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It seems that whenever I get rid of all of my Firstborn marines, somebody gives me their Firstborn marines. Indeed, I've gotten rid of virtually all of my Firstborn (barring a few buried stragglers) TWICE now. Yet, once again here we are. Rejoice Zzzzz, your boys are back!
The weekend before last, Neverenss and I were getting in our 2nd game of 10th ed and Rob swung by the shop and handed me another box of Orks and grots (3-4 sealed boxes of the latter), these being the last remnants of the horde he gave me last year. In the bottom of said box were some AoBR marines. In addition, I had a 2nd ed 40k missile marine that Kushial gave to me to pass on to Neverness. Instead Neverness suggested I keep it.
Neverness likes to give me hell about repeating armies and I certainly expect to hear such shenanigans again here. Curiously, I missed the Coyotes as soon as I got rid of them, though not their difficult paint scheme. Indeed, the Black Dragons were borne out of an attempt to reverse their colors, but to no avail.
Having a handful of firstborn again thanks to Rob, I thought I'd give my Coyotes another try, the marine above is the result. I ditched the infernal Gryph-Hound Orange contrast paint that caused me so much grief, and used Jokaero Orange instead. Black, leadbelcher, a Vallejo brown for the leather and a sepia wash layer and there ya go, easy-peasy.
The basing was also simplified with just sand glued to a bone colored base with some tufts. In addition to the slight color changes, and squad numbering, there is a "II" above the chapter icon on the pauldron, marking this marine out as a member of the 2nd company.
Rob said he thought he had a few more of these, worst case I'm sure I can scrounge a few from Kushial (NO MORE ARMIES Kushial, just a few if Rob can't find 'em) to flesh out a single tac squad to add to one of my Primaris armies for variety's sake.
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I think I might have a Sergeant I can spare also. Less is more sometimes, and I think your straightforward approach to their scheme works really well here. If they don't become a full army, at least they'll look good next to the tank in the display case.
"AAWWwwoooo !"
I love 'em. Looking forward to seeing future iterations of their colourscheme getting gradually brighter until we get one that looks like trollslayer hair !
I second that! Day glow safety orange or bust!
@Neverness: Thanks! There's no sense in building a firstborn army at this point, rather they'll just be a little allied contingent. Fuck the 10th ed no allies rules, chapters aren't much more than just different color schemes anyways. Also, I've Frankensteined a Sergeant out of spare bits, thanks though.
@Zzzzz: I knew you would Zzzz! However, their original colors were akin to Trollslayer orange, and I am NOT going that route again.
Found some cheap AoBR bolter grunts to flesh out the squad on eBay.
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