Ultramarines Shoulder Pad Bits Shoulder Pads

Shoulder pads are how a squad of power-armoured troopers stops being generic. In 28mm heroic-scale games the pauldron is the single most visible flat on the model, sitting right at eye level, and it is where a chapter announces itself. Swap the pads and the same body becomes a different formation entirely. These are conversion bits in that tradition, cut for the sons of Macragge — the archetypal disciplined, by-the-book chapter, the one every other force in the setting gets measured against. They are meant for kitbashers: proxy marines built from spare bodies, an old squad being brought into a new army, or a display piece that needs its markings to match the rest of the shelf. Print a handful, and a box of unremarkable spare torsos turns into a unit with an identity.