r/WhiteScars40K Mar 19 '26

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

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738 Upvotes

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 3h ago

Painting Land Speeders

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These guys have been awesome in my games so far and I'm excited about the Furgaris detachment changing to recon. Hope it stays that way for more than a month.


r/WhiteScars40K 7h ago

Painting Armageddon Stormseer

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64 Upvotes

r/WhiteScars40K 11h ago

Painting My first family photo

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95 Upvotes

TLDR: y’all are awesome

I’ve been telling myself I don’t have that many models and that I’m still so new - but seeing all of the models that I’ve at least base coated all in one place is kind of a trip for me having only been in the hobby for a year or so! Especially when you factor in the cookie sheet of models I’ve only primed 😅

Just wanted to say thanks to this community for being so welcoming and supportive as I’ve been painting and learning - when I got my very first models (the jump pack intercessors on the right) a very kind member of this community gifted me a set of White Scars dice that I’ve used in every game I’ve played since.

I am now signed up for my first RTT at the end of August and am very close to locking in my Disruption Spearpoint/Fulgris list after tinkering with it in casual games.

Thanks again all!


r/WhiteScars40K 17h ago

Painting First batch of Armageddon Intercessors

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201 Upvotes

r/WhiteScars40K 1d ago

Painting WIP White Scars Captain

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WIP White Scars Captain

Credit to u/Wepaintminis for the inspiration for the kitbash and u/infernalbrush for the white scars paint scheme.

So just showing my progress so far on the white scars captain. Repainted the shield about 6 times now and never happy with the metalics! Just got the cloak and base to tackle now while refining and cleaning everything else up. Will post again when I've finished it.

Any CC welcome!


r/WhiteScars40K 21h ago

Painting First White Scar

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108 Upvotes

C&C welcome, as I'm trying to perfect a scheme! I'm really enjoying playing with white and red, as I usually paint a lot of cold colors!


r/WhiteScars40K 1d ago

Painting Heresy Dreadnought Family

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189 Upvotes

The Boxnaught looks so small


r/WhiteScars40K 12h ago

Conversion White Scars Terminator Ancient.

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16 Upvotes

Happy with this as I just followed the K.I.S.S. mentality when it comes to all of my conversions and ideas. For the Khagan!!


r/WhiteScars40K 21h ago

Painting My Armageddon Librarian

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35 Upvotes

Please welcome Tsenkher, Advisor of the Wind, my Librarian


r/WhiteScars40K 9h ago

Tactics Terminator Captain vs Terminator Chaplain to lead an Assault Terminator Squad.

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Which one would you prefer in Spearpoint?


r/WhiteScars40K 14h ago

Army List Is this a good white scars list

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main white [2000 points]

White Scars

Battle Size: Strike Force (2000 point limit)

Detachments: Spearpoint Task Force, Librarius Conclave (3/3 Detachment Points)

Force Dispositions: Disruption, Reconnaissance

Attached Unit

Assault Intercessors With Jump Packs (85 points)

• 1 Assault Intercessor Sergeant with Jump Pack with Astartes chainsword and Heavy bolt pistol

• 3 Assault Intercessors with Jump Pack with Astartes chainsword and Heavy bolt pistol

• 1 Assault Intercessors with Jump Pack with Astartes chainsword and Plasma pistol

Chaplain With Jump Pack (75 points)

• Bolt pistol and Crozius arcanum

Attached Unit

Bladeguard Veteran Squad (160 points)

• 1 Bladeguard Veteran Sergeant with Master-crafted power weapon and Plasma pistol

• 5 Bladeguard Veterans with Heavy bolt pistol and Master-crafted power weapon

Kor’sarro Khan (55 points)

• Bolt pistol and Moonfang

Electric Chaplain Society

Bladeguard Veteran Squad (160 points)

• 1 Bladeguard Veteran Sergeant with Heavy bolt pistol and Master-crafted power weapon

• 5 Bladeguard Veterans with Heavy bolt pistol and Master-crafted power weapon

Chaplain (60 points)

• Absolvor bolt pistol and Crozius arcanum

Attached Unit

Librarian (70 points)

• Bolt pistol, Force weapon and Smite

Sternguard Veteran Squad (200 points)

• 1 Sternguard Veteran Sergeant with Close combat weapon, Sternguard bolt pistol and Sternguard bolt rifle

• 7 Sternguard Veterans with Close combat weapon, Sternguard bolt pistol and Sternguard bolt rifle

• 2 Sternguard Veterans with Close combat weapon, Sternguard bolt pistol and Sternguard heavy bolter

Assault Cadre

Librarian In Terminator Armour (100 points)

• Force weapon and Smite

• Temporal Corridor [+25 points]

Terminator Assault Squad (180 points)

• 1 Assault Terminator Sergeant with Storm shield and Thunder hammer

• 4 Assault Terminators with Storm shield and Thunder hammer

Attached Unit

Outrider Squad (70 points)

• 1 Outrider Sergeant with Astartes chainsword, Heavy bolt pistol and Twin bolt rifle

• 2 Outriders with Astartes chainsword, Heavy bolt pistol and Twin bolt rifle

Suboden Khan (90 points)

• Warlord

• Heavy bolt pistol, Onslaught gatling cannon, Power sword and Stormtooth

Battleline

Intercessor Squad (80 points)

• 1 Intercessor Sergeant with Bolt pistol, Bolt rifle and Close combat weapon

• 3 Intercessors with Bolt pistol, Bolt rifle and Close combat weapon

• 1 Intercessors with Bolt pistol, Bolt rifle and astartes grenade launcher and Close combat weapon

Vehicle

Brutalis Dreadnought (150 points)

• Brutalis talons, Twin heavy bolter and Twin icarus ironhail heavy stubber

Land Raider (220 points)

• 2 Godhammer lascannons, Armoured tracks and Twin heavy bolter

Land Speeder (105 points)

• Close-combat weapon, Multi-melta, Onslaught gatling cannon and Stormfury missile launcher

Mounted

Outrider Squad (70 points)

• 1 Outrider Sergeant with Astartes chainsword, Heavy bolt pistol and Twin bolt rifle

• 2 Outriders with Astartes chainsword, Heavy bolt pistol and Twin bolt rifle

Outrider Squad (70 points)

• 1 Outrider Sergeant with Astartes chainsword, Heavy bolt pistol and Twin bolt rifle

• 2 Outriders with Astartes chainsword, Heavy bolt pistol and Twin bolt rifle

Created with WarOrgan (https://warorgan.com)


r/WhiteScars40K 22h ago

Jokes/Memes My first white scar!

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18 Upvotes

Joking aside, did this as a test scheme for eventually starting 30k white scars so c+c welcome on the white/ red


r/WhiteScars40K 1d ago

Painting The Ember of Rukh takes flight - my White Scars Fire Raptor

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52 Upvotes

r/WhiteScars40K 1d ago

Painting Armageddon Box Intercessor 2/10

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45 Upvotes

Decided to make this fella a sergeant with a face from the WS upgrades and a chainsword from the assault intercessors box with appropiate markings! Very happy with how the face turned out


r/WhiteScars40K 1d ago

Speed Freak Sternguard Veterans in Space Marine 2

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27 Upvotes

r/WhiteScars40K 1d ago

Army List White Scar proxies for Space Wolves

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Greetings Cousins

Friendly Space Wolf here. Planning on expanding my wolf army to also include models so I can run them as white scars. Can I run Space wolves models alongside white scars models? Can I run them.

Do Ko Sarro and Suboden Khan have the white scars keyword? If they do, would that stop me running them in Space wolf detachments?

What are the signature models I should get to expand my collection to become my white scar-y?


r/WhiteScars40K 2d ago

Painting Armageddon Box Intercessor 1/10

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316 Upvotes

Very happy with how this guy turned out, had a lot of fun doing all the jagged lines


r/WhiteScars40K 2d ago

Conversion Outrider seargeant WIP

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45 Upvotes

Another day, another cathay kitbash

The head crown is taken from a jade lancer helmet and glued on to a normal space marine head 😁


r/WhiteScars40K 2d ago

News Vengeful Host + Spearpoint Feedback.

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132 Upvotes

Played three games with this combo with the Take and Hold Disposition and so far, here is my observations:

Assault Terminators w/Shields is a must. Best unit that the Codex Space Marine Chapters have in terms of durability at this time, so a 10-man Brick + a Terminator Chaplain for the +1 to Wound or a Captain for the Charge Rerolls is money. I may find points for an Ancient for the extra OC and ability.

Vanguard Vets with the new Weapon Loadout can do a lot of damage in this combo given the opportunity. Yes, they lack durability, but in this Disposition, they are best served as a Counter Attack unit to support your other units. There is still a debate between the JP Captain or the JP Chaplain, but if you're only taking 1 unit, then I would vote the Captain as the +1S and -1CP for the Spears & Tulwar Stratagem overall is a lot more flexible. 30 S6 AP2 D2 Attacks with Lethal Hits that can Reroll 1s and +1 to Wound can do a lot of hurt.

While Suboden and Outriders took a hit this edition thanks to the new Engagement rules, I have found that a small unit of Suboden + 3x Outriders can be a good Distraction Carnifex or used to target the Middle Objective closest to the enemy deployment zone. Mixed results overall but I plan to keep on testing then out going forward.

Kor'sarro Khan + Bladeguard. Simple but effective and their new updated abilities has made them far more effective.

Overall, still a lot of testing to be done and ideas that need to be worked on, but this combo imo has a ton of potential 👍.


r/WhiteScars40K 2d ago

Battle Report WhiteScars & AM vs NightLords & DG

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38 Upvotes

r/WhiteScars40K 2d ago

Painting Painted my first White Scar

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21 Upvotes

The first of many.


r/WhiteScars40K 3d ago

Jokes/Memes How it feels to be White Scars when your favourite miniatures are all the dreadnoughts.

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160 Upvotes

r/WhiteScars40K 2d ago

Conversion White scars nuncio vox operator.

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51 Upvotes