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ZacktheChaosChild wrote:
Where it's at.

Son, I am dissapoint.

There is no greater showing of skill and strategy than beach volleyball. Observe:



Or, should I say Strategery?

See I love football, but my first Tau paint job came out looking just like the Chicago Bears, and you just can't have that. No not one bit.

Sky57 wrote:See I love football, but my first Tau paint job came out looking just like the Chicago Bears, and you just can't have that. No not one bit.

I'm a little curious how you got the Tau to look like the Bears.

Another one that occurred to me that I cannot do: Black with yellow trim, despite it looking awesome. It's a triple-threat. Steelers, Pittsburgh in general, and that damn Wiz Khalifa song.

That, and I can't paint yellow, anyway.

You're just mad because the Macragge Colts lost to the Inquisitorial Saints!
WHO DAT!!

Tampa bay bucs... the old school bucs

Creamsickle uniforms and an impish looking symbol with a winking buccaneer. It may remind you of football but it would make for a gayly colored army.

Luckily I haven't done this with 40k yet, but I did make a character on Champions Online in the colours of my local big team. I didn't realise for a good while, but what is seen... She had to be recostumed :(

This goes to show we really need to think hard before settling on colours.

any color scheme you choose will invariable be the colors of some sports team somewhere, it is unavoidable, just paint int he colors you like and if somebody likens them to a sports team just point out how few colors go together or how many other teams use the same colors

Now that I think about it, the Marine Chapter that I started (but abandoned later for Guard) was colored similar to the Atlanta Falcons.

A big reason why people find that they gravitate towards "sports team" colors is because sports teams usually pick complimentary color schemes that are pleasing to the eye, and we as hobbyists gravitate towards those same pleasing combinations when we begin work on an army. There's a reason why no football team (or Space Marine Chapter) has mustard and hot pink as their color scheme: it would look terrible.

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

Here here!!

It is hard to be impressed by a sport where the teams play 16 games in a season and only play once a week. I might take it more seriously if they played at least twice a week...

Of course hockey players have a totally different attitude to their sport anyway. In the NBA or MLB a player gets a sore finger and they don't play for a week. In hockey a player can almost have his ear ripped completely off in the first period, have it sewn back up in the second period and be on the bench to play in the third period.

Skriker

Skriker wrote:

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

Here here!!

It is hard to be impressed by a sport where the teams play 16 games in a season and only play once a week. I might take it more seriously if they played at least twice a week...

Of course Tracuers have a totally different attitude to their sport anyway. In the NBA or MLB a player gets a sore finger and they don't play for a week. In Tracuer can almost die if he fails,

Skriker

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Parkour is where its at! No team colors just whatever the hell you wear you wear.

Asherian Command wrote:

Skriker wrote:

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

Here here!!

It is hard to be impressed by a sport where the teams play 16 games in a season and only play once a week. I might take it more seriously if they played at least twice a week...

Of course Tracuers have a totally different attitude to their sport anyway. In the NBA or MLB a player gets a sore finger and they don't play for a week. In Tracuer can almost die if he fails,

Skriker

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Parkour is where its at! No team colors just whatever the hell you wear you wear.

thats a martial art. so its in a league of its own.

kinda like Fencing, the most unique martiel art and perhaps the most refined.

Grey Templar wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:

Skriker wrote:

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

Here here!!

It is hard to be impressed by a sport where the teams play 16 games in a season and only play once a week. I might take it more seriously if they played at least twice a week...

Of course Tracuers have a totally different attitude to their sport anyway. In the NBA or MLB a player gets a sore finger and they don't play for a week. In Tracuer can almost die if he fails,

Skriker

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Parkour is where its at! No team colors just whatever the hell you wear you wear.

thats a martial art. so its in a league of its own.

kinda like Fencing, the most unique martiel art and perhaps the most refined.

Yep it is, its a social disclipine and martial art all in one.

This guy had no problem with it:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/338849.page

On the OP, unless you truely can't stand it, I'd say go for the color scheme. There's nothing new under the sun.
As for the football debate, I believe Giles sums it up for me: "I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby."

Asherian Command wrote:

Grey Templar wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:

Skriker wrote:

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

Here here!!

It is hard to be impressed by a sport where the teams play 16 games in a season and only play once a week. I might take it more seriously if they played at least twice a week...

Of course Tracuers have a totally different attitude to their sport anyway. In the NBA or MLB a player gets a sore finger and they don't play for a week. In Tracuer can almost die if he fails,

Skriker

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Parkour is where its at! No team colors just whatever the hell you wear you wear.

thats a martial art. so its in a league of its own.

kinda like Fencing, the most unique martiel art and perhaps the most refined.

Yep it is, its a social disclipine and martial art all in one.

Refixed.

Grey Templar wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:

Skriker wrote:

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

Here here!!

It is hard to be impressed by a sport where the teams play 16 games in a season and only play once a week. I might take it more seriously if they played at least twice a week...

Of course Tracuers have a totally different attitude to their sport anyway. In the NBA or MLB a player gets a sore finger and they don't play for a week. In Tracuer can almost die if he fails,

Skriker

Fixed
Parkour is where its at! No team colors just whatever the hell you wear you wear.

thats a martial art. so its in a league of its own.

kinda like Fencing, the most unique martiel art and perhaps the most refined.

Oh yeah its all about fencing

CoI wrote:
As for the football debate, I believe Giles sums it up for me: "I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby."

Rugby players already start out about 100 pounds less than football players, and they're much slower. F=ma.

I'm a fan of rugby, so I'm not hating on it when I say this but... If you took a professional NFL team and put them on a rugby pitch against rugby players, without the gear, the rugby guys would get murdered. The rugby guys would have a huge skill advantage because they know the game, but they just wouldn't last long. And I think rugby and ice hockey players are about the toughest SOBs in professional sports, it's just that NFL players are bigger, stronger, and faster.

But all the really big guys will be out of air after running less than 40 yards.......unfortunately for them Rugby involves running more than 40 yards.

Not talking about running backs and receivers mind, but those aren't the really big guys, are they now?

Rugby obviously requires more stamina, while football requires more explosive energy.

Keep in mind that I love American Football.

Speaking of hockey, my friend invented a colour scheme and played with it until I pointed out it's exactly the same as the LA Kings scheme. He kept it anyway because how many people in the UK would even know who the LA Kings are.


Oh, and Gaelic football is what would happen if soccer, rugby and bar brawling had a baby.

Cerebrium wrote:
Oh, and Gaelic football is what would happen if soccer, rugby and bar brawling had a baby.

Spoken like a man who has never watched Gaelic.


I'm a big fan of football (the soccer one) Tottenham super Spurs for life! I find american football to be boring, I much prefer rugby. Never really watched hockey.

Oh, sorry, I was thinking of Aussie-rules football.

bah, Fencing is much more interesting then any other sport, but you have to be familier with it to make any sense out of it(and instant replay is mandatory)