Modern Space Marines are know for their brightly coloured heraldic armour and disdain for cover, stealth, camouflage and other such
un-orky cowardly tactics. This, however, was not always the case. In Rogue Trader era Space Marines not only used camouflage, that camouflage was
funky. Brown, black and neon-yellow tiger stripes? Camouflage! Pink and blue camo pattern? Camouflage! And so on. Entire armies painted in those colours must've looked awesome (or horrible, good camo is suprisingly challenging to paint - but let's not be defeatist). Somewhere along their transformation from mind wiped criminals to warrior monks recruited from the finest madmen and child soldiers available the Space Marines stopped wearing their camo shorts, altough they didn't lose their love of bright colours.
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| Ooo - pretty colours! |
This brings us to my latest find (have had a bit of a slow start of the year on the mini front because I kinda got bit by the MTG bug again. That's why lately there hasn't been any posts about my own painting - or, indeed, anything.). Bunch of camouflaged Rhinos! I got a lot of five Rhinos painted in funky camouflage schemes. I believe one of them is the Imperial Guard Fighting 9th Regiment Assault on Tsunami Reef scheme (rightmost one on the third row), and one other (pink&blue) seems familiar to me but I haven't found out if it's a stock scheme or not yet.
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| Pink&Blue |
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| Pretty Señoritas too? Ay Caramba! |
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| "Brother, look! They're aiming straight at us, I knew we should've gone with the woodland scheme!" |
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| Side view |
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| This is the one I think might be a guard vehicle |
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| Blue not your thing? Worry not, green goes with pink just as good. |
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| Good thing there's a first aid kit - with no seating and nothing to hold onto, the occupants are going to need it. |
Those were the more or less stock built rhinos. The painting is cool and whimsical, but otherwise there's nothing odd about them. That's where these two come in:
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| A Recovery Vehicle! |
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| Side |
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| Wall-E, military configuration |
That's right, a converted recovery vehicle! Admittedly it's painted in a thick reddish-brown scheme that kinda looks like vomit, but the actual conversion itself is very cool. And then there is our friend with the sad eyes (in this instance, they also shoot missiles). I've no idea what's it's been used as, but it's clearly a weapons platform of some sort. Tarantula maybe? Or Thunderfire Cannon, if those were already a thing back then. Well, whatever it is, it looks pretty cool to me.
