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Hi all,

i'm currently in the process of making an Honour Guard squad for my Imperial Fists army, but have a question regarding the painting/fluff to go with them. After consulting the SM codex organisation chart, i notice that the honour guard of the ultramarines is listed under the command section, as a result, would i be right in saying that the would have no specific trim colour i.e the rest of my army which is red to denote the third company.

if that is the case, would it be best to go with the same yellow trim as the main armour colour, or would something like gold be more appropriate?

thanks in advance!

Mike.

As they belong to no specific company I would agree with you (I do the same with my marines) but their armour would be suitably ornate (plenty of silver and gold ect).

I'd think that the honor guard would be taken from among the ranks of the Veterans of the 1st Company, and thus would keep the white trim. (At least, in the Ultras. Not sure about the Imperial Fists.)

hi guys,

thanks for your advice, i went with plain in the end - after much debating in my mind!

turned out ok in the end tho, he even made the games-workshop.com website!!

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=10500066a

many thanks

Mike.

That's a cool mini right there.

Don't like the diorama beside it... should be guardsmen, I somehow can't imagine Marines raising an Imperial Aquila...

Yeah, i feel like it should be guardsmen.


i really like that imperial fist space marine! i was thinking of even playing around with those colors myself

go on, you know you want to yellow definitely stands out