Legato Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 Hey all, I'm looking around for some good shoulder pads to put on my upcoming space marines. GW has a couple variants available, but I have problems with both. The first variant is the sideways double arrow popular on Dark Angels, while the second variant is the normal upright arrow but for some reason they've left it hollow (or so it appears). I'd really like to find some normal, to-scale, upright arrow shoulder pads for my marines. In the past I've seen such things, but after hours of searching the net I've come up with nothing special. At one point I'm pretty sure I saw some shoulder pads that had the arrow, as well as numeric markings. Unfortunately I'm not able to find them again thus far. Help? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/281436-tactical-squad-shoulder-pads/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffTibbetts Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 I know the Assault on Black Reach marines had sculpted arrows... I don't know of any others off-hand and those ones couldn't be separated from the rest of the model. Maybe that's what you saw though? I did see a 3D-printing website that had a bunch of (illegal, I'm sure) sculpted shoulder pad variants. There were some there for sure but I dunno where it was. You don't like transfers or decals, huh? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/281436-tactical-squad-shoulder-pads/#findComment-3486215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legato Posted October 5, 2013 Author Share Posted October 5, 2013 I don't actively dislike transfers, I just like the sculpted look better. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/281436-tactical-squad-shoulder-pads/#findComment-3486228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zincite Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 Theoretically, you could fill those hollow tactical arrows in with greenstuff. I can't imagine it'd be too hard to plonk a glob in there and smooth it over. And, although I'm not a fan of them myself, Chapterhouse Studios has tactical squad shoulder pads and two types of numerals. The pictures make them look a little more squat than the traditional GW pad, though. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/281436-tactical-squad-shoulder-pads/#findComment-3486292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seleucus Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 I've filled those tac pads myself, with both GS and Milliput, and it's worked fine. I've also made GS moulds from them and from the AoBR ones. As mentioned above, Chapterhouse do some. And these are probably the 3D ones: http://www.shapeways.com/model/502039/20-28mm-shoulder-pad-squad-marking-arrow.html?li=shop-results&materialId=5 Here's his blog: http://custom-minis.blogspot.co.uk/ Whether they infringe GW's IP I could not say! I have recently seen a site that had the arrows with various roman numerals sculpted into them but can't find it at the moment. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/281436-tactical-squad-shoulder-pads/#findComment-3486440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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