Ever Made One of Each?

[DrBored]

I'm about to embark on a little project. I'll get one box of Tactical Marines and one box of Chaos Marines and I'll build and paint each one up to a different 'Legion'. I put that in quotes because there will be 20 models, and two of the Legions are unknown, so I'll do Black Templar for the Space Marines and Crimson Slaughter for the Chaos Marines to round it out.

Has anyone ever done this before? It seems like a pretty fun way to practice painting, plus I'm hoping it'll help make a decision on which legion for 30k I'll end up doing.

[deinol]

Has anyone ever done this before? It seems like a pretty fun way to practice painting, plus I'm hoping it'll help make a decision on which legion for 30k I'll end up doing.

Yet in truth, they will all be Alpha Legion.

[Lord Manton]

Cool idea. After you're done, you should get a bunch of Heresy era marines, and paint them in their original Legion colours

[HsojVvad]

Never thought of that. Great idea. Would be nice sitting on a shelf. Maybe if the rumours are true about plastic Horus Heresy minis then that would be a good place to start.

[DrBored]

I figure if Games Workshop is set on 40k being a collector's game, then this is exactly the thing someone would do: collect a bunch of different legion-painted marines. I'll build them to reflect the nature of their chapter:

Ultramarine: Sergeant with Power Fist, Bolt Pistol, and Banner
Raven Guard: Corvus armor with scope on bolter
Imperial Fist: Mk 8 armor with bolter
Salamander: Flamer
Dark Angel: Plasma Gun
Iron Hands: Grav Gun
Space Wolf: Chainsword and Pistol
White Scar: Melta Gun
Black Templar: Power Sword and Pistol
Blood Angel: ??

Black Legion: Champion with Power Fist and Pistol
Iron Warriors: Heavy Bolter
Word Bearers: Chaos Icon and Bolt Pistol
Night Lords: Bolt Pistol and Knife
Alpha Legion: Bolter
Thousand Sons: Bolter
Death Guard: Melta Gun
Emperor's Children: Flamer
World Eater: Chainsword and Pistol
Crimson Slaughter: Plasma Gun

Though I'm open to opinions on how they should be built and equipped. Please only suggest bits that come in the box.

[Lord Manton]

Though I'm open to opinions on how they should be built and equipped. Please only suggest bits that come in the box.

This is the only problem doing this for me. If I did it, I would have to do the Space Wolf with all the wolfy bits, the DA with robes, Emperor's Children with a sonic weapon etc. Although there is that "Traitors of Chaos" set, which has one of each of the cult legions. That might be worth a look.

[DrBored]

This is the only problem doing this for me. If I did it, I would have to do the Space Wolf with all the wolfy bits, the DA with robes, Emperor's Children with a sonic weapon etc. Although there is that "Traitors of Chaos" set, which has one of each of the cult legions. That might be worth a look.

I thought about that, but the looks of the models are really far from the looks of the regular Chaos Marines.

And as much as each chapter surely has it's own heraldry, there are always those fresh initiates that just got their Armor that haven't had a chance to deck themselves out...

[Houghten]

You mean the armour that they inherited from the previous 50 battle-brothers to have worn it?

[DrBored]

You mean the armour that they inherited from the previous 50 battle-brothers to have worn it?

Well, every chapter surely has that one guy, Boring Bill.

[Darren Richardson]

You mean the armour that they inherited from the previous 50 battle-brothers to have worn it?

yet new suits are made surely, where do sucessor chapters get they're armour from after all?

I imagine that each chapter has large numbers of plain parts sitting in storage for use when and as required, after all sometimes a marine suffers a hell of a lot of damage to those suits, which would render pieces of it unusable.