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The only chapters officially depicted as having facefuzz are the Spacewolves and the mustachioed White scars (Please correct me if wrong, i think 'saul tarvitz' mite have a beard but i'm not certain). Obviously this is a bit (read 'very') Fluff Nazi but if i see another bearded blood angel model i will off myself. Facial hair makes space marines look too human and aside from the more feral chapters beards should be the preserve of the rugged imperial guard. I am not even sure it is in the fluff TBH but i imagine the space marines either genetically have no body hair as it wastes hormones or that they ritualistically shave themselves, as is common with warrior cultures in history.

Perkustin wrote:T...but if i see another bearded blood angel model i will off myself.

Dude, have some perspective.

I have to agree, beards very rarely look good on space marines outside these two chapters, though I have seen the rare example.

I had an image of a marine with a LAME limp bizkit goatee thanks for jogging my memory. WAIT! The imperial fists are the third most likely to have facial hair due to their more human geneseed.

This beard hatred will not go unanswered. Althought I do not have any blood angles, I do have Angry Marines. I will beard one of them tonight, just for you. He shall henceforth be known as Ragebeard, who was so angry upon being told that he looked like a fresh faced scout that he spontaneously grew a beard.

On the subject of Angry Marines with beards:

It;s not a model, but I think it's a good argument for imperial fist beards.

Mr Nobody wrote:It;s not a model, but I think it's a good argument for imperial fist beards.

The Dorn-stache. I love Aerion's work, he does a lot of great 40k stuff.

The Black Templar character Gerhardt had a beard in the comic series Damnation Crusade. Don't have a pic though.

It's a shame I don't have any open helmet space marines, otherwise they'd totally get the Walrus now.

Perkustin wrote:I had an image of a marine with a LAME limp bizkit goatee thanks for jogging my memory. WAIT! The imperial fists are the third most likely to have facial hair due to their more human geneseed.

HERESY!

All marines are human!

Facial hair isn't impossible, just because most of GW's depictions of SM tend to be bald and screaming they still are not commonly bald and there is a reason to wear a helmet ( dim that Sgt's voice down... ) so you can't know if he has a beard or not.



One more for the sons of Dorn:

Agreed about the BT. I think they look fine with beards myself.

Perkustin wrote:Obviously this is a bit (read 'very') Fluff Nazi

Its hard to be a fluff nazi when your standpoint is not that of the GW fluff and modelling department.

The ignorance and rage from the OP is... staggering to say the least.

I shall continue the tirade of counter-examples!

Toras Telion, and his old man beard:


The Devastator sergeant, with heretical five o'clock shadow:

Ok, first aesthetic tastes does not = fluff. I agree somewhat about the beards being out of place on a pretty-boy bunch like the Blood Angels, but that's different fro, saying that they're the province of 'feral' Chapters. A lot of what you might see as a lack of facial-hair being based on SM genetics, it may well be an facet of the discipline inherent to life of a Marine, and that the...well, beardy...people we see have the clout to have a bit of self-expression.

OR it could be the people that do beards in the sculpting department went nuts after a good job through the Fantast ranges and put their foot down over marine heads.

Commander Endova wrote:The ignorance and rage from the OP is... staggering to say the least.

Indeed. It's amazing how someone can be so mad for no reason, and so wrong, at the same time.

Orblivion wrote:On the subject of Angry Marines with beards:

Awesome! ...wait does that cloak say "Tempus Maximus?" I thought "Tempus" in Latin meant time?

ph34r wrote:

Commander Endova wrote:The ignorance and rage from the OP is... staggering to say the least.

Indeed. It's amazing how someone can be so mad for no reason, and so wrong, at the same time.

The chances of finding such a person on the internet must truly be astronomically small.

And yet here we are!

wow that 300 fist is amazing, can't believe i never saw that!

More Space Marines should have beards, having a beard is one of the most manly things. It's like owning a gun or never ever wearing pink.

Women love beards more than they love a mullet.

I unfortunately cannot grow a beard ...

Commander Endova wrote: The Devastator sergeant, with heretical five o'clock shadow

I haven't shaven today.. HERESY!
Now the real question is... Why don't i have more beard-squigs on my orks?

From the pages of Rogue Trader:

I think he's meaning something more like Grimnars whiskers(that sounds like an awesome weapon) as opposed to something urbane

Pilau Rice wrote:Women love beards more than they love a mullet.

You made my day!

WTF? I pay for my models...I spend the time and energy painting and modeling them...if I want to have sisters of battle or daemonettes with beards I'll do it...and if someone complains otherwise they are obviously too anal and need to take a chill.

Pilau Rice wrote:More Space Marines should have beards, having a beard is one of the most manly things. It's like owning a gun or never ever wearing pink.

Women love beards more than they love a mullet.

I unfortunately cannot grow a beard ...

Thats a signature quote, right there.