40k Ultramarines Upgrades & Combat Patrol

[Crimson Longinus]

3 hours ago, Shinespider said:

Sculpted shoulders are overrated - an upgrade sprue should have one or two for characters and leave the rest to decals.  

 

Yeah, definitely. Decals look better and if you're doing a successor chapter half of the sprue is wasted. I have a ton of Raven Guard shoulder pads somewhere as I wanted the bird skulls and feathers. 

[HeadlessCross]

8 hours ago, Crimson Longinus said:

I'm not exactly sure what people were expecting. Like sure, the upgrade sprue is bland and boring, but it is the Ultramarines, being bland and boring is their defining feature.

Ultramarines get stuff done and are only boring to the people that create edgy fanfic Chapters that read the same as Space Wolves fluff. 

[Robbienw]

Ultras love a bit of bling and laurels, hardly boring in terms of appearance.  Their characters and veterans are resplendent!

[beefeb]

there used to be an A4 size decal sheet for the Ultramarines.....was far far superior to this.  They never renewed it, just giving us lesser decals on smaller sheets.  Theres plenty of places to find much better decals at a fraction of GW cost.  Just go to Ultramarine facebook groups and look around and youll see some.  I wont link it as it will likely violate business rules, but there are sheets available which give company by company decals of insane quality.  When you look at what these other guys produce, you realise that while the GW decals may be individually of decent quality, the variety and scope they sell is so intentionally limited.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by beefeb