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How taboo is it to have techmarines sporting their chapter's colors, rather than the Red setup that is usually portrayed? Is it just completely against the fluff, or is it just something that is usually, but not always, done? Would be going Dark Angels green on one, and Ravenwing black on a bike mounted version.

its fine to paint then how ever you like, i normally paint them in red or in my chapters colours with on red shoulder pad to give a nod to their profession.

there are no set rules to this hobby you can do what you like with you models

Yep, Lygris from Soul Drinkers, was Purple and Bone with red on shoulder guard, that chapter also had purple armoured Librarians also. Bottom line paint them anyway that pleases you.


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oops, actually i think it was a Red Helm that showed his training on Mars, (Not shoulder pads as i said above

One of the GW kits actually has chapter colours (UM) on his body armour for the box art. If you look at different chapter schemes, there is a tendency to swap colouring depending on colour similarity/clashes. This is especially noticeable with apothecarys, librarians, and techmarines. (I'm unsure about chaplain colour variations other than the black paint)
For example, only shoulder and knee pads could be done in the discipline colour, or the entire armour with the pads done in chapter colours.
I agree that as long as its easily distinguishable amongst the other miniatures, it's entirely to your taste - go crazy!

The "fluff" has them red because it's the color of Mars. Apothecaries are white and Librarians are blue. Paint them that way if you want. Or paint them however you want if you choose. There is no rule in the game telling you how to paint your plastic.

fluffwise i think it is even a practice ignored by many chapters

No you must only follow narrow painting parameters, each miniature is equipped with RFID circuitry that will alert a crack team of GW FineNinjas who will decend upon you with the fury of a thousand suns and beat you senseless with a herring until you conform to standard painting practices!

xraytango wrote:
No you must only follow narrow painting parameters, each miniature is equipped with RFID circuitry that will alert a crack team of GW FineNinjas who will decend upon you with the fury of a thousand suns and beat you senseless with a herring until you conform to standard painting practices!

It's True I heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from a guy whose brother in law had it happen to them.

I paint my masters of the forge I chapter colors with red on the shoulder. I paint my regular tech marines red with normal legion shoulder markings. You're fine either way.

Obviously, no one is going to hunt you down if you paint a Techmarine your own way. Fluffwise, it depends on the Chapter. The 2nd Ed. Dark Angel codex was very specific about the placement of the Chapter and Mechanicus icons, but not armour colour. After that, each codex has stated that Dark Angels Techmarines wear red armour, with the Dark Angels symbol on the left shoulder and the mechanicus symbol on the right. Apparently there are no dedicated Ravenwing Techmarines (hence they have never benefited from the Ravenwing special rules when they purchase a bike). I am about to convert and paint one up myself (on a bike with a power field generator) and I am doing him red with a black Ravenwing bike. Whatever you do, I wish you the best of luck. Happy painting!

 M4cr0Dutch wrote:
Obviously, no one is going to hunt you down if you paint a Techmarine your own way. Fluffwise, it depends on the Chapter. The 2nd Ed. Dark Angel codex was very specific about the placement of the Chapter and Mechanicus icons, but not armour colour. After that, each codex has stated that Dark Angels Techmarines wear red armour, with the Dark Angels symbol on the left shoulder and the mechanicus symbol on the right. Apparently there are no dedicated Ravenwing Techmarines (hence they have never benefited from the Ravenwing special rules when they purchase a bike). I am about to convert and paint one up myself (on a bike with a power field generator) and I am doing him red with a black Ravenwing bike. Whatever you do, I wish you the best of luck. Happy painting!

Techmarines are not assigned to companies, they are assigned to the armory.

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 M4cr0Dutch wrote:
Obviously, no one is going to hunt you down if you paint a Techmarine your own way. Fluffwise, it depends on the Chapter. The 2nd Ed. Dark Angel codex was very specific about the placement of the Chapter and Mechanicus icons, but not armour colour. After that, each codex has stated that Dark Angels Techmarines wear red armour, with the Dark Angels symbol on the left shoulder and the mechanicus symbol on the right. Apparently there are no dedicated Ravenwing Techmarines (hence they have never benefited from the Ravenwing special rules when they purchase a bike). I am about to convert and paint one up myself (on a bike with a power field generator) and I am doing him red with a black Ravenwing bike. Whatever you do, I wish you the best of luck. Happy painting!

Techmarines are not assigned to companies, they are assigned to the armory.

That was my point. A Dark Angels Techmarine has no reason, fluffwise, to be painted black (unless it is a Deathwatch Techmarine - I have one of these ).

I painted mine in a deep metallic blue, rather then the normal ultramarine blue of his battle brothers. Never a big fan of the red look. Like all things GW, take what fluff you like and ignore the rest.

It's not like anyone is going to mistake the guy with the servo-harness for a tactical marine anyway.

Semi-thread hijack. So I'm painting an Imperial Fist Stormtalon, going strictly fluff/codex paint him red with IF iconography?

No. You must paint them mars red. If you don't GW will storm your house, beat you, your cat and your cat's dog, and sue everyone in the house and all of your neighbours for permitting this atrocity to happen and have you criminally charged.

On a serious note, If you are ace at identifying models on the fly, and don't need color coding, then, paint him bright pink with orange highlights and yellow polkadots for all i care. Over time you do contract the preference for painting specialists like marines and librarians and sergeants a certain color, but i have a sneaking suspicion it has much more to do with the fact that it's easy to pick out the rust-red model out of a gaggle of green marines.....

you could go as subtle as just the one shoulder's rim and gear icon is painted rust-red, and everything is as normal for your army, or go all out rust-red and just the inside color of the blank pauldron is painted army color, and everything else in-between.

Mine is dark red with a blue shoulder pad and blue knee pad to show he's a smurf techy.

I like to paint them in ruddy metallics. A Copper/Brass/Gold with some deep green verdigris (for Dark Angels especially) looks quite nice, and IMO fluffy for aeons-worked, customised, specialist armour. You know, I should pull my fist out and actually finish one of my half-painted ones!

Of course, I do my Librarians in Chapter colours, stck with blacks for the chaplaincy, and mostly-white for Medics.

Only if your Chapter is Codex Specific. Mine are Red in my Emperor's Pryde but chapter colors in my other marine army.

Mine was painted in chapter colours except for his pauldrons.
They were done in a mechrite red tones.

Not all chapters are that slavish to the codex.