So, the
other day I was going to buy the Easy Build Plague Marines and, of
course, it occurred to me that it'd be useful to also pick up the
Easy Build Poxwalkers, as well. After all, thought I, they are a unit
that gains models through combat so it would help to have a couple
extra bodies knocking around.
Of course,
when you start thinking like that its a slippery slope and you think
“What's five pounds more for the big set?” After all, it gets me
a little cardboard scenery and a mini-rulebook. I do like a
mini-rulebook or, rather, my arms and back like a mini-rulebook when
I'm lugging my army down to the local store.
And I get
six Primaris Marines, after all that other stuff effectively for free
(shut up, I'm rationalising).
Frankly, its
the perfect opportunity to do some colour tests to see whether a
different palette makes me more interested in the Primaris designs.
Its not that I hate them, they just don't quite inspire me yet. So, a
few ideas I want to test:
Intercessor
#1: Fire Hawks
Unlike most
chapters on this list the Fire Hawks aren't here because I
particularly like their background. In all honesty, I barely remember
any of it. I remember that they're a Cursed Founding chapter and
that's about it. I assume they have a thing for flamer weapons but
that's a wild stab in the dark. Rather, they're on here purely for
how pretty they look. They have orange-brown armour with freehand
yellow flames painted on them. That's cool.
I've always
suspected that Space Marines might look good in orange and not only
does this work as a test case but I get to practice some simple
freehand, which is an area I have been meaning to improve on for a
long time now.
Intercessor
#2: Angels Revenant
One of those
great colour schemes that Forge World periodically creates for
chapters that just die out in the first few pages of an Imperial
Armour story but I reckon the Ultima Founding will have resurrected a
few chapters using archived gene-seed so here we are. Also,
resurrecting a dead chapter saves on having to come up with new
names, colur schemes and such and the Imperium is nothing if not
ultimately a really lazy bureaucracy.
Anyway,
royal purple armour with bone elements, I love the contrast and I
think deep purple is one of those colours that will really sell the
idea of Primaris Marines as glorious agents of the Emperor. I feel
these models, free from much of the crusty ostentation of normal
Space Marines, might benefit from a really clean and artificial
colour scheme.
Intercessor
#3: Celestial Lions
Speaking of
the congenitally screwed: the Celestial Lions. I have some Custodes
that I've been meaning to get to for a while so a chance to test out
gold armour methods would be welcome. Also, the bright blue on the
shoulder armour is something I want to test myself against as getting
a good, solid bright blue is a colour I've struggled with a lot. I'm
thinking of adapting a method the Dark Imperium building guide
recommends for plasma coils.
On the
subject of potential futures, there's a history of the Lions working
with the Black Templars so they could appear as an allied detachment
to my beloved Black Templars.
Reiver #1:
Raptors
I love the
Raptors for their very direct and very non-Codex attitude of
“whatever works”. Take command of local Imperial Guard regiments?
If it helps! Repaint your armour for camoflague? Not a bad idea!
In painting
terms, this is the least ambitious on the list. They wear camoflague
green armour and I could be lazy and just use the same all-purpose
green method I use on my Orks and Death Guard but there's a rather
good WarhammerTV video for an olive green Raptors armour I want to
try because I need more green methods so that everything in my Death
Guard doesn't look identical.
This will
definitely be the Reiver with the bare head because I want to
experiment with a pale flesh method to represent the pallid Raven
Guard fleshtone.
Reiver #2:
Exorcists
First of
bloody all, they're not blanks! I feel oddly strongly about this and
I don't know why, I read the Forge World background first where they
have a psyker brotherhood called the Orison of the Broken Tower, of
which their Badab special character is a member. Okay, rant over,
moving on...
If you're
detecting a little bias towards the chapters of the Badab War you are
not wrong. Those two books are my favourite Imperial Armour books in
terms of story and of all the chapters in that book the Exorcists are
the ones who grabbed my imagination the most. I love the idea of
having a chapter who are daemon hunting specialists but still perform
all the general functions of a Space Marine chapter. I actually,
briefly, had an Exorcists army but it was before I could paint even
as middlingly well as I do now.
Painting
opportunities here are to try a brighter red than I use on my Flesh
Tearers as well as perhaps trying to achieve a very, very dark grey
for the trim (I originally painted it black but looking at the
illustrations it is actually a grey).
Reiver #3:
Carcharadons (aka Space Sharks)
Oh, I love
the Carcharadons. For one thing they're an ultra-aggressive crusading
chapter who patrol the outer darkness of the galaxy fighting vaguely
defined supernatural menaces. They have mutated shark skin,
basically, as a result of corrupted Raven Guard gene-seed. Also, they
have what basically amounts to a monochromatic colour scheme going
from dark grey to light grey to off-white which looks amazingly cool.
Also, their armour has these markings based on Polynesian tattoos
which should be fun / frustrating to attempt.
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