^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^these for ages for something to paint as a one off project. I always thought the Ultramarines were a frustratingly underdeveloped part of the 40K fiction. For all their 'vanillamarine' presentation and glory hogging (the Ward 'spiritual leige' era being the most obviously egregious) fluff there was some really intriguing stuff just waiting to be developed.
Ultramar being, effectively, the unnoficial capital of the Eastern Imperium. Ultramar being itself something of a sub nation within the Imperium. And their propensity for breaking codex tradition when it suited them, such as forming non codex tyrannic kill squads, refitting a battlebarge with increased firepower at the serious expense of Astartes carrying capacity etc etc. (I theorise this was largely an accidental by-product of unimaginative writers trying to keep the codex chapter interesting) Meant that, between the lines, you actually had an extremely divergent chapter, only instead of strictly doctrinal or genetic/gene seed divergence the Ultramarines were politically divergent. There was hints of Byzantiums succession over Rome in there. Really interesting. Apparently people in the Black Library thought similar things because we got 'Imperium Secundus' in the Horus Heresy, and now the Great Rift meaning Ultramar really is the Byzantium of the setting, 'Imperium Nihilus'. This has meant that the Ultramarines have become significantly more interesting and their more exciting elements haven't been left to implication and head canon amymore. Very nice.
So I'm looking forward to giving this model the best paint job I can manage and maybe a little vignet for it to sit on.
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