A little while ago I was approached by the Warhammer Community to write a short feature on my rapidly growing Raptors army. I’ve added more units since then and have yet more planned – watch this space for more updates and check out the article here!
And very well deserved too.
Hello, can you tell us about the correct color schemes for painting shoulder pads and helmets? And in General, about the correct and historical Assembly and coloring of the order?
Hi Roman,
There isn’t a great deal of official documentation or imagery on this for Raptors. The main source is the old Forge World Badab War book that has some information and imagery of heraldry etc. In that book there is a picture of a veteran sergeant with black helmet and yellow stripe – and I built on this for my own take on the scheme. Yellow is the Raven Guard (parent Chapter) trim colour for 2nd Company, so I chose that Company as the basis for the bulk of my own force, and used the yellow as a spot colour.
I also use white to denote higher ranks, as per the Codex Astartes.
The general hierarchy for the livery I came up with is as follows:
Remember that Raptors key tenet is adaptability, and they will often repaint their armour according to combat environment – white wash for snow, tan for desert etc. So you can be very creative with your army 🙂
Any details you can provide on how you achieved that wonderful green tone? Been attempting something similar for a while but finding I either end up too olive drab (too dark) or too key lime pie (too saturated). Hard to find a balance that looks appropriately tactical and curious if you had any tips.
Hi Mike, absolutely! Please see here, or for more in depth here.