Unique Marines

[zangetsu]

I'm looking for a way to make my Space Marines to stand out more does anyone have any ideas?

[Biowraith]

add a speific chapter colour scheme, maby make custom helmets and add to them,do lots of convertions, but appart from that, i dont really know

[Julio]

you want something different?

my friend was talking about these soul taker guys which he found out about in a book.
basicallly they all have mutations-stuff that went wrong when they were manufactured.

some mutation ideas that i think would be cool that i came up with:

-replace one side of a maring and have a thick shield/carapace thing.
-tentacles coming out of back.
-a marine with a set a four legs, like a centaur.
-one wich shoots out spikes from its wrists like in Xmen 3.

or some more subtle ones:

-bug eyes
-tentacle fingers holding a bolter.
-hooves
-instead of hands just long spikes...

the list goes on. if your good at conversions this would be a sweet project to tackle.





or you can make marines with polka dots or even emo hair.

[Trygon]

Try incorporating older armour types into your army. Pre Heresy and Heresy armour and equipment would really be nice. Bionic parts and special armour plating are also nice additions.

[hivefleetsiafu]

do lik,e a pre heresy chapter, that woul;d be kinda cool, like the old world eaters or death guard ;D

[Koyori]

Could always do Angry Marines, Pretty Marines or Lazy Marines, that would be quite original.

[Trygon]

Though the Angry marines already exist. They are the ultimate chapter in my opinion. Nothing beats the Angry marines with their chapter symbol being a angry face and their frowns to intense it shows on their helmets, what with the shape warped into frowns. I think there is some Angry marine art work on Deviant art but I really do not know where the odd chapter sprung up from.

[invictus]

Well I would say hello kitty marines, but thats been done before (well sisters of battle...)

[Trygon]

I am yet to see a Halo space marine army, a Starcraft space marine army, a space marine army that makes use of functional camo patterns for their colours, a space marine army is solely based around Witch Hunters and a space marine force that is entirely made up of techmarines.

[shiro]

How about true scale marines, meaning ones that are properly proportioned to match the human body. There is a bit of a guide to the process here.

[Enigma]

How about a group of space marines with bitz from other armies like tau, tyranids, dark eldar, eldar, necrons etc. They could be marines that went on a campaign, and were forced to patch up armour on the fly.

[Pheonix]

there is lots and lots of concepts out there for this idea, you might consider thinking about where they are coming from? Maybe they are based on a jungle world and would have incorporated (as above) active camoflouge (with besing materials to match and maybe some leaves added to thier armour sticking out like a SOCOM sort of thing.

or maybe they come from an aquatic planet and have altered thier geneseed to make them better fighters in the water.

also consider a history, maybe a history of ancient battles dating back millenia, dueling the eldar has led to the development of armour that is better at reflecting the monomolecular shurikens blades that the elder prefer as ammunition, and maybe developed a few weapons of similar potency.

or a new chapter trying to forge thier way so they are alot of men on foot with a few light armoured transports, and play them that way by making nothing ever sacrificial.

or they could be trophy hunters who lust for battle and take trophys from thier victories and they would take trophys from battles that they play so this could be on going theme.

there is lots of potential, of course you could always pick an animal them or insect and have them genetically altered in that respect. Personally i would like to see an angel descendant chapter that actually HAS wings.

[J.Dogg]

I'm soon goin' ta use the necron part thing.
My army is decieved by the deciever

[zangetsu]

Here terra's Halo (My Chapter if you have any suggestions)

- What geneseed are they?
Sanguanise/Blood Angels.

- What founding were they?
22 Founding

- What is their chapter symbol/colour scheme?
Chaper symbol is a sword with two wings with a iorn halo over it. Their colors are white with gold trim and detail.

- What is their Homeworld like, and what is the culture of the homeworld? (ie is it a Hive World, a Feral World, a Death World etc)
Large grasslands and some semi-thick forests, a paradice in every sense of the word.

- Where in the Imperium are they based? (It may help define the kind of enemies they face most often.)
Don't know but, I think it'll be in the Halo Stars.

- What is their Combat Doctrine like? (do they prefer Close Combat or ranged fighting?)
Prefer to fight in close-combat.

- What is their Organisation like (do they follow the Codex or are they a bit different?)
They follow the Codex when it suits them but, are willing to bend a few rules to get the job done.

- What is their Belief System?
I have aboslutly no idea.

(P.S.-I don't know who mentioned it but, yes I want angel marines with wings. Planning on using an eldar unit's wings, the swooping hawks or whatever.)

[wormwood]

You could embellish their armour with greenstuff relief details kind of like the preheresy primarchs you tend to see on coolminiornot.com

Devise some chapter specific heraldic conventions and go nuts with the greenstuff. Unhelmeted heads are also a good idea, look for any you can find in 28mm scale.