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

[Tempest Six Two]

All 16 remaining assault marines are now assembled and attached to their bases, this is how it stands right now...... I'm gearing up for a 2000 each x 6 players Apocalypse on the 24th, and progress has never been better. And sleep, I barely remember what that is... hahaha.


The lords of the army- the Dark Vengeance libby has now been given some basic blue and red. He's getting a Sanguinary Guard single thruster jump pack, as the twin intakes of the normal ones just don't work with his psychic hood.


Just the other night I sat down at 8:30 with a pile of sprues, and got to bed at 1am with a completed Stormraven... which I then got up early the next day to give a quick hit of red... this one sports the assault cannon turrets, but I've got the nose MM as well. Was thinking about the cyclone ML but I prefer the SR at its base points cost TBH.


Here's my three attack bikes, assembled except for rider/gunner and multimeltas. Sourcing a single MM is hard, even on eBay. Everything from this list either falls from the sky, or is super fast so I had to take these.


Sang Priest #1 WIP- I cut the hand out of the narthecium/reductor arm and installed a hand with chainsword. His grail is GS around a 1mm piece of metal rod that's been run all the way through the middle of his hand and the top half is built around a cut in half meltabomb.. When it was dry I cut off four tiny blood drops from the side of a Death Company chainsword and (with great difficulty) superglued them around the edge of the grail. Just waiting on DC legs and jump packs to arrive in the mail, I'm building a second SP as well.


Meltaguns and their corresponding arm sets are all assembled, and slide perfectly into place once the marines are done. Army- wide I've got two twinlinked MMs on the Sravens, meltagun on the Furioso, six in the assault squads and three multimeltas on the bikes... cos, you never know when you're gonna be up against armour...

[Tempest Six Two]

Some progress this arvo on the Librarian....



He's a fairly stern looking dude.



Sang Priests... going to run with bare heads I've decided. Still loads to do.



All 30 ASMs are now basecoated red, with yellow helmets.


Some simple striping on the meltaguns makes them stand out- 2nd ed nostalgia FTW. There's now six melta marines in total.

[Will's on Fire]

Really nice work Tempest, looking good.

That librarian will be great when it's finished, and the priests are coming along really nicely. Those chalices are really nicely sculpted, and the painting is solid so far.

Nice to see some progress in the hobby section, hopefully I'll be able to throw some stuff in soon, when I get back home and have a camera.

- Will

[Tempest Six Two]

Yeah cheers Will, im happy with how they're progressing. Im trying to strike a balance between smashing them out super fast and still getting lots of details done/ keep the painting quality high.

Deadline for Cancon is 26 January, which is closer than it seems. Going to be a lot of late nights for me to get them completed before then. At this rate I think I can have them all in base colours, perhaps minus a few of the really fine stuff (scrollwork, etc?). Its no huge deal, as there's another 'con on in June that I'll be attending, which will be after my 16 weeks off work on full pay.... taking all my Annual Leave and Long Service Leave in one giant 4-month block.

To be honest, i'll most likely have time to paint up that Necron force i've been thinking about.... especially seeing how those guys just need metal paint, wash and some highlights and they're done!! Hmmmm. But for now, gotta keep on track and hammer out the boys from Baal.   

[Tempest Six Two]

Custom jump pack- take a CSM packpack, two tubes from a ball-point pen, two small turbines from a drop pod, some 0.25mm plasticard and Voila!! Heresy-esque jump pack for my Librarian. Might add a bit more detail in plasticard- thinking some nozzle vanes for the exhausts, then hit it with some colour.




The turbines are pinned to the backpack, its very strong and should never ever break.

[Tempest Six Two]

My Raven needed a base to match the resin ones the rest of the army has, so I did up a section of 4mm MDF and used a dremel and cutting wheel (and metal ruler guide) to carve in some 13mm slabs, then cut it to fit the base. Added some cut-out broken  sections and a cut out in the middle for the flight stand to sit inside. Added some really fine sand and some slab/tiles sitting on top and then painted it up the same as the resin bases. Too easy






Gotta repaint the sides of the base and add some further drybrush highlights. Fairly pleased with it

Here's some pics of the assault sgts- did up a stylised reflecty powersword scheme for them, seems to look okay?? Got all three blades done now, just gotta do the hilts and details. 




And the whole 3 squads... got base colours on all the cloth/tabards, all the eyes are painted in and the helmets are finished. Still heaps more to do- the basic red armour still needs doing, plus basic highlights- this is where the bulk of the remaining work is.



Oh, and I've been bad... I should have been painting but my parents said we *had* to take the boat out, so I spent a few days wakeboarding and waterskiing... I spose I need some downtime?? Its been about two years since I last went out. Very good times

[Tom]

I think you did an excellent job on the storm raven's base. It matches the others very well.

I also like the stylised powerswords. I'm sure you could improve them by spending more time on the transitions but as this army project seems to be about speed and good quality - sort of value for time - I think they're a nice touch as they are.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing massed ranks of completed assault marines.

[Tempest Six Two]

Whoops, forgot to put up this little item... Drop Pod, customised to transport a Dreadnought with magnetised removable fin- lands, explosive bolts blow one of the fins out and the doors drop. If one considers that the stormbolters or missile pod drops down from a recess in the roof, then the Dready fits in there no worries!! Im going to paint some hazard stripes around where the bolts would blow, make it look all legit The mount in the roof for the gun is magnetised too, so i can swap from the stormbolter to the missile pod, and they still swivel like normal.




 

 

[Tempest Six Two]

Update. In between slathering red on everything in sight, i've been trying to get my urban modular boards ready for the tourney as well. Been putting down the road lines, some gutter edging and some drawn on drains. The drains will all eventually have silver/orangey paint on them for a slightly rusted look, but they work okay for now. Not bad for something done with a permanent marker

I've also started building a whole heap of street lights, using the outside edges of sprues, a cut down Tau Drone, some surplus large dice and a round 40K base. Underneath is a thin metal square, and the boards all have magnets sunk into them at various intervals. The lights are solidly stuck to the board, but easily moved and are very sturdy. I've also started making some road signs as well- will have a few wrecked streetlights and signs to add variety.


Intersection looks so cool. Got two X intersections, two T intersections and two straights built so far.


Here's two of the boards so far, got another 4 to finish the details on.


Street lights and signs WIP.

[Osiris]

Not trying to be a necromancer or anything, but I am really enjoying your project log Tempest! Great colour schemes, models, and conversions! Keep up the awesome work.

[Tempest Six Two]

Ah, thanks Osiris, glad you like it, there's plenty more to come!

Here's some photos before Cancon last month...

Got a bit more done on these guys, including a change to the Termy Librarian's axe head. 800-grit sandpaper allows for smooth removal of old paint for repainting And the jump libby has had his backpack basecoloured and stuck on.


Sang Priests. Decided against bare heads as I wanted to maximise the amount of white on these guys without going overboard. I need to build another one I reckon, they are so useful- furious charge against vehicles means my assualt marines wrecked rear AV 10/11 with fists and blades only in most cases!


Dreads, pod and bikes


Edit: Going to post up all my tournament pics in the Battle Reports section

[Will's on Fire]

Looking good tempest, those Sanguinary Priests are ace!

I like what you did with the jump pack libby, looks good. And the terminator ones axe is really nice now.

Keep it up! Awesome army.

- Will