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Hi there just purchased the Battle for Calth boxed set and finally decided on going for my favourite guys the Angels of death

 

I understand the paint scheme to be black but do we know anything else such as markings different shoulder pads/ helmet colours that other legions have and are explained in the large books?

 

Has forge world released any info or are we waiting for the book to be released before finding anything out

 

Im just hesitant that i may not paint some things correctly

 

And i really want to do these dudes correctly

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Disciple of the Flames...Hmmm interesting. You know I said I wouldn't do a DA 30K army but throwing some in with my Chaos Marines as Fallen Angels. Betrayal at Calth makes sense because they're fighting each other. Grrr..must stay on point.

 

Anyway that looks really cool. Do you know if they're doing a Lion El'Johnson model?

Disciple of the Flames...Hmmm interesting. You know I said I wouldn't do a DA 30K army but throwing some in with my Chaos Marines as Fallen Angels. Betrayal at Calth makes sense because they're fighting each other. Grrr..must stay on point.

 

Anyway that looks really cool. Do you know if they're doing a Lion El'Johnson model?

The Disciple of Flames is a Salamander.

 

The Lion get a model...one day.

Book six is not far away (o so they say). If you want your angels "historically accurate"  it's better to wait. 

 

The problem is we don't know if book six will have much by the way of colour schemes or background info. We know BA, DA and WS are not getting the full legion treatment (i.e. no primarch rules or unique HQ/units) so I think it's safe to assume we won't be getting the full background, structure and colour scheme info either. There will be some, but there just won't be enough room in the book for the kind of detail the other legions have received.

 

The feedback on book six thus far has been that it's much more like Conquest in that it's a general book with content for all/most legions, rather than being dedicated to a select few. If book seven is still Prospero then we could be waiting for book eight (at the earliest) to get detailed background, primarch rules and unique legion HQ/units for the DA. I'd be surprised if we saw book eight before mid 2017.

 

Of course this is all speculation. Well reasoned speculation, but speculation none-the-less.

Only other things we have are covers for Black Library novels - black armour, white shoulder pads, which I personally love as it seperates them from the rest of the black legions.

 

Unremembered Empire paints a picture of quite convoluted markings and symbols for the Ist Legion so really, as long as the armour is black, you can probably do what you want.

Book six is not far away (o so they say). If you want your angels "historically accurate" it's better to wait.

The problem is we don't know if book six will have much by the way of colour schemes or background info. We know BA, DA and WS are not getting the full legion treatment (i.e. no primarch rules or unique HQ/units) so I think it's safe to assume we won't be getting the full background, structure and colour scheme info either. There will be some, but there just won't be enough room in the book for the kind of detail the other legions have received.

The feedback on book six thus far has been that it's much more like Conquest in that it's a general book with content for all/most legions, rather than being dedicated to a select few. If book seven is still Prospero then we could be waiting for book eight (at the earliest) to get detailed background, primarch rules and unique legion HQ/units for the DA. I'd be surprised if we saw book eight before mid 2017.

Of course this is all speculation. Well reasoned speculation, but speculation none-the-less.

So let us hope it will be like Conquest smile.png Sons of Horus/Death Guard (legions with their own book) got a couple of colour scheme panels, Markings and Heraldry included. Standard tactical legionnaire and terminator arts + markings and heraldry (most important) are a solid base for painting an army.

Just curious what legion specific equipment DA will get - I think there are two possibilities.

1. Order/knight themed items and I'd expect some kind of sword, trophy from Beast Hunting days, mayby a pet Watcher in the Dark (that would be stupid).

2. First Legion items - being the First means they had acces to much more old tech/relic stuff than the rest so... paragon blades/archeo pistols for everyone. Or somethong like that.

Plausible?

Shameless plugging of the highest magnitude:

 

http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac316/treacyjohn2/edee3774b284503b07e7c8fc680d37ef_zpsrspwjwqw.jpg

 

http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac316/treacyjohn2/9c94b1c855e92061103d0cccce7ecba9_zpsc28e442d.jpg

 

I personally prefer the white pad also because I feel that the current FW scheme looks too similiar to the Iron Hands.

White pad is the better choice. And beer as background is even better ;)

It's a great painting medium. Instead of thinning my paint I thin my blood :P

 

But those pics are old news...I'm still waiting for the Dark Angels to get a Dreadwing option. I'd really hate it if we get BS2 on overwatch as I'd rather have assault bonuses.

We made a christmas Dark Angels post, including the official FW paint scheme and test models for terminator and power armour smile.png

http://battlebunnies.blogspot.co.at/2015/12/battle-bunnies-20-legions-of-xmas-dark.html

for their shoulder pads - i imagine they would have wing specific heraldic if they are calibanits

ive just started my thread over at in the age of darkness section , ive gone with dark angels and have painted up a squad with more pics coming tomorrow , I went with a muted black and silver trim and think they come out really well. ive took some inspiration from the black library book covers.

 

glad to have another heresy era DA on board and look forward to seeing some  of your miniatures. 

We made a christmas Dark Angels post, including the official FW paint scheme and test models for terminator and power armour smile.png

http://battlebunnies.blogspot.co.at/2015/12/battle-bunnies-20-legions-of-xmas-dark.html

for their shoulder pads - i imagine they would have wing specific heraldic if they are calibanits

Nice christmas tree - I'm not an expert but is it a Calibanite Man Strangler Pine?

Shameless plugging of the highest magnitude:

 

http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac316/treacyjohn2/edee3774b284503b07e7c8fc680d37ef_zpsrspwjwqw.jpg

 

http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac316/treacyjohn2/9c94b1c855e92061103d0cccce7ecba9_zpsc28e442d.jpg

 

I personally prefer the white pad also because I feel that the current FW scheme looks too similiar to the Iron Hands.

 

Hhhhmmmmmm 

Black armour... white shoulder pads.... red accent... that looks a little too familiar. 

I could almost see some maltese crosses there... 

 

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