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I'm drumming up a new chapter, and was fooling around with B&C's SM Painter for an hour or so before finally settling on a color scheme I liked. It looked great, it would've been relatively easy to paint, and it had black as a primary color, which is what I was going for.

Then I realized I'd basically morphed the uniform worn by the Oakland Raiders* into power armor. Had to give up and abandon the project entirely. What makes it worse is, I had the same problem a year ago, only with the Atlanta Falcons*.

Does anyone else do that - realize a paint job reminds you of some real-world uniform or reference, and give it up entirely - or should I give up on normalcy now and move into a big house with twenty cats?



*For my friends across the pond, these are both American professional football teams.

I don't suppose you think the Ravenguard and BT scheme also echos the Raiders. its not a bad thing.


Side Note: you don't like Football???? and you call yourself an American

Football is STUPID. Hockey is where it's at.

at first I was like "WTF???" and then I say your location

Grey Templar wrote:I don't suppose you think the Ravenguard and BT scheme also echos the Raiders. its not a bad thing.


Side Note: you don't like Football???? and you call yourself an American

Nah. Raiders are black and silver. BT's fine, as is the RG.

coolyo294 wrote:Football is STUPID. Hockey is where it's at.

This man speaks truth. I'm a Capitals fan...which means I'll inevitably come up with a dark blue greaves, crimson upper armor paint scheme some day and be halfway done coating my Marines in it when I realize where I saw it before.

Ultramarines are the Colts, what else is new?

Just because your chapter looks like a sports team doesn't mean you should ditch it - if I recall correctly, the Howling Griffons chapter is a color scheme patterned off a college sports team in the UK.

yup, I definitly saw a paralell the Super Bowl before last.

Ultramarines vs the Sisters of Battle.

Beh, football is for wusses.

Rugby is the same thing, only you're not wearing spandex and armour ;0)

without that armor they would quite possably kill each other.

as it is, Broken bones, torn muscles, and ligiments are standard. these guy's bodies are ruined by the time they are 30.

I do admit, Rugby is fun to watch and has alot more action.


Soccer is boring. you play for hours on end for all of 1-3 points. not very interesting. I want something I can't take my eyes away from for even a second.

Rugby is likely more violent than Football. I have played both. I want to play Bloodbowl for real, dammit

The games are pretty similar. There have been Rugby fatalities and crippling injuries. The impacts are the same, and the guys are the same size (or larger.. some of the guys i used to play agaisnt could have given Ghazzy a run for his money.. ).

Soccer, blech. Pass me a pillow

I like watching women's soccer for obvious reasons.

Your all wrong Parkour is where it is at! Mates we can do backflips off buildings and you guys have to run across an entire grass field! (no offense XD that is what it is and I call football, handball mostly hands, and no kicking except for field goals.)
But anyway, its not a problem just change it a bit and there ya go new chapter

Everything's a color scheme similar to another; no matter how ridiculous. The question is how willing are you to look at your guys and get reminded of what they are similar to?

Asherian Command wrote:Your all wrong Parkour is where it is at! Mates we can do backflips off buildings and you guys have to run across an entire grass field! (no offense XD that is what it is and I call football, handball mostly hands, and no kicking except for field goals.)
But anyway, its not a problem just change it a bit and there ya go new chapter

Its called Football becaus the ball is a foot long.

yay for ambigious names

And baseball was invented during the civil war..

Pull another one

Grey Templar wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:Your all wrong Parkour is where it is at! Mates we can do backflips off buildings and you guys have to run across an entire grass field! (no offense XD that is what it is and I call football, handball mostly hands, and no kicking except for field goals.)
But anyway, its not a problem just change it a bit and there ya go new chapter

Its called Football becaus the ball is a foot long.

yay for ambigious names

wow your the first American to not start the sentence by saying this.

NOT A SPORT! = Parkour. Its not a sport, its a discipline/activity., just like martial arts.

Don't worry OP If you check out my chapters, one of them looks like my high school's colors. Which was by pure accident XD except the name Wild cats = My high school's mascot.

The real creepy thing about my Marines is that they, by pure accident, are basically painted in the colors of the Wermacht.

I thought Codex Grey looked really cool and utilitarian.


then I made a chapter symbol. basically a 4 armed spiral, sometimes with a Maltese Cross in the center.

then I when my friends all said "look, Nazi marines"


another guy painted his marines in Red, White, and Blue.

we had many games of Amerimarines vs the Space Nazis untill he decided to do a serious color scheme.

Grey Templar wrote:The real creepy thing about my Marines is that they, by pure accident, are basically painted in the colors of the Wermacht.

I thought Codex Grey looked really cool and utilitarian.


then I made a chapter symbol. basically a 4 armed spiral, sometimes with a Maltese Cross in the center.

then I when my friends all said "look, Nazi marines"


another guy painted his marines in Red, White, and Blue.

we had many games of Amerimarines vs the Space Nazis untill he decided to do a serious color scheme.

Oh dear that sounds awesome. It sounds like the Space Marine cow Army i face one time oh my that was funny.
Poke dot white and black and pink bellies hehehe

As a Brit,we have proper football, where you play with your feet.

But I hate that as well.

On the original point, sort of. All my paint schemes look like knock-offs of a GW chapter or equielant group.

Ive done that too. I dont really watch football but I liek the orange and blue color scheme. However anytime I use it or suggest it im asked if i am a Gators fan cause i live in florida

Wow, look at all the nerds hating on football. Methinks it's time for the lot of you to be stuck back into your lockers again!

Seriously though, a former roommate of mine managed to cook up (HA!) a color scheme for his "Phoenix Guard" Space Marines that made them all resemble McDonalds French Fry boxes. He was so embarrassed once we pointed it out to him that his next Chapter's color scheme was black on black (with a hint of midnight blue piping), no highlights and red eyepieces.

I'm guessing that you mean crummy "football" play with your hands football rather than proper football play with your foot football

i'm not a big fan of either but i don't see whats wrong with your colour scheme just because its a football team

coolyo294 wrote:Football is STUPID. Hockey is where it's at.

While hockey is clearly the greatest sport on Earth this thread kinda makes me want to make some Detroit Lions Marines so every time I lose it'll be fluffy.

Despite what my location says I'm originally from Michigan, which gives me the right to pick on the Lions

JamesMclaren123 wrote:I'm guessing that you mean crummy "football" play with your hands football rather than proper football play with your foot football

Hey now, there's nothing wrong with Gaelic football

tuebor wrote:

coolyo294 wrote:Football is STUPID. Hockey is where it's at.

While hockey is clearly the greatest sport on Earth this thread kinda makes me want to make some Detroit Lions Marines so every time I lose it'll be fluffy.

Despite what my location says I'm originally from Michigan, which gives me the right to pick on the Lions

JamesMclaren123 wrote:I'm guessing that you mean crummy "football" play with your hands football rather than proper football play with your foot football

Hey now, there's nothing wrong with Gaelic football

Theres a Gaelic football. :O then they are crummy too if they play with their hands and not their feet.

SkaerKrow wrote:Wow, look at all the nerds hating on football. Methinks it's time for the lot of you to be stuck back into your lockers again!

Seriously though, a former roommate of mine managed to cook up (HA!) a color scheme for his "Phoenix Guard" Space Marines that made them all resemble McDonalds French Fry boxes. He was so embarrassed once we pointed it out to him that his next Chapter's color scheme was black on black (with a hint of midnight blue piping), no highlights and red eyepieces.

Who is going to mess with a urban ninja especially if i am 6 feet tall and my brother was a footballl player, so naturally i hate it. Because every sport my brother played was stupid to me, because he was good at it.
And that is lol
You should see this.

My wild cats Chapter....

Here is a schools colors...


My Sons of the Phoenix....

Then a football....


I am pissed about that.

Okay, all the football vs football nonsense aside, don't worry about the color thing OP. Most wargamers don't know every color scheme for every pro sports team (regardless of sport or nationality). Some of them are going to be similar, even by accident. (Blood Angels - Cardinals, Crimson Fists - Cubs. Hmm...if you put a Blood Angels army against the Crimson Fists, do the Blood Angels do a lot of steroids and then lose anyway?)

Joking aside, if you came up with it on your own, and it bears a resemblance to something in real life, I wouldn't sweat it unless A) it bears a resemblance to something ridiculous. Or B) it resembles something copyrighted. And even in the second case I wouldn't worry about it unless you are getting paid for your work. And maybe not even then. (Seems to work out for Disney ok...)

I hate "real" football (football with a foot) because of all the dramaticism, and the pathetic nature of the fools playing it. (on and off the pitch)

Where it's at.

JamesMclaren123 wrote:Theres a Gaelic football. :O then they are crummy too if they play with their hands and not their feet.

The only way I can describe Gaelic football would be if basketball, association football and American football had a baby.

The more I think about it the more I like the idea of a Lions themed Chapter. I could have an Ironclad Dreadnought named Brother Suh and a either a bike squad sergeant or an assault squad sergeant named Brother Sanders.

JamesMclaren123 wrote:I hate "real" football (football with a foot) because of all the dramaticism, and the pathetic nature of the fools playing it. (on and off the pitch)

Theres and old saying: "Football is a gentleman's game played by ruffians, and rugby is a ruffian's game played by gentlemen." and it holds true today more than ever.

Also I've played for both rugby and American football (as it's called over here) clubs, and I have to say the reason for that padding is that rugby is a contact sport and you're tackling from the sides and back, but AF more of a collision sport! You hit someone collarbone to collarbone at full tilt without padding and you'll hear some nice snappy noises