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Looking for some opinions on a few ideas
I have been building a SW army and wanted to add an Allied Detachment (excuse to paint more models! Lol). I'm gonna get some IG but I was also thinking of normal marines to use sometimes because I like the look of their flyer and I like the ironclad dread model.
Anyway... I ended up getting Dark vengeance as I needed 6th Ed rules anyway and figured I'd just get the set and have the models as a bonus.

I'm not totally sold on the DAs, lovely models but not sure what I make of the fluff and the green armour just doesn't rock my world, plus they don't get full battle brothers alliance with my SWs.

So could I just paint them how I want and run them as Vanilla marines or would that just look to weird because of all the DA markings etc? It all reminds me of Roman soldiers so I thought I could call them something like "the Preatoreans" and palm them off as normal marines that way.
(I don't wanna go carving off all the DA stuff BTW, models are to to pretty for that I think)

Failing that if I just run them as DAs would it maybe look odd painting them something other than green? Call it a successor chapter or something. Death and raven wing colours are fine its just the green I'm not to in love with.

OK so it seems people wouldn't really get all uptight about DA painted in different colours, but what about models with all the DA markings left on being played as normal SM? Yay or nay?

 pwntallica wrote:
I paint my bikers and terminators green also, because I'm not a fan of the bone white termies, and black seemed a little boring to me, plus I love the green colour

Direct opposite to me then lol I like the bone colour death wing and the black raven wing, but not green.
OK thanks guys I think that's made me mind up