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Standard BA's or Successor?


garfey

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Hi Guys,

 

I'm having a dilemma at the moment - I've been lured back to Blood Angels with all the new kits (I started out with BA in 2nd Ed - '94 ish - and still have a few of the guys!) but I'm not sure if I want to do straight BA's, an established successor, or my own successor chapter. Really it's just an excuse to paint the DC and SG differently - although I haven't decided exactly how yet. I want to field an all JP army at the moment, and will eventually expand into stormravens and dreads.

 

I've come up with some basics of my own successor based on the Parachute Regiment in the British Army (as I'm an ex-Army dude) called the Blood Devils, or Cruror Diabolus - this is what I have so far for them..... needs fleshing out, and my background on how a chapter is started is probably lacking :(

 

Homeworld - Tamera 3 - nicknamed little mars by the chapter due to the predominately red landscape. Origin?? Established a base on Tamera 3 and have since expanded the chapter from there. Chapter name started out after the local populus saw the BAs land on the planet surface and referred to them as the diabolus "devils".

 

Reputation as fast-assault / aggressive chapter - recognise that a good (bad) reputation is as good against an enemy as force itself - hence play up to the diabolus side of the name - theatrical.

 

All have red helmets as it is a badge of honour amongst the chapter. Squad type designation is on left forearm. Rank desination is eagle colour

 

Commander / Chapter Master - Overlord Rote Teufel

 

Astorath the Grim - visits successor chapters so can be used

 

Honour / Sanguinary Guard - Colour?? - red lids all round.

 

Death Company - White?? with red lids and crosses etc.

 

Origins -?? New Chap, trained by BA vets - red lid reminds them of their heritage (or curse?)

Homeworld - Tamera 3, Binary star system

Doctrine - Airborne Assault - why?

Org - 10 Companies, plus Death Co.

Belief - ??

Geneseed - Sanguinius

Battlecry - Nulli Secundus!

 

 

I was thinking angels sanguine as the established successor as I also like their fluff but i've seen a few guys doing them now.

 

But then the BA have established fluff, awesome characters and a mega paint scheme, i just like to be different :)

 

Any thoughts / comments / queries / help would be appreciated! I know it's each to their own but any advice would be nice :)

 

Garf.

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Your fluff melded with the established stuff looks good to me, fella.

 

Plenty of thought has gone into it so I'd say roll with it.

 

I do like the idea of squad designation on the forearm. Will that be by colouring the entire piece a different colour or will you use symbols and/or numbers?

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Cheers Bert - I have given it a fair amount of thought, but as you can see it needs details and background.

 

squad markings - it is going to be by colouring the entire forearm the same colour as the helmet would normally be.

 

chapter symbol - horned blood drop - need to get an image of that together ;)

 

I was toying with the idea of painting white horns on the helmets also to add to the devil look - as I mentioned get some theatrical elements in there (i.e. no combat reason for it)

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Well I didn't get as much done as I'd hoped but i'm working on the colour scheme - here is what I have so far - changed the helmet to be a more marooon colour after the chapters namesakes, and i've made it an assault troop so you can see how the colour marking works :D

 

SMP Colour Scheme

 

http://www.garfey.com/img/DA/spacemarine.jpg

 

 

Comments & Questions welcome.

 

Edited to change the colour scheme.

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Well I've tried the above scheme out and it doesn't really work...the helmet blends too much with the rest of the red, back to the drawing board I think...or persevere and crack on lol.

 

Did some mad ebay-fu earlier and have 2 boxes of DC, 1 box of SG, Lemartes and the Sanguinor on route - so i need to decide what i'm doing as I'll kitbash my troops from those 2 kits :D

 

Love it when the pressure is on :D

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