Base input sought.

[MaliGn]

Hi Frater,

I've been working for nearly five months now on a Heldrake for my Word Bearers, and I recently reached a point where I realised that the base needed a little more colour. To address this I have added a sculpted fallen banner and am trying to think of how to paint it.

As you can see the 'drake itself is very red and the base a warm neutral colour. With this in mind, I'm leaning towards a blue banner with perhaps some simple geometric detail (like a stripe) rather than too much intricate detail that might distract from the model itself. But I am open to suggestions.

I have mostly used blue as accent colours through the whole army and a few models feature members of an Imperial guard regiment that wear blue helmets and shoulder pads. I also tend to make marine trophies from ultramarine successor chapters, so something that is kind of neutral enough to fit with a variety of those possibilities makes sense, I just wondered if anyone had any other ideas while I wait for the green stuff to cure...

[Rik Lightstar]

From both a colour scheme and lore perspective I think an Ultramarine Banner is totally the right choice.

 

Rik

[Bryan Blaire]

From both a colour scheme and lore perspective I think an Ultramarine Banner is totally the right choice.

Agreed! I think both thematically and color-wise, an Ultramarines banner would be most appropriate.

 

If you don't want to do a straight up UM one, perhaps a campaign banner with mostly a blue banner to show they were the ones leading it? How about a blue banner with a wide center white stripe, with two thin stripes on either side in either white or gold, and a downward pointed sword in black or red?

 

Or a Spears of the Emperor banner? They've got a slightly different blue.