PhillyT Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 I see plenty of variants. Is the normal setup silver left arm and shoulder, chapter right shoulder, red weapons, and black everything else? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MythicMatt Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 From Lexicanum: "Blacked out armour with silver left arm. Right shoulder as per chapter of origin." Helpful? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3788117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Master Belial Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 That is the basic scheme, but modellers are given latitude to adapt and adjust as they like or as skills and time dictate. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3788128 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Semper Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 · Hidden by Captain Semper, August 24, 2014 - Irrelevant Hidden by Captain Semper, August 24, 2014 - Irrelevant I agree with GMB... I think it's interesting that the exact shade of the DW Terminator armour has changed over the years from a cold ash (or plain) white to a very warm bone white. In the original Deathwing box cover it's just plain white The Dark Millennium expansion of the second edition shows a Dark Angel in plain white power armour (those were the days before the DAs had a Codex - so white was not termie-only) http://www.grenierdeslegendes.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/ldr-dark-millenium-v21.jpg The original metal box had some bone shades but was overall way more plain white than today's depiction that is totally bone... http://perrysheroes.free.fr/IMG/jpg/DA_TerminatorsBox_1.jpg And now there is an obvious warm bone shade all-around. http://atlanticajuegos.com/recursos/fotos-productos/3.1-44-10-escuadra-mando-ala-de-muerte.jpg The above mean only one thing: choose the shade you like/are more comfortable with and go with it! If you look at the work of the members here you'll see a wide variety of shades - all of them equally interesting and all of them equally individual! Look forward for your take on it! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3788165
Phantomzero17 Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 I agree with GMB... I think it's interesting that the exact shade of the DW Terminator armour has changed over the years from a cold ash (or plain) white to a very warm bone white. In the original Deathwing box cover it's just plain white The only bad thing about being used to acronyms in this hobby (life in general) is getting them confused. Edit: Context I was confused because after coming home from a full shift my mind was not processing that the boxes said Deathwing. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3788178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Semper Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Omg... Totally got it wrong... Killed my post as a consequence... :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3788187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillyT Posted August 24, 2014 Author Share Posted August 24, 2014 Thanks guys. I think the silver and black will work well. Plus the red guns to break things up a little. Now I need to hunt down one or two of each space marine first founding shoulder... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3788583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Omg... Totally got it wrong... Killed my post as a consequence... Typical. Dark Angel makes a mistake, looks the fool, then wipes out the evidence and pretends it never happened. Phantomzero needs to check under his bed at night for Watchers in the Dark, now. He knows too much. Anyway, this was the demonstration image for Deathwatch back when they put it in Chapter Approved (ahh, he good old days). http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100604072523/warhammer40k/images/c/c7/Deathwatch01.jpg So yeah, all black, red accents and weapons, silver left arm and pauldron, Chapter specific right pauldron. Sprinkle with red and/or white squad markings and various gubs. To this day I have no idea what that goofy sun-skull thing on the Wolf's belly is supposed to be...hm Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3788710 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slips Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Hell, its on his elbow and thats even more confounding since it sticks out like a sore thumb (ever so slightly more). Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3788976 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 That bit I can understand. Grey Knight Terminators have that, too. It actually makes some decent sense, when you think about it. The cehst bauble though...no idea. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3789037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slips Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 The problem is, with this image, they are noth identical...at least from what i can see Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3789039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Red Thirst Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Omg... Totally got it wrong... Killed my post as a consequence... Typical. Dark Angel makes a mistake, looks the fool, then wipes out the evidence and pretends it never happened. Phantomzero needs to check under his bed at night for Watchers in the Dark, now. He knows too much. Absolute Gold Firepower ;) Gave me a good laugh Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3789242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
averykess Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Omg... Totally got it wrong... Killed my post as a consequence... Typical. Dark Angel makes a mistake, looks the fool, then wipes out the evidence and pretends it never happened. Phantomzero needs to check under his bed at night for Watchers in the Dark, now. He knows too much. Anyway, this was the demonstration image for Deathwatch back when they put it in Chapter Approved (ahh, he good old days). http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100604072523/warhammer40k/images/c/c7/Deathwatch01.jpg So yeah, all black, red accents and weapons, silver left arm and pauldron, Chapter specific right pauldron. Sprinkle with red and/or white squad markings and various gubs. To this day I have no idea what that goofy sun-skull thing on the Wolf's belly is supposed to be...hm Personal items and fetishes tend to not be colored black. For example, A Space Wolf's pelts would still be the normal colors. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3791444 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillyT Posted August 28, 2014 Author Share Posted August 28, 2014 So do you guys think the silver would look good or stupid? I just got all of the shoulders I needed. 20 deathwatch and 25 assorted chapters. I did get an Astral Claw and a Soul Drinker shoulder. If this is a current Deathwatch army, I assume that neither would be appropriate for the units. One certainly turned (Astral Claws) while the other is renegade (Soul Drinkers). I guess it might be plausible that they were detached and in the Deathwatch at the time their chapters turned, but it seems unlikely that they would be allowed to remain given the state of their home chapters. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3793607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slips Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 You could use those shoulders and paint them black (black Shields) though it'd be a waste...but it could let you identify them as astral claw and soul drinker and keep it fluffy by saying they're black shields Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3793621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW1 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 You could use those shoulders and paint them black (black Shields) though it'd be a waste...but it could let you identify them as astral claw and soul drinker and keep it fluffy by saying they're black shields +1 for the black shield Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3796226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillyT Posted September 3, 2014 Author Share Posted September 3, 2014 So quick question: If a Dark angel was to join the Death Watch, would he still wear his robes and hood? Would they still be tan? Or would he discard them? Might he wear the red robes of the inquisition to match his armors motif while retaining his DA shoulder pattern? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3798273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaedes Nex Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 What I want to know is how ex-Death Watch are done. I know there's been a few threads on it in the past. Was it DW pauldron on their left, and repaint the army to chapter colors? Or do they move the pauldron to their right, or what. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3798384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Cato Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 I've always seen the pad on the left in it's original silver. Colour-wise, if an Ultra was a Deathwatch vet he would look like all the other Ultras with the exception of his silver pauldron, and maybe his red Deathwatch bolter or whatever other trappings he kept from his tour. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3798408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Master Belial Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 So quick question: If a Dark angel was to join the Death Watch, would he still wear his robes and hood? Would they still be tan? Or would he discard them? Might he wear the red robes of the inquisition to match his armors motif while retaining his DA shoulder pattern? Only a Dark Angel that had joined the Deathwing would wear the bone robes. It has been thrown around that non-DW would wear brown or green robes when not in armor but it has not been established as canon. As to if they would wear a red robe or another color is up to the character for the model. Have they been inducted into the secrets of the Fallen? If not then they would be more likely to wear the straight black armor with the robe being optional. (If he were to be the severely untrusting type then he would wear the robe and the hood would be up.) Should he have been inducted into the Deathwing and know the secret then he would most likely wear the bone robes OR he would have the broken sword motif somewhere on his person. Like the terminators, he could have a combat blade with the lightning break fashioned into the scabbard to represent a broken sword. As he is in power armor, he would retain the green and white Dark Angel badge on his right shoulder. Hope that helps. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3804130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillyT Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 First set of ten. I went with the silver arm and red weapons. Couple of things to highlight and touch up, but pretty much the final version of the units I will be doing. Crappy iphone pics: Rather pleased with how they turned out. Does the black armor look okay? Too little or too much shading? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3806828 Share on other sites More sharing options...
marine7312000 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 They look great. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/295730-what-is-the-standard-color-scheme-for-deathwatch/#findComment-3806965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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