Astartes Company and Squad Markings

[RazorDaemon]

 

I was wondering people's opinions on painting Company and Squad markings, whether on official Chapters or your own home-brew, I've seen a bit of everything.

1. Follow it as Codex intended (included Chapters who have their own system different from Rob's like DA, BA, BT, SW, etc.)

2. Partially, either only using Company OR Squad, or using whatever markings look best with the theme (e.g. 98% of GW Ultramarine pics are 1st, 2nd, or Scout Co.)

3. Lol, Rule of Cool is the only organization/modified home-brew markings to match Rule of Cool with their markings.

4. Ew, Imperium.

Edited 19 hours ago by Dr_Ruminahui
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[SvenIronhand]

1 hour ago, RazorDaemon said:

3. Lol, Rule of Cool is the only organization/modified home-brew markings to match Rule of Cool with their markings.

 

 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Okay, @RazorDaemon I made it into a poll for you.

 

You may want to tweek the poll questions - I tried to condense/clarify some of them, but may not have captured what you were going for.

[RazorDaemon]

4 hours ago, Dr_Ruminahui said:

Okay, @RazorDaemon I made it into a poll for you.

 

You may want to tweek the poll questions - I tried to condense/clarify some of them, but may not have captured what you were going for.

It seems okay to me, the idea was 1 being any Codex, either verbatim Codex Astartes or like a BA Successor still using Droplet number/color for Company designation instead of trim color. 2 would be like what GW mostly does, you only paint/model for specific Company/Squad that fits your scheme. 3 You made your own up for a theme, like GW did for BT/SW/etc but it's your own unique thing. 4 Everything else.

 

Thank you for setting it up!

Edited 14 hours ago by RazorDaemon
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[Heraclite]

for my own chapter I mostly follow the codex guidelines, I have the full second company with gold trim, plus a few elements of all the other companies (mostly the captains and ancients) as well as some 1st company.

 

I did squad markings (arrows for intercessor/tacticals, explosion or  ^ for fire support/devastator and crossed arrows or lighting bolts for assault/close support, with the squad number added)

 

There's also a few twists (ie they don't follow strict ultramarines markings, but still something that in lore might be permitted by the codex) : company veterans get gold face plates, captains get full gold helms, sergeants get red helms and lieutenants get red helms with gold face plates. veterans from the first company are still white helm/white trim on the pauldrons (with a little tweak in my case as it's not pure white but rather silver mixed with white).

 

The only deviation is that my "assault" squads are the number 9 and 10 squads, and "devastator" are 7 and 8 because when I did the first one I failed to check beforehand... so instead it's part of the chapter identity : they follow a flawed version of the codex because a lowly copist made a typo while transcribing the codex

Edited 1 hour ago by Heraclite