Bigdog Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Hi guys, I'm now at the stage where my first Lamenter Style Art-Scale marine is almost ready for the finishing touches including iconography. Once he's done I've got enough parts to put together another 40 or so. The downside is that I'm having a complete meltdown over which chapter to go for. I would like a chapter where I can do a fair bit of work with the painting. I see Templars and Raven Guard as mostly black and white with edge highlights so I'd prefer to avoid them and I don't have any bike parts so white scars are out but other than that its open house. I have quite a lot of spare parts from a previous marine army I recently sold on ebay so I've got enough stuff to make loads of bolter or bolt pistol and close combat troops, lots of power weapons, power fists and a few lascannons, plasma cannons,and heavy bolters. enough to make a devastator squad anyway. I've also got a terminator assault squad box lying around which I was intending to eventually build as art-scale terminators. I just can't decide which chapter to plump for. Here's a few I've considered:- Ultramarines Blood angels Dark Angels Space Wolves Imperial Fists Crimson Fists Salamanders Sons of Orrar Eagle Warriors Carcharodons I'm getting reasonably proficient with green stuff and intended to sculpt a lot of the iconography, robes, wolf perlts, honour markings etc and possibly any special characters relating to the chapter I finally decide on. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onipunk Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 All of the others are fairly common, so I suggest Eagle Warriors. They have an interesting scheme and there are no Eagle Warrior WIPs on the forum that I know of, whereas there's at least several WIPs of everything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ragnarok Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Relictor with Daemonic Weapon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesI Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Assuming you don't want a common chapter, I like the look of the Sons of Orrar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacefrisian Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Angry Marines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grotsmasha Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Since you asked for a painters army, I've seen a couple of true scale Space Wolf army WIPs, but none that have got to the painting stage. The Space Wolves have alot more colour and creativity involved (pack markings etc) than most of the chapters you've listed. Having said that some TS Imperial Fists or Sons of Orar with kick-ass paint jobs wouldn't go down badly either.... Cheers, Jono Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdog Posted November 6, 2011 Author Share Posted November 6, 2011 Wow guys, thanks for the quick replies I'll restrict myself to the less common chapters (imperial fists, eagle warriors and sons of orrar) Sons of Orrar might not be an option if I dont have enough beaky heads. For colour schemes - whats the veteran scheme for fists and eagle warriors? Is it just the usual white helmets and shoulder pad rims? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 For Imperial Fists, bosses get a red stripe down the middle of their helmet, if memory serves. As for eagle warriors, dunno, but I think white wouldn't work too well as a veteran marking, seeing as it wouldn't stand out from that paintjob. Now, a gold helmet (or yellow, whichever you use for the aquilla) would work, without doing too much to break up the halved color scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 There's quite a lot of yellow marines on the boards these days, of which my thread is one of the contributors to that. I'd second the Space Wolves, unless you just really don't like them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafen_2 Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 I would say Eagle Warriors too since I've seen a lot of Imperial Fists lately. As for veteran maybe a red helm? That would look better then the yellow IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminatorinhell Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Nova Marines, Marines Errant, Knights Errant, Crimson Guardians (shameless plug at my DIY). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew J Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 If you are looking for something different I have always had a fascination with the Storm Giants. I do like the Eagle Warriors and think that would be good too. And if I remember correctly the EW follow all codex rules but do reverse for veterans. Blue helmets for vets, and red for sarge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studio Silvernale Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Emperor's Pointy Sticks from TSOLR.. Seriously tho if you want big marines go for Sons of Antaeus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyaenidae Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 A true-scale Charcaradon Astra? What's not to love? lol. Blood in the water man, go with the Sharks! Whatever you choose though, best of luck with your build! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Yellow Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Emperor's Pointy Sticks from TSOLR.. Seriously tho if you want big marines go for Sons of Antaeus. Yeah, I was gonna say sons of Antaeus too, plenty of scope to theme it how you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellos05 Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Emperors spears!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Dragon Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Invaders... if I weren't painting my Imperial Fists still I'd be having a go at them meyself... love the colour scheme and the fluff :P Good luck with the decision making. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G3rman Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Ah, a shame you aren't looking at the Crimson Fists. Plenty of battle scarred veterans with ork trophies etc. for conversion but have a pretty flat paint scheme. I like the sound of the Imperial Fists though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathnid Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 CRIMSON FIST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdog Posted November 8, 2011 Author Share Posted November 8, 2011 Thanks for all the suggestions guys. You'll have to forgive my ignorance but who are Sons of Antaeus? Whats their fluff and colour scheme? To Brother Chaplain Kage - It's not that I don't like Wolves, I love SW's and have done for years. The problem is I had a spare wolf pack box whihc I sold just before starting this and I dont have any cash to buy more. (what an idiot I hear you say). What I do have is loads of standard marine parts and I'm working on a budget unfortunately. I'd also inevitably want to do a full squad and wolf lord on MASSIVE thunderwolves at some point and I think if I did, I'd spend so much time sculpting that my Mrs would probably forget what I looked like or stop feeding me, neither of which is good. :D Togusa San - Forgive my ignorance but what's TSOLR? and who are the Sons of Antaeus? What's their fluff / colour scheme? Magic Dragon - sorry but I'm just not a fan of the colour scheme. I know they have a nice bit of fluff vs eldar craftworlds but just not my thing I'm afraid. Thanks for suggesting something different though. G3rman - I like crimson fists and was intedning to try my hand at using paint effects for all the chipped and scored armour. the deep colours of the CF would show that up brilliantly and besides I could have a go at a true scale Kantor. If I remember correclty apart from the crux on the left shoulder, the only veteran insignia is that both gauntlets are red, is that right? 1000heathens - I have a copy of IA10 which has Tyberos and Carcharodons fluff in it. I take it they're just a codex chapter but lean towards hand to hand in a big way. Are the IA rules official? The IA rules seem a little sick (ie assault squad with lightning claws and furious charge as troops!!!!! begging for a chaplain and Tyberos in there to take on . . . . .ooh just about everything!! Opportunity to convert true scale Tyberos sounds fun and if he's big it probably almost justifies the severe pasting anything in front of him is likely to get. Could also do Honour Guard with Relic Blades (two handed shark tooth chainswords), shark iconography etc. Saw a guy online doing a termie squad and made judicious use of Tamiya clear red for blood splatter. They looked awesome!!! Apart from the chapter icon and the tribal designs I couldnt see any tactical markings for Carcharodons, do they use them? I guess the problem I face is that there's so many cool things for marines I just can't make my mind up but its a great help stripping things down. I feel like I'm getting there. The other idea was to go for a renegade chapter. Not chaos worshipping marines but rather renegades who've turned away from the emperor and set out for themselves. This would entail stripping off all the imperial imagery but would let me keep using the regular marine parts as renegades who have only recently turned. After a little whittling I'm considering Eagle Warriors, Crimson Fists and Carcharodons mainly. I like the split scheme and strong colours of eagle warriors but feel that changing helmet colours for sergeants and vets etc would severely compromise the overall effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Masariel Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 go for one where you field scouts too at least..so that is visible the bigger size.. I'd go Alpha legion or Grey knight or Deathwatch... Otherwise my favs are lately charcarodons.. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studio Silvernale Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 TSOL - Turn Signals on a Land Raider (a now dead web comic about 40k) http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Sons_of_Antaeus#.Trl7pLK2ONU The Sons of Antaeus are even bigger and tougher than other marines. It is rumored that they have metal laced bones (not unlike Wolverine). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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