Post god-tier Space Marine colour schemes Fluff or background

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I picked SoM for the color scheme and regret nothing.

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Aesthetic as fuck, you say?

>>53753918
Is that a reffy?

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>posting the worst colors before now
>posting the worst colors after this

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>not posting the colors of the emperor's own house

>>53753426
Really dig that scheme. How is the lore?

>>53754004
Sanguinius Model Confirmed?

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>>53754090
>marines

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>>53753941
I love this scheme, and would totally use it if their lore wasn't basically
>You think Ultramarines are codex-compliant? They got nothing on us.
>You think Black Templars hate Xenos and Mutants? They got nothing on us.
>We're obviously Nazis.

Maybe I can use a Primaris company as an excuse to make a "my dudes" version. Would be pretty awesome to be able to use the Culln Leviathan.

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>>53753393

>You have gained Brouzouf.

>>53754177
They're loyal EC, you should expect them to be pompous.

>>53754005

Iron hands successor chapter.

>>53754005

AdMech schism happened during the Age of Apostasy, and the Iron Hands and successors had their own disagreement. They agreed that they'd just have a temporary solution by kicking all the ones who believed in the Moirae Doctrine a doctrine that believes that you can read the future in the fluctuations of the astronomicon, and it read that the Ecclesiarchy and AdMech will fall and their peoples will merge into a weird chimeric machine/faith cult were formed into their own group.

They had enough marines to form three full companies out of it, and the High Lords declared them a canonized Chapter, to which Iron Hands and other protested because it was an unorthodox way to make a Chapter. Still, they had to relent against the word of Terra, and the Sons of Medusa are a thing. They are distrusted because it's said they like to fight other Space Marines to steal their stuff, as a little of that happened during the Badab War.

>>53754216

It's still unknown what they are. For the potency of their geneseed, they could be Sons of Horus loyalists.

Out of all the maybe traitor successors out there, Red Scorpions have the least on them, save the vague suggestion that they are descended from traitors.

>>53754191
Black with gold trim is fucking patrician.

>>53754297

I'm painting my Primaris as Golden Halos for this reason.

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Search your feelings you know it to be true

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Wolf pelt overdose aside, you must admit that the icy blue grey color looks fantastic, if not a pain to do.

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>>53753393

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>>53754451
Carcharodon's Maori influence is sorely under utilized by painters.

>>53754191
Kek

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>>53754310
>>53754297

Black Primaris look GOAT

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>>53754857

>>53754682

Less is more. Look at their official artwork, they only have two, three tattoos at max, and they're always faint black on grey and one of them is always a tiny eyebrow one.

>>53754682
That looks amazing.

>>53754920
People don't complain when the woof woofs are head to toe in weirdly incorrect Gaelic tattoos.

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>>53754920
Just my personal tastes I guess. I love Maori symbols and tattoos, official artwork doesn't use them enough either.

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I get that sharks are white and charcharadons are black eyes and super pale and that's cool and I love it, but it kinda make me sad that you don't see a charcharadons captain take off that helmet and have King Kamehmeha looking at you.

That would have to be a totally different chapter though. What would a Hawaiian space marine chapter even do?

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Samoans are almost space marines already.

>>53754258
Damn son thanks for the great summery. They sound pretty tight.
>>53754244
Thank you as well kind Anon.

>>53755051

Please don't justify burying a model in excessive shit when you regularly complain about Space Wolves being buried in excessive shit.

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>>53755138
he would be too tatt'd up to look like that.
sure, they'd be big brown buggers. but the moko changes everything.

>>53755074

Word Bearers are covered in their scripture stuff, so there's precedence for mass armor panel decoration.

>>53755332
This.

Also, it's a little generic but I love the Red Talons. Actually, all of the Pentarchy of Blood chapters are good.

>>53754177
>You think Black Templars hate Xenos and Mutants? They got nothing on us.
The Red Scorpions are just picking up the slack now that Black Templars are pussies who tolerate Eldar filth as allies.

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>>53755138
astartes don't get the opportunity to surf.
now moko up.

>>53755138
>Salamanders
>fire and lava and volcano themes
>dark skin

Hawaiin legion company confirmed

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>>53755138
Sail through the outer reaches of the galaxy in catamaran battle barges, defending the far flung outposts of the empire and getting into all sorts of high jinx with aliens and rogue traders. That and eat poi.

>>53754191
>ITS RAINING BROZOUF
>ALLELUYAH
>ITS RAINING BROZOUF
>AMEN

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>>53755357
Forgot my image.

>>53755365
A less drow and more dark skin take on Salamanders with tattoos and sharkteeth swords would be pretty badass.

It'd be easy to justify in the fluff too, maybe a third or fourth founding tried to remove some of the impurities of the Salamanders and they look like normal humans but still like hanging around volcanoes.

Imagine a feral world which is NOTHING but active volcano chains in a giant ocean with constant battle for control of islands. It'd be a good chapter homeworld.

>>53754857
Let us just ditch the primaris thing all together and just call them marines, because they are meant to be, retire all of the old sculpts.

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Mantis Warriors have a great scheme. In fact most of the Badab War chapters are great for that.

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>>53755433
They obviously did the market research and found they could make more money like this. Which sucks ass, because it makes the stuntie marines look even more ridiculous.

>>53755415
>>53754191
>not having a bionic leg on the model
>not having Japanese themed rival chapter complete with bamboo hat

>>53755456
If you look at the new chaos releases they're just going to make everything larger anyway. The plaguemarines in the base box are just about the size of the Primaris ones. Much larger than normal marines.

>>53754857
>>53755433

My one complaint with Primaris models is that huge fucking empty space on the inside of the collar. It's super visible too, old marines once you glue the head in the collar is nice and snug, this one has a huge empty floppy space.

Gravis hoods are also stupid but if they release a part that allows you to have the visor down, I will forgive it.

>>53753393
>black and white
>named the templars
not saying it's bad, it's just boring.
they just made the Space Knights Templar and gave them Knights Hospitaler colors

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>There is some new extraterrestrial empire encroaching upon the borders
>Some gauche, golden-armoured giant weirdo who is obviously on bizarre gene-mods sent us a demand for surrender and 'compliance' like the raving religious nuts, and threatening to 'send in the eighth'
>High command obviously tells him to go stuff it up his wanky breastplate, and ships the third brigade to the border colonies for extra security
>minding own business, watching the compound with bobby and jake, all is quiet, the commanders are having some high-society do
>bobby explodes
>gore is everywhere what the fuck, glass and blood is sprinkling throughout the tower
>suddenly this black cloud explodes into lightning
>all the other towers get hit at the same time, all you can hear is screaming and explosions
>lightning resolves into a titanic monster in massive nearly-black battleplate with a jetpack bigger than you are strapped to its back
>you can't comprehend what you're seeing, let alone move
>it crashes through the remains of the armourglass window
>jake shoots it, five times, and it contemptuously reaches out and crushes his skull with a crackling power-gauntlet
>the last thing you see is that absurd hand-cannon pointed at you
pre-curze night lords best legion. primarchs ruined everything

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>>53755469
Space Marines with coolie hats would be fucking awesome.

>>53755497
>Black templars
The Hospitaller were white cross on black background

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>mfw all these plebbians posting inferior templars

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World Eaters had a fucking bangin color aesthetic before they got their heresy on.

>>53754191
How are your legs brother?

>>53755544

>>53755566

200.00% BROKEN

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>>53753393

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>>53754920
I agree to this now. I started putting wayyyy too many black (and terribly made) tattos on their armor, and it looks disruptive. What the dude doesis good, he has his wave pattern, but indeed it's too invasive for me. I'll probably go over the black with grey and try again with smaler and fewer tattoos.

>>53754177
you sound like a faggot

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>>53754191

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>>53755811
And now look at what this guy did, which I'll try to mimic later on.
Obviously he's better than me in every way, but my point is, like the other anon said, less is more.

>>53755505
I'd argue that the Primarchs add flavor, and that the missing legions should have remained as generic marines serving the emperor directly under the Custodes as pilots and drivers like serfs for chapters in 40K

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>>53753393
Black and yellow, with a touch of bitch, I love them.

>>53755915
His freehand is great, but the masks and goopy-ass verdigris on the meltaguns arent impressive. Why would a meltagun even have verdigris?

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>>53756030
Maybe it's supposed to be heat discoloration, but he doesn't understand how or why that actually happens.

>>53756070
>doesn't understand how or why that actually happens
How and why does it happen?

>>53756124
Either oxidation or deposition of atmospheric carbon, i think, though i'm no chemist/metallurgist. Still, why would you ever use green for that?
>>53756070
Just seems like a really dumb thing to choose, and while the freehand is amazing and way better than anything i can do, the rest of the model is nowhere near as impressive

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>>53753393
>loyalists in charge of aesthetics

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>>53753393
Whatever the failings of their Warmaster's fluff, the Black Legion has a kickass color scheme that works well on almost any model.

>>53755976
CUNT/10

>>53756124
It's a chemical process that occurs when you heat certain kinds of steel. It only occurs in colors from red through to blue, with no green.

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>>53755558
Indeed, look how it brings out the blood.

>>53756716
y tho

>>53755469

I do paint my Skitarii that color anyway. Them and their bionic legs.

>>53757020

That helmet looks too big for Angron. I think he looks fine without a helmet and his cool Predator dreads. That white and blue WE scheme on his model looks absolutely badass though.

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>>53754004
>that fucking emperor model

I'm dying

>>53755486
believe it or not that's actually one of the better designed aspects of the model.

That goofy looking collar protects the wearer from projectiles ricocheting off the chest piece and glancing up into his face/neck. You actually see it a lot with older medieval armor and the like, plus the Mk VIII pattern armor for regular marines has it too.

>>53755074
>>53754682
>>53754451
Jesus it's like looking at a bunch of armored frat boys who just stumbled out of a cheap tattoo parlor.

>>53757675
>Brother Sergeant Tap ouT

>>53755074
>>53754682
>>53754451
I don't think I'd do much full tattoo work, though I have considered starting a Space Shark force, at least a small one. I'd probably go very basic, though now that I see the tattoo stuff, I'd probably work that into the camo design seen here >>53754540 . I would love to add small shark teeth necklaces to a few models, and go pretty wild on vehicles.

>>53754004
>tfw you have that White Dwarf

>>53754451
agree desu

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Honestly the GOAT.

>>53757675
I think it's well done, but it's a bit too much. Still, I wish I did freehands as well as he does.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/137084508@N08/sets/72157659376720879/

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>>53757659
I think what anon complains about isn't the collar itself, but rather the body to head connection point that, to his taste, way too big.
As shown on thid picture, fortunately, that wide gap isn't present on all the models.

One can hope it is seen on some models because they are snapfit, however the whole body changed size except the pauldrons and the head. Easy to see why suddenly the neck hole would become more visible.

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>>53757668
Have faith, Word Bearer.

>>53755362
Is that muh Word Bearers?

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>>53753393
Not appreciating quartered schemes is literally peasant taste

>>53759890
Go get JEANED somewhere else, you stinky quartered marine mans!

>>53753941
I think this is my favorite piece of marine artwork with respect to proportions.

>>53754540
How is that camouflage?

>>53755160
I love that stupid yellow hat

>>53760241
You can blend amongst jaguars much easier.

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>>53760259
Did someone say Blood Jaguars?

>>53760241
Back in WW2, the Germans had a few yellow and orange pattern camouflage schemes. Yellow is great for sand and orange was good during autumn. Britain also had pink spy planes that were damn near invisible if viewed from the ground due to the way we perceive clouds.

>>53757668
ROCK HARD!
Seriously though my primaris are going to be in this scheme.

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>>53755976
they need to have more badass spetsnaz action stories. especially since the iron hands got retconned into pussy faggots

>>53761679
What the fuck is going on in that picture?

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Terribly partial to storm lords when they're painted well.

>>53761912
Burd the spine bender.

>>53754004
Imagine if they put a chadmarine in there for scale.

>>53754540
Why is there just a blank space and a floating bolter above the caption for the camouflage version?

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need an explosion to not look at

>>53755138
They're mutant raven guard hence the complexion

>>53763447
they are "chimeric" now which is just as dumb and boring as being RG. the only acceptable answer is that they are night lords

>>53763397
>Why is there just a blank space and a floating bolter above the caption for the camouflage version?

go back to 9gag with your shitty meme

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>>53754540
now i want to see someone paint some modern digi camo on them. are you a bad enough dude to do it?

>>53754883
Was any alteration done to these?
Or do they just look better if photo'd from literally any other angle then the one GW used for the previews?

>>53755456
It more just feels like the very safe, corporate, 'worst of both worlds' approach to upgrading the models. In a few years, all marine models will be at that scale and a 'primaris' marine will just be designated by bits on the gun and/or head.
Besides, I thought that GW prided itself on not doing market research - or is that just a /tg/ meme?

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>>53757668
This

>>53753907
Sweden/10

>>53765715
Both with regards to fluff and colour scheme.

>>53764612
If not for the size of the models this might have been cool to try. Pretty much impossible on 40k's scale unless you make the digi pattern extra large.

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>>53756256
>Faggots who like to take it to their ass pretend to be fabulous.

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>>53757605
tactical dreadnought emps is best emps

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I'm quite partial to the Storm Wardens colour scheme. I also really like the Astral Knights' scheme.

>>53766039
Undercoat grey, with thin blue stripes. Use a black micron pen and white pen to dot the camo

>>53763433
>those teeny tiny thighs
I'm glad Cawl finally introduced leg day to the Adeptus Astartes.

>>53766264
Got an example?

>>53760059
Don't astartes come through the gene-seed process with fucked up proportions anyway?

>>53764544
No.

>>53764544

Nowhere in Red Tithe is the word chimeric even used

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>>53753922

Prefer it with a little bit of gold myself.

It's also 10/10 easy mode, I'm going to paint my battered and half-stripped old Marines in this scheme, one day. I owe it to them.

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They're too a e s t h e t i c for plebs to understand

no this isn't in the wrong thread

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>>53770483

>tfw painted so many Steel Confessors for the Games Day megabattle they were created for

They weren't even steel, GW sent out a custom Cobalt paint to help paint them quicker.

>>53764544

Their geneseed is never mentioned as having been chimeric. They do bear much more resemblance to the Terran-born Raven Guard pre-Corax, who suffered much fewer of the RG's own geneseed flaws and are somewhat removed from their Primarch.

>>53770556
>custom cobalt paint

Probably just FW Grey Knights Silver

>>53753941
>>53753426
Sometimes I hope Red Scorpions really ARE a loyalist EC chapter because their Badab Bromance with Sons of Medusa gives echoes of Ferrus and Fulgrim: the Happier Days

>>53754177
Man, that twin assault cannon arm better be available separately.

>>53770822

Nah, we're talking like Games Day UK 2006, before they even introduced Foundation paints for example.

>>53770736
They're literally Pale Nomads exiled by Corax during the Heresy. It's not even a mystery anymore. The only people who claim otherwise are ignorant headcanon Night Lord memers who don't realize the pale skin and black eyes is a symptom of RG geneseed. The Night Lords only have/had looked like that because they recruited from Nostramo.

>>53754451
>Ywn see a company of Carchodons perform a Haka amplified through their vox grilles

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my marines are an adaptation of this

>>53755138
>What would a Hawaiian space marine chapter even do?
All cloaks have a Hawaiian Shirt motif.

>>53771225
Nobody will. They operate in complete silence

>>53771305
Opportunity wasted tbqh

>>53771305

Well, they don't speak at least. The silence is broken by everyone else screaming and the revving of chainswords. So, not so much silence as unnerving quietude amid the roar of the slaughter.

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>>53753393
>>53753907
>Be a Celestial Lion Marine
>Help the Inquisition "cleanse" a planet of Chaos
>Watch as Cock Lord Inquisitor Exterminatus' the entire fucking planet and civilian populace you just saved because muh...reasons
>Publicly denounce the Inquisition and call them out on their BS
>Lose a large portion of your HQ (mysteriously) who were on a mission to Terra to report on said BS
>Then go to Armageddon, kick ass take name...then out of nowhere "Ork Snipers"
>Bad intel and misinformation account for the loss of 90% of your entire Chapter
>Lose all Apothecaries to mysterious Ork Snipers using LongLas guns
>Can't even recover geneseed of fallen brothers.
>Rally your remaining 95 Marines to fight one last Hoorah for all the glories
>Kill Giant Ork but lose one arm and one leg
>Get promoted to Chapter Master and sent home to rebuild your chapter
Ekene Dubaku the last remaing Pride Leader fights with a Black Templar picture related

>>53771332
Everybody doesn't have to take their theme to Space Yiff levels.

>>53771121
Never mind then. Do you reckon they mixed up huge batches of silver and blue for you guys or did they...*gasp* us another company's light metallic blue?

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>>53771408
Then I step in
>Gulliman sends new Primaris Marines to bolster your Chapter
>find an armory of old Mk3 Iron Armor Imperial Fist suits
>Go to war against the Inquisition for what they did on Armageddon cannot be forgiven.
>Never Forget!

>>53761679
Akshually, I highly recommend Eye of Medusa on that matter. IH are absolutely flawlessy depicted imo. Tons and tons and tons of fluff and background.
And they're far, oh so far from being pussies.

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I'm a super huge fan of the Iron Fists scheme, even though it's about as simple as it gets.

>>53764544
I wish that meme ended. I wih people read the goddamn FW red books.

>>53771470
>Iron Fists
>fists are the only part of their scheme that isn't iron coloured
What did they mean by this?

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>>53771456
Big fan of the Celestial Lions lore even if their color scheme is a bit Stormcast Eternally
Also I like Imperial Fists and they're a 23rd Founding successor chapter.

>>53771426
>Implying that would be Space Wolf levels

>>53771426
Hell I fucking WISH the Yiffs paid more respect to their Viking roots than wolfshit.

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>>53771305
>>53771332
GW really loves ruining a good thing.

>>53771491
Colorblindness is their gene seed flaw.

>>53771569
making them space marines already ruins the idea

as with every direct-from-history idea, they're cooler as regular soldiers

>>53771569
I don't really see why people celebrate the haka like that.
I mean I get the cultural significance, I just think it's kinda goofy looking.

>>53771616
That's the part of appeal.

>>53771491
I didn't name them, Anon. They're some small-time GW successor chapter of the Iron Hands that's only known for using land behemoths and being the first chapter to look at a whirlwind rhino and say "What if we used this thing as long-range artillery instead of a mobile missile platform?". That's literally it.

The name is probably because GW was grilling some intern for potential SM names and just randomly assigning names to maybe-kinda-fitting pre-made color schemes they had taped to a wall.

>>53771616
It helps if you experience one in person and it's being directed in your general direction.

>>53771506
Are the Celestial Lions actually dark skinned or are they like the rest of the Imperium and they're just Caucasian folks with African-sounding names?

>>53771700
I dunno man.
I've seen displays like this. Not a haka, but marching soldiers, hundreds of boots stamping in unison etc. That is intimidating.

The haka just doesn't do the same for me.

>>53771616
It fits the whole theme of Space Marines being shock troops I'm

>100 or more 8 foot tall Angels of death all screaming in unison about how they're going to fucking rip and tear your flesh for the Emperor
>Screaming is amplified by their helmets to give more of a bassy sound
>Also stomping on the ground in unison which could potentially shake the ground especially if a dreadnought joined in

https://youtu.be/Wz7DzheCeuQ

>>53771685

In all honestly, these names seem like they were generated out of the Deathwatch handbook for random Chapter names. Theme and notable events, characters, whatever come later.

I'm still wondering how that works out, since it all seems nearly consistent across all lesser known successors. Either FFG invented the tables to make random stuff and GW followed suit to help them randomly roll up stuff, or they were just really good at distilling the essence of 40k naming conventions into the tables they made.

>>53771719
In the book their home planet is reminiscent of Terra's Africa, savannahs and whatnot. They aren't like Pitch Black like the Salamanders, more of a Mocha

>>53771719

Unsure, we don't see enough official art or fluff appearances to judge.

However, their canon homeworld is basically a savannah planet, so it'd actually make sense for human skin to be darker there. Not like the Salamanders and more like an actual skin tone.

>>53771754
The Celestial Lions' order of battle contains several specialist formations and officer positions not present in other Space Marine Chapters, though they largely resemble the standard codex positions:
◾Warleader (Captain)
◾Deathspeaker (Chaplain)
◾Spiritwalker (Librarian)
◾Lifebinder (Apothecary)
◾Pride Leader (Squad Sergeant) - Designated by black helmets.

>>53771726
It's popular BECAUSE of how weird and unique it is. I personally find it pretty impressive when they're all yelling and doing the arm movements in unison.

>>53771754
>>53771782
That's cool, then. I hadn't seen anything about their homeworld, and I do love their color scheme. It's still a toss-up for me whether I paint my eventual Primaris army as Celestial Lions or Lamenters.

>>53771854

Celestial Lions have the better scheme. Lamenters are already hard enough to paint with all the yellow.

Also, Lamenters use Blood Angels rules as opposed to Space Marine ones, which should bear out more come the Codices.

>>53755074
I think these look pretty kickass, anon.

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>>53771854
I did this in MS paint but yeah I'm going Celestial Lions all the way, I'll take a pic of the Ekene Dubaku model I made

>>53771915
It's not the yellow I'm worried about, honestly. My issue is that my hands shake pretty badly unless I brace my arms hard on the desk or I take some medicine., so I'd be more afraid of having to free-hand the check pattern and bleeding heart. Lions would definitely be easier on me except for free-handing the chapter emblem. I've heard there are ways to make homemade transfers, though, so I should probably look into that.

>>53770334

If you know how to paint metallics well, which is pretty simple just don't put them on too thick and don't mess up the wash, it's so easy to paint good looking metallic marines. I bet it's why Iron Warriors are so popular, not just because of the old 3.5 and CSM fanbase.

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>>53772309
I've heard therapy works for autism.

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>>53753393

These guys.
I wish there was more lore about them.

>>53770928
did they have a bromance in badab? what happened

>>53774182

>Brove can Broom on the Brottlefield

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>scrolls through
>sees no soul drinkers

I have to say that even though I wasn't expecting anything, I'm still disappointed. These pimp motherfuckers are the real unsung badasses of the Imperium.

>>53774491
damn the emperor's children colour scheme looks really good on post heresy armour

>>53774491

They did kind of demonstrate exactly why you don't treat with heresy and why it's sometimes better to die honorably than live in debauchery.

Still, I want to see some good conversions of the Soul Drinker's Chapter Master with his spidery legs.

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>>53774491
Not enough purple marines, too many red/blue/black etc. Purple and gold go well together, purple in particular was considered to be an imperial colour since ancient times.

>>53773942
They have a space marines battle book dedicated to them.

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sure, it's simple, but it's still baller as fuck

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My favorite are Golden Halos, Soul Drinkers and Thousand Sons

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>>53771427

GW have never made paints in-house, they probably just got their suppliers to make up a small special batch.

As far as I can tell they've been using a company called HMG Paints Ltd for years. The old Citadel range with Skull White, Screaming Pink etc. they now make as the "Coat d' Arms" range, which a few people might have heard of.

HMG also make Foundry's paints and Privateer Press' P3 range too.

>>53778293
Oh, is it good, or at least cool to read?

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>>53755497
>I see people confuse the real life Hospitallers for Black Templars
God damn do I love this chapter but I reee at the misinformation it created

Hammers of Dorn

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>>53780641
oops.

>>53774182
Veylund Cawl (SoM super-mecha-autismo) and Carab Culln (Red Scorpions high commander alpha brochad) are noted to have gotten along famously and coordinated well. I think it was in Imperial Armor

>>53771238
>knightanon thinking his scheme is good

>>53754533
>Harald Deathwolf'sSpace Wolf Wolf Guard

>>53782218
>Harald
>not Wulfgar

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>>53754533
This.

Seeing Space Wolf Primaris Marines reminded me how good it actually looks when you ease down in the silly trinkets.

Almost wanna build a space space wolf army, with exactly one box of space wolves to distribute across the remaining army made from regular SM sets.

>>53782254
sounds suitably wolfy but harald is an actual wolf lord, but very well:


>Wolflord Wulfgar DeathWolf's Space Wolf Wolf Guard's Wolf pelt

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>>53776750
>Not enough purple marines, too many red/blue/black etc
agreed, I tried to get thoughts about the color scheme of my custom chapter which had purple shoulders and knees while the rest was gunmetal/silver and another colour, but took the suggesting on color change and while it looks nice. I feel like it's a little generic.

>>53782478
Gotta admit, those are some pretty fantastic lookin' muhreens

>>53782478
>Almost wanna build a space space wolf army, with exactly one box of space wolves to distribute across the remaining army made from regular SM sets.
Honestly, I think that is how those boxes were meant to be used.
I mean in a single box are 50 heads after all...

>>53783999
No way

>>53771739
Look at that fucking space marine student! Though I agree, the IG would suit the Maori culture more.

>>53780107
It is, it expands on the one paragraph of background they got.

>>53776750
>Purple & Yellow quartered
Fuck, that was my donutsteel chapter scheme.

>>53788772
That particular scheme is purple and gold quartered, with black trim and green optics. Gold is just hard to draw, so if your marines are purple and yellow they would look quite a bit different.

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I like Iron Hands. Don't know why. Maybe it's the blue sheen to their armor and metallics.

>>53789582
I get that it's supposed to show that they're packed with bionics, but they really should wear armor on the top of them. You could easily fit your standard power armor parts, there's no reason to expose them.

>>53789655
Doesn't power armour not interface well with bionics?

I seem to remember that being the reason.

>>53753918
It's amazing how much worse the 40k model looks.

>>53789655
>>53789899
Yeah that is part of it. The black carapace in an implant under the skin that interfaces the marines nerves with the armor.
Binoics obviously don't have them.

But I also seem to recall an old bit of fluff, from the time when bionics were a +5pts upgrade you could buy that basically said that bionics are basically as tough or tougher anyway.
Which was the reason given why you could reroll wounds or whatever it was: 'the bullet hit the bionic and plinged off'

Kind of makes sense if you consider that powerarmor, though insanely more durable than anything we have, is still armor wrapped around a body. The bionic can use up the whole volume that would be otherwise occupied by flesh and it is therefore quite reasonable to assume that it may well be more sturdy than an armored flesh and bone limb.

I like Iron Hands too, but I'm considering painting my marines as Sons of Medusa, cause painting black SM armor is boring as fuck. And I already did that with another army.

>>53754004
So the Emperor was a White Scar?

>>53755486
It makes the head look too small, especially without helmets.

I get that the idea is the old heads can all be used still, but it just doesn't work right.

Pretty big fan of the Marines Errant scheme

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Marines_Errant

>>53785955
yup comes with 50 regular marine heads and 6 scout heads

>>53765715

Not enough xeno genitals involved for that anon

>>53790136
>having your god go slow

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Trying to finish up my Carcharodons lately.

I'm not about the Pacific islander-esque designs, so I'm still figuring put how to integrate those without making them look wonky.

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>>53794854

Red brethren (so far)

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>>53794854
>>53795006
Scout Sergeants

>>53794854
>>53795006
>>53795067

My biggest regret is forgetting about the moldlines

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Can I get an opinion on this color scheme?