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So I've been collecting Primaris Marines through chance purchases and such, and now with Indomitus I feel it's time to paint them.

I've gone through several ideas and themes but nothing quite sticks like the idea of a bunch of Mongol Marines hunting the foe. The problem i run into is replicating or creating a color scheme that works, or finding bits to make them look even better.

On the color scheme front I wanted to do a leather base, iron on some of the armour plates, and red under-armor and accents, but it's rather lacking, so I've come here for help.

And for bits I know the HH White Scars have some interesting kits but they don't really gel with primaris.

Any help on either aspect would help enormously, thanks for reading

There's not many East/Central Asian faces on the market that would suit marines unfortunately. Leather, furs, and topknots are probably the way to go

I try to keep helmets on, so thats okay. Do you think Space Wolf bits would work if i green stuffed in the runes and took off some of the wolf stuff?

Puppetswar has some stuff that might help, for example:
https://puppetswar.eu/models-and-bits-50/all-bits/heads/loyal-daimyo-helmets.html
https://puppetswar.eu/models-and-bits-50/all-bits/shoulder-pads/hi-scales-shoulder-pads.html
https://puppetswar.eu/models-and-bits-50/all-bits/shoulder-pads/hi-bushi-shoulder-pads.html
Also this Shapeways store if you should decide to use faces:
https://www.shapeways.com/product/EHEL7E36K/warfaces-2-asian-nbsp-male

Oh those are nice, those scales might work well.

The bushi shoulder pads could be turned upside down and used as tassets

I would take a different approach. Instead of top knots and fur coats, Id go modern.
Best example is the Yakuza gangs - You have a modern group of characters with very strong and deep connection to the culture and the history!

So think of Mongols same way, you have high-tech advanced characters with same strong connection to culture and history.
Good inspiration for that modern/culture is HU
And Starwars, and how cultureal costumes are done in scifi environment. Mongolian wedding dress for example
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/503066220872108813/

Look at the clothes, the details, hair styles, patterns, jewelry

I have seen a decent conversion replacing the Marine shoulder pads with Tau shoulder pads. For heads they used green stuff to fill in the back of the helmets with a neck covering and used a pin to score simple plate shapes in it.

Cheers,

CB

Wow! Thanks for the advice, those are both excellent ideas. I'll do some more research on a more modern out look

Glad I could help.

More east asian bits:
https://bitsofwar.com/prime-legionaries/26-cyber-samurai-heads.html
https://bitsofwar.com/prime-legionaries/27-cyber-samurai-backpacks.html
https://bitsofwar.com/dragonborn/1187-prime-legionary-dragonborn-body.html
(The bodies are intended for Salamanders, but they could fit for a mongol vibe and are Primaris sized)

I did mine with big ogre arms and Greenstuff mongol helmets and chaos warrior cloaks. The greenstuff on the helmets was dead simple. If interested ask and I'll give a brief tutorial. Note, i do not claim to be an expert...





More pics in my gallery and here:
https://edwardmystcreations.weebly.com/space-leopards.html

Really cool models, edwardmyst

I love the idea! I think you could play them off the Space Wolf Codex, and have some great "counts as" characters.

You could try to make count's as thunderwolves to have cavalry into this.

I think a couple of re-occuring things sprinkled across units would be great:

Flags (but the tall rectangles, not a normal flag)
Wooden Shields instead of storm shields
Trying to find some mongolian inspired swords and pikes (some links on this thread seem to show interesting bits for this.

So after some more research I've come across a good color scheme.

And for the models themselves I'm going to use these bits (For Assault/Normal Intercessors):

Shoulders: https://puppetswar.eu/models-and-bits-50/all-bits/shoulder-pads/scales-shoulder-pads.html

Weapons: https://puppetswar.eu/models-and-bits-50/all-bits/infantry-weapons/dadao-swords-right.html

Shields possibly: https://www.shapeways.com/product/WKSZSTDS6/barbarian-round-shield-strom-shield-mongolian-a?optionId=138556508&li=marketplace

Then I'm going to use a mix of Space Wolf furs and maybe other bits to add.

The main thing I need to figure out how to do now is get tassets on them, much like the Ebon Keshig or Qin Xa from FW

And thank you all for the help its greatly appreciated

Could these help:
https://victoriaminiatures.com/collections/backpacks-pouches-and-gear/products/flak-armour-thigh-guard
https://victoriaminiatures.com/collections/backpacks-pouches-and-gear/products/groin-flack-armour-x5
https://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/Centurion-Leather-Strap

Absolutely! Thank you

Once I get a non broken camera I might start up a P&M blog for this and other projects


UPDATE: Alright, I ordered the flak tassets and the scale shoulders. Also got the Puppets war dragon helmets and Dadao swords because they're thematic and look really good.

Now to scrounge for pelts and such

I'm pretty sure there are various pelts from the mentioned shops. Also Oldmate recently shared a nice DIY tutorial
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/788985.page