How To Paint Italian Hill Tribes?

[barbarianvagabond]

I recently ordered a couple of Etruscan and Volsican figures from Aventine Miniatures. Does anyone know what colors I should use for painting tunics and armor for these figures? Any advice will be appreciated.

[deadtorius]

From artist pictures that I have seen, white, red or ligth blue for tunics, armour is usually bronze, same with helmets.

[marioslaz]

I recently ordered a couple of Etruscan and Volsican figures from Aventine Miniatures. Does anyone know what colors I should use for painting tunics and armor for these figures? Any advice will be appreciated.

Well, we need to distinguish Etruscan from Volscian. Etruscan people were usually richer than Volscian people and you should reflect this on their dress. Etruscan tunics could be of a lot of colour, white, red, purple, green and blue, with also some ornaments (for example you can paint edges of different colours than the tunic). Voscian tunics should be represented of simpler design, with few colours: white above all, but also black and light brown (think to natural colours of wool) and only some red, green or blue.
Just a clarification: Etruscan cannot be included in Italian hill tribes, which comprehend Volsci, Sabini and minor Sabelli's people, anyway people who lived on Italian Appennini in the areas of modern Lazio and Campania. With Etruscan I mean warriors dressed in Etruscan style, because some villages of Umbro-Etruscan people existed scattered on Appennini in regions between modern Emilia Romagna and Basilicata; this people could appear like Volscian, Sabini and similar people.