The Silliest Space Marine Color Schemes 

IRON LORDS RED PANTS GANG RISE UP

I will not stand for the besmirching of split heraldry

The iron lords have red boots cause they stomp aliens

I will not stand for iron lords red pants slander. they look really cool you just dont get it.

A lot of great paint schemes get destroyed by sticking to the Codex Astates compliant color codes. Each company has a dedicated color (Red, Green, White ext) and this must be put on the armor (usually the helmet, shoulder trim or chest aquilla) to achieve compliance. Due to this usually looking goofy, you tend to only ever see one company color depicted in official art. It's like how almost all official Ultramarine art incorrectly uses gold shoulder trim because it looks much cooler than it being correctly green or red to match the way the Codex states to paint ya bois

Scythes of the Emperor always got me. They always looked like a Raven Guard in a gold, women's swimsuit.

The floating bone told me to come here, I’m happy he did.

Space Marine colour theory is informed by their origins as late medieval landsknecht in space. The first Scouts even had the puffed and slashed sleeves and trousers!

6:50 the sons of jaghatai: *angry noises in purple*

Ad colors of the helmets in Emperor's Shields: It's because these are the colours designating those companies in Codex Astartes. 1st - White/Silver 2nd - Yellow/Gold (if you see an ultramarine with a gold trim - his 2nd company) 3rd - Red 4th - Green (look also Uriel Ventris) 5th - Black ...etc Some chapters use different means to designate companies (Dark Angels), true, but these sets of colours are Codex compliant in a literal sense.

4:42 Ah yes, g r ë æ n .

consider: countering the green helmet problem of angels of repentance by swapping out heads for hoods

Space marine color schemes just look like ww1 fighter plane schemes

Never trust a person who doesn’t like space marines

"Why is is knee Freeza?" Because he's 7th Company.

My new fav quote "MASH IT IN!"

lemon and lime! its 7up!

7:00 the RWBY-erm... I mean red yellow white and black color schemes may have to do with the white scars overarching eastern influence as multiple eastern cultures put symbolic meaning to those colors in particular.

If you like the idea of aerial chapters, you should look into the Hawk Lords. They're a Second Founding Ultramarines successor that specializes in aerial combat and have developed a unique jump pack called Hawk Wings that can bear even Devastator Marines carrying heavy weapons into the air. Side note, please kitbash a Hawk Lord Devastator with Hawk Wings. That would be really cool.

Sons of the Phoenix mentioned let's GOOOOOOOO

GOOBERS?!?!

2:22 The reason is that's the color order laid out by the codex astartes. I can also tell you the 6th is orange, the 7th is purple, the 8th is grey, and the 9th is blue.

I believe an honorable mention of the Emperor's Pointy Sticks is appropriate. They appeared in a web comic on Warhammer Community so they could be considered canon...right?

00:35 color schemes that stand out was literally how i picked the schemes for my first chaos space marines. the fandom wiki's got a pictorial list of warbands and chapters and I just went with whatever I thought was neat.

no mention of the Mentors? Lego Octan ass color scheme (that's a compliment)

Loved the video! I hope more people can see your content!

your character is such a baddie tho

Cute goober thumbnail. I love being able to make your own sm chapter. I have a bunch of guys called WarpWatch: Say the imperial navy is getting hijacked by chaos in the warp, let out the WarpWatch! White with neon orange and yellow trim for visibility (trust me it looks amazing!). They're anti psyker and latch themselves to the hull of a ship to fight off whatever eldritch horror is impeding warp travel. Hence, they're a last resort option, because It may feel like years for them, but only last a few minutes. Plus, we -don't- want anymore astartes falling to chaos. My own (and the best) honebrew chapter ✌️

You’re quickly becoming one of my fav hobby channel, keep doing you!

It's troo, I do luv dem Spays Maureens... LUV KRUMPIN EM!

So, while I realise the Solar Hawks logo is meant to look like a hawk with a falcon hood/cap, Am I the only one who saw that and saw "Hawk with emo hair"?

The iron lords were ummm inspired by one of cannibal corpse’s most popular songs

Mr. Bones 40K told me about you. Great channel!

You like angels of repentance but have you heard about emperors spears? If not let me tell you nothing about them because the only fan I know of them we booli for being a 40k fan who only reads the books like a nerd.

I do love the chatty vids. In fact i would adore a Mishcast style podcast one day

I was scrolling, and then i saw that thumbnail and scrolled back just to have that little guy stare into my soul 10/10 thumbnail.

the iron lords got that ww1 french red pantaloons

I swear if every time you see that terrible forest green you just replace it with a muted military green they'll all look great.

Yo man I love the new intro and the paint scheme

Grear video. I'm newer to the hobby, so I hadn't heard of most of these. Always looking out for your next video. C'ya.

Silly goober Space Marines give me life.

Heavenly intro, brother I could say it made me smile Nice video too, hope your channel grows

Not gonna lie, I'm kind of down with the Storm Lords.

You should check out the yellow jackets, masters of protelus, celebrants and angels penitent

Gotta admit, I love the chapters with fun helmet colours! why not throw some colours in, have some fun!

Thanks for the video

I like the storm lords

We did it. We found Canon CWC marines. MishMash you have to paint Solar Hawks. Please. Chris chan Marines. Please.

Hey my custom marines have red boots like the iron lords. Shits just fancy bro 😂

My friend glad this topic has been done. Some schemes I like are from the Rouge Trader days like the classic Salamanders

I think these paints are metaphorical, they are predominantly these two colors not always split right down the middle

But off topic because of the fact that they are traitors, but I love gladiator cadre 331 of the world eaters, they kept their og paint scheme from before the fall to chaos, which is white… so they still turn bloody red anyways… but I enjoy painting them… it took a lot of time to learn to paint in white for minis though… I use metallic medium instead of white or grey paint

I can see me doing a update group of the angels of repentance but rather the green I would us another color

salamander,s g1 color scheme

"There basically the only chapter that makes use of stormravens and thunderhawks" the raven guard 7th company LITERALLY does exactly that to extensive amounts

shoutout the heavenly smile from the intro

Another chapter I think would have fit well into the list are the "Storm Callers". Red pants, red powerpack, red pauldron trim, green aquila/imperialis, Black armor. Their color scheme is odd, but kind of charming in a way.

2:25 the reason for these colors is actually because those are the codex compliant colors for those companies. Fun fact!

Theoretically there are a million space marines out there. One-thousand chapters that are supposed to be composed of one-thousand marines. But since we know the latter isn't true it's fair to assume the former is not also.

Now do CSM 😜

I adore your character, its really cute. Its a bat right?

okay Night Lords . silver or gold trim ?

What happens whan a chapter unkowningly uses the exact paint scheme of a traitor legion before they met their primarch? Like the war hounds or the dusk raiders?

What CREATURES..

Look I love ya my dude but there's definitely weird characters

There are 1000 chapters, not a million

What about the rainbow warriors?

Do you think you will ever critique the color schemes of other factions?

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Are you a furry?

Furry?

Not cannonical atall, but I really do love the /tg/ 1d4chan (now 1d6chan if you want to read their short article) homebrew chapter called the Flesh helms. Whenever I remember thier exsistance it brings a smile to my face, the Crunchy Stuff is some of the funniest fannon stuff I've ever read.