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[Adridos]

Me fellow Capellans. You all know I'm not the wisest, or the most skilled here, so I would like to ask you for help.

The problem is, I've asked iGork (FWL is friendly towards us at the moment, I hope) for a nice Capellan repaint and he chose Dai Da Chi.
Of course, as well as Ironhawk, he doesn't seem to be very satisfied with the result. I wanted to help him, but then the problem came. Every single miniature I found, used different colors specific to all painters, none of which matched the official Dai Da Chi scheme.

So I would like to ask for a bit of help, finding the right picture, to represent said warrior house.

Here are all the schemes I found, please, tell me if one of these is the proper one.









Here are the both tries to get the paint scheme right on the concept art: iGork, Ironhawk


Thank you for help.

[IxxxI]

Greetings,
I did some research on insignia of that Warrior House as well.
My intention was to update insignia for recently organized MWO unit on mwowiki page. I dont' know yet if canon renown units' would be allowed for players' "guilds" in MWO, just reserved the unit name for future.

[Thorn Hallis]

You know, the Field Manual is a bit vague. It states that "for machines and equipment, the House favors gold-tinged green with green or black accents." So I'd say the Men Shen and the mech below (I only know the german name of it, which is Spuk) come closest.

[Exilyth]

Thorn Hallis, on 09 March 2012 - 11:48 AM, said:

You know, the Field Manual is a bit vague. It states that "for machines and equipment, the House favors gold-tinged green with green or black accents." So I'd say the Men Shen and the mech below (I only know the german name of it, which is Spuk) come closest.

Battletech Miniature Rules shows a House Dai Da Chi SNK-1V Snake on page 20, which indeed looks more like the Men-Shen/Wraith, although one or two shades darker imho. (Could be my monitor *shrugs*)

The 'Spuk' is the http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Wraith .
btw: On http://www.mechforce...s_sonstiges.php , you can find a list containing all german names and their english counterparts. (Second item on the page - "Tabelle der deutschen/englischen Bezeichnungen")

Edited by Exilyth, 09 March 2012 - 12:39 PM.

[Adridos]

So, basically, iGork has done it almost right. Just tweak the shade a little and he is done?

[iGrok]

My original Dai Da Chi paint came out a rather bland green-gold. When I chose Dai Da Chi though, I looked at the models, saw they all had different schemes, and decided to re-interpret it (borrowing mostly from the Men-Shen & Wraith). I took gold-tinged green and interpreted it as "gold-flecked green", which simultaneously changes the emphasis from gold to green and changes the texture of the scheme. Then I tried to get this look



...But it still hasn't come out the way I wanted yet. I'm going to keep trying. I really think the flake look fits Dai Da Chi well.

[Farnax]

My Reseen version of insignia.