Hey all,

So I just finished painting my mounted Easterling Dragon Knight, roughly following the GW scheme:



As far as I could tell, the underside of this dude's cloak is black, shown a bit better on the other side of the model:




The problem is, I've just started painting his foot counterpart. From the looks of the GW site, the inside of his cloak is now red. At the moment I've done the first coat and left the inside black to match the mounted version:



What do you all think I should do? A quick google image search showed me a few foot models with the inside painted red, but I can't abide the two having a contradictory scheme. Should I have painted the mounted version with a red inside, or leave the foot version black?

Obviously it's just a personal choice, but I'm very interested to see how any of you might have tackled the issue.

PS Apologies for the quality of the photo lighting, which seems to have annihilated much of the detail and colouring. Contrary to the above pics, it's actually not too terrible a paint job!

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Hi Necromancer7

Nice model.
He looks like he could do with a good wash especailly on some of the armour.
If I were you I wouldnt worry too much about the exact paint scheme
why not make a new paint scheme?
there is no rule that says ' all models must be painted like GW's '
Use GW for inspiration, sure but why not try and do it differently?
I thought it looked rather good in black

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Hey mate, thanks for your comments.

I'm sure it sounds like an excuse, but the bright light has distorted the armour significantly; he's actually got a rather heavy wash already

I realise it's fine to make a new scheme, but I like GW's one. Being such a new model, however, there's very little in the way of internet content as to other peoples' attempts at it.

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great! thats tottally fine if you just like GW's one


WD386 has some good guides on painting easterlings

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This looks fine, far better then red on both sides, IMO.

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