Still struggling with the name decision, but I guess I'm leaning toward
Ursamarines. In the grim dorky world of my far 40K tournament future, I think it will be more acceptable to other players.
Ursus Bellum sounds singular, some might need an interpretation, and it might come off like I'm just plain trying too hard. It's a tricky thing, finding something that's cool in a nerdy world, and still have it be my brand of nerdy.
I need to work on the lighting for my pics, but below are a couple marines showing my newly finalized colors. The ML was painted entirely with this new scheme, while the flamer was painted in a different scheme and then touched up to bring in line with the new.
This was more about finding the colors, and less about painting to top standard. Hopefully, my line highlights will be more careful and neat on showier pieces. Also, these obviously need a lot more work (weapons, details, etc. but I do like the eye of the ML trooper).
I decided to ditch the
pauldrons with a bleached bone field. They are bears...bears that have been charging through the blood of their kills, seeking more enemies to slay. Really, I wanted brown, but after deciding that most will have red legs, I found that the brown was overpowered by the huge white
pauldrons. I think this will also help with the chapter symbol, a nice dark background to slap a white symbol on. I may have some vets with white helms, and some sarge's with red helms. We'll see.
Because of the dark lighting, you'll definitely need to view the larger pic to see anything, and maybe even zoom in on that.
Also, with the switch to brown
pauldrons, I can get away with a
pauldron trim color, which is more appropriate since it's a codex chapter at the moment. I'm leaning toward a muted gold for second company or red for third (
Ultramarines standards)
Blah blah blah...
Update: a stab at correcting the shoddy pic...colors are a little more true to life:
