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What are your thoughts on them?

I plan on running Dark Angels, but I want to paint them in vibrant and lively colors. Not the usual scheme.

I think there is a lot of scope for less conventional paint schemes in HH, once you get away from the idea that everything has to be painted in strict legion colours. There is no reason why your force can't be painted in actual camouflage colours (you know - colours that are intended to conceal rather than announce to everyone that you're there). As you probably know, in the RT era GW promoted the idea that Marines and their vehicles were painted in all sorts of weird and wonderful schemes.

My Emperor's Children are painted/depicted as Siege of Terra era. So I've fully leaned into the "Riot of Colour" quote from the SOT book.

I have multi coloured Astartes
I have single coloured Astartes
I have eye searing hurts to look at it coloured Astartes


Biggest/coolest thing about this hobby is....
DOOWHATCHYALIKE

There aren’t rules, but there are….guidelines

For reasons I really can’t justify outside of my own personal preference? I see no reason why Dark Angels have to be Black. My own extensive force is ultimately a slight variant scheme. Mainly black armour, but right arm pauldron is bright red.

But, for me and me alone, Really Brightly Coloured Dark Angels is a no.

End of the day? They’re your models. And the Galaxy is a wide and stupendously varied place. It’s entirely possible that your Dark Angels had been off in a Crusade Fleet that found itself bringing a system into compliance that had an unusual sun, where the light required bright, vibrant colours. Perhaps it was a spectacularly gruelling campaign, and as the Deathwing of the modern era did, the remnants and replacements of that Chapter kept up the bright colours to honour the sacrifice of those that came before.

If we're talking Dark Angels, maybe pick a different Legion if you're looking for vibrant.

They went from grey, to black, to dark green with the most "vibrant" being the bone of the Deathwing.

I would recommend taking a look at ArbitorIan's video on alternate schemes on YouTube for how to best do alternate schemes.

Depends on what you're doing. A sub faction, a certain right of war, is likely to have it's own vibe. A praetor may have his own heraldry and that may trickle down to those under his command. Think Sigismund's lads.

If it's just 40k paint scheme that feels a little meh. But if someone says, hey my dark angel praetor on bike went a bit Brettonian and his detachment went a bit more knightly in it's heraldry, i'd be okay with that. Just be sure to make it feel themed. Foresty bases, a few lances etc. Like the lads have kept all of those Caliban traditions.

I agree with what some others are saying in that you don't need to follow the EXACT scheme of the legion, as there were absolutely variations.

However I also agree with others that the entire point of the Heresy is the try and emulate the forces present. I can only speak for myself, but if someone showed up with bright-pink dark angels or dark green world eaters I'd be.. kinda weirded out.

 Gert wrote:
If we're talking Dark Angels, maybe pick a different Legion if you're looking for vibrant.

They went from grey, to black, to dark green with the most "vibrant" being the bone of the Deathwing.

I would recommend taking a look at ArbitorIan's video on alternate schemes on YouTube for how to best do alternate schemes.

I like the DA rules, but not their scheme.

I agree that any colour scheme should not be a complete departure from the chapter's basic colour scheme. One way of doing this would be to keep the power armour in the chapter colour(s), but camouflage the vehicles - although it would make sense to keep some of the basic chapter colour(s) in the camo scheme. Below are some well-known examples from original Rogue Trader artwork, both of which are DA vehicles. I can't see anyone objecting to seeing these on the table - in fact I think they look very cool (despite being relics from the 80s; in those days, historical wargaming was more of an influence on WH40k).

I plan on the following paint scheme.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer/comments/zd3xki/pansexual_pride_space_marine/?rdt=35947

Won’t be as high-quality, as I’m not the best painter by far, but hopefully at least somewhat good.

Not sure if bait or actually serious

I'd love to see someone turn up to a HH tourney rocking DA's in those colours tho.. Think of all the bursted blood vessels on those poor sods temples!

 JNAProductions wrote:
I plan on the following paint scheme.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer/comments/zd3xki/pansexual_pride_space_marine/?rdt=35947

Won’t be as high-quality, as I’m not the best painter by far, but hopefully at least somewhat good.

Awesome, go for it! Just needs some leopard fur motif on the holster and pouches. This plain brown leather is sooooo... meh!

personally, for my custodes, i paint them purple, with gold and green highlights/trim. gold is fun, but a bit simple for me

There's no way this isn't bait.

 morganfreeman wrote:
There's no way this isn't bait.

It's not.

I genuinely am not a huge fan of the DA Scheme, and would rather do the bright pan colors.
Once I get the chance to spray-prime my minis, I'll start working on them and post 'em.

I mean you do you if you're specifically aiming to annoy people by picking a colour scheme that is massively different from the Legion you are playing.

If your group is fine with that, then great, but if you intend to play outside your circle, then you will run into issues playing an army that is not painted in any way like the Legion it is supposed to be.

 JNAProductions wrote:

 morganfreeman wrote:
There's no way this isn't bait.

It's not.

I genuinely am not a huge fan of the DA Scheme, and would rather do the bright pan colors.
Once I get the chance to spray-prime my minis, I'll start working on them and post 'em.

Why not just play 40k? It's very much centered around the do-entirely-whatever-you-want mindset.

Of course 30k still has plenty of room for "your dudes" and it's a huge part, but it's also semi-historical. Legions all have their pre and post primarch coloration, blackshield variations, and some examples of chapters using some alternate schemes. But these tend to be the specific application of color and trim (ergo bronze trim instead of silver for WE). But the legions still have pretty static color palettes.

Similar to historical miniatures collections in other games, it'd be pretty weird to play a British force that shows up in bright-pink with Samurai helmets.

Because I want to play 30k.
I started 40k in 7th, and I’d like to play a game that’s more like that.

I do play 40k-but since I play at a GW, I’m only playing 10th edition.

 JNAProductions wrote:
Because I want to play 30k.
I started 40k in 7th, and I’d like to play a game that’s more like that.

I do play 40k-but since I play at a GW, I’m only playing 10th edition.

My Imperial Knights' heraldry features a seagull. No one has said, "you can't play that here."

Paint your army how you like, and enjoy the experience.

My reply for people who said my armies have to be painted a certain way: "OK, I'll trade you my army, for one painted in the correct way. Do you have it with you? No. I'll just play with this one until then."

 JNAProductions wrote:

 morganfreeman wrote:
There's no way this isn't bait.

It's not.

I genuinely am not a huge fan of the DA Scheme, and would rather do the bright pan colors.
Once I get the chance to spray-prime my minis, I'll start working on them and post 'em.

Anyone gives you crap ? Just shrug & tell them it's a base coat.

If anyone has a "problem/issue/whatever" with your army...they've just revealed that playing them would be less than fun.


If you get butthurt over someone else's TOY SOLDIERS, you REALLY need to reevaluate things.

That's nonsense.
Playing a game of HH isn't a single player experience and what you bring to the table is just as important as your opponent.
If you're flaunting the ethos and setting that's not fair to your opponent.

If you're choosing to play HH then you're choosing to abide by the ethos and setting. There are other games if you want to play them so don't force your singular preferences on people then say they're the problem for not accepting them.

 Gert wrote:
That's nonsense.
Playing a game of HH isn't a single player experience and what you bring to the table is just as important as your opponent.
If you're flaunting the ethos and setting that's not fair to your opponent.

If you're choosing to play HH then you're choosing to abide by the ethos and setting. There are other games if you want to play them so don't force your singular preferences on people then say they're the problem for not accepting them.

I have not said I would force someone to play me if they wouldn’t have fun.
Because I wouldn’t do that. You are 100% allowed to decline a game if you don’t want to play.

But your standards are not everyone’s standards. And I do agree with another poster that someone who’s that insistent on official schemes is not an opponent I’d enjoy playing against.

You need to ask the people in your group chief.

This isn't a slight change like swapping the primary and secondary colours on Word Bearers or Salamanders, this is a full change of colours for a game that is for all intents and purposes, a historical wargame.

Gert's ultimately right, it depends on who you're trying to play. Your locals will be the ultimate arbiters.

I've a suspicion a majority of them would rather play against bare plastic, but that's just a guess.

I f he is starting to play 30k its a little bit strange to tell them they can paint there model anny collor, because in 30k there are more poeple that will not play that army then in 40k. But your player group will tell you if its oke or not.

 JNAProductions wrote:

 Gert wrote:
That's nonsense.
Playing a game of HH isn't a single player experience and what you bring to the table is just as important as your opponent.
If you're flaunting the ethos and setting that's not fair to your opponent.

If you're choosing to play HH then you're choosing to abide by the ethos and setting. There are other games if you want to play them so don't force your singular preferences on people then say they're the problem for not accepting them.

I have not said I would force someone to play me if they wouldn’t have fun.
Because I wouldn’t do that. You are 100% allowed to decline a game if you don’t want to play.

But your standards are not everyone’s standards. And I do agree with another poster that someone who’s that insistent on official schemes is not an opponent I’d enjoy playing against.

You could also mark them as being from the II or XI Legions.
Who knows what their color schemes were? Who knows what their fighting styles were? And if you include any DA specific characters? Well, who knows what vile acts of cloning they may have been up to....

Honestly, I love an alternative paint scheme.