They were both primed white and then base coated in gretchen green for the coat, blood red for the lining, chainmail for the lasgun/helmet/cup, and deneb stone for the skin, etc. Then I washed one in baal red and the other in ogryn flesh, you can easily tell which is which. The baal was a failed experiment. I think it looked good on the green and red, but destroys the stone and chainmail. In the end, to cut down the brown tint to the matal, I threw a black wash over it. I think it worked fairly well. I also tried to black wash the boots and hat fur, but my black wash is too watered down to make much difference in one coat.
In hind sight, I probably should have used a brighter green like goblin instead of gretchen so it didn't look drab, and should have just bit the bullet and picked another color for the boots and fur instead of limiting myself so much, but I think the technique is pretty sound and the changes would be pretty easy to implement without bogging down the process. Craig I hope this might save you a few hours of test painting maybe...
Thanks for the ideas. I think I used Snot Green on the coat, which is much brighter. Maybe I should try Chainmail for both the gun and the armor plates, instead of Boltgun Metal on the gun and Mithril Silver on the armor. They'll still look different if one gets a black was and the other a brown wash, and it would be one fewer color. It would also make the gun a little less dark, though I could also water down the black wash a bit.
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