"30/40K Primarchs" Topic

Hello folks,

I have a new painting commission (the Battle Brush, look me up on fb, and instagram) it's for the really nice Kabuki figure, ‘Not Lion ‘el Johnson, honest guv' and the client wants a five-man bodyguard squad of Terminators to go with him. Now, what Dark Angel terminators could I use? Was there a documented bodyguard? A'la Sanguinuis Guard, Imperial fist Wardens, Etc?
Any help would be great, thank you, I'd like to give him some nice painted stuff, he's been a great customer this year.

Cheers,

John.

No. Any praetorian guard protection detail would be selected from the 1st Company, the Deathwing.

A squad of DW Knights would do nicely.

Question is would they be Death wing white, dark green, or the original black?

Book six covers the Dark Angels.

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Indeed, would they be in Deathwing bone? Or green, or Black? The books look amazing, but at 75quid, I would ask if anyone has access to one, they could dip into, and let me know if there is any ‘cannon' information about a Lion bodyguard squad? I agree, the Deathwing shrouded knights would look great.
If there is no ‘official' squad, my client has asked for ‘my best interpretation' so, I'll probably model some Dark Angel terminators, with storm shields, and swords/hammers, led by a captain, maybe.
Thanks for the help so far, keep it coming?
Cheers.
John

The bone colour for the Deathwing was a later post Heresy development

The Terminators of the Dark Angels originally wore black armour, but it was painted bone white in honour of a battle fought long ago. Legends state that a band of Deathwing returned to the recruiting world of their birth, Plain's World, only to find their people enslaved to Genestealer invaders. The brethren repainted their armour white, symbolising that they were dead men walking. Fighting hordes of Genestealers, they penetrated the alien lair and, though the battle claimed many of the Terminators' lives, ultimately the world was freed. Since that day, the Deathwing have kept their armour white, in remembrance of the sacrifice of their predecessors.

Thus, the Six Wings of the Ist Legion were created. The Order of the Deathwing was a specialised formation of Cataphractii Terminator-armoured elite, who specialised in harrowing actions, shock assaults and strategic decapitation strikes.

Prior to the Horus Heresy, during the Great Crusade, the Power Armour of the Dark Angels Legion was coloured jet-black. After the Heresy, the bulk of the Chapter began to appear in dark green armour, whilst the 1st and 2nd Companies' panoply remained jet-black in honour of the original Legion colours. The Deathwing Company's Astartes later painted their Terminator Armour in a bone-white colour scheme to remember the lone squad of Dark Angels Terminators who defended a Dark Angels recruitment planet known as Plain's World from a Tyranid Genestealer invasion. These Terminators painted their armour white, the colour of death, as they believed that they would never survive the confrontation. Surprisingly, these Terminators proved successful in reclaiming the world and in doing so saved a crucial part of the Dark Angels' cultural heritage and the genetic diversity of the Chapter.

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I've always liked the old darker colors of the DA.