Paint chits, Cryx colour scheme
After seeing a tip on the ever useful Brush Thralls website about a great way of organising your paints for creating colour schemes. The basic idea is to create individual colour chits for each paint you have with the name of the paint on the other side so you don't get unduly swayed by the name. For mine, I sprayed a sheet of foamcore board with white primer to give a nice surface to paint on then I cut it into small pieces 1cm by 3cm which is enough for a good-sized colour block along with enough room for the name of the paint on the other side. So far i've created chits for all my Citadel foundation and P3 paints and i'm about 1/3 of the way through the Vallejo game colours. It's a long, tedious process, but I think the end product is worthwhile especially when you consider that the colour of the paint in the pot often bears little resemblance to the colour when it's dried.
If I was to do it all again, I think i'd probably split each chit into thirds and prime one third in white, one in gray and one in black. That way you'd be able to tell what the colour is going to look like when painted over different primer colours. Obviously this will take even longer than the original method and i'm not sure it would be any more useful.
My Cryx army is coming along nicely, all the minis are washed and i've started on one of the Bane Thralls to test my colour scheme. After consultation with a colour expert (that'd be the wife) i'm going to go with a VGC Royal Purple for the main colour, with a darkish gray as a secondary colour and the usual green glow effects with P3 Wurm Green and Necrotite Green. I'll be testing this colour scheme on the thrall shortly and i'm confident that it'll be easy to give him a green bath if i'm unhappy with the results.