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Hello, fairly new to the hobby (or, at least, after a long hiatus), and definitely new to painting, so please excuse me if this is a silly question.

I have decided I want to focus on painting and I have opted to try a primaris lieutenant as my first 'serious' effort, as the model is relatively plain whilst having enough detail to provide a bit of a challenge. I have opted to paint him in White Scars livery as I have a White Scars pauldron in my bits box, and white seems t be a challenging colour to try.

In my bits box I also found a pauldron which I *think* might be from the firstborn command squad sprue, but I'm not 100%. It's quite plain but features a capital 'i', which I'm guessing has something to do with the Inquisition or the Deathwatch. Is this correct, and if so would it be worn on the right shoulder? Is it feasible that my White Scars lieutenant would wear it, and if so how is it painted? All silver, like the Deathwatch pauldrons, or perhaps white to match his armour with the letter picked out in gold or silver?

I'm not a total stickler for lore-accurate models but I do like things to make thematic sense, and so don't want to use an inappropriate design!

Thanks

SaltySeaDog wrote:
Hello, fairly new to the hobby (or, at least, after a long hiatus), and definitely new to painting, so please excuse me if this is a silly question.

I have decided I want to focus on painting and I have opted to try a primaris lieutenant as my first 'serious' effort, as the model is relatively plain whilst having enough detail to provide a bit of a challenge. I have opted to paint him in White Scars livery as I have a White Scars pauldron in my bits box, and white seems t be a challenging colour to try.

In my bits box I also found a pauldron which I *think* might be from the firstborn command squad sprue, but I'm not 100%. It's quite plain but features a capital 'i', which I'm guessing has something to do with the Inquisition or the Deathwatch. Is this correct, and if so would it be worn on the right shoulder? Is it feasible that my White Scars lieutenant would wear it, and if so how is it painted? All silver, like the Deathwatch pauldrons, or perhaps white to match his armour with the letter picked out in gold or silver?

I'm not a total stickler for lore-accurate models but I do like things to make thematic sense, and so don't want to use an inappropriate design!

Thanks

It’s for marines who have previously served in the Deathwatch and now returned to their chapter. They get the honour of wearing the Deathwatch shoulder pad for life.

It usually goes on the left arm and is painted silver.

I always just assumed it meant that the model was in the first company. Goes to show what I know. I mean they used to have pads with "V" on them and I thought that that meant the model was in the fifth company.

If it has small writing inside the top of the pad then it is an earlier version of the Deathwatch pad. It is worn on the left arm, moving the Chapter badge to the right shoulder, and the whole left arm is painted silver with the "I" symbol usually picked out in gold.