In-Depth Colour Psychology Your Army and You 

Timestamps 0:43 The Basics 1:43 Colour Psychology Primer 3:25 Red 6:33 Yellow 9:07 Blue 12:40 Green 16:49 Purple 20:50 Orange 24:15 Tertiary Primer 24:46 Magenta 26:38 Aqua Family (Teal, Aqua, Cyan, Turquoise and so on) 28:49 Neutrals and Shades Introduction 30:19 White 32:16 Black 34:09 Grey 36:52 Brown 39:51 Metallics Primer 42:50 Iron, Steel and Chrome Group 49:39 Brass, Bronze and Gold Group 57:43 Metallics Conclusion 59:21 Neo Colours 1:00:47 Conclusion

grey avoiding meaning is also really tasteful considering most unpainted plastic minis are grey.

Fun video! Thank you! Purple for Orks… I love it!

This is literally the best and the most detailed color psychology I've seen. Thank you for your work!

Wow! Incredible vid! Everything from the editing to analysis was top tier. I do kinda miss the more conversational tone of the shorter vids, but I totally get why that's not really practical with a long form project like this. Looking forward to the next ones!

these videos you do really get me hyped to paint. I love it! and it helps me figure out my painting schemes which is where I always get stuck.

This is so utterly incredible and amazing. Definitely given me a lot to think about, not just in terms of how to use colours conventionally, but how to create new meanings for existing colours, like maybe combining silver and brown to represent a solid, dependable organisation also known for their ability to change demeanours. What a fantastic video

This is super informative and high quality, thank you very much for going so in depth!

This is amazing! I struggle to understand what colours look good together and why, and why certain colours "feel" the way they do. This has been super helpful for me :)

Fantastic video, very informative without being overbearing. keep up the great content!

You produce videos with such quality! CONGRATS ❤❤❤

What an excellent and informative video! I'm very glad I stumbled across it, and I'll definitely be using this new mental tool a lot as I continue my journey into miniature painting. My new Space Marines clad in Maroon, Amber, and White feel a lot more significant and deep now.

Thank you for this video, very insightful.

Really well explained. Great video 👍 Thank you for uploading

I love your content. Plz keep up the good work, and your channel will get big in no time!

A vibrant orange color scheme could work great for a loyalist Emperors Children chapter. Loud, Inspiring, Ambitious, etc.

1 thing to add onto the color associations of white, is that white is associated with death in some asian cultures. In vietnam at least, the immediate family wears white robes for funerals and more distant family members wear white headbands. Universally, it has been associated with ghosts, with a lot of ghsotly characters and figures being dressed in white.

Thank you 4 the video❤

Heyyy, you guys are doing a longer video on this, grrreat!!! Glad you guys stated you used pantone colors so we know what to reference ourselves. Also, love that you guys cover 40k and Infinity, both are good imo. Maybe the demon looking model for orance that looked wrapped in flame might have been been better served by a different kind of model.

In German blue is used in two main phares: Jemand ist blau -> someone is blue -> someone is drunk Jemand macht blau -> someone makes blue -> someone play truant (Ferris Bueller`s Day off was translated to Ferris macht blau)

Im obsessed with Dark Angels especially the Ravenwing.

Really cool and useful. I'm a new Sub 👍

Oh my god, i love whatever genre this falls under. Point of curiosity, rust as a color seems interesting. Based off the ideas you guys put forth i feel like it most closely follos brass, with some of the aspects of orange or red. What dou you guys think?

Quite nice. I'm painting my Space Marines with inspiration from the Dark Angels schemes. Basic infantry: metallic neutral green with silver trim and metallic maroonish shoulder pads, Things that go quickly, black, silver trim and red shoulder pads, elites silver with black shoulder pads a la Guardians of the Covenant. My Necrons: metallic under joints and red with the metallic changing with rank.

Thank you

great vid

Both the British and Northern Armies of the early 1800s used Dark Green Uniforms for specialized troops and snipers. The British 60th foot, in both Napoleonic Spain and the American colonies wore dark green. Think of the "Sharpe" TV series. Michigan Rangers of the civil war were some of the best snipers of the war and wore Dark Green. Naturally, green helps snipers, but when the British Army is known fr their red coats, they still had specialized units in green. So I would argue it suggests specialty as well.

Blue is a super interesting color, there are still cultures that don't have words for blue and some that don't recognize it as its own color but they see it as a shade of green. Japan didnt have a blue for blue until fairly recently and older chinese people and regions will refer to both blue and green as 青(Qīng) but have a differentiator for them with like green can be 青山(mountain green) and blue being 青天(sky green). Sometimes they will also call black 玄青 which can translate to something like mysterious green, but I don't speak any form of Chinese very well so my exact translations are bad. The common color theory that gets taught, the Munsell theory, also doesnt have orange on it as the system doesnt recognize orange as a color but we have relabeled red-yellow to orange which actually causes problems for the system strangely enough. This system also doesnt work super well and gets taught incorrectly a lot because it only works as a 3d model which it only gets taught as a 2d which is something that Munsell tried to get changed but failed because the system was too ingrained into the school system. He also admitted orange was a color later on in his life. Ostwald is more accurate and Runge is a bit of a mess like Munsell but they never get taught outside of fringe art school classes. People also used to refer to orange and red as the same thing hence why we call them redheads and not orangeheads. Cultural perception of color has always fascinated me. Another funny thing is with chemists yellow is seen as toxic and evil, so even a job can cause color perceptions.

My Primaris Chapter, the Reavers, colour scheme is grey and black with white being used for honour markings as well as rank & role. With blood red eye lenses. The armour is grey all over, but for trim on the pauldrons, the dome of the helmet (minus the crest), the knee guards and finally the patches of armour on the vents on the power-pack. The aquila on the chest are done in gold. And eye lenses are blood red. Warriors who have distinguished themselves may paint their gorgeet and tops of their knee guards white. For deeds/actions in battle. Otherwise. Rank & role is coded through blacks and whites. Sergeants bear a white crest on their helmet. Lieutenants have the lower half of their helmets painted white. The white crest removed & replaced with grey. Captains have both the white crest and face-guard of both.

Great video! Color Theory is an Achilles heel for many of us! Sunny, awesome as usual! Funny yall talked about Gesamtkunstwerk! Because thats what we see when you two makee videos for us! Appreciate the effort and work you put into theses! I made sure to share and put ot in one of my painting tutorial playlists!

Would you put copper in the brass and bronze colors?

"Silence is Golden... Duct Tape is silver!" 🤣

I wonder if GW actually thought about this when they created the color schemes. Sons of horus for example is the embodiment of chaos to me, even tho word bearers started it all. I honestly didn't think about a sea green in a negative way until now. It all makes sense 😮

27:05 LOL. That's the way I've been saying it since I was a child.

Red with silver or white trim

Bit random, but do you know where the bridge at 43:15 is? I just have this weird feeling it looks very similar to a bridge near to me. If it is the bridge im thinking of, then that is a tad freaky to the level of coincidence, if it isn't, then its a tad freaky how much it reminds me of this particular bridge.

The only thing I really don't like here was in the gold description and history: "city-building cultures" most certainly raided and pillaged, they just called it conquest and stayed there after the fact, and there's not much historical precedent to not polishing gold in Norse and other "raiding" cultures. Furthermore, the Ancient Norse expression of "hating gold", not being greedy, is seen as a key part of being a good leader.

What about copper?

How do dou mess up the most symple thing? Red yellow are not the primary colors of neither additive nor substractive color systema

Yellow with blue black trims for my T’au 😩

You had me at Wadar.

1:37 a HA! what are these? please

I love these keep them coming. #40kpainter

The Emperors Children see your harmonious colour wheel and laugh in an cacophony of garishly coloured sounds

what about silver?

From iron cometh strength From strength cometh will From will cometh faith From faith cometh honour From honour cometh iron

As a Grey Knights player I feel sad about the fact that we weren't mentioned in grey.

"And I shall call them, the Mauve Avengers!"

No raven guard for black????, awwww....

The word maroon comes from the French word for chestnut…it certainly has nothing to do with someone being trapped. 😂😂😂

No Orks!?

In Russia there is another interesting meaning of yellow color. Madness, insanity. Back in the Russian Empire asylums were painted in yellow, and the phrase “yellow house” still exists.

Wadar. :D

Shyd... Ill be sure to abolish any rebuttal to my made up stories by showing people a color next time! Thanks for this life hack!

Your biological information about yellow sadly is inaccurate we see in RGBY, We have more cones in our eyes for the colour yellow than any other colour yellow/green stimulates the most cones in the eye this is why chartreuse is used for hi-vis jackets. So yellow is the 'easiest' colour to see as we can even detect it in low light conditions but can be over stimulating in abundance, where as red often gets mistaken for grey or even blue in low light conditions. Red is actually what the eye detects the least of. Our brain works harder when it comes to the colour red and fills in the blanks. This is likely why red is universally associated with action.

You guys need pop filters

I like your info but your style is slightly off-putting. Pandering, as if you're talking to a child.