Bog Trog Ambushers 2a: What color scheme?

While the Bog Trogs certainly have a reptilian look to them, I promise that they're rather ichthian. They've got these sloped skulls and big eyes and little mouth feelers that all scream catfish. I didn't get many shots that emphasize those features, but they're there. I promise.

Bog Trogs are ambush units (hence the name "Ambushers"), so I wanted them to look like they'd blend right into a swamp. That meant dark colors and lots of browns, greens and blacks. There's another reason for this: I want there to be an obvious hierarchy to the army. Crocodiles obviously trump catfish; it's true in real life and, dammit, it's true in a board game. These guys shouldn't upstage the voodoo-lovin' crocs, and a quiet color scheme will help with that.

For ideas, I turned to the best guide to these sorts of things -- nature. A quick google of "swamp fish" was fruitless, but "catfish" gave me a few cool ideas. (Maybe the swamp fish search wasn't fruitless, per se -- I discovered that the smallest invertabrate in the world is a fish that lives in acid. Try it yourself, it's a very small fish.)


(stolen from aquapage.eu)

I really like this one. Not only does he look like a Bog Trog, but it's a simple and approachable color scheme. The flecks along his back would probably be lost, but the Bog Trogs have scales there anyway -- sooo seems like a wash.


(swiped from indiangameandfish.com)

I like how dramatic the difference is in this big guy's colors! Unfortunately, there's not much of a scheme to work with here. However, the color difference is something I may steal.

(burgled from aquariumlife.net)

This is something that's probably too delicate to do on all of the Bog Trogs, but I think this little guy's precious. Maybe I'll put something like it on the leader.

Now, I'm not married to any one scheme yet, but for now, I think I'll do something like this:

There's really not enough brown in any of those colors, and they're all really too bright, but it gives you an idea of what I'm aiming for. (I mix paints gooder than I PhotoShop.)