Vehicle Driver/Gunner Shoulder Pads

[NovaScotius]

Hey all,

 

I'm assembling my first Rhino for my Wolves, and something odd just struck me... What do you paint on the gunner's shoulder pads?

 

Obviously one side is the Great Company symbol (In my case it's the Great Wolf's symbol), and on the other side I would normally paint the pack markings... But I'm not sure if vehicle drivers and gunners have packs per se...

 

I was initially tempted to do his pack markings the same as the squad the vehicle is dedicated to, but I don't think that makes much sense - My understanding of a pack is that they live, fight and die together - What Space Wolf is going to want to sit in a driver's seat of a Rhino while his pack-mates are fighting and dying just outside of his metal box?

 

Therefore are vehicle drivers 'packless', or are they part of a pack exclusively made up of vehicle drivers and gunners? These 'transport packs' (for want of a better term) would then split up, crewing several vehicles for each engagement.

 

As you can tell, I'm a little lost here... could anyone shed any light on this?

 

What do you guys normally do?

 

Thanks! :lol:

[stinkenheim]

For my army, I have painted all the pred/vind/whirlwind gunners as long fangs all with the same markings.

Land speeders would get Grey Hunter markings (as i remember reading somewhere that GHs pilot the thawks and most of the vehicles)

For my lords land raider it will be a WG

For rhinos paint them as whatever squad they are transporting as from reading the IA books it appears that one of the squad actually mans the pintle mounted weapon, so there is only a dedicated driver to a rhino the 'gunner' is just whatever squad is aboard. When they aren't mounted it is remote controlled by either th driver or the machine spirit.

[CainTheHunter]

Well, I paint them the same way as the squad, which is inside, is painted. Reason for that is because he IMO is not constantly sitting in a Rhino, driving and shooting - he's just one of those pack members, who has popped out of the hatch to grab that storm-bolter :)

[hendrik]

could be just me but i believe it once got mentioned that rhinos etc are driven by almost wiped out packs. i'm not talking about the lone wolves(+ we didn't have those before). take for instance a pack that sees so much action that only 4 of them survive it. they aren't experienced enough to make it into the long fangs nor have their deeds been this great to be promoted to the wolf guard.these then become trained in the use of rhinos etc

[Slipp]

My view point comes from the way I use my rhinos, they are part of the pack trusted with the

most important task. The rhino crew serve to cut the lines of reinforcements by driving to block

the shortest route to join the combat, or to provide cover or block line of site after their brothers

blow past their targets. In short my wolves see crewing a rhino as a great honour and responsibility.

[Maximus-92]

I saw some pics of phil kelly's army in another topicand the gunner for one of the rhinos was a long fang with a hand held (not mounted) storm bolter, looked pretty cool

[Coverfire]

I use the Adeptus Mechanicus on the Left Pauldron and the Company markings on the right

[CainTheHunter]

I use the Adeptus Mechanicus on the Left Pauldron and the Company markings on the right

 

You were meaning the other way - Company is on the left.

[MaleOpener]

There is nothing printed in the codex which states otherwise, so go with what you feel as best.

 

My "vehicles" are painted in the smae way as the pack its attached to. I even use parts from the SW box to make the gunner look like a member of the pack.

 

Speeders and dreads have their own pack markings.