I tried an alternative colour scheme for my librarians as I had with most of the other speacialists, but for some reason I chose to paint them in Deadly Nightshade, which is one of the prime colours of the rank and file marines. After having a long rethink, I decided that this was one case that sticking closer to the more traditional approach might be the answer. So I adopted a base of Mordian Blue and have been very pleased with the results.
One thing that I hate is to paint a miniature and do nothing original with either the way the model looks or the colour scheme. In the case of the librarians I settled on the idea of trying to make their helmets resemble the halos common to religious icons common in the eastern orthodox church. The aged white of the outer parts of the headgear was a simple double coat of white washed with Devlan Mud. The interior gold consists of a basecoat of Graveyard Earth drybrushed with Burnished Gold and then highlighted with Shining Gold and finally washed with Badab Black.
Though these are miniatures from one of the earliest stages of the WH40k history, you can still see some of the themes that carried on into the later librarians in the 90's and beyond. The horned skulls adorning the shoulderpads and the writhing patterns on the power weapons are probably the most noticable. I've tried to keep these details on the weapons a uniform red for every librarian that I've completed.
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