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Monday, November 29, 2010

Hybrid BA Part II



Progression with my BA! I recently finished assembling and fully magnetizing my hybrid BA army.  It was quite a bit of work to get everything done but wow am I glad its done.  The masses of plastic were intimidating (The Army & List) but I found once I dove in things moved along fairly quickly.

Anyhow, aside from doing the conversions for the assault cannons on the razor backs and the TL auto cannons on the dreads (which will be in a future post with tutorials) I'm on to the painting stage.  So I need to know what everyone would like to see.  I want to paint in a listed codex chapter successor color scheme, so my initial thoughts on each.



Angels Sanguine:
Interesting, like the split color, I really like the lore and mystery behind these guys.  I think this chapter offers a lot of neat possibilities.

Flesh Tearers:
I like these the colors are partitioned in a way that is neat with the black up top.  Lore is hit or miss, it's cool but sounds a bit savage, not sure if that is the feel I'm going for.

Lamenters:
Mustard... as I've already base coated the ASM and Dreads red the yellow would end up very dark but may be interesting.  The Lamenters poor track record in battle and the supposed 'cure' could offer some interesting painting options.

Angels Encarmine:
White colored Sang Guard and Death Company... not quite sure how I feel about painting the Sang Guard and DC white but it is very unique none the less, and that is what I'm looking for.   I like the lore of constantly at the go fighting, offers some neat options to paint really battle worn looking gear.

Knights of Blood:
The color scheme is interesting, the bolt gun color is kind of cool, not sure if it would be to much when all together but offers interesting possibilities.  The renegade style of lore doesn't really suit what I'm looking for either, but still offers some neat possible painting and basing ideas.

Blood Drinkers:
Heraldry patterns exactly as laid in the Codex Astartes is pretty cool.  Lore is mediocre nothing that really jumps out at me as liking a lot, feels like another generic BA army.

Angels Vermillion:
Not really sure, much like the Blood Drinkers when I read the lore and look at these guys it just says eh... nothing really pops out at me aside from a generic BA army. 


So with this concluding I think my top three choices are:

Angels Sanguine
Flesh Tearers
Angels Encarmine

But I am definitely open to discussion about this, so lets put it to a vote; feel free to leave some comments and try to sway me or let me know why you chose what you chose.

-Koopa

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I would love to see another Flesh Tearers player, so my vote is for the savage marines. You seem keen on choosing a chapter with an established background, and the Flesh Tearers are quite blessed in this respect: they have a 3rd ed Index Astartes article, a special character in the current codex and the superb 'At Gaius Point' short story by A.D-B.

Alternatively if you choose Angels Encarmine, Sanguine or Blood Drinkers; I will happily send you all the decals you need. I bought some of the Forgeworld transfer sheets for my Flesk Tearers and have loads of the Successor decals going spare. Would make me feel good helping a fellow pinkie!
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Thank you much for your offer I very well may take you up on that depending on which I end up doing.
Poll added.
I actually went through this exact same dilemma when picking out my BA chapter. I wanted something a little unique with cool fluff but none of the successors really stood out a mile over the others. I think the Flesh Tearers and Angels Sanguine have probably the best looking color schemes, but personally I had no interest fielding Seth ever, and as far as sanguine goes do you really want to paint that many models half and half? Another problem for me was matching a logo I actually wanted to use, Encarmine are awesome in theory, but that logo looks kind of mediocre at best and somewhat difficult to be putting on a sizable space marine army, and the Flesh Terrors Saw Blade just looked kind of... not me I guess. After some serious digging I settled on the Blood Drinkers which actually have some cool fluff from the rouge trader era.
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painting that many models half and half becomes less of an issue as I'm base coating with an airbrush :)
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Katie Drake · 749 weeks ago

Lamentors as they're quite different. Also, I play Flesh Tearers and nobody else is allowed to play my army. :(
I'd love to see an Angel Encarmine army, white Sanguinary Guard would look excellent.
3 replies · active 749 weeks ago
kind of starting to lean that way, will see how the poll ends up. I like the white Sang Guard but not sure if I'm convinced on the white DC yet
Ya but whoses uses DC :P?
thats a good point, but as I have some I will end up painting them :)
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Antebellum · 749 weeks ago

I am a long time Blood Angels player from back in 3rd edition and just restarted. I chose the Angels Encarmine as my successor chapter because of the prevalence of death company and the coloring of their death company and sanguinary guard. Here is a link to my work in progress thread over at dakka (I hope its okay to link somewhere else) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/3...

As for what army you should do, I personally like the look of the Angels Sanguine and Flesh Terrors (if you're looking to do something other than straight red). If you're looking for something unique, you might check out the Knights of Blood. I don't think there is much on them background wise, but they are supposedly a renegade Blood Angels successor chapter. Might make for some interesting story and fluff. They also have a somewhat unique silver and red color scheme.
3 replies · active 749 weeks ago
Hey this stuff looks great! I know what you mean when talking about planning for magnets... took a good amount of time to get all that done, but once you've done it a couple times it moves along nicely.
It is okay to link =D. Especially when there's some good stuff in there!
Looks like Flesh Tearers are in the lead so far, but Angels Encarmine and Angel Sanguine are both close seconds. Will let the voting go a few days and see where it ends up
I'm a personal fan of the Angels Encarmine. Personally, I like the colors, and the white looks fantastic breaking up the sea of red. Sanguinary Guard in white would look incredible, even if the Death Company connection doesn't quite fit...

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