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Hi all, I need some advice. I'm nearly finished painting my Captain for a force of BA successors and I needed a way of making him stand out from the Sanguinary Guard/VV that he will run with. They have gold helmets which as a Captain he should have as well, I decided that I would give him a gold eagle on his chest plate/jumppack harness, a gold helmet and a crest but rather than go with the normal horse hair style I decided to go with something a little more unique. The heraldry of the chapter includes barbs (like you can hopefully see in the chapter symbol) so it seemed like a logical thing to use, originally I was going to make them out of plasticard but then by chance while buying some bits from bitsandkits I came across a Ork shoulder pad that had some, I grabbed it, filed it down and chopped it up and this is the WIP result.



So got some paint on the head tonight and I need some help deciding if I should continue the white stripe onto the helmet itself not just the crest. I'm not talking about the front of the face plate but just the top of the head, kind of like on the Minotaur but also being below the crest not just on his "forehead" :



What do you think should I do it or leave it as is?

I went and played with it, he still needs to be varnished but this is pretty much the end result:

Looks good to me, notably something different and rather brutal looking as well. I imagine he headbutts with it?

Thanks, he's certainly a bit different from his bodyguard now. I was more thinking he removes it and fights bareheaded and uses it as a weapon!