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Im looking to make my own chapter, and I need some inspiration. So please post any of your own creations.

take red... or blue but if you really wanna have something special take... purple and pink anyways i think you should use red and yellow(ow and its very hard to make a good colour sceme which isnt described in any codex)

Ive never seen marines done in a camo theme, maybe give them infiltraters.

I should also add that my army focus on droppodding, and lots of dreads.
I have considered urban camo, with black/white/greys. Does that sound like it could work ?

keep the comments flowing.

mine are based on the Constructicons.

link

basically they contributed the paint scheme neon yellow-green with light grey and dark purple accents. I plan on using the Decepticon logo as the chapter logo on each shoulder pad. Hopefully I'll have some painted by the end of the month.

With lots of pods and dreads, I'd go with a TechMarine based theme. Maybe give everyone gear symbols. Paint each one up half red and half something else.

1st draft: urban camoed, with techmarine-red shoulderpads and helmets. Does that sound like it could mix ?
I'd love to do some TechStyle on this army, maybe really hyping up all my venerable dreads.
So far its only in the idea-gathering stages, with 1 dreaddroppod under construction.

gimme more comments...

as long as you don't start one of those as-many-assault-cannons-as-you-can-get-Armys. I really hate those. I like the Techmarine Idea. what special rules are you going to use

Im using the as-many-dreads-as-you-like and extra-specialweapons, only problem is that techmarines cant use pods. My planned army has 3 tactical squads with 2 of each special weapon, 1 scout squad, 5 dreads and a librarian command squad. All in pods.

I like the whole techmarine idea and I think that you should actually make the entire force in Techmarine colours. All red gore and lots of boltgun metal.

Posted By Anung Un Rama on 04/05/2006 12:33 PM
as long as you don't start one of those as-many-assault-cannons-as-you-can-get-Armys. I really hate those. I like the Techmarine Idea. what special rules are you going to use

How does this army suit you? : Default.aspx?tabid=93&forumid=14&postid=56874&view=topic

Anyway, I like the idea of going for a more tech, mechanical feel.  You should look at the Iron Hands chapter (miniatures-wise and look-wise), as they might have the feel that you are going for.  I think their tac squads are really cool.  But I wouldn't go with their color scheme though.

If you want to go for something totally original, well... ask somebody more creative than I.

Well, as I no longer have anywhere near as much disposable income... I'll share what WAS going to be my DIY chapter.

The Techmarine Training Corp. of Mars (that almost sounds like a B movie title )


take 2 techmarines as HQ, 3 more as elites. Have the 2 leader techmarines be "Master Techmarines" (teachers), have the elites be "Techmarines" (seniors)

Paint Scheme: Straight up techmarine colors for the characters... with your choice of army specific left shoulder pads (though they are in the training corp, they are still only on loan from their parent chapters)

Vet sarges for the squads (if you have any) are novice techmarines (juniors/sophmores), and don't have the honor of wearing true techmarine colors. So paint them in some combination of techmarine colors and the "school colors" (training corps colors). Wide variety of chapter symbols, of course

Regular marines, are just that... regular. Techmarine Trainees (freshmen). They just wear the school colors (and chapter symbols)




Heck, if you really felt froggy, you could even model the dreadnoughts as "class projects" for novice techmarines graduating to full techmarine status. By this, I mean they make/cobble some steampunk looking vehicle/armor/exoskeleton/whatever that can represent a dreadnought.





There. That was my idea and theme. Take it or leave it. If you take it, the torch is passed... if not, well I guess I MIGHT get around to building it... someday.

Here's my Marine Chapter

Regal Blue as the main color. White as the secondary (White takes a lot of extra time to get right) Black w/gray highlights for the weapon.

Fourth company (green trim shoulder pads) of the Quesar Marines. The chapter symbol is a four pointed star. This model is part of the captain's retinue, and has an addition chapter symbol, white inside a blue circle (partially shown in the picture) He also has his squad # displayed.

My advice is to pick two colors that go together, and decide how they should be painted on. Add anything else later, and make sure it matches your original colors.

As Im going all pods, I cant have any REAL Techmarines. Im going to try and make an urban camoscheme on all but the helm and shoulderpads wich will be dark red. To slightly tie in with the Ad-Mech Im going to use a modified version of their symbol as my chapter symbol. I
l'll probably use the cog shape as a background, and I have some Iron Hands bitz leftovers.

Drop pods huh?.........  How about the Fluttering Butterflies! Pink/Lavendar/Baby blue urban camo would be cool.......

Camo huh?......Brown = Camo......Brown Eyes of the Emperor!  Their symbol could be an asterix inside a circle.

Use red or blue huh......Red Snappers!  Their symbol could be a vertical fish......

Sorry.....just musing.....  Oddly enough the Iron Kodiaks (no bear sybols of any kind, they're named after a mon named Kodiak) are silver with blue and red trim.  Squad symdols are denoted by the way their right sholder pad insignia is painted.  I chose silver because I was new at painting 10 years ago and I took to drybrushing metals real easy.  Blue and red stood out on the silver quite a bit.  I'll try to post a pic here later.

 If I started a new chapter I'd stick with the muted single color scheme like the Raptors (Camo green) or Revilers (grey).

I like the sound of the urban camo with dark red...Is this what you were thinking? Obviously the bone colour would be camo

Perhaps a black version (look kinda like Flesh Tearers):

And my own personal chapter (looks much better in person):

 

 

Elerien Templar - is there a downloadable copy of the Marine Painter.  How'd you get pics that you can post?

Posted By ironkodiak on 04/06/2006 9:47 AM
Elerien Templar - is there a downloadable copy of the Marine Painter.  How'd you get pics that you can post?

Here. Just open it with "Windows Paint" or similar program, use the eyedropper tool to select colors from the paint pots, and then paint away.

http://us.games-workshop.com/games/40k/spacemarines/painting/sm_painter/default.htm


To post output from the Interactive Painter:

1. Use the painter to get the scheme that you want.

2. Press Ctrl - Print Screen on your keyboard (I've been told that on some computers this is Alt - Print Screen but, I've never personally seen this). This will perform a capture of the whole screen to your computer's clipboard.

3. Open Paint or any other graphics program and paste the clipboard into a new document . Edit out anything that you don't want to keep. Save the results.

4. Upload the new file.

I have an army of all camo marines. They are alot of fun.
Mostly because they were painted by someone who knew how.
It also gets lots of comments on things like "I didn't know marines knew what camo was"

 

This is a really nice hint of what they might look like. I had thought to make the entire shoulderpad red, but this looks much better.
Time to start practicing urban camo now I guess... ( anyone has any tips on that?)

here is my diy chapter
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Im going to try and paint the camo used on the new scouts cloaks. Could this work on marine power armor ?

Nice Jeremy, nice indeed!

I suppose you have a Destro Chaplain as well?

 

Cobra Commander for President!

 

You, sir, freakin' rock.

 

CO-BRAAAAAAAAA!

Posted By BZArcher on 04/07/2006 11:11 AM

You, sir, freakin' rock.

 

CO-BRAAAAAAAAA!

Would you all hate me if I added

"laaa-laaa-laaa-laaa-laaaaaaaaaa"

hey! that's the ultramarine hymn

If you are looking for inspiration, try the How To Paint Space Marines book.

Its great.

Full of ideas.!

If you are looking for inspiration, try the How To Paint Space Marines book.

Its great.

Full of ideas.!

If you are looking for inspiration, try the How To Paint Space Marines book.

Its great.

Full of ideas.!