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 Peregrine wrote:
Your army is painted at all, therefore you're better than most people already. Having a mix of chapters (especially ones that make sense fluff-wise) is perfectly fine as long as everything is still WYSIWYG.

This. Based on your TDA post, be sure to post the completed army!

Per the OP. I am in the beginning stages of a 30k (HH betrayal) imperial fist army. I am trying to represent all the elements of the IF legion that were later to become chapters. In a manner you could have a sons of sanginius (rage/blood) crusade. Hell there is a book about all the successors coming together to save the blood angels fluff wouldnt be a challenge. Just keep all squads codex BA legal. It should be a fun time to paint

4TheG8erGood wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:
Your army is painted at all, therefore you're better than most people already. Having a mix of chapters (especially ones that make sense fluff-wise) is perfectly fine as long as everything is still WYSIWYG.

This. Based on your TDA post, be sure to post the completed army!

Tda post?

As soon as this site allows me to post pics with my phone I shall, or laptop gets fixed lol

TDA = tactical dreadnought armor. I also call them that. I don't like calling them terminators... it always makes me think that GW was just trying to piggy back onto a known license...

And I'm glad that you guys like! I will definitely post a WIP thread...

 Thorn678 wrote:
Topic.

My Blood Angels army is composed of Assault Marines & Death Company that are Blood Angels, Sanguinary Guard that are Angels Encarmine, etc.

Getting my Dark Angels together (mmm angel fetish), and I'm thinking of painting my 2 tac squads and 1 Deathwing as Dark Angels, another Deathwing as Angels of Vengeance, Deathwing Knights as Guardians of the Covenant, etc etc.

Is this something that is frowned on in your experiences?

Your minis. Your call. As long as your models are wysiwyg and your opponent knows the codex you are using, the colors are superfluous. Yes you will find those who will take great offence that the fact that your Dark Angels army isn't painted exactly as *they* feel a Dark Angels army should be painted. Luckily their opinions have no impact on what you do with your minis, so enjoy. I keep looking at the DA successor colors myself as I'm not sure I want to stick with the standard colors either. Had already planned to paint the ravenwing minis the same as the regular DAs so switching fully to successor colors wouldn't be all that big a deal.

Skriker

Nawww, it's fun! Don't they call them Rainbow Marines?

Do it, and post pictures :-)

Thorn678 wrote: I don't like calling them terminators... it always makes me think that GW was just trying to piggy back onto a known license...

That what maybe had one decent movie out at the time?

Skriker wrote:
I keep looking at the DA successor colors myself as I'm not sure I want to stick with the standard colors either. Had already planned to paint the ravenwing minis the same as the regular DAs so switching fully to successor colors wouldn't be all that big a deal.

Skriker

Disciples if Caliban? I do like that that "standard colors" give you an excuse to run a multicolored army, one reason I also liked Aspect Warriors. Was tempted to try a successor scheme out but picked my colors a good while ago though including them together like this isn't a bad idea at all. Might look into that.

 CuddlySquig wrote:
Nawww, it's fun! Don't they call them Rainbow Marines?

That's what I'm worried about - getting crap about being a "rainbow" army.

I want to say "I play The Unforgiven."

It makes sense fluff wise - the unforgiven act as I Legion and hide it from the imperium.

Awesome, says I.

But may not look good unless you're playing like 1000000 points and have a ton of model son the table.

However, Chaos Space Marines do it and it's not a problem (pick a "main" chapter for your army, then Berzerkers are usually red, warp talons blue, noise marines pink, etc).

It's funny, I get a ton of comments saying "Do it! That's great!" and it gets me all jazzed to do it then 1 or 2 "Meh, Rainbow marines..." posts kills it =/

 Thorn678 wrote:
That's what I'm worried about - getting crap about being a "rainbow" army.

I want to say "I play The Unforgiven."

It's funny, I get a ton of comments saying "Do it! That's great!" and it gets me all jazzed to do it then 1 or 2 "Meh, Rainbow marines..." posts kills it =/

Then say you play The Unforgiven and go with it. You can't worry about what other folks say about your army because everyone and their brother are going to have an opinion about it. You'll be told your army is garbage without unit X. No matter what color scheme you use someone, somewhere won't like it even if you paint as well as the heavy metal team, and so on. It is your army so the key is to build, paint and play it they way you want to do so and not worry about what the peanut gallery has to say.

If you flip back through the posts in the thread there are a few "meh, rainbow marine" posts, but the rest support and embrace your idea. Stop letting the few cynical and cranky jerks in your world keep you from doing what you want to do.

Skriker

 Thorn678 wrote:
That's what I'm worried about - getting crap about being a "rainbow" army.

I want to say "I play The Unforgiven."

It makes sense fluff wise - the unforgiven act as I Legion and hide it from the imperium.

Awesome, says I.

But may not look good unless you're playing like 1000000 points and have a ton of model son the table.

However, Chaos Space Marines do it and it's not a problem (pick a "main" chapter for your army, then Berzerkers are usually red, warp talons blue, noise marines pink, etc).

It's funny, I get a ton of comments saying "Do it! That's great!" and it gets me all jazzed to do it then 1 or 2 "Meh, Rainbow marines..." posts kills it =/

Ultimately, it comes down to the palette of colours you use. Pick a Limited palette, I.E Dark Green, Black, Silver and Dark Red, and it will look good, as the colours are all quite DA. As in anything, it's the execution which determines it. I'd say it's a pretty good concept and original idea especially if you're tired of painting just green. Just keep the colours muted.and no Rainbow heresy will rear its fabulous heretic head.

This seems like a good place to post a question I've had.

If I paint my Land Raiders Deathwing colors and they don't have the DW Vehicle Upgrade, will people moan?

rosinator wrote:
If I paint my Land Raiders Deathwing colors and they don't have the DW Vehicle Upgrade, will people moan?

Absolutely. To be fair though the Upgrade or lack of doesn't state anything about color (it doesn't even apply to successor chapters) though so it technically doesn't matter.

Mine is in Deathwing colors and generally that's all I use it for, but if I did take it as a non-Deathwing Land Raider there's no way I would buy another one just to paint it green. So I just painted it the color I was likely to use it in. If anyone does actually moan then ask them where the color change paint is at...I would love to get some.

rosinator wrote:
This seems like a good place to post a question I've had.

If I paint my Land Raiders Deathwing colors and they don't have the DW Vehicle Upgrade, will people moan?

No it will be fine.

 Thorn678 wrote:
However, Chaos Space Marines do it and it's not a problem (pick a "main" chapter for your army, then Berzerkers are usually red, warp talons blue, noise marines pink, etc).

Chaos Marine Warbands are also usually rather small in size, with the larger ones usually being made up of many differently painted renegade squads, sometimes even the squads themselves being compossed from different chapters. Like in Graham McNeill's Ultramarines and Iron Warriors series, Warsmith Honsou ends up with a huge warband that has hundreds of differently painted warriors, even though it's "technically" an Iron Warrior warband. So yeah, Chaos Marines get away with it, but that's because they're Chaos Marines.

More in support of you, don't worry about the Rainbow Marine guys. As long as each squad is one scheme, I don't see the problem. They're successor chapters, meaning they're morally obligated to help out their parent chapter(s) in the event that they're asked to.