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Hey Dakka!
I'm starting a Astral Claws, pre-heresy Space Marine army and i was wondering what you guys thought of this colour scheme for the basic marines. Should i make any changes to it? Please dont suggest anything too major because i want to stick to the fluff.

I would paint the metal to be a bit darker than in that picture. Feather the legs so it gradually gets brighter further down the leg. Maybe you could make the eyes brighter as well and experiment with some other eye colours. Maybe red or yellow?

Hopefully, this'll make them look a bit more dark and menacing than in the picture if you're painting them to be in the Badab War period or just before when the chapter is experiencing the first subtle stages of Chaos taint.

Well, for Pre-heresy I would do as Deathly Angel says and taper the color to make it brighter down the legs.

To make it unique, take a scalpel or x-acto or something and cut holes or claw marks into the armor. The Badab War was a nastyyyyy war. You can imagine that alot of their marines looked much different.

First, I'd work on building a custom Lugft Huron model on a Termie base or something, then build the marines around him.

Anyways, good choice on an army. I always liked Astral Claws.

Yeah, i just bought Lught Huron off Forge World, what a freakin sweet model. As soon as i saw it i had to have it.

How bout a NMM colour? Suggestions?

Regal Blue or Ultramarines Blue on the right shoulder. Maybe some sort of yellow somewhere. Its hard, cause I dont wanna break fluff for you haha.

You're using the Imperial Armour 9 I assume?
Its a very simple chapter, with not too many variations I've seen. I'm thinking converting is the only way to make it work.

And I haven't seen the FW one, but I soon will look haha

THIS is Lugft Huron from Forge World

I do find it interesting (if a little disappointing) that Forgeworld chose to go with a Lion for the Astral Claws, rather than a Tiger...

Yeah, then he would have been more adaptable to other chapters.

That wasn't actually my point...

Originally, the Astral Claws were called the Tiger Claws. While the name changed, it would have been nice for them to keep the tiger imagery, as a nod back to their roots.

o right. i was thinking of buying some mkII armour off forgeworld, but im not sure if its worth it. (bit pricey)

Norn King wrote:Hey Dakka!
Astral Claws, pre-heresy

They're a 10th founding chapter, aren't they? Pretty sure they weren't around for the heresy, much less before it

insaniak wrote:That wasn't actually my point...
Originally, the Astral Claws were called the Tiger Claws. While the name changed, it would have been nice for them to keep the tiger imagery, as a nod back to their roots.

The Tiger Claws still exist in canon, but they were secretly folded into the Astral Claws after some big disaster. If they had used a Tiger head for Lugft, it might have confused matters slightly.