Revered Standard?

[Avon Rekaes]

So, I've just really started in on a project for my Dark Angels army that I've wanted to do for a long time. I've magnetized all of my standard bearers so that I can swap out their respective company banners (Deathwing, Ravenwing, and 3rd Company for my greenwing) for any of the three Sacred Standards or the Chapter Standard.

I started this project around when I got the Dark Vengenace box set and decided to turn the Deathwing and Ravenwing models in the box into command squads, so I only bought 7 standards (the bit from the Space Marine Command Squad box). Three the company standards, three for the sacred standards, and the chapter standard.

So I originally thought my only challenge was the Ravenwing standard. In the below picture you can see I just found a detail image of the Ravenwing company icon and used that as the decal for their banner.

When the codex came out and the new models revealed the actual design for the Ravenwing standard, I removed the decal and ended up hand-drawing the design with a micro ink pen and painting it in by hand.

But the codex also introduced another problem... the Revered Standard. Does anyone have any clue what this one looks like? The codex says they're old banners that are preserved in stasis alongside the Sacred standards. But what do you think they would look like? Do you think each company has their own revered standards?

[Brother dean]

Edit:  

Sorry, Relic Standard is the same as Sacred Standard..

 

I would say that the Revered standard is just a more tattered version of the regular standard...

[Avon Rekaes]

Hmmm... so I might have to get three individual revered standards for each company.... pfff... Now I'm dreading having to draw the Ravenwing standard all over again.

[Brother dean]

It is whichever standard you paid the points for.  Any opponent not allowing you to play because he cannot tell exactly which standard it is from wysiwyg  needs to have a Dreadsock treatment.

[Avon Rekaes]

Haha, don't worry, no one is forcing me to wysywig my banners but me. I'm just OCD like that.

[aura_enchanted]

If you want to get the three sacred standards. You can always print them out on to some paper and glue them to a piece of felt.

 

Punch some holes and install a gromits and ring system. Tada instant banner.

 

You could them mount a crossbar to the standard stick and hotswap flags.

 

I have the three sacred standards like this

[Bryan Blaire]

Not Sacred, just Revered, which haven't ever been depicted.

[JeffJedi]

There is only one possible answer i can give to your question:

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/JeffJedi/DABannerold1_zps7a3cb493.png

 

Note the unique shape of the DA symbol here, it is a more lavish version of the original Dark Angels symbol of the 1st edition. Note also the colors: red symbol over white on a black background with red trim. Finally note the small details, the angular shapes, the pommel looks like a double-headed eagle.

 

To me this is the very first thing that I think of when I think of Dark Angels Banner.

 

Now here are some more basic banners of the era. Notice how the symbol is different from the modern DA symbol.

 

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/JeffJedi/DASymbolsOld_zpsd98466c4.pnghttp://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/JeffJedi/DABannerold_zps4b3a66b7.pnghttp://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/JeffJedi/DABannerold2_zpsba4a5f55.pnghttp://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/JeffJedi/DASymbolsOld1_zps08b7dc3f.png

[Isiah]

Where did you get those last four images from? I've not seen them before.

 

~I

[Avon Rekaes]

@JeffJedi: Oh man, that is such a sweet idea. The Revered Banner being an old Legion banner. Thanks! You saved me some money and effort trying to make three different revered standards for each company.

 

@aura_enchanted: Thanks for the tip, but I've already got my Sacred Standards squared away. I used this bit as a backing for water-transfer decals I made by scanning the 4th edition codex page with the banner images (that allowed photocopying for personal use) and printing them on clear decal transfer paper. Then I magnetized all of the parts so I can swap them on the Standard Bearer on the fly.

[JeffJedi]

Isiah they are from the Compendium (red book) and the Chapter Approved: Book of the Astronomican. The Banner with the number 4 on it actually was on the robots color page which implies the Dark Angels used robots like many other chapters.

[Isiah]

Thanks JJ.