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Got some Sisters of Silence paint questions I cant seem to find the answers to elsewhere

1. Cloak and hair colour scheme? Ive seen a lot of purple cloaks and black hair, but also red on both. Thoughts?
2. Aleya, what the fuck do you do with all the black? Black chest, cloak and hair but all different highlights?
 
I found a blog by Phil Sibbering, an illustrator who used to work at GW and Black Library. He has these pages and archives for his own space marine chapters based off his own head-cannon prior to 9th edition iirc and a public archive of canon and custom fan-made space marine chapters from random people.
This is the 1,000 Chapters Gallery Project: a collaboration between Dazzo and Philip Sibbering to collect up, and list, all the known canon and fan made loyalist chapters out there. Use the tabs above to navigate the Canon, DIY, and MIA galleries. Each marine image links to a chapter resource page. Most of the canon chapters link to the Lexicanum. The majority of fan made chapters link to an Index Astartes posted on Bolter and Chainsword’s Liber Astartes forum. A few link to fan sites, or a gallery of painted miniatures. Unfortunately some chapters have fallen, and no longer on the net, these are collected under MIA. Anargo Sector Project Archive
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https://1000chapters.com/canon/colours/tags/canon/
https://1000chapters.com/diy/colours/tags/diy/
https://philhammer.com/warhammer/40k/space-marines/reimaged-chapters/
https://philhammer.com/warhammer/40k/space-marines/philips-chapters/blood-eagles/
It is from the loosing tribes of the inter-tribe dome wars that the recruits of the Blood Eagles are drawn. Those young males who have lost the right to life through their father's failures, are marked for execution via death matches. Within the arena they are pitted against their own tribal brothers; else their female relatives be put to the sword. If they win their mothers and sisters (and occasionally daughters) are spared and taken into the winning tribes families.

All Blood Eagles start their journey to become a marine with the blood of their kin staining their hands, and the execution of the women folk of their fallen brothers seared into the minds. All Blood Eagles are filled with a deep self loathing and hatred born of this loss.

In time those who survive the arena may become all powerful marines, yet they do not take revenge on the winning tribes. Instead their spite is tempered by the veterans marines into ruthlessness of action, and when they are elevated to full battle brother they join the others and become the guardians of the system and enforce the draconian rules. They also stop all further building and artificially limit the tribes environment (this is to stop any contamination via potent biological agents thawing out from the ice). They also keep an eye on their female relatives and ensure they are treated well.
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The Chapter is non-codex and divided into two houses: the low house and the high house. The high house is basically analogous to the first company, consisting of all command and specialist marines. The low house is all the regular marines, divided into war bands led by a sergeant of the high house. The war bands are in a constant state of flux and change almost on a daily basis according to the results of the daily fights of morning practice. The marines fight all the time, both playful sparing and full on murderous rage (Bionics are common, though considered a sign of weakness and failure), but scores can only be settled during morning practice. Any killing outside morning practice is considered 'traitorous'.

In time of war, sergeants pick marines from those who are combat ready, and often pick whole 'gangs'. Gangs are marines who stick together and are doing well in the daily fights.

It is entirely possible that a marine can be killed by other marines in the daily fights, though often strong marines are not killed but join the winning gang. Powerful gang leaders become sergeants in time, and appoint a 'second' to run their gang (Killing/ beating a 'second' makes you a second).

Though psychotic, they understand that being part of a gang increases their chance of getting into the high house, therefore the keep those they need alive.
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Imperial Citizen said:
This is what is great about playing as the Word Bearers. I can use my 40k models without needing to buy a whole new army!
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I remember the blowback when the HH Word Bearer praetor was unveiled and he was just a 40k CSM, his vox grill was even slanted like a CSM helmet and not like a Sarum-pattern helmet or a mark v helmet.
 
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My EC were an investment, carefully planned to get me into three game systems with only one army, KT, 40k and HH.
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That was my plan for Custodes. HH and 40k would be a decent balance and I love the lore… until Femstodes. Need to look at that KT HH adaption someone put together more.
 
Übertroon said:
So I just got caught up on some drama where a lot of warhsmmer subreddits made a blanket ban on an artist after this artwork became popular
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According to moderators it's because the beastman abhuman has derogatory words carved into her, the implication she was being used as a sex slave with tally marks, and the artist draws loli and guro art
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The latter seems to be less important than the former considering I've never before seen mentioning an artist become bannable before for distasteful porn

The artist in question is apparently on twitter with the account name Mossa
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Sorry to bring up a dead topic but I'm really tired of seeing this idiot's work spammed in every fucking Warhammer group, I hope this idiot's downfall is soon for all the reach he has I'm surprised no one talks about his art pedololi
 
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Mr Clark said:
Got some Sisters of Silence paint questions I cant seem to find the answers to elsewhere

1. Cloak and hair colour scheme? Ive seen a lot of purple cloaks and black hair, but also red on both. Thoughts?
2. Aleya, what the fuck do you do with all the black? Black chest, cloak and hair but all different highlights?
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1. They're your dudes anti-psyker bolter bitches, pick whichever color scheme you like. In-universe they might represent the cadre or order the Sisters belong to, but as long as you like the way they look, that's what counts.

2. Pretty much. A lot of painters I follow use different shades of greys, blues, whites, and even purples to differentiate between different black surfaces and textures. Hair is shinier than cloth and does weird things when light hits it, so I've seen painters use lighter greys, blues, and even purples to give it that glossy sheen and add depth and tone. Here's Duncan Rhodes demonstrating a quick and dirty method on an SoS model:

Leather tends to just be shades of grey built up carefully from medium to light hues to get that shine you see on leather coats and the like. Here's another video of someone using drybrushing and weathering for black cloth and leather:

Black armor also tends to be blue-greys and light greys with especially sharp highlights to represent the way light strikes off the edges. This guy has a good recipe for that:
 
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1. They're your dudes anti-psyker bolter bitches, pick whichever color scheme you like. In-universe they might represent the cadre or order the Sisters belong to, but as long as you like the way they look, that's what counts.

2. Pretty much. A lot of painters I follow use different shades of greys, blues, whites, and even purples to differentiate between different black surfaces and textures. Hair is shinier than cloth and does weird things when light hits it, so I've seen painters use lighter greys, blues, and even purples to give it that glossy sheen and add depth and tone. Here's Duncan Rhodes demonstrating a quick and dirty method on an SoS model:

Leather tends to just be shades of grey built up carefully from medium to light hues to get that shine you see on leather coats and the like. Here's another video of someone using drybrushing and weathering for black cloth and leather:

Black armor also tends to be blue-greys and light greys with especially sharp highlights to represent the way light strikes off the edges. This guy has a good recipe for that:
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I went deep diving for a long time and didnt see these videos so i must have been looking wrong, super helpful, I really appreciate it.

Im 99% going a bronze and purple look at this stage similar to box art, seems kinda wasteful to make them gold and red like the Custodes
 
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Damn my post got a lot of replies, great to see there's a fairly active horus heresy community here. If any 40k players haven't tried it it's essentially 7th edition 40k but you have reactions you can use every phase, it makes the game more dynamic and I like it. Using HH models for all 3 main systems is pretty smart too.

Spilled Spaghett said:
I have a passing interest in Horus Heresy but I don't even own a 2000pt 40k army yet. Buying into another system isn't really on the table for me, especially when it takes months for me to build up any motivation to paint. It sounds like a fun alternative to 40k. I typically enjoy playing Xenos more, but I can see myself playing Salamanders.
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Give it a shot if you get the chance, salamanders aren't meta by any means but they're a ton of fun to play.

I'll take some photos of my army soon.
 
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My mediocre painting progress on my Aquilons, trying to do a G.I.Joe thing where each one has their own color scheme
 

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The only Battleforce that's sold out is the Dark Angels one. That's surprising to me, but at the same time, $240 isn't near the discount I was expecting. Or maybe I just lucked out and loaded the page right as it was opening up?

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Edit: Oh, the Sigmar Ones are doing way better.

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AoS has the better sculpts, it seems they consistantly put their A-Teams on it, while they send others to do shitty upscales of models that looked better when they were still made of metal. The BAfags didn't deserve what they got, plain and simple.

Even with better, more creative models, AoS has ran into consitent issues with not selling box sets well. 3rd edition's starter box got shit on for weeks because it sat on shelves, and I heard the same happened with 2nd edition's starter box. I could totally see Geedubs producing less AoS Christmas boxes, as it would just be a loss of profit in the end.
 
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