The Milkman Of Baal Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Probably a stupid question but libbys in terminator armour do they still keep the blue of the librarian or do the go with the bone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvmoogy Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 i've painted mine blue. my chaplain and chappy dreadnought are both black... I'll be the first to say it....it's your mini, paint it how you want to...'rule of cool' and all that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pbenner Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Mine are blue, with the Crux Pad being DA Green and the Company Pad being white with the Deathwing Symbol. My chaplains are the same for the most part, less the different shoulder colors. Maybe I should swap them around. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milkman Of Baal Posted August 24, 2013 Author Share Posted August 24, 2013 Cheers guys just wanted to see if there was something official out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRSFACE Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 As far as I know, official fluff-wise, librarians among all chapters wear the blue armor as a badge of office easily identifiable across all chapters. I had plans to make my own kitbashed Deathwing Librarian utilizing the psychic hood backs found on the grey knight kits and one of the robed fronts I have left over from the Deathwing Command squad. Doing this lets you keep the armor blue but gives you a lot of leeway utilizing robes and shoulders in order to really get a dark angels look to it. Was going to use a force axe and probably the Monster Slayer of Caliban on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puck Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 I painted mine bone with blue robes so that there's at least a token adherance to the Codex Astartes. I thought that was fitting considering how the DA are regarding other more important aspects of the Codex like total numbers of marines and company organization. The DA aren't codex adherent especially when it comes to the 1st company. I figured the bonds of Deathwing membership far outweigh what some book written by someone else's primarch says. The professed intent of having librarians color their armor blue is to easily indentify and kill them on the battle field if they get possessed or some such, but I honestly can't believe that members of the Deathwing who by all accounts have fought together for decades or longer wouldn't be able to recognize each other unless their armor was a different color. As always though, in the end they're your models. I just wanted to throw in some love for the bone colored libbys out there. Got a few more in my galleries if you was to see them. But here's the front and back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Sergeant Bohemond Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 They wear Blue...in fact according to some of the HH writings, we were the first Legion to adopt the blue for our Librarians :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Blaire Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 I think you'll find a somewhat split because there isn't anything official. During 2nd Edition, you would see some figures in power armor in white. Now, all the Librarians that are depicted for DA are in PA colored blue like their Codex-adherent counterparts. Since Librarians are part of the Inner Circle, I think you'd be perfectly justified painting TDA blue for the Librarius or white for the Deathwing, and there is really nothing anyone can complain about. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvmoogy Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Pucl - love your libby - the blue on bone works really well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmo Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Blue for me but a very dark blue so he does not look like an UM - I used regal blue with black wash then highlighting up to Ultramarine blue at the very edges. http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/329/0/e/deathwing_librarian_by_elmo9141-d5m4msu.jpg As Stobz writes you could make a case for either blue or bone if you wanted. It is up to you :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Master Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 No there's no way you 'must' paint them, they're your models! I couldn't decide and went for a mixture http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b606/Dark_master1/2ABF9B31-0710-4731-ACDA-5D2063CBEB8B-4010-000004B5860520B1_zps62e3eb21.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b606/Dark_master1/37EA9B7A-6945-4BAA-A202-55D204C5EE44-4010-000004B5901D7983_zpsee6ae97e.jpg DM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isiah Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 That's a great colour combo for a DW libby Dark_Master. Looks great. For me I go for a very dark blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facmanpob Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 They wear Blue...in fact according to some of the HH writings, we were the first Legion to adopt the blue for our Librarians :) The heresy novels state that in the 1st Legion the colour of the robes denote the office, rather than the armour colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother dean Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 White Dwarf 120something had a painting guide for chaplains and apothicarys that showed both full colored black/ white and with chapter colors shown... one picture from it I have seen here somewhere is a picture of a flesh tearer apoth with white arms and legs and a red torso. Librarians will work exactly the sam, just like Dark Master's. I painted a couple chaplains with green legs and torsos... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Blaire Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 As Stobz writes you could make a case for either blue or bone if you wanted. It is up to you :) ~cough~ Most assuredly not Stobz. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffJedi Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 I have one blue and one bone. The blue one was first painted bone and the repainted blue. Years later I painted one bone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmo Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 As Stobz writes you could make a case for either blue or bone if you wanted. It is up to you ~cough~ Most assuredly not Stobz. Oops - Meant Bryan, bggr! It was late at night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shabbadoo Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 The official color for Librarian armor (TDA or otherwise), and it is official, is blue. But, as you can see above, people paint their Librarian TDA armor all sorts of ways, from all blue to all Deathwing bone/white, to a mixture of the two. Basically, paint it how you want it to look, because there can be all sorts of reasons why any part of a Chapter's armor will not be painted in the "normal" scheme. For instance, exactly why is it that only the Blood Angels Captain in this pic is in desert camouflage pattern power armor? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s0TdrvQl5oU/TcApmtUR1ZI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/IDW_XNHZRP8/s1600/bloodangel.jpg Because it looks cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interrogator Stobz Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 snip... Because it looks cool! Best and only valid reason, ever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cactus Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 I agree with your point shabbadoo but I think the armour is meant to be gold. He is a Blood Angel captain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Avoghai Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 I have 2 TDA libbies so I went for one of each pattern. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y50/Masteravoghai/Dark%20angels/SandalphonFace.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y50/Masteravoghai/Dark%20angels/SpacemarineLibrarian.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Blaire Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Yeah, C:DA 4th Ed did say that Librarians have blue armor, and didn't give a TDA distinction, but IMO, one guy in blue and thirty or forty in white/bone white looks goofy. Luckily C:DA 6th Ed doesn't seem to say anything on the subject or have a TDA Librarian depicted, so I still think you are safe with a Librarian in DW panoply if he's operating with them (especially as it seems we still don't know the full, real reason the DW are painted white/bone white). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarFromSam Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 This is turning into a thread to showcase wonderful looking Libby's in TDA... I am now achingly aware of my army's lack of one. Keep posting! all of these are inspiring! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[TA]Typher Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 I went with the blue too. http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z389/typher/Gabriel%20Typheran/IMG_4206_zpscbbc3ccb.jpg http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z389/typher/Gabriel%20Typheran/IMG_4208_zps7641d344.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffJedi Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 The Blue one is from Tyranid Attack, first seen in Deathwing, the expansion to Space Hulk. Painted 1995 or so. The Bone colored one I painted for ETL 2012. An interesting note is that the body is actually a Grey Knight instead of a Librarian. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/JeffJedi/DeathwingLibrarians_zpsf1beb213.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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