darthgus Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Sorry not pics yet, I've only just been asked to do this. But really its kind of a strange one. I've not yet said I'll do it, but the assignment is this: Paint a standard space marines battle force, for use as with the vanilla marine codex. When I asked him about what chapter he wanted, he said that he wanted something unique, so a DIY, but since this is the beginning of new collection of marines for him he has left it wide open to me. Basically, do it, do it well and do a chapter that no one else will have! Okay so that might seem like a dream assignment, but it leaves a lot on my shoulders. So should I take it? And if I do take it, does anyone have any cool chapter ideas, schemes, icons they would like to share with me as I'm fresh out of inspiration right now. Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Eight Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Take it and do 1 of the lesser known chapters that featured in the Badab wars . Straight away you have a theme and some cool armies to choose from not many peps have these chapters most peps do the red scorpions because there cool but theres like 20 other chapters in there and theres alos loads of fluff and back ground to be found in the Badab wars . try it have a dig around and pt it to your client Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellChyld Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 crazy eight has a great idea. the badad wars chapters have great themes and backgrounds and for a new player joining the game will have lots to read up on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
averykess Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/List_of_Sp...Marine_Chapters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgus Posted January 14, 2011 Author Share Posted January 14, 2011 Well in that case I need to pick one with a simple easy to reproduce colour scheme. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Nugz Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Howling Griffons, practice in yellow, red and quartering colors, as well as shading etc. My 3 tactical squads have taught me a lot in painting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Eight Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 How about the fire hawks before they where wiped out and became the legion of the damned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgus Posted January 14, 2011 Author Share Posted January 14, 2011 When I said a fast and simple colour scheme I mean one that doesn't require massive amounts of effort to reproduce. Howling Griffins uses a quartered scheme which is time consuming to do. Though I did see a pic someone posted of their night world armour variant which was very cool. Perhaps the Mantis Warriors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Eight Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 How about the raptors chapter they are easy and 1 colour http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll160/maddog7558/Badab-chapter-parade.jpg this might be of some help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onipunk Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Take that picture with a hint of salt: those schemes are from a fan-made supplement. Lexicanum will probably have a list of all the Chapters with their new colours schemes as described in the Imperial Armour books. That picture doesn't even get some basic details right: that's the scheme of the Red Corsairs, who the Astral Claws became when they lost the Badab War. The original Astral Claws used to have a tiger stripe thing going on, but Forgeworld has since changed it to a gunmetal silver and blue scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GooseDaMoose Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 The Exorcists are awesome! You know they're made with Grey Knights geneseed. Do them do them do them do them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slyen Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Take that picture with a hint of salt: those schemes are from a fan-made supplement. Lexicanum will probably have a list of all the Chapters with their new colours schemes as described in the Imperial Armour books. That picture doesn't even get some basic details right: that's the scheme of the Red Corsairs, who the Astral Claws became when they lost the Badab War. The original Astral Claws used to have a tiger stripe thing going on, but Forgeworld has since changed it to a gunmetal silver and blue scheme. Most of them are right according to the Lexicanium. Unless something's changed since yesterday, most of the Badab War updates that were done by Forgeworld have not sunk in yet. The ones I found were the Fire Hawks and Astral Claws (with the Tiger Claws being included). Other than there have been mostly picture changes if anything to include the fancy CG art and the only one debatable is if Forgeworld changed the Raptor's colors earlier than fluff has it. While all pictures have them in their green livery, they should still have their blue and yellow (fluff wise) during the Badab War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onipunk Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 I had a look, and only the two you mentioned have been changed. The Minotaurs are still in their hideous red and yellow scheme on Lexicanum, yet in IA10 they're shown as having mostly yellow armour, going by the Land Raider Achilles pics on Forgeworld's site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgus Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 I don't like the Raptors in blue and yellow... The reason I want a mostly single colour armour is very simple, I'm going to air brush prime, base and first highlight them. After that I can move to a regular paint brush and do the other highlights, glowing eyes, chapter iconography etc. So the ones that appeal to me are... mantis warriors, space sharks, star phantoms and lamenters. Exorcists would be cool to I'm just concerned about reproducing their chapter icons with a brush on 20 or so models. I've been wandering round the internet looking at different images of various chapters... the mantis warriors have 3 different chapter icons depending on where you look! I'll need to talk to the client and get his feelings about the what he would like... mostly I think just a presentably painted army, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicMan Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Lol, why would you be asking people on here for colour scheme ideas when you've scoured the internet and still haven't talked to the client? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarInHeaven Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Exorcists would be cool to I'm just concerned about reproducing their chapter icons with a brush on 20 or so models. you can use a mold, if you make one GS chapter icon, you can mold it and then cast as many times as you want it to it's less simple than transfers, but better than free handing it 20+ times there was a good tutorial about that but i can't seem to find it anymore ... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgus Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 The client has only specified so far that he wants a chapter that is unique. Now I had assumed that that would be a DIY. But maybe a babab war chapter that no one else in local club plays would do the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bat33.1 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Star Phantoms are all white in IA10 plus the chapter symbol has changed to the one shown above - two skulls mirrored in a kind of hour glass shape good luck painting 20 of those freehand :o Raptors are easy now with plain green finish with white markings - decals are available from FW for these. It's true enough about the fluff for the colour change as they don't get stranded on the jungle world of Jemadal until after the Badab War but as they now have a more complete background - stealth and camo lovers - it fits better than blue and yellow. Where exactly is that going to work as camoflage? Lamenters - tough to freehand all those chequerboard chapter symbols. Space Sharks are now Carcharodons with two tone grey finish - fortress grey and adeptus battle grey looking at the pictures would be close but I believe these will prove a popular chapter as they have at least one figure on the way from FW. Executioners are nice and straight forward but will need some work on the chapter symbols like almost all the Badab War chapters other than the well known ones. I know there are some plans for FW to release more Badab Wars character models, possibly shoulder pads and chapter specific vehicle doors. Plus they do have some decals suitable for the Badab War chapters on the way too but no idea when these will be released or exactly which chapters are going to be included.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgus Posted January 16, 2011 Author Share Posted January 16, 2011 Is their anywhere online I can see all the new IA colour schemes? I'm not prepared to invest £90 to get two books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onipunk Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Can't see the detail on here at all in the pics, but the Badab War Poster seems to have all the Chapters and their variant schemes on it, it's cheaper than buying the books and you'll have a cool poster to keep at the end of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgus Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 Painted up a test model to show the client and see what he thinks about the colour scheme. I based this off the IA10 pictures. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Sh_4WpxvsiI/TT3dEOQqlmI/AAAAAAAAAMA/PSPw7FGOMvc/s1600/sm_term_01.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GooseDaMoose Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Man I was so psyched for the Exorcists.. Oh well, this scheme looks good :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgus Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 Sorry Goose, but if someone wants to commission me to do Exorcists the I would be glad to do them. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgus Posted February 1, 2011 Author Share Posted February 1, 2011 Some Scouts to go with this commission, still need a bit of tidy up on the painting, but basically done. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Sh_4WpxvsiI/TT4FCsK6AOI/AAAAAAAAAMo/NySlmGwx8zs/s1600/sm_scouts_01.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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