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Question on painting Angels Sanguine helmets


Captain Semper

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I'm seriously considering building a small (yeah right!) BA army. I'm also inclined on choosing an Angels Sanguine force mainly due to the color scheme.

 

So here is the question: is there a definitive way of painting the red part of the helmet depending on marine specialty? Does one have to paint the "red" part yellow for an assault squad for example? I know there are arguments both ways and the ultimate: "your models, paint them what you like" but I like to respect the color scheme of Angels Sanguine as much as possible. I would also like to state that I'm more inclined towards an all red helmet accross all specialties.

 

So any clarifications will be welcome.

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The guy with the gold helmet in the codex is a tactical squads veteran sergeant, his squad is shown in How to Paint Space Marines - the rest of the squad have split red/black helmets as shown in the uniform example art in the codex.

 

Personally I vote no to helmet colours - Blood Angels use that in place of the codex squad emblem, the Angels Sanguine uniform example shows them using codex squad emblems.

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Just another thought to add to the pile but if you're going to do a 1/2 scheme why not take it all the way?

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/OwlandMoonGuy/Angels%20Sanguine/11-DropPod-8thSquad.jpg

 

I kept the colored helmets consistent with the BA on the red 1/2 while keeping the black 1/2 all black. I believe it makes for a much more striking army overall.

 

Just my 2c. -OMG

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OK this is seriusly nice! Huge inspiration for sure! Maybe I need to suppress my fear for yellow after all. :P

With my thanks. After painting up 5K pts or so I guess it gave me a bit of an unfair advantage. Though no longer consistent with current fluff, I did try to flesh out the AS a little bit back when I first started this army. Check out Iron Willed Angels for my take on an Index Astertes style write-up.

Which includes a short treatise on helmet colors:

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Have fun with it. Seeing more AS around the forum is always a welcome site.

Cheers, -OMG

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