Games Workshop Reading's store birthday is coming up on 1st November and
they're running a few events on the day, one of which is the good old
Create A Space Marine Chapter competition. Simple idea: come up with
a colour scheme, paint a Marine, write up a bit of background and
present all it on the day. I'm not normally one for in-store
competitions and the like but it occurred to me that this one could
serve a nice little purpose for me.
You
see, back in Third Edition when I started in the hobby I had a Chaos
Space Marine army, a fallen Sanguinary chapter called the Blades Of
Sanguinius. They looked, I will be frank, bloody terrible because I
was nineteen, had no idea how to paint and had no patience. They wore
pale red armour (Blood Red right over white undercoat, oh the days
before base paints...) with Midnight Blue trim and not much else.
They were technically Tzeentchian except I couldn't afford the metal
models for the daemons and back then you couldn't give generic Chaos
Marines the Mark of Tzeentch because it automatically turned them
into Thousand Sons.
You
know, every time I discuss the Third Edition Chaos Marine book I end
up wondering why I have such immense nostalgia for it. I remember
Chaos Lieutenants fondly, I liked that the rules actually allowed you
to give your Chaos Lord a greasy sidekick.
Anyway,
the thing with the Blades Of Sanguinius is I never really gave any
thought to what they looked like as loyalists (except that they were
red, being a Sanguinary chapter) so that's my pitch: design and enter
the loyal Blades. I've got a good starting point in that they'll be
mostly red, probably, and I've plenty of Death Company bits to make
the model visually interesting. I just have to be careful not to make
the colour scheme over-busy, which is the temptation and the trap of
these things.
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