Techmarine, Librarian, & Chaplain Colors

[Somerandomidiot]

I apologize if this is posted elsewhere, but my searching hasn't turned up anything.  Is there anything to indicate whether Techmarines, Librarians, and Chaplains wear their Red/Blue/Black armor in the heresy, or was this a post-heresy Codex Astartes change?

[Slips]

Librarians was a definite no on the blue since thats a Codex Astartes thing.

 

Chaplains, its up to you. Some wore black, some wore Legion Colors. But they didn't have Skull Helms.

 

Techmarines is also your choice of Red w/ Legion Colors or Legion Colors only. The Cover for Cybernetica is a good indication since all the marines on it are Techmarines in training:

http://i826.photobucket.com/albums/zz184/Lamenterkyle/Mobile%20Uploads/FB_IMG_1436982091770_zpsgpjqbejx.jpg

[Nomus Sardauk]

Oooo, that artwork looks sick, nice to see the variation in appearance & cyberisation between the different legionnaires, like the (presumably) loyalist Iron Warrior in the back being chockablock with mechadendrites and such, whereas the Salamander has the giveaway Servo-Arm and Ultramarine looks like a bog-standard Tactical Marine. I could imagine a Blood Angel amongst them baring baroque, gilded prosthetics with a Swiss clockwork-looking design to it, really show the artistic flair & craftsmanship of the Legion... B)

[jacqualine47]

As per First Heretic, Word Bearers Chaplains had skull helmets and wore black prior to the heresy.  The chaplain in that book also had a flaming brazier on his backpack like a Sisters canoness.  Since the chaplains of most legions (meant to enforce the edict of Nikea) were based on the Word Bearers' chaplains, they could also have skull helms and black armor.

[Ion]

Didn't the Emperor's Children Chaplain Charmosian also have a skull faced helm?

 

Librarians I'd say in Legion colours, and Techmarines could go either way tbh, after all, the guys in that pic aren't full techmarines yet so it'd make sense if they didn't wear the red.

[SalvationOfReason]

I believe there were also descriptions of techmarines bearing Mechanicum red on one shoulderpad.

Another great example would be the faux SoH techmarine in book 6.

(would post the image but on mobile)

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/4/44/Blackshield_Techmarine.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160304090609

[shandwen]

Perhaps the red color of techmarines would be used only by some legions---for instance the Dark Angels are said to have a minimal relationship with the mechanicum so I would shy away from painting them with any red (or other mechanicum heraldry). A legion such as the Sons of Horus woukd probably be very open about the connections.

[Skalpynock]

 

Another great example would be the faux SoH techmarine in book 6.

(would post the image but on mobile)

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/4/44/Blackshield_Techmarine.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160304090609

Great, if this particular "techmarine" wasn't specifically stated to bear the markings of a tank crewman (Death Guard loyalists trying to trick a Forge World by sending faux-SoH techmarines, accidentally using wrong markings, but the Magos had never served with the XVI)

[disease]

I think just painting one or both the shoulder pads the respective colours works rather well - easily identifiable on the tabletop without being overpowering or looking too 40k. Reasonably fluffy too.

[ChainMachete]

Kurtha Sedd is a Word Bearers Chaplain and he's been painted red by GW. Ditto Erebus for that matter. Wasn't the chaplain in black armour described in First Heretic pre-heresy? Perhaps the when the Word Bearers were mostly grey, their chaplains were black, but when the Word Bearers turned crimson, I like to think their chaplains painted their armour crimson as well.

 

If other legions modeled their chaplains after pre-heresy Word Bearer chaplains, then they ought to be black.

[Doctor Perils]

This won't help much, but I think that even within a legion, standards don't seem to have been clearly defined, which explains the multifarious depictions of different markings in the FW Black Books. In that case, you can pretty much choose how you want to represent them: for instance, as an Iron Warriors player, I mean to assign special hazard stripes colours  to different specialties (ie, use red and white hazard markings for Apothecaries rather then black and yellow)

[Reyner]

All depends on the Legion and then some Chapters/Companies within the Legion would do stuff differently which would later go into the Successor Chapters (such as the Ultramarines 4th Chapter "Aurorans" with their green shoulder pad or trim and their armour fetish later creating the Aurora Chapter).