Venusian Parrotmen - colors?

[Froggy the Great]

So I now find myself in possession of 12 Kroot warriors, which I intend to use as Venusian Parrotmen, possibly even without any conversion other than my ubiquitous use of pennies as bases.

I know a lot of you have such Parrotmen armies in your forces, and I was wondering what color schemes you tended to use.  Kroot are obviously Kroot, especially if you hang around GW players - they say "Hey, you painted those Kroot funny" instead of "Well obviously you have Venusian Parrotmen".

I'm looking for a color scheme that is a) easy enough that I will have patience to paint up a lot of and b) obviously Venusian Parrotman and not Kroot.

Anyone have pics of what they did?

[Sturmpioneer]

Here's my Martian Gun crew.  Primed white and several coats of GW's green wash for the skin.

[Chairface]

To make mine less Kroot I put them in uniform (Perry Plastic riflemen) and painted them orange for the House of Orange.



If you're allying them with a European power you could match suitable colours....

[Ray Rivers]

To make mine less Kroot I put them in uniform (Perry Plastic riflemen)

How exactly did you do that?

[Sangennaru]

How exactly did you do that?

i quote: can you give us bigger and more zoomed photos? 'cause it looks a brilliant conversion!

[rob_alderman]

I was going to put mine in uniform just like those as well, but I was going to greenstuff the uniform.

Perhaps the best place to start for colours would be real species of Parrot and what will match the colours you are going to use elsewhere.

[Dewbakuk]

This thread has a few shots of my Parrotman army:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=9454.0

They are red with green spines/feathers and yellow chests. I think the colour scheme was based on a simplified Makaw colouring.

[Dewbakuk]

Here's a shot before washes/highlights are applied.

[Ray Rivers]

'nother question for you all.

Where do you find parrotmen on the GW website?

I can never find them.., 

[Comsquare]

Here:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat440289a&rootCatGameStyle=

[Chairface]

i quote: can you give us bigger and more zoomed photos? 'cause it looks a brilliant conversion!

I'll try for a better pic later.

The conversions are not that brilliant. I got a load of Perry Rifflemen at a flea market at Fall  in last year. I simply cut their boots off and attached Kroot calves and feet. I used Kroot arms, green stuffing them at the wrists to denote sleeves. They look fine on a gaming table, although close up I wince on occasion.

[Ray Rivers]

Here:

Ah ha... Thanks!

[Bullshott]

To differentiate my parrotmen from Dewbakuk's green and red chaps, I painted my parrotmen blue. I use these as warriors from an allied clan in the service of the French:



The only conversion I did was to remove the muzzle/blade end of the kroot gun to make them look a bit more like jezails (although I retained the blade on the butt end).

By coincidence, I undercoated a few more today as part of my project to finish my existing French forces for Venus before I get too involved adding more stuff to support them on Mars! Included in this new group is my mounted chief armed with an elephant gun  (a present from the French)

[Supercollider]

I did mine in turquoise/bronze.



Must take a picture of my finished force.

[Hat Guy]

Mine are blue with red quills.

http://www.nwa.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=151:games09&catid=63:past-open-details&Itemid=214

You'll have to scroll down to the Necromunda heading. I'm kind of cheating in that I use mine for actual Kroot.