Scout Movements

I'm continuing my current interest in 40k, and continuing to insist that 5th edition is the main one that counts.

A standard mission in 5th edition requires at least two Troops choices, which the space marines I've been collecting through the Combat Patrol magazine don't form a legal force by themselves. 

Bastards.

To correct this clear error, I needed a simple Troops choice. Enter the scouts!

These were an eBay find at about a tenner, which for some reason included one model that was magnetised at the waist. They're older models and much smaller than the primaris models that form the rest of the army, but I'm fine with this - background wise, the scouts are newly-created marines so I'm happy with them not having fully bulked out yet.

Since they have sniper rifles and camo cloaks, having these guys in bright red armour with bright blue weapons didn't seem quite right, so I went for more muted colours based on the army scheme (having looked through the Insignium Astartes to check that this was allowed, because non-sanctioned colours on my toy soldiers would be unforgivable). 

So I matched up in a way that made sense to me:

Red = Brown (Speed Paint Hardened Leather)

Blue = Grey (Speed Paint Runic Grey)

Yellow = Beige (Contrast Skeleton Horde)

Metal = Dark Grey (Constrast Basilicanum Grey)

I used Speed Paint Sand Golem for the camo cloaks and non-armoured bits of uniform, drybrushed with Vallejo US Field Drab to match the bases.

I also wanted to try a low-contrast version of the chapter icons and squad markings - reasoning that a flash of white on each shoulder would probably somewhat undermine the other camo efforts.

I went for Vallejo German Grey and Vallejo Iraqui Sand to replace the black and white parts respectively. I also finally went for the freehand version of the chapter icon that I had in mind when I picked Genesis in the first place.

So there we go, I now have a legal, if unbalanced, space marine force. I look forward to having it completely wiped off the table at some point soon.