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Hello Dakka Dakka! i've always come across the gallery section when painting in the past but now that I am actually playing (er...about to play), here I am in all my newby goodness.

Years ago I picked up the Dark Vengeance box set in an attempt to play but didn't really do anything with it. Now, I have most of the Dark Angels painted and a local Warhammer store to play. I have also been gifted with quite a few older space marine minis to help me build up my army.

They are all from the Horus Heresy boxed set (only the figures, none of the larger ones), half are painted just blue and the other half are just red. Being the painter that I am, I plan to repaint them ASAP.

Here is my conundrum...

1) If I re-paint these other minis in the color scheme of say...Ultramarines, does that mean I could not use them in a matched game with my Dark Angels army?

2) What CAN I do with these extra minis? I have quite a few..30 space marines with various weapons, 2 named characters (one has a mace) and a terminator squad (I think that's what they are) and I'm liking several different other space marine factions. I don't think I want to lock myself in with Dark Angels just because they are what I got from that boxed set.

3) The set has multiple duplicates of space marines with the same weapon. Could I take one of them, paint them to match my Dark Angels to help expand that army and paint the other to whatever other faction I choose?

4) My local game store says all I need are the free rules GW has available and a codex. I feel like if I bought the core rule book, many of my questions would be answered.

Thank you in advance for the help. I've been painting minis (GW and otherwise) for a really long time, but trying to actually get into playing the game is proving a little complicated.

Alright, here is my take away so far...

I should bring the minis as-is to the table as proxy's just to get a few games in and make sure I ACTUALLY like the game. And I can just use an Index for all my stats.

Then, once I'm comfortable with everything, choose a faction and go crazy with the painting?

Awesome! Thank you everyone for helping navigate. Time to get me an Index!

And for sake of clarity i would avoid same color scheme, different chapters or reverse. Makes it easiei. Especially that there#s no identical colour schemes with different rules. Those games i refuse as too much trouble than worth it.

Do you mind clarifying your clarification?