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A silly question I suppose but in terms of special characters for your SM armies do you paint them to match your chapter or their chapter of origin? For example Lysander is an Imperial Fist but he's an HQ in my Ultramarines army. Should I paint him in Fist colors (yellow, etc) or can I get away painting him in the Ultramarine blue without other players complaining or it just looking wring somehow? I can't quite decide which looks better or what the "rule" is for these characters.

Stravo wrote:A silly question I suppose but in terms of special characters for your SM armies do you paint them to match your chapter or their chapter of origin? For example Lysander is an Imperial Fist but he's an HQ in my Ultramarines army. Should I paint him in Fist colors (yellow, etc) or can I get away painting him in the Ultramarine blue without other players complaining or it just looking wring somehow? I can't quite decide which looks better or what the "rule" is for these characters.

I painted mine like in Knights of Blood Colours. I am not using him as Lysander but as a Captain. To each their own. I wouldn't let fluff get in the way of a nice looking army. Lysander is yellow would look out of place in a ultra marine army.

I'm painting them to match my army.

Stravo wrote:A silly question I suppose but in terms of special characters for your SM armies do you paint them to match your chapter or their chapter of origin? For example Lysander is an Imperial Fist but he's an HQ in my Ultramarines army. Should I paint him in Fist colors (yellow, etc) or can I get away painting him in the Ultramarine blue without other players complaining or it just looking wring somehow? I can't quite decide which looks better or what the "rule" is for these characters.

You can obviously do whatever you want. The codex encourages players to use any or all of the characters as your own special character... meaning you could file off the Imperial Fist logo, paint him blue, give him a name and call it a day...

For Lysander I shaved off the fist icons and replaced them with the U. for Vulcan, Pedro and Khan I painted a thunder hammer Termie squad, Strernguard and Bike Squad respectively to match them. They act as a body guard for the Character.

Yeah, just call him something different if you're worried about fluff. I've heard yellow is a to paint anyway.

I paint mine in my chapter colours.







The only model that's painted differently is Ragnar Blackmane, but that's cuz I got him off ebay and he was already painted magnificently so it would have been a shame for me to ruin him...