When deciding on a chapter badge, the initial temptation can be to go for something very flashy and over the top. When I was working on my first DIY chapter (the Celestial Paladins, more on them another time), my idea was for the chapter badge to be a blazing ball of blue and white flame that looked like a celestial comet. The problem was that it was so time-consuming to paint on every model and my skills were so basic that it took more time to get right than to paint the entire rest of the miniature.
Without doubt the best advice that I can give to anyone who wants to come up with their own chapter badge and is not planning on using either a transfer or supurb painting skills is to keep it as simple as you possibly can.
The star-burst design above was one that I came up for within a matter of minutes some years ago and I still think that it's one of the best bits of iconography that I have ever designed. All in all the design requires nothing more than five brush-strokes, not accounting for corrections afterwards, and still manages to stand out as a stark and unique part of the chapter image.
As for the fluff behind the image, that's a bit more vague. Perhaps it signifies the dropships that brought the elements of the chapter to their homeworld of Basilisk for the first time, descending like heavenly warriors from the skies. Or perhaps it represents the hope of the marines that comes with the dawn. Maybe it stands for the light of far Terra, visible only as a tiny point of light in the night sky.
Who knows?
Without doubt the best advice that I can give to anyone who wants to come up with their own chapter badge and is not planning on using either a transfer or supurb painting skills is to keep it as simple as you possibly can.
The star-burst design above was one that I came up for within a matter of minutes some years ago and I still think that it's one of the best bits of iconography that I have ever designed. All in all the design requires nothing more than five brush-strokes, not accounting for corrections afterwards, and still manages to stand out as a stark and unique part of the chapter image.
As for the fluff behind the image, that's a bit more vague. Perhaps it signifies the dropships that brought the elements of the chapter to their homeworld of Basilisk for the first time, descending like heavenly warriors from the skies. Or perhaps it represents the hope of the marines that comes with the dawn. Maybe it stands for the light of far Terra, visible only as a tiny point of light in the night sky.
Who knows?
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