Community project : Let's found a Chapter ! (Phase 3 & 4)

[Tiberius Cato]

Maybe like a quartered navy and light grey scheme with yellow (or gold) trims?

[Nomus Sardauk]

Well, i'm going to jump the gun a bit. Standard, halved, or quartered?

Let's go balls out. Quartered yellow and black!

While I am fine with quartered, why yellow and black? I feel like that won't accessorize well with jaguar/ panther pelts. What about either dark red or dark green and black?

The Dark Green/Red and Black sounds good to me, and quartered schemes aren't very common so it could make them stand out somewhat by that respect alone. Let's have a look-see shall we? *hurries off to SM Painter*

Okay, quartered dark green and black:

Now, quartered dark red and black:

And lastly, because I felt like experimenting, quartered dark green and red:

I left the chest eagles blank white as no-one's yet suggested any colours for them and the eye colour I altered for each one to better compliement the rest of the armour.

Your thoughts friends?

[Tiberius Cato]

The black and red is too Blood Angels for me. I like the others though.

[ElectricPaladin]

• I like the black and green.

I agree that the black and red does look too Blood Angels-y. 

The red and green is too Christmas-y.

[Gorkimedes]

[ElectricPaladin]

Captain planet/he's our hero...

[Gorkimedes]

Can't unsee.

[Tiberius Cato]

How about something like this? I think it would look quite nice with a jaguar skin hanging from the waist, or worn as a toga type deal (like sternguard) or as a little wrap around the arm or leg. Just wherever! :D

[ElectricPaladin]

How about something like this? I think it would look quite nice with a jaguar skin hanging from the waist, or worn as a toga type deal (like sternguard) or as a little wrap around the arm or leg. Just wherever!

I like it!

[Gorkimedes]

Looks good to me.

[Tiberius Cato]

It has that knightly vibe of the saxons and the green eyes kinda have a feline feel to me.

[Quozzo]

How about something like this? I think it would look quite nice with a jaguar skin hanging from the waist, or worn as a toga type deal (like sternguard) or as a little wrap around the arm or leg. Just wherever!

I like it!

looks like the colours of Space Wolves and Smurfs, coming together as one, Space Smurfs! :P

[Black Cohort]

Both the blue/ grey and the dark green/ black are acceptable to me.

[Stercus]

Agreed on the blue/grey and green/black. There's also the option to go with something like a gunmetal tone as the grey element if a metallic is wanted.

[Gorkimedes]

Do you think a  tactical squad or something from the Space Wolves range would be an ideal starting point for a squad?

[ElectricPaladin]

Do you think a tactical squad or something from the Space Wolves range would be an ideal starting point for a squad?

Tacs, with limited furry bling.

[Black Cohort]

 

Do you think a tactical squad or something from the Space Wolves range would be an ideal starting point for a squad?

Tacs, with limited furry bling.

The only wolf bits you want would be pelts. Though pelts are likely limited to officers (including sgts), vets and specialists

[Stercus]

I think if you split the wolf-pelts and maybe tails from one space wolf set among about three tac boxes it might work. From a personal perspective, I'd probably leave the pelts mostly for sergeants and veterans.

[Gorkimedes]

Are we going with Ultramarines as the founding chapter or choosing one of their successors?

[Anver Cassiel]

if they were founded in the 36th millennium, then it makes sense that the ultramarines would still be the founders. But it becomes harder to rectify the divergent beliefs with the straight and narrow (although awesome) boys in blue being the original members of the chapter. 

 

also just spent ages reading through this whole thread and the idea just sucked me in. Love what everyone has come up with, not at all what i would have expected to see from a community made chapter :D

 

Cassiel

[ElectricPaladin]

if they were founded in the 36th millennium, then it makes sense that the ultramarines would still be the founders. But it becomes harder to rectify the divergent beliefs with the straight and narrow (although awesome) boys in blue being the original members of the chapter.

also just spent ages reading through this whole thread and the idea just sucked me in. Love what everyone has come up with, not at all what i would have expected to see from a community made chapter

Cassiel

If I was in the market for a new army, I'd totally do this chapter. I really enjoy what we've created so far.

[Black Cohort]

Should we take a vote on colour scheme? The two options seem to be black and dark green or blue and grey. Quartered in either case.

[Tiberius Cato]

I vote for the blue and grey, although I quite like the other scheme. But the black and dark green is a bit too similar for my taste. As for the blue and grey, it's got a nice contrast between the light grey and navy blue. The trim is up for debate, I like a gold trim, but I can see any of the other metallics except maybe silver doing well. The other metals are more or less composed of yellow,red, and orange: in colour theory we now have a small set of warm colours to compliment the overall coolness from the navy blue and light (blue-) grey.

[Stercus]

I like the blue and grey the best. It just seems to fit better.

If we go for a gold trim, we'll have to work out how to show company colours.

One of my DIY's has gold trimmed pads and the company number is simply displayed on the right shoulder pad overlaying the squad symbol.

[Tiberius Cato]

Maybe bolters should represent company? It's a unique identifier I haven't seen used before. It could even apply to weapons in general.