DarkHorse81 Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 Hi, Just started getting back into the hobby via the Dark Vengeance starter set and currently enjoying adding to my Dark Angels army. I have recently bought a Devastator squad with a view to deploy a Lion's Blade Formation and was thinking about the colour scheme. I have noticed on other chapters like the Blood Angels for example, that the Devastators have blue helmets instead of red. I quite like this look and was thinking about the same for mine. Say green armour as normal with a cream helmet? Thing is I never come across this before in any of the Dark Angels colour schemes I have seen. Is it something specific to Blood Angels? Would it be going against the traditional DA colour scheme to this? I know it is my army and I can do what I want so to speak. But like to get these things right :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaplain Lucifer Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 The coloured helmets are specific to BA... but rule of cool takes precedence so if you think you can pull it off, nothing stops you. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Semper Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 Agreed. Your minis, your paint scheme. It is not part of the lore but maybe, that particular strike force, in that particular campaign decided to paint their helmets for some reason or another. BTW coloured helmets is a BA-specific thing as in even BA successors don't follow that tradition. But come to think of it, only DAs have a White 1st Company and a black 2nd Company... Of course no one can exclude the possibility that other unrelated Chapters my have the same tradition - it's a big Galaxy out there! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypher 102 Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Even the Codex Astartes says that squad and company markings should be changed up from time to time to keep the enemy guessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkHorse81 Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 Cheers, I might just do it. Or maybe just the sergeant who fancied going against the grain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chmur Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Cheers, I might just do it. Or maybe just the sergeant who fancied going against the grain Cream helmet at Sergeant would have sort-of fluffy background, you could add some more Deathwing honors to his armour to play that out... like the upgrade sprue chest with the dagger. etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkHorse81 Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 Cheers, I might just do it. Or maybe just the sergeant who fancied going against the grain Cream helmet at Sergeant would have sort-of fluffy background, you could add some more Deathwing honors to his armour to play that out... like the upgrade sprue chest with the dagger. etc Sergeant "I used to be in the Deathwing you know lads, did I ever tell you..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian_F_H Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 If not the colored helms, da must have some company markings surely? Been needing to get that codex to go with my dv set... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tygwyn Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Knee and shoulder pads! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One_happy_hippy Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Rather than use different colour schemes, I used the DA upgrade sprues to co-ordinate my Tac/assult/dev squads. I.e. The assult squads have mk6 'beaky' helmets and the studded shoulder pads, the devestators use the torsos with the high neck armour (mk8?) and the shoulder pads with the additional plating to make them look bulkier etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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