Fire Hawks Logo Sheet
“In the year 963.M41 the Fire Hawks were sent to the Crows World subsector against Eldar pirates. The entire chapter-fleet, including the chapter’s mobile space-fortress Raptorus Rex, made a successful warp jump from the Piraeus system 120 light years from Crows World. The five ships, over eight hundred brethren, and two thousand other personnel expected to reach Crows World within no more than 12 hours. They never arrived.
Twenty years after the event the chapter was officially declared lost in the warp and presumed destroyed. The great Bell of Lost Souls tolled a thousand times, and it said that the Emperor himself ordered a Black Candle to be lit in the Adeptus Chapel of Fallen Heroes.”
Its finally the Fire Hawk’s turn. This chapter, borne of the 21st “Cursed” Founding has a very close tie with BoLS. One could call the Fire Hawks our Godfather chapter, as the origin of the Bell of Lost Souls in 40k canon is in the original Legion of the Damned article that described their origins in the unfortunate chapter.
We are doing them now as part of the Badab War campaign book, but they really are a cool chapter. How cool is it to throw down on the tabletop with the chapter that becomes the Legion of the Damned? Did I mention their chapter scheme is yellow with flames…not to mention the nuclear blast symbol. Enjoy guys!
We have been noting for a while that GW does a great job of covering the “Big 4” chapters with their decal sheets. However, there are a number of great looking 2nd and later Founding chapters who get a good amount of back-story and have great alternative uniform colors that never have had decals produced for them. In the interest of promoting diversity in the Space Marine community and encouraging players to branch out beyond the “Big-4”, I continue our line of logo sheets for some of these other chapters who I think look great and have no GW decal support.
Here is the link to the PDF file for the logo sheet you can freely pull down and use:
The sheet is designed for printout on decal printer paper which is easily available online. These decals are designed for the CLEAR decal paper. The procedure is as follows:
CLEAR PAPER: If you use the clear decals, the decals need to be applied to a white colored surface to be visible at all. The procedure for applying the “outline only” decals is to apply them to a white surface, and wait till they are fully dried. Then paint in the Fire Hawk’s yellow around the logos. It is odd, but gets the job done.
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This sheet is sized for superheavy vehicles up towards the top and scales down to marine scout shoulderpad size at the very bottom. I have included the standard “nuclear blast” chapter logo first described in the Rogue Trader Badab War article. Please make sure you run off a test sheet first on your printer to make sure.
In any case, enjoy and I wish you the best in using this set for your forces.
~Please feel free to leave comments if there is a special Chapter, Craftworld, or something else you would love to collect, but have no GW decal options, and I will see what I can do.
