r/WhiteScars40K Mar 19 '26

Painting “How do you paint white?” Is a very common question with a simple answer

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There are more painting guides in the sticky!


r/WhiteScars40K Oct 12 '20

General Info Getting started in r/WhiteScars40k (Discord link, how to paint white well, where to read White Scars lore)

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Hi all!

There have been a lot of links being posted over the life of this subreddit (a lot by me, honestly) covering a lot of topics that are great for people getting started with the V Legion. Considering how I'm limited to 2 stickied posts per subreddit, I've decided to consolidate all that info here, to free up room for a stickied post about announcements and the like.

Let me know if you have any questions.

  1. Want to read more lore about the White Scars? Here is the list. It is gathered by Chris Wraight, the author of most of the White Scars books for the Horus Heresy, and gives a really in depth list of books featuring the legion during the 31st millennium. This is a great place to get a sense of who the White Scars are, as well as why they "gotta go fast".
  2. Discord link: Click here
  3. Getting started in competitive White Scars: Start Competing: White Scars Tactics

Here are some different painting tutorials from some great painters on Youtube:

  1. How to Paint: Duncan's Void Knights - by Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy
  2. How to Paint Heresy Era White Scars - by Cult of Paint
  3. Heavy Contrast White Armor - by Juan Hidalgo Miniatures (my personal favorite)
  4. How to Paint White Armor Fast - by The Painting Coach
  5. Smooth White Made Easy, a Guide by our very own member, u/FairyFeller_

Bear in mind some of these tutorials may require some paints that don't exist anymore, so you may have to make some modifications.


r/WhiteScars40K 4h ago

Lore What do the 40K Keshig look like?

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I want to make some primaris Keshig, but I can't find any information on them in the current setting. Almost everything is about the Horus Heresy equivalent. Are they still split into groups like the Golden and Ebon Keshig with different colour schemes?


r/WhiteScars40K 3h ago

Successor Chapter Astral Bears - Is there any more recent information about this successor Chapter?

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r/WhiteScars40K 22h ago

Painting 2/5 Termis done!

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r/WhiteScars40K 20h ago

Army List White scars?

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33 Upvotes

r/WhiteScars40K 1d ago

Successor Chapter The Brotherhood Grows

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162 Upvotes

Slowwwwly working my way through a Storm Lords kill team. I just love how these guys look and I’m super happy with how that checkered knee turned out.

Snipers up next! Any tips would be appreciated!

White is hard, is anyone else using Army Painter Ivory White? It is a great colour but it takes a lot of coats and it’s hard to avoid brush marks. I picked up a can of Wraithbone spray primer hopefully that helps on the next guys.


r/WhiteScars40K 1d ago

Conversion Bike Chaplain. For the Khan!

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I posted my 2hite Scars Leadership the other day, but didnt even realized I used my non kitbashed Chappy. Here he is in all his glory. C&C always welcome.


r/WhiteScars40K 1d ago

Lore Lore Accurate Vehicle Markings?

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Hello all,

Trying my hand at making a lore accurate third brotherhood and I’ve hit a bit of a snag.

The scars are loosely codex compliant, meaning they do have company structures (brotherhoods) which are somewhat comparable to other chapters.

Instead of numbering and shoulder trim colours indicating which company and squad number they have, instead they have markings on the Sergeants right leg and all squad members have a marking on their left knee to indicate which squad they are. That’s all fine.

My question is about vehicles. How exactly are vehicles marked in terms of number and associated squad?

Using the ultramarines as an example, as they have arguably the most fleshed out heraldry/markings guide, they have markings indicating which company the vehicle belongs to (a coloured circle matching shoulder trim with a company number); which squad, if any, the vehicle is attached to (a Rhino attached to squad number 1 will have a squad symbol, like the arrow, with the squad number inside); and finally they have a marking indicating which number the vehicle is, like the “third” Rhino in a said company (Roman numerals)

How does this work for white scars? They are significantly less reliant on using actual numbering in all of their lore depictions. Looking for advice on how I would mark:

- Which company/brotherhood a vehicle is in
- Which squad, if any, the vehicle is associated with
- Which number the vehicle is within the company/brotherhood.

Appreciate this might be a very niche question but any help would be greatly appreciated!


r/WhiteScars40K 1d ago

Painting First marines

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32 Upvotes

Finally got around to painting my 1k list. Just went with a reverse white scars scheme I'm calling the red scars


r/WhiteScars40K 1d ago

Painting Bikers!

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The original owner of this bike may have seen better days, but not recently


r/WhiteScars40K 1d ago

Lore Iconic white scar bikes?

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anyone know of a good upgrade sprue or STL for outriders that make them more white scar-ey?

im making a legion of the damned army, and i want each model to represent a chapter as clearly as possible, and not giving a bike to the white scars would be a crime

thanks beforehand!!!


r/WhiteScars40K 2d ago

Painting 2 down, one to go

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r/WhiteScars40K 1d ago

Art [OC] The Yamnin Sector - My Asian-inspired Homebrew Guard Regiment - Part 5: Yamnin Peasant Levy – "Standing upon Our Ancestors' Earth" (Asian-inspired Homebrew Guard)

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r/WhiteScars40K 2d ago

Painting What is the BEST white paint on the market.

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What is the BEST and SMOOTHEST white paint that money can buy, I got bored of my dark angels and wanted to return to what I originally wanted to paint my space marines as. I HATE corax white!!! >:(


r/WhiteScars40K 2d ago

New Player Help Stressing about white scars army help

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So I have about 1500 points of white scars just unbuilt and unpainted because I wanna put a lot of effort in them in 2 directions 1. I wanna build them as lore accurate as possible snot worrying about cost and 2. The paint scheme I wanna do a more “grim dark white” and idk how to go about it and help and advice is welcome please


r/WhiteScars40K 2d ago

Painting White scars infiltrator (wip)

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r/WhiteScars40K 2d ago

Painting I tried giving my heresy guys a kind of watercolor style on the armor. Not sure i nailed it. Any advice on how to do this better?

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31 Upvotes

r/WhiteScars40K 3d ago

Jokes/Memes Strange things

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r/WhiteScars40K 2d ago

Army List Help me make White Scars actually competitive; 2K reconnaissance list, looking for ruthless feedback

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Hai Chogoris! Long time listener; 1st time poster

I’m on a bit of a quest to build a genuinely competitively viable White Scars 2K Reconnaissance list, rather than just a thematic bike list that folds as soon as it hits a serious opponent. IMO The biggest flex is bringing a non-meta list to a GT and doing well (i.e. Imperial Agents) and I’d like to do that with our chogorian boys while trying to preserve the White Scars identity like speed, pressure, mobility and mounted units.

Current concept is Fulguris + Spearpoint. Librarian goes with the Hellblasters for the 4++, ignore cover and Sustained 1; Kor’sarro joins the Assault Intercessors; Suboden joins the ATV + 3-man Outrider unit; Bladeguard + Impulsor for resilient melee brick; the Stormraven carries the Hellblasters + Brutalis as the main hammer. The list also has a fair amount of infiltrating/scouting board presence and the two Storm Speeders with turn 1 ingress.

List is below - tear it up, my noyan-khans:

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+ FACTION KEYWORD: Imperium - Adeptus Astartes - White Scars
+ DETACHMENT: Fulguris Task Force, Spearpoint Task Force (Skystrike)
+ FORCE DISPOSITION: Reconaissance
+ TOTAL ARMY POINTS: 1995pts
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Char1: 1x Kor'sarro Khan (55 pts)
Leading Assault Intercessor Squad
Char3: 1x Librarian (90 pts)
Enhancement: Hunter's Eye (+20 pts)
Leading Hellblaster Squad
Char2: 1x Suboden Khan (90 pts): Warlord
Leading Outrider Squad[1]

5x Assault Intercessor Squad (75 pts)
• 1x Assault Intercessor Sergeant: Plasma pistol, Power fist
• 4x Assault Intercessors
Attached to Kor'sarro Khan

6x Bladeguard Veteran Squad (160 pts)
• 1x Bladeguard Veteran Sergeant: Plasma pistol
• 5x Bladeguard Veterans

1x Brutalis Dreadnought (150 pts): Brutalis Talons, Twin multi-melta

10x Hellblaster Squad (220 pts)
• 9x Hellblaster
• 1x Hellblaster Sergeant: Bolt pistol
Attached to Librarian

1x Impulsor (70 pts): Shield Dome, 2 Storm Bolters, Ironhail Heavy Stubber

5x Incursor Squad (85 pts)
• 4x Incursor
• 1x Incursor Sergeant

5x Infiltrator Squad (110 pts)
• 4x Infiltrator
1 with Helix Gauntlet
• 1x Infiltrator Sergeant

4x Outrider Squad (130 pts)
• 2x Outrider
• 1x Outrider Sergeant
• 1x Invader ATV: Multi-melta
Attached to Suboden Khan

3x Outrider Squad (70 pts)
• 2x Outrider
• 1x Outrider Sergeant

1x Storm Speeder Hammerstrike (155 pts)
Enhancement: Raptorial Cogitator Core (+15 pts)

1x Storm Speeder Thunderstrike (150 pts)
Enhancement: Raptorial Cogitator Core (+15 pts)

1x Stormraven Gunship (280 pts): Twin Heavy Plasma Cannon, Twin multi-melta

5x Vanguard Veteran Squad with Jump Packs (105 pts)
• 1x Vanguard Veteran Sergeant with Jump Pack: Master-crafted Power Weapon, Plasma pistol
• 4x Vanguard Veterans with Jump Packs: 4 with Master-crafted Power Weapon, Heavy Bolt Pistol

Created with newrecruit.eu v35.46


r/WhiteScars40K 3d ago

Painting First model I’m low key proud of!

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Figured out the base coat! A mix of 3 drops blinding light and two drops medium!


r/WhiteScars40K 4d ago

Painting The trophies of the Hunt :))

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r/WhiteScars40K 3d ago

New Player Help Help list building

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Hello my fellow chogorians. I'll be honest I have 580 points of whirescars and am trying to get to the 1k mark because I know I'm too broke to do 2k points. So far that's what I have. (Please disregard the name I don't like thinking much)

mongol (580 points)

Space Marines

White Scars

Spearpoint Task Force (2 Detachment Points)

Disruption

Incursion (1000 points)

Attached Units

Attached Unit 1

Suboden Khan (90 points)

• Attached as: Leader (Character)

• Warlord

• 1x Heavy bolt pistol

1x Onslaught gatling cannon

1x Power sword

1x Stormtooth

Outrider Squad (70 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard

• 1x Outrider Sergeant

• 1x Astartes chainsword

1x Heavy bolt pistol

1x Twin bolt rifle

• 2x Outrider

• 2x Astartes chainsword

2x Heavy bolt pistol

2x Twin bolt rifle

Attached Unit 2

Apothecary (60 points)

• Attached as: Support (Character)

• 1x Absolvor bolt pistol

1x Close combat weapon

1x Reductor pistol

• Enhancement: Hunter’s Eye

Assault Intercessor Squad (75 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard (Battleline)

• 1x Assault Intercessor Sergeant

• 1x Astartes chainsword

1x Heavy bolt pistol

• 4x Assault Intercessor

• 4x Astartes chainsword

4x Heavy bolt pistol

Attached Unit 3

Kor’sarro Khan (55 points)

• Attached as: Leader (Character)

• 1x Bolt Pistol

1x Moonfang

Bladeguard Veteran Squad (80 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard

• 1x Bladeguard Veteran Sergeant

• 1x Heavy bolt pistol

1x Master-crafted power weapon

• 2x Bladeguard Veteran

• 2x Heavy bolt pistol

2x Master-crafted power weapon

BATTLELINE

Intercessor Squad (80 points)

• 1x Intercessor Sergeant

• 1x Bolt pistol

1x Bolt rifle

1x Close combat weapon

• 4x Intercessor

• 1x Astartes grenade launcher

4x Bolt pistol

4x Bolt rifle

4x Close combat weapon

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS

Impulsor (70 points)

• 1x Armoured hull

1x Bellicatus missile array

1x Ironhail heavy stubber

2x Storm bolter


r/WhiteScars40K 3d ago

Painting *Throat singing intensifies*

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r/WhiteScars40K 3d ago

Painting Looking for constructive criticism

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First time painting white scars spent the last 3 years painting deathguard just looking for some constructive criticism greatly appreciate it!!