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Scouts in 'tactical' colour schemes - good thing, or faux pas? I'm torn... Part of me wants to do my Scouts in a 'low-vis' colourway, as my Marines are bright red (Blood Angel/Raven Guard-stylee). Seems daft to try and infiltrate in those colours.

I'm debating running with a black/midnight blue highlights scheme, and doing low-vis Chapter icon and squad marking in blue/grey. This should be similar to how modern day troops run patches like these instead of bright coloured ones:


Reckon it would look cool, or just disjointed as part of the whole? Should I still do one red pad as a concession to visual coherence?


(And as a random aside, I know the tactical, Assault, Devastator and Veteran markings - what are the Command Squad ones and the Scout ones? Is Command a skull, and is there a Scout icon? Just trying to decipher the Forgworld transfer sheet...)

I have seen Skull and the Terminator Crux as command squad markings, but it can also depend on the actual force. I don't think there is a specific Scout marking though.

What chapter are you playing?

 d-usa wrote:
What chapter are you playing?

Homebrew, I guess. No icon decided on as yet, commander is this fellow if it helps:


Regular marines have red pads with yellow trim, vets have white pads and white helmet. Bikers will have orange pad trim. keeping it codex, baby. They're intended to be a Scout-heavy force due to heavy losses vs Tyranids. My Vets have lots of claw marks intheir armour as a reult!

Well, homebrew could be pretty much anything you want then. I know you mentioned Forge World transfers, so I didn't know if you were using a particular force.

I paint my scouts in camo, without unit or chapter markings. There are a few reasons for this (both in/out of game):

1: It lets me use them with my Ultramarines or Blood Angels (when I still played BA)
2: Their job is to gather information, not distribute it, so un-marked scouts don't give anyone who observes them any details
3: As initiates, they have not yet earned the rights to the chapter heraldry.

This worked fine until last month when I picked up Sgt. Talion. Who has multiple "U"s and company markings on him. I painted them black. The rest of the model is goblin/dark angels green base with bestial brown and chaos black camo (splotches on the hard armor/cloak, tiger stripes on the pants/sleeves)

I was on the fence weather or not do do the "tactical" black markings, or just the normal bright ones. After all, I paint an impression of camouflage, not actual effective camo, so there are plenty of other details that pop out and would earn you a sniper's bullet if worn in an actual war zone.

I think it turned out fine.

Edit: Picture