just get lost on a ship thats also green.

[ElectricPaladin]

Neat idea, not sure about the science behind it but the warp does odd things... i would say probably #2 im not too sure if the effect wouldnt just get lost on a ship thats also green.

That's a very good point. I had originally thought that the copper-ness of the copper verdigris part would set it off from the rest, but I'm not sure.

What color would you recommend? And what complimentary spot color?

[AndrewChristlieb]

Well a light grey highlighted up through white would give a nice clean base and help make the somewhat pasty green pop out more. I would think having all the typical metal bits painted copper/ brass with a hint of the verdigris as a final highlight would help tie it togather, i would probably go with a dull red for any contrasting bits and a bright red or orange for things like lights.