Painted up a test model tonight for my Rogue Trader Space Marine force (I hesitate to call it an "army" when I only have 25 models or so).I had always liked the Osprey-esque colour plates from the old 40K Compendium that illustrated the Space Marine chapters involved in the "Badab War", especially the kewl kamo on the Howling Griffons marine. So I broke out one of the RT metal Marines I'd primed earlier and tried it out.
Not bad, but didn't knock my socks off either. Certainly easy enough to paint - basecoat yellow, Dark Flesh and black for the camo, drybrush Boltgun Metal, Badab Black (fitting) wash on the metal, Devlan Mud wash on the rest, done. I think I'll try a model in the traditional quartered yellow and red scheme to see which I like better.
Your thoughts are welcome, too ;-)
That looks awesome - my vote is to stick with the camo pattern - those more formal reverse colour patterns look great on Brettonian Knights, and bizarre on Space Marines...
ReplyDeleteI dunno, the cammo, while very nice, looks like a variation of WWII German dot pattern. I actually prefer the GW Marines kicking ass wearing their bizarre rococo power armor festooned with all that whacky heraldry - it seems to better fit the 40K fluff. (Drop on planet, kill everything that looks heretical, dust off, polish kit .)
ReplyDeleteI look forward to seeing the test "heraldic" scheme.
ReplyDeleteI'm torn on the colour scheme. I really like the look of the camo. However, unless they're scouts, I think Space Marines (with all their back banners and stuff) don't care too much about hiding.