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

[Enderwiggin]

I like the red quite a bit. Red is always a pain for me, thankfully I saw this Irn Brue tutorial once that turns reds amazing...

Yeah, in reality my reds suck. I might try Khador eventually though, so I will probably bookmark this.

[Tempest Six Two]

Base colours sorted, still needs a glaze and some more blacklining.... looks okay though!


Got 6 basecoloured and washed, just gotta reapply the Meph red, highlights and finish the helmets.


There's close to 20 assembled though, plowing through them!! My daughter makes it hard to find time though- So im sneaking 30 minutes paint time in here and there...

^^^ speaking of, she's sitting on my lap at current mashing the keyboard, so i've retyped this about 3 times hahaha! 

[Jonagon]

Shiny!

Great basing too.

[Tempest Six Two]

Oh look, another Librarian! He came out of the letterbox, got unpackaged and I had his front carved down and DA sword on the shoulder cut down within a few minutes. A hit of greenstuff, and voila. BA Librarian. Im toying with installing a magnet in his back so i can swap from foot to jump pack depending on the list im building. Got a bunch of FW Crusade packs lying around... or maybe a San Guard pack minus wings. Not sure yet.



And the Sraven, awaiting my attentions. Meph red basecoat only at this point, im trying to work out what I want to do with shading and highlights.


So many individual units on the go, but i'm getting progress on almost everything each week. Very happy with how its going.

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EDIT: Mods, do you want to maybe move this across to the Project Logs section?? I'd prefer not to create a new thread...

Done.
-MT.

[Will's on Fire]

Neat work on the conversion! Might have to keep that in mind if I ever get round to buying a set.

Sraven is looking good so far. Can't wait to see more progress!

Your plog makes me wish I had more time to spend painting...

- Will

[Tempest Six Two]

Oh look, a Dreadnought





And some shiny mettalic Sang Guard. Lots of Sepia washes on these guys, over a Yellow foundation and gold on top of that. Just have to put down some black wash in the deepest crevasses and maybe some thinned out silver for the extreme edges then i can move on to the weapons and details.

[Will's on Fire]

Damnit that's how I want my Sang Guard to look!

Awesome job tempest, really nicely done. The dreadnought was also really nicely done, a really clean paint job.

- Will

[Tempest Six Two]

Dude, your Sang Guard look plenty good already, stick with the NMM you've done it really done look great!! Two of my SG above are painted up NMM under those recent metallic paintjobs, I just changed them because I wanted all my other BA lads to be 'real' metal and they wouldn't have tied in at all.

Im sure a lot of other people will agree with me that keeping up momentum is the hardest part of painting an army to a schedule or deadline... That and real life throwing loads of obstacles in front of you.

Anyhow, I should stop typing and keep painting!

[Jonagon]

Great stuff dude, nice progress!

[Thantos]

Whats with all the sang guard lately? Some sort of SG gang?  I need to buy a boxed set so i dont feel left out now. Then we can roll deep in our blingin' gold armour and pimp underlighting on our rhino!

Love the dread, the muted gold around the sarcophagus is very nice. Its gold, but its not overpowering to draw the eye. Good luck with the rest of the sang guard!

[Tempest Six Two]

Glad you like the Dread Thantos, his gold is actually just boltgun metal/ lead belcher with two washes of Seraphim Sepia. I then blotted on a hit of Devlan/Agrax around the rivets, it's a nice muted look. Never been a huge fan of mega shiny gold, it doesn't sit well with me, at least on vehicles.

Although my Sang Guard are looking relatively bright. Just need to counter this with a lot of bright/shiny red details and blood drops.

[Tempest Six Two]

Last night whilst re-arranging my Dark Angels in their magnificent glass display case, I came to the realisation that my 'chaos black spray undercoat + crappy grey highlights' Ravenwing bikes looks shocking- all 6 bikes and an attack bike, I think i originally did them up in a night in order to make it to a tournament, they are all really poor....

30 minutes later,  they're ALL stripped back to basic bike chassis (legs still attached), ravenwing front fairing removed, boltguns all recovered, and most of the the arms and torsos useable again as well. Even filed down some of the biker helmets to remove the ravenwing emblem as well.

Just have to file and smooth them back a bit where the bits were glued on, give them another quick hit of black spray and start laying down some red Im going to run 6 bikes (2guys with melta, sgt with power... sword?) and three attack bikes. eBay looks like it can provide the replacement handlebars i need (two snapped coming apart, not recoverable) and some more biker arms. Gotta buy another two attack bikes soon as well.

Question for you all- heavy bolters on the attack bikes, or multi meltas? MM's are 10pts more, which i can squeeze into the list, but i'm thinking i need some actual long range support, but is that kind of wasting the high toughness and speed of the bike?   

[Tempest Six Two]

Small update: 14 Marines now in basic Meph Red with washed recesses... with base coloured heads glued in place. Useable for games at this point, only another 16 to assemble, undercoat and paint... *sigh*. Takes 40 minutes to just apply the red, whilst leaving the legs/chest/ armour joints unpainted, then a 5 minute heavy wash, but only in the recessed/joint/edge areas (Carroburg stains a lot, so an all over wash makes for lots more time re-covering with the base colour). Having a baby gives me only an hour tops every night to get some hobby time in, and I have to make the rest of the time up over the weekend...



We've now got an Apocalypse scheduled for 24th of this month, will either be two or three a side, 2K per player and mainly just general 40K units with no superheavies. Should be a very brutal affair- so far the lineup will be me with my Blood Angels, Alan's Space Wolves, Ash with either his Salamanders (or Black Legion?), Colin with his Deathskulls (my old army), Adam's Imperial Guard and possibly Brendan with Dark Angels. The majority of armies coming to the table are assault oriented, and the only thing I think that'll be warranted is to get the Orks and IG on opposing table sides, the rest should balance out! We're working on a table layout and theme at the moment, im sure it'll be crazy like always

When these things are scheduled I always find time to fit in some extra painting, so should get a lot more done in the next 3 weeks

As a taster, here's a couple of shots from our last couple of Apoc games...

40,000pts- 17ft long table...


IIRC... 24,000pts? U-shaped table, with twin bridges in the middle!!


'Mild' Apoc- 8,000pts- relaxed arvo game




 

[loeldrad]

That Dread is fantastic! Great Progress! I really enjoy your style. I like good weathering, over the top highlights and extreme lighting effects as much as the next guy but it's refreshing to see such a well painted army that is as clean and sharp as yours.

I can't wait to see more!

[Tempest Six Two]

That Dread is fantastic! Great Progress! I really enjoy your style. I like good weathering, over the top highlights and extreme lighting effects as much as the next guy but it's refreshing to see such a well painted army that is as clean and sharp as yours.

I can't wait to see more!

Cheers mate, although I'd really only call it a 'partialy painted collection of small plastic men' at this point

Got the remaining jump marines assembled over the weekend. Something i've really noticed is the disparity between the old assault marine box set jump packs and the ones in the Death Company box- the ASM ones have so much more core shift, mold lines aplenty and a lot of annoying flash around the exhausts. The DC ones, being from relatively new molds are all super crisp and clean, much nice to deal with concerning cleanup and painting.

I'm also assembling a couple of Tactical Squads from the remaining 'foot troop' contents of the DC box- just a generic Missile Launcher + Flamer loadout, these guys will be used to hold backline objectives, although I might DP them in if the points are there.