Planet Muncher Crossed Chains

"The rank structure of the World Eaters under Angron remained simple and direct, the Primarch having little but scorn for the trappings of elites and pointless accolades and titles, refusing it is said to be addressed even as 'Lord', but he did see the virtue of a reliable and transparent chain of command in war. Such honors that the Legion and their master did believe in were warrior-marks of brotherhood and the scars of battle; these things transcended rank and spoke to the worth of the Space Marine beneath the armour. The sundered chains of one who had fought overwhelming odds and lived-an allusion that spoke to Angron's own bleak history, and the bloody handprint over the face or heart bestowed by a battle leader for a warrior whose fury had transcended that of his brothers-to the World Eaters these meant more than any mere bauble, title or trinket."

Transcend your eaters of worlds from mere line troopers into grizzled veterans. A "crossed-chain" decoration on a vambrace accorded an individual warrior status as having killed a fellow World Eater of higher rank in a sanctioned arena duel. I like the painted symbol, but always thought it lacked sufficient barbarity for the 12th. I feel like it would instead be a case of the chain (which their opponent had used to chain their weapon to them) would be taken and fixed onto the armour of the victor. A fittingly grizzly trophy.

This crossed chain is scaled to cover the shin of the new plastic Mk6 armour, but because of the shape of the knee guard could easily fit over earlier (or later) Marks of armour.

Given the scale of it, it is naturally very fragile, so I'd suggest printing with a resin with good flexibility, and carefully trimming off the supports one by one and then going back to the chain to do final cleanup. If you try to pull the chain off, or removing from the supports pulls it too much, the links will break.

I have included a supported version which I have been able to successfully print.