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I like Night Lords and I like Noise Marines. So one day a Night Lord company barge's Sarah Michelle Gellar field failed while traveling through the Warp and Slaanesh decided to corrupt them.

The question is how to paint them while still maintaining some of the identity of the Night Lords (basically, still looking moderately stealthy and scary). But also showing Slaanesh corruption and/or allegiance. They seem to be mutually exclusive unless done right...

Ideas

1. Replace midnight blue with midnight blue-purple

Seems okay, but doesn't grab me. I worry that too much purple (or pink) and I look too much like the Emperor's Children. Whereas the more I go towards a blue-ish purple, you kinda don't notice that it's different from regular NL.

2. Replace gold trim with purple trim.

Actually looks interesting. But have to take away a lot of the red as it clashes with the purple. Does it still remind you of the NL, or no?

3. Replace the red with pink/purple.

Might work, but I can't really tell the effect because there are no bat ears and no symbols.

But wait... This idea looks really well exemplified here http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JOcnGjgPhZQ/TjPv49wJgJI/AAAAAAAAALM/gGmBY4W9soc/s1600/Konrad%2BCurze%2Bfinal%2Bsmall.jpg

4. ?

But I'm sure you guys have even better ideas!





(Also I am really tempted to paint my Noise Marines like the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh)

Maybe just Slaanesh symbols/mutations? IIRC the NL weren't really into the Chaos gods, and if they were, they tried to hide it. However, I think #3 would be the best if you wanted some pink on the models. Maybe a royal purple would be better?

Lucarikx

Thanks for the advice!

I played around a lot more and found out that having just the shoulder trims without armor trim looks rather stealthy. Whereas with full gold trim, it seems to look better with a brighter blue, again based on this Konrad Curze pic. I'm aware that the pink in that pic is probably due to lighting or just artistic preference, but it shows that the color scheme works, I think.

So for the ostentatious Lords and Champions:
or

And regular marines may look more like:


I try out Royal Purple

but I don't think it works well. I think the Red in the original NL color scheme is important in conveying a sense of blood and death. Changing Red to Pink lessens that feeling but is still a terrorizingly in-your-face color, that looks like a Slaaneshi perversion of the redness of blood (if that makes any sense). The purple version seems to be a lot less striking.


I'm quite aware that the NL don't approve of Chaos worship, though I appreciate the warning. But you don't choose when you get corrupted by Chaos, case in point the Death Guards and the Destroyer virus. So First Claw wants my head, who cares :p

Plus I always like to be a little unique (often my undoing). A *little* twist seems to spice things up. I also had the idea that there would be two (political?) factions in the warband... One group that is pro-Slaanesh, while the other is the staunch anti-Chaos-worship type. That doesn't really work if they get corrupted while travelling through the warp. Unless the latter group was deployed at the time?

Edit: Actually I just realized... The Night Lords basically have the worst recruits - gangsters, thieves, murderers. You'd think they'd be the first to be Chaos corrupted. I suppose the ones that hate Chaos worship are probably Terran. I read somewhere that the NL were originally for Khorne, but I don't really want a one-dimensional CC army unfortunately.