Librarian dread: blue or red armour?

[Demoulius]

Hey all,

 

I want to paint up a liby dread for a coming tourney but I cant find any pictures of any in the codex. Now Librarians have blue power armour as part of their icongraphy so thus the question arose: What colour do I paint the dreadnought's armour? Red or blue?

 

Cant find any lore anwser either or im reading over it.

 

What do you guys think?

[Leonaides]

whichever you so wish. Mine has a red chassis but blue sarcophagus:

[Paternus]

Games workshop show a blue sarcophagus and red armour. If you do a quick search there are all blue variants (some with the shoulders in chapter colours) but ultimately its your dreadnought and you should do what you want under the rule of cool.

[Zephaniah Adriyen]

I'm going to be picking up a Libby Dread soon enough, and I'll be doing it with red body with blue sarcophagus and blue pauldrons, in keeping with my Chapter's color scheme (unlike the standard, my Chapter uses pauldron trim to denote rank/specialism) and I'll be extending that to my Chaplain and Librarian Dreadnoughts. In my opinion, you should do what fits with your Chapter's color scheme.

[Brother Tyler]

Games Workshop has never been prescriptive about this. Even the 'Eavy Metal team's official version is just an example of what might be done:

 

 

Some combination of red and blue, including all/none of either color, would be common for librarian dreadnoughts of the Blood Angels Chapter. You might, however, decide upon having your librarian dreadnought represent a brother-librarian that has succumbed to the genetic curse of his Chapter (adding black to the color palette), or possibly something else creative.

[Dont-Be-Haten]

You could always do blue + silver or blue with a red sarcophagus. It used to be the way we could tell epistolary from other librarians.

[keeblerartillery]

I vote red. Check out my thread or the outpost thread to see my Libby - wouldn’t look right in blue!

[Majkhel]

There's no official scheme as you say, so do what suits you. 
My Libby Dread is also going to be pre-dominantly red, with blue accents because red ones GO FASTA!! tie better with the rest of the army.

In terms of the Chapter (BA) structure, Librarian Dreadnoughts belong to the Librarius. So if you really want to, you sure can paint yours wholly Ultramarines blue.

[Wassa]

I just finished my first BA unit which happens to be a libby:

 

[Karhedron]

Games Workshop has never been prescriptive about this. Even the 'Eavy Metal team's official version is just an example of what might be done:

 

I like this combo personally but then I paint my living Librarians mostly red too. Only the helmet and shoulder pad trim get the blue treatment in my army. That is enough to make them stand out without making them look like interlopers from the Ultramarines.

 

If in doubt, always remember the First Rule of modelling.

 

#1 It's your model so paint it how you like.

Edited June 11, 2019 by Karhedron

[Lynnean]

I paint most of my libbies red with blue shoulderpads

[Demoulius]

Cheers for the feedback guys :) I rather like the red armour with blue sarcofici look so think thats what il be going with