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Pen dull
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Posted: Wed Dec 3rd, 2008 10:37 pm |
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Apart from having a fancy paint job, what distinguishes Artificer Armor on a model apart from the one wearing just plain-ol power armor?
For those of you who have done it, how have you converted normal power armor into Artificer Armor?
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LordBoroth
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Posted: Wed Dec 3rd, 2008 10:58 pm |
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well, you could use chaos shoulder pads, but not the ones with chaos symbols on them.
Or other shoulder pads from some other range, like fantasy or something.
Another idea would be to use a different model with different looking armor again maybe from fantasy.
Or you could try and order an old school marine with a different mk armor, like heresy era armor or something.
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Professor Chaos
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Posted: Thu Dec 4th, 2008 12:09 am |
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Pen dull wrote: Apart from having a fancy paint job, what distinguishes Artificer Armor on a model apart from the one wearing just plain-ol power armor?
For those of you who have done it, how have you converted normal power armor into Artificer Armor?
Just say it's some psychic imbuded armor
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Stormcaller56
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Posted: Thu Dec 4th, 2008 01:14 am |
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Something simple like painting the edges of shoulder armor,aquilas and the backpack heat vents a different color...gold for example. This sets the fig apart without requiring a lot of special modeling. I also use red for this.
i don't use silver because it is my chapters normal accent color...but you could!
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ethmongul
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Posted: Thu Dec 4th, 2008 01:49 pm |
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add trophy heads,and skulls on spikes
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Brother Tiberius
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Posted: Thu Dec 4th, 2008 03:27 pm |
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Stormcaller56 wrote:
i don't use silver because it is my chapters normal accent color...but you could!
Accent color?
Douche.
(j/k brother!) 
Last edited on Thu Dec 4th, 2008 03:27 pm by Brother Tiberius
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Posted: Thu Dec 4th, 2008 05:07 pm |
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Pen dull wrote: Apart from having a fancy paint job, what distinguishes Artificer Armor on a model apart from the one wearing just plain-ol power armor?
I believe it's ....
15 pts!
Seriously though, I think just about any level of conversion beyond using a flat Power armor torso and legs could qualify it as WYSIWIG Artificer armor. Get some super sized Terminator should pads, add some spikes( Like Ethmongul says), really just about anything as long as it's distinguishing.
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Posted: Thu Dec 4th, 2008 09:32 pm |
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Brother Tiberius wrote: Stormcaller56 wrote:
i don't use silver because it is my chapters normal accent color...but you could!
Accent color?
Douche.
(j/k brother!)
Bwwaaaa ha ha ha ha! LOL
Thanks for the input... would you be satisfied at a tournament (where wysiwyg really mattered) if one guy in an ultramarines army had gold-trim and fancy gold script on his armor and I called it artificer? I mean, is just paint enough to distinguish it?
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Stormcaller56
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Posted: Fri Dec 5th, 2008 12:30 am |
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first off, douche you too, Kurt! god how i love using that word! it's so fucking distinctive! heh, heh...using the work "distinctive" is also the shit when talking to a lawyer!
the simple answer to your last question, mark, is yes.
shit, these are space marines, not chaos or orks with all kinds of awesome, cool bullshit attached to their armour! in volumes of fluff, marine sgts and many other characters DON'T run around with all kinds of crap hanging off their armor. it usually has some kind of color differentiation or a single distinctive marking. most of the crap hanging off of marine armour is related to special wargear, cloth, seals, etc.
also, take a look at how marines are differentiated in the new codex...helmets or shoulder guards are painted a different color! the other option is a special shoulder guard, with studs or other ornamentation. but only one on a model.
so yeah, i would be ok (and have seen it before at tourneys) with a model painted differently being considered as having artificer armour.
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Posted: Fri Dec 5th, 2008 12:32 am |
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I'm pretty sure there's an illustration in the codex of artificier armor, but that probably does not help very much. I agree that a trim of metallic would help, but I also would throw on some different shoulder pads or helmet style, add green stuff designs on the larger flat parts of the armor, etc. Hell, I have a metric ass ton of old DA iconography that I could give you and you could cut apart/re use if you wanted. Making it more than paint would be a great way to add some character, especially if you are using the new black reach models.
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Posted: Fri Dec 5th, 2008 03:35 am |
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Stormcaller56 wrote:
shit, these are space marines, not chaos or orks with all kinds of awesome, cool bullshit attached to their armour!
Shut up.
You just shut the hell up. You namby-pamby space marine faggots have been lolly-prancin' around the universe with all the cool toys any ork or chaos marine would blow their brother's left nut off for and now you're telling me that now that I've got a marine army yer tellin' me I can't have cool bullshit attached to my armor???
Just kidding. Thanks for the input. I see that the artificer armor in the codex has some "nubbins" on one shoulder pad and alot of swirly stuff, and some skulls, and the "turtleneck" design for the collar. They looked so similar, I was wondering if one or more of those characteristics identified a marine with having artificer armor.
But good enough. A fancy paint job and a few extra bumps should do it.
Do any of you marine players model teleport beacons?
What else in the Marine codex is generally assumed to be "installed" and not necessary for wysiwyg?
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Brother Tiberius
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Posted: Fri Dec 5th, 2008 11:13 am |
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Pen dull wrote:
What else in the Marine codex is generally assumed to be "installed" and not necessary for wysiwyg?
Everything.
Except apparently a close combat weapon, because only chaos is smart enough to carry a bolter, bolt pistol, and a close combat weapon. 
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ethmongul
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Posted: Fri Dec 5th, 2008 02:10 pm |
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They will however break and run away
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Stormcaller56
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Posted: Sat Dec 6th, 2008 11:27 am |
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final word...
you are really asking two questions here. i have told you what i think in terms of artificer armor...but that doesn't mean you can't attach all kinds of cool, crazy stuff on a marine fig. it's just that the stuff you attach has nothing to do with artificer armor.
it may denote veteran status, a combat shield, campaign bullshit, etc. or it may just be your modeling genius at work! i put crazy banners on most of my sgts, and stuffed ork heads on some of my termies! don't mean shit except that i think it looks cool!
so go to it, brother...
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ethmongul
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Posted: Sat Dec 6th, 2008 01:20 pm |
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Stormcaller56 wrote: final word...
you are really asking two questions here. i have told you what i think in terms of artificer armor...but that doesn't mean you can't attach all kinds of cool, crazy stuff on a marine fig. it's just that the stuff you attach has nothing to do with artificer armor.
it may denote veteran status, a combat shield, campaign bullshit, etc. or it may just be your modeling genius at work! i put crazy banners on most of my sgts, and stuffed ork heads on some of my termies! don't mean shit except that i think it looks cool!
so go to it, brother...
Just like I like to put termie heads on my nobs and bosses!Great idea man!
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