Company Colour Variation

[BadgersinHills]

I've seen some models that have been painted in different colours from the legion and on a FB group saw a question regarding using the Flesh Tearers colour scheme in a legion era army and the answers to that were generally yes.

 

What I had in mind was to paint some White Scars using marble effect for their power armour. Is this fluffy? How much freedom did companies in the legions have to change their colour scheme?

 

Thanks :) 

[carlisimo]

White Scars brotherhoods were more independent than the average legion company. We haven’t seen much color variation out of them (mostly just cool vs. warm white, with a lot of variation in how the red and gold are applied), but I don’t think you’d be going too far. I imagine it’ll look like a cross between a typical ivory-colored White Scar and the monochrome camo pre-Khan Vth Legion recon guy in Book 8.

 

I realize marble is “in” right now, but sometimes that leads to painters using it without enough thought. What does it represent? Is it a particular form of unpainted ceramite? A thin veneer of actual marble over their armor? Are they dipping their armor pieces in swirly lacquer?

[Gederas]

I realize marble is “in” right now, but sometimes that leads to painters using it without enough thought. What does it represent? Is it a particular form of unpainted ceramite? A thin veneer of actual marble over their armor? Are they dipping their armor pieces in swirly lacquer?

This is relevant to me, since I was thinking of making the Knights allied with my Dark Angels use marble armour in the Dark Angels colours. The hard part is figuring out what it represents, but I'm thinking it's symbolizing the forests of the Household's home planet. Or something like that :lol:

[Luna707]

While all legions had this to some extent, the White Scars had alternative schemes in spades. For much of their pre-primarch history, the Scars were a disparate collection of companies scattered to the forefront of the crusade with all sorts of different markings and colorations. There is no doubt that even after the Khan returned some of these traditions remained in many of the brotherhoods. In Malevolence there is even a WS legionaries in urban camo, so yeah! Go for it! 

[Marshal Rohr]

I wouldn’t break from what you see in the color profiles with the caveat that this wouldn’t apply to Blackshields, Shattered Legions, or homebrew specialist formations. Everything else would build off the common color profile (like the silver host, palatine blades with silver, fist assault veteran colors, etc).

[Noserenda]

Of all the Legions id expect the White Scars to show the most variety in uniforms tbh. For my army i gave them extensive personal markings and used a lot of red markings on their armour painted like warpaint.

[battle captain corpus]

I say go for it! If you pull it off it'll look awesome I'm sure!

 

BCC

[BadgersinHills]

Thanks, everyone!

 

 

I realize marble is “in” right now, but sometimes that leads to painters using it without enough thought. What does it represent? Is it a particular form of unpainted ceramite? A thin veneer of actual marble over their armor? Are they dipping their armor pieces in swirly lacquer?

 

In truth I first thought of it as I thought it looked cool, but an earlier idea I had for the leader of my force was a former Ebon Keshig sergeant, a Terran who chose to remain in the Keshig (I hear that some Scars joined the Keshig to increase their chances of moving up the ranks but I don't have Malevolence so I'm not too sure) and somehow survived for a long time. He isn't well liked but the other members of the company respect his prowess. After sustaining many casualties through the Heresy he and his company don't really have much choice other than having him lead them. Having marble as the armour could be linked to his Terran lineage. Another possibility for armour colour would be granite, the White Scars unyielding in their dedication and loyalty to the Khan and their Emperor. What I like about the marble is that it's associated with civilisation and contrasting that with the "barbaric" Chogorian and general 40k aesthetic could be interesting.

 

I was also looking at painting storm clouds on their armour, what with WS having the association to storms. Going with the storms, there's also the sandstorms in the Gobi Desert which I've read about, being able to flay the eyelids off a man in their force. The rapid assault element of the WS could be represented in this.

 

This has turned into a braindump for White Scars paint-scheme ideas, haha.