Tempest's Blood Angels- 17 Jan- Modular Urban Boards!!

[Tempest Six Two]

Hey Guys, here's the 'test' marine i've done up for my Blood Angels who are currently in the build. Wanted to know people's feedback and opinions on it. Please be aware that he's a rush job, the new minis im building will have a bit more attention paid to blacklining, getting decent coverage etc... btw, he's not shiny, thats just my bright light I used to (hastily) illuminate him...



Also worth mentioning that a full step-by-step of the process, with pics, can be found on my blog at the following:
http://tempests40kbunker.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/blood-angels-paint-scheme-sorted-out.html     

Looking for a happy medium between GW's current BA colour and the orange-red of 2nd Edition *thinks fondly of 'back in the day'*, and i think this works, all with unmixed new-range GW paints, washes and glazes. Im especially happy with Dragon's Bright Orange, which is a great peach orange, perfect for highlighting BA

Feedback and comments appreciated!
Tempest

[Will's on Fire]

Looks good!

The colour, to me at least looks a bit pink? Although that might just be the lighting, the one before last on your blog seems to show a nicer colour in my opinion, and I don't think a final stage highlight could effect the colour that much!

Very nice start to an army, I'm sure once you get going they'll be on par with the other things you've painted!

- Will

[Tempest Six Two]

Yeah cheers Will, I'm hoping to have a bunch of assault marines done soon, they've just arrived actually...

The colour is skewed in the last picture, you are correct it's not as pink as the pic makes out, a much more traditional reddy-orange but my white light tends to do funny things to the tone.

Loving the new paint range, it's making it so easy to get good results with minimal effort (well, maybe a little bit).

Currently laying down some coats on a Furioso, should have pics soon.

[loeldrad]

I really like the color! Bright enough to pop but not too bright. I cant wait to see that Furioso!

[Thantos]

Looking good! solid scheme and no pink or orange highlights which BA's sometimes suffer from
Good luck with the army painting!

[Toad]

That looks really good, i love highlighting, should be a nice looking army

[Tempest Six Two]

Furioso got some more coats of red last night, loving how the new colours work on large surfaces as well. I also assembled 10 jump pack marines and  all my resin bases and forgeworld stuff cleaned and ready to paint. I've ditched the desert bases I originally bought for some awesome ruin/rubble bases.

OMG I need to stop spending money on this army... but I cant!! I just bought another Furioso and two Drop pods... cos, you know, if its in a Drop pod (and therefore must be reserved) it doesnt count towards the number of units that can be voluntarily reserved

and no pink or orange highlights which BA's sometimes suffer from  

^^^ Exactly! While i've got a warm orange tone in the red as my base, there will be no glowing orange edge highlights at all!! Dragon's Bright Orange (aka Peach) FTW!

[Stewie Griffin]

Wish I could rush my models and they end up like that... 

Still, very good A whole army of those would be very striking. I never saw the old 2ed BA, so I can't comment on that, but they certainly do stand out as blood angels to me.

[Tempest Six Two]

Bit of an update- Terminators are on the go. Got the pins inserted into the bases and holes in the feet as well, but not attached until the bases are all completely painted. In the second pic all the bases are base coated Mechanicus Standard Grey.

I've also finished mounting the FW BA shoulderpads as well (not pictured), they are very hard to use on assault arms as they are larger than the standard ones and have a lot of detail that hangs down from them. Had to use greenstuff under the pads to get them to attach to the arms in the end, but you cant see anything

   

(Apologies for the lighting...)

Here's one of them and the Termy Librarian, showing their painted and mildly drybrushed bases. I (partially) painted the black edging onto the bottom of Librarian's base to compare it to the grey on the rest of them, not sure which way i'll go yet. Will be adding some green foliage tufts though as weeds growing through the cracks and rubble of the ruins.
   

[Will's on Fire]

Great painting as usual, those bases are really nice!

- Will

[Tempest Six Two]

Cheers Will, yeah I reckon they're a good choice, should contrast well with some greenery on there.

Little bit of progress... I need a new medium brush though, the one I'm using now is all ragged.

Edit: Behold! Links that Work!! (updating on an iPhone- never a sure fire way to do things...)

Librarian- blue armour partially done... It's coming up okay, I'm starting to enjoy painting him more and more as I keep going.



I've also realized that I have an innate fear of running dry on the old paintrange halfway through a brand new army- behold the 26 'new' paints I've amassed just for the Blood Angels.


I'm still using old stuff that's a perfect match or near enough, but the main armour colours and newer washes and glazes were crucial. Still, there's AU$132 here alone, and I'm going back for more when I get paid tomorrow. Do I have a problem? Lol.

[Will's on Fire]

Yeah you have a problem, your image tags!

That's a pretty crazy buy, it's a bit like starting out all over again with your paint collection. I don't even have that many paints for my three armies. Might need to start picking up some more though, blending is so much easier when you have the mid-tone colour as well as the two extremes.

Looking forward to seeing the pics,

- Will

[Tempest Six Two]

I'll agree with you regarding mid-tones- I now have all the required reds, blues and yellows, as well as the bone colours for tabards, cloth, parchment, books etc... To be honest I think that all I need now is a darker Green (Caliban?), and I'm going to continue using the old washes where applicable- Badab, Devlan, Thraka etc, as their minimal applications will never be noticeable if I ever replace them with new product. 

I did look today at some Vallejo paints, but felt dirty afterwards and quickly returned to the GW rack.. hahaha

All I have to do now is convince my 4 month old Daughter to sleep more often and my army will come along a lot quicker... hard to paint when I'm spending most of my time walking her around the house trying to get her to settle! Its all worthwhile though

Edit: Yes, its a crazy buy. Especially when my 'old' paints (still useable in some way or another) numbers 82 pots. 

[Thantos]

Ha! So how many paints do you have now? ... i feel a thread coming on xD

Great looking marines so far, red is nice and rich. Where are the bases from? Quite cool but not detracting from the minis!

[Tempest Six Two]

Hmm, yeah... like well over 110 paint pots now. Sad

Bases are "ruins" from back to base IX here in Australia. Roughly AU$60 got me 10 Termie bases, 3 Dread bases and 40 Regular infantry bases. Only thing that remains will be to construct a matching base for the Stormraven to tie in with.

Have been painting Assault Marines like there's no tomorrow, will have something up relatively soon.