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Hello dakkadakka,

As I'm assembling my Imperial Fists force, I find myself with an abundance of standard Space Marine transfer sheets. They have the shoulder pas markings on them for tactical, assault and devastator squads, but they're in white. My google-fu has yielded nothing in terms of black markings, however. Do they even exist? If not from GW or FW, then from a third party? I'm honestly not too keen on printing and cutting my own, being a lazy sort of guy.

General Helstrom wrote:
Hello dakkadakka,

As I'm assembling my Imperial Fists force, I find myself with an abundance of standard Space Marine transfer sheets. They have the shoulder pas markings on them for tactical, assault and devastator squads, but they're in white. My google-fu has yielded nothing in terms of black markings, however. Do they even exist? If not from GW or FW, then from a third party? I'm honestly not too keen on printing and cutting my own, being a lazy sort of guy.

The Forge World transfers have black fists on white backgrounds. If you want just black fists, I dunno.

I printed my own (shown in this tutorial: http://www.winterdyne.co.uk/maz/winterdyne_tutorial3.pdf).

But they do need cutting by hand, as will a great many 3rd party decals.

@John Prins, thanks but those are not the decals I'm looking for. Chapter markings (left shoulder) for the IF are well available. It's the squad markings (right shoulder) that I'm looking for. On this guy for example, it would be the Tactical arrow insignia:




@Winterdyne, I was afraid it might need to come to that Great tutorial by the way!

I found this blog post mentioning a pretty much perfect sheet produced by Forgeworld, but that's over six years ago. They appear to be out of circulation.

General Helstrom wrote:
@John Prins, thanks but those are not the decals I'm looking for. Chapter markings (left shoulder) for the IF are well available. It's the squad markings (right shoulder) that I'm looking for. On this guy for example, it would be the Tactical arrow insignia:

Ah, reading fail on my part. Well, if you're happy to be lazy about it, just leave the squad markings off. That FW transfer sheet has lots of alternatives (squad number markings, skulls, laurels) in black. There appears to be some tiny squad type markings in the bottom left of the sheet, which would go nicely near the front of the shoulder pad instead of dominating the whole pad like standard marks.

General Helstrom wrote:
@John Prins, thanks but those are not the decals I'm looking for. Chapter markings (left shoulder) for the IF are well available. It's the squad markings (right shoulder) that I'm looking for. On this guy for example, it would be the Tactical arrow insignia:




@Winterdyne, I was afraid it might need to come to that Great tutorial by the way!

I found this blog post mentioning a pretty much perfect sheet produced by Forgeworld, but that's over six years ago. They appear to be out of circulation.

I love IF so I found this http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/148766-imperial-fists-colours-insignia/ It is based of a old space marine book pre red helm.

Not sure if you're wanting to go to so much effort, but for my Salamander scouts I just put down a white transfer, then coloured it in black - easy. Of course, it takes a little longer, but it'll save you hunting around or printing your own. Hope that helps.