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Welcome to my Blood Angels painting blog! My army is based on the 4th Company, along with reinforcements from other companies. The disposition of my assembled, part painted and fully painted forces are as follows: ++GLORY TO THE FOURTH!++ ++Angels of the Blood++ ++Chapter Command++ ++High Command++ Commander Cervan Dante - High Lord of the Blood Angels Primaris Dante The Sanguinor ++Sanguinary Priesthood++ Brother Corbulo - Sanguinary Highest Priest Brother Olburoc - Sanguinary Higher Priest Sanguinary High Priest ++Reclusium++ Reclusiarch Xenith - JP, Crozius, Powerfist Chaplain Lemartes, Guardian of the Lost Chaplain Diabocca - JP, Crozius and Infernus Pistol Chaplain - JP, Crozius, Grav Pistol Chaplain - TDA, Crozius, Storm Bolter Chaplain Tarentus - TDA, Crozius, Combi Flamer ++Librarius++ Chief Librarian Mephiston, Lord of Death High Epistolary Nostiphem, Master of Twilight Chief Librarian Primaris Mephiston, third of his name. Codicier Librarian - JP, Force Halberd Lexicanum Librarian - TDA, Force Sword, Combi Plasma Lexicanum Librarian - JP, Force Sword, hand flamer Epistolary - Force Stave Epistolary - TDA, Force Stave Lexicanum Varus - Storm Bolter, Force Stave Heresy Codicier - Force Sword ++Sanguinary Guard (10 Marines)++ Sanguinary Ancient Remiel, The Exaltation The Host of Mikhael (5), The Grace of Sanguinius The Host of Gabriel (4), The Strength of Sanguinius ++The Lost Company (12 Marines)++ Death Company Captain w/ TH Death Company Squad (6 with jump packs) Death Company Squad (5 with jump packs) ++1st Company (30 Marines)++ Brother Captain Donato Captain Karlaen, The Shield of Baal Company Ancient Darrago (SB/PF) Company Ancient (TH) 1st Sternguard Squad (5) 2nd Vanguard Squad (7) 3rd Vanguard Squad (5) 4th Space Marine Heroes Sternguard Squad (9) ++Terminator Squads: 31 Brothers++ Redemptor, 1st Assault Terminator Squad (4 w/THSS) Invictor, 2nd Tactical Terminator Squad (5 w/AC) Avengor, 3rd Assault Terminator Squad (5 w/LC) Damnator, 4th Tactical Terminator Squad Alphaeus (5 w/HF) Venator, 5th Assault Terminator Squad Victorno (2xTH, 2xLC) Vindictor, 6th Tactical Terminator Squad ( 2x SB, CML) Destructor, 7th Terminator Squad (5x Cataphractii) Vexator: 8th Terminator Squad Signator, 9th Support Terminator Squad: (Brother Ferruan, 1CML; 1AC) Praetor: 10th Terminator Squad ++3rd Company (12 Marines)++ Captain Erasmus Tycho Psycho Tycho Games Day Captain Machiavi, Lieutenant to Tycho. 6th - Tactical Squad (10) ++4th Company (102 Marines)++ Captain De Bosola, the Lord Adjudicator Company Champion 1st - Tactical Squad Venusian (10 flamer, hand flamer, heavy flamer) 2nd - Tactical Squad Terranostro (10 melta, combi melta, multimelta) 3rd- Tactical Squad Solon (10 plasma, combi plas, plasma cannon) 4th - Tactical Squad Mercurio (10 flamer, heavy bolter) 5th - Tactical Squad Jovor (10, Grav gun, grav cannon) 6th - Tactical Squad Santurini (10 Combi plas, plasma gun, las cannon) 7th - Assault Squad Neptus (10) 8th - Assault Squad Marsellus (10) 9th - Devastator Squad Plutaxo (10) 10th - Devastator Squad Urannon (10) ++5th Company (19 Marines)++ Captain Sendini - Keeper of the Arsenal Primaris Lieutenant Verrocchio Primaris Ancient 1st Intercessor Squad Donato (5) 2nd Intercessor Squad Calpurnius (5) 9th Aggressor Squad Bronzino (3) ++6th Company (1 Marine)++ Captain Raxiatel, Caller of the Fires ++7th Company (2 Marines)++ 1st Squadron (1 Land Speeder Tornado) ++8th Company (24 Marines)++ 1st - Assault Squad (9) 5th Bike Squadron (3) 7th Squadron (2 Attack Bikes) 8th Squadron (2 Land Speeder Typhoons) 10th Squadron (2 Attack Bikes) ++10th Company (28 Marines)++ 1st Squad - (10 BP/CCW) 2nd Squad (5 Shotguns) 3rd Squad - (4 sniper rifles, HB) 4th Squad - 5 Shotguns 7th Squad (3 bikes) Land Speeder Storm ++Hall of Ancients (7 Brothers)++ #2 Imperator Furioso - Dreadnought w/Multimelta #2 Balthasar the Prophet - Furioso Librarian #3 Kaspar the Destroyer - Death Company Dreadnought #4 Ancient Borgio - Dreadnought #5 Bellerophon - Contemptor Dreadnought #6 Leviathan Class Dreadnought #7 Melchior the Harbinger - Chaplain Venerable Dreadnought ++Motor Pool (19)++ #1 Eternal Vigil - Whirlwind #2 Iron Blood - Baal Class Predator (Magnetised) #3 Iron Faith - Baal Class Predator (Flamestorm) #4 Praetorian of Baal - Destructor Class Predator (Auto-Las) #5 Wall of Terra - Vindicator #6 Tyrant's Bane - Land Raider Proteus #7 Invictus - Land Raider Crusader #8 Wrath of Heaven - Hunter/Stalker Support Tank #9 Interfector - Sicaran Venator #10 Aegis Eternal - Land Raider Excelsior #11 Iron Fire - Baal Class Predator' (Heresy-Era Brrrrrt Pattern) #20 Midae Ultio - Kratos Assault Tank #21 Spartan Assault Tank #22 Martyr - Deimos Vindicator #23 Spear of Telesto - Predator Annihilator #24 'Metatron' - Typhon Siege Tank #25 Land Raider Phobos/Redeemer #1 Chaeron - Death Company Rhino #2 Razorback (TLAC) #3 Rhino Primaris #4 Razorback (TLHB) #5 Mars Pattern Rhino Drop Pod ++Air Support++ #1 Thunder's Echo - Stormhawk My painting backlog can be found here: XBA: The Grey Pile of Shame Credit is due to DiegoGisbertLlorens on Deviant Art for the artwork in my signature, and also to teef, who's banner I used in the first post.

Jolemai's stroll into this channel convinced me to release my HH contributions. I've really just posted this in the BA channel so precious little is "new" but on going I'll start posting new stuff here too. For reference, the local PNW group just do ZM for the vast majority of games. I specifically paint up units in order to fit in ZM 1k so no "big boys" yet. So to start this out, Here is my Delagatus (or praetor). Apologies for not finishing the base yet. I've been concentrating on painting new stuff rather than revisit my first squads. Next, my Legion assault marines. Same with the Delegatus, I moved on before painting the bases. Also, I know my white balance is all over the place but my wife insists I need to go outside for these. I am not convinced but happy wife etc etc. Mortis Contemptor Dreadnought

Hello fellow Blood Angel brethren. I finally decided to step out of the shadow and share my stuff with you. It took me quite a while (years) to even create an account for B&C, but here I am. I hope to get some painting motivation by sharing my stuff with you and please feel free to critizise my work and help me improve. So, who am I? I live in Germany and mostly play friendly games with my friends. We have some competative thoughts behind our lists, but mainly it's for the fun and not the victory. As a teenager my first encounter with GW was Space Quest, or for the non european people Space Crusade. Since then I was driven to the guys in red and after I got the 2nd edition starter box, I decided to clad those space warriors in red. Here I am, over two decades later and sharing my stuff with you. BA are not my only army, but my most beloved and by far most played. I still have some minis from back then and don't mind using them in games. As this thread grows, I'm sure you'll see some sins from the past and many models that are still WIP for more then ten years or even longer. Also my painting skills have improved over the years, but as I am a slow painter I never bothered to touch a finished mini again, bare the most severe cases. Since the realease of contrast paint I switched to them, as I think they really speed up my painting and used right can give you a wonderful result. So here I present you some of my finished HQ choices:

So originally I was planning on using this model as a chaplain in my Raptors Chapter, but he never fit as the army is all Phobos and Scouts. With the Indomtius Easy to build Assault Intercessors going to my Death Company, I did need a Chaplain. He is a Work in Progress but getting there.....

Slow progress but iv been doing some work on my imperium mag captain and now getting to the stage where im enjoying painting it as it feels like its getting somewhere. Have forgotten how i used to do skin so much work needed there.

Sooo I wanted to take a break from Terminators after the last one, but this happened: Blood Angels Praetor in Tartaros Terminator armor was in my drawer for some time now. I love the model and now with the experience I got from the Cataphractii, I feel more confident to try and upscale him too. Cutting the waist section wasn't easy and unfortunately whole abdomen section will need to be resculpted. No hiding things with cloth this time as I want to preserve the lovely detail of the breastplate. By the way, I was amazed by how long his legs are! They are practically on par with Primaris and keep in mind this sculpt is not new by any means

With the first member of the up-scaled Cataphractii painted, I'm kinda surprised to say that the project is complete I already said in my previous entry, that I'm satisfied with the build. However seeing the result in full color gives that extra layer of confirmation and pleasure. Finis coronat opus if my High Gothic serves me right? Now the nearest goal is to paint the remaining 4 members of the squad. There is another 5 waiting in the sprues too if I fancy. As far as trying to make Terminators "better" idea goes, I have plans to try it out with the Indomitus pattern as well\ Cheers!

Found myself some hobby time during the weekend and managed to finish the cloth surplices and plates extensions for the Terminators. Once that cured, I added the waist chains, fasteners, some bling in the form of acrylic tear-drops (nail decoriations) in various places and even built up some bases. So without further ado here is the whole squad as it is now: I think the Sergeant in the middle could also use some kind of icon on the top of the hood to further distinguish him. Or perhaps even a back-banner? Need to do some dry fitting and see. And another height-comparison check: I think I'm satisfied. Obviously heightening the base is cheating but the result is what I imagined for them. I think the feel of slow, purposeful power and massiveness is there. All they need now is some paint

With the Primaris range came problems for some of the most iconic units of the 40k universe, the Terminators. They just don't look good next to new sculpts. Especially the Indomitus sculpts. I've been having an idea of upscaling them for quite some time, but never really gathered the courage to try. That is probably in no small part because I want to keep as much of the original sculpts as possible. I had some ideas... and then HH startex box dropped and I found myself in possession of the plastic Cataphractii Terminators. With their a little better proportions I felt the urge to try some things out. Goal was to make them comparable to the Gravis Primaris Marines. Preferably taller when factoring-in the power plant hoods. First step was easy - gain height by extending the torso-legs separation. Immediately at this stage it became apparent that we can only get so far with this method as legs quickly start looking too short. But I got pretty satisfying results just with that step: head became level with Primaris. And I trusted that extra bulk in the upper part of the mini would draw the attention away form a little shorter legs. I did a quick fill with putty to add something to the stomach and suddenly it started to look just about right. I don't have any picture what that stage, but what I got from height/bulk comparison is that I needed to add some extra width to the torso to match Gravis. problem on that step was that if I put too much putty, I would need to resculpt some of the lovely armor detail (trims). Additionally around this point I thought I'd like to magnetize the arms so shoulder pads needed to be separate from the arms And here are folks with added bulk and shoulder guards in place: I have to say I was really pleased with the results. Comparison with a Gravis Marine also came out well: Narrow waists needed to be addressed obviously and shins were still shorter when next to a better-proportioned Primaris. I reckoned that if I add some height to the base as well, this would alleviate the problem to some degree. My resolve solidified, I started developing options to address the waist issue. An inspiration came form 30k Crimson Paladins in the form of cloth. Sculpting a cloth would allow me to put as much putty as needed into the waist (at least on the front). The issue was I've never tried any sculpting of this level. First attempt came out better then expected though: Scultping a belt felt a little too much for me though... But inspiration came fortunately - hobby chains! I could just wrap those around the waist and glue something BA blingy thing on top to work as a fastener, right? And so here I am currently with this project: The guy on the left is an attempt on the armor bigger without the cloth. It's not bad, but not great either I think. He will probably remain like this, but clothes look better in my opinion. I also started working on the rear armor ant I think the results are acceptable: Another picture comparing upscaled Cataphractii with Heavy Intercessor with a bit of added height on the base: I think I'm getting where I wanted with this: a bulk and presence to rival Gravis. And relatively simply made. I'm saying relatively cause I've been doing this by trial-and-error for couple of weeks now. But I believe it will go faster with once I settle on what I want and how. Base assemebly with magnets is also taking a lot of time. And I still have bases to devise So now the plan is to complete a squad of 5. Then probably I'll make another five and then I'll start researching option for up-scaling Indomitus pattern Cheers!

With a grand total of 0 games in HH 1 and one 1000 pts game in HH 2 I am not exactly in a great place to make any "informed decision" about what to do to set up a funny army. I got quite a lot of negativity about Blood Angels rites of war, and I see the point but I also like a lot. Actually my list is Like: Fear prime slot and some nice flamethrower options The detachment, even if it could be better I do not know: The reaction The gambit The +1 str on charge. Seems good but lots of things negate it Assault cannons on everything... but are they good for the price? Do not like: Inferno pistol being d1 instead of d2 No more inferno pistol Moritat Bad deep strike rules for us and our jump pack guys (no charges, only one unit per turn in 4 turns) So what do you think? And where do we go from here?

"That's what you get for being treasonous, biatch" https://www.battle-report.com/2018/01/24/blood-angels-vs-tzeentch-daemons/ Cheers, Thoth

Hi everyone! As with a lot of people out there I've been bitten by the 'New Year, New Army' bug. My local Warhammer store has started a 'Tale of Warlords' army building event, where every month you paint a character, squad, then big thing, month on month. I've always loved Blood Angels, and I've attempted to start a force a few times over the years. My problem in the past has always been buying too much plastic, enjoying playing with it, but never getting the motivation to paint it. I'm not intending to play with any unpainted models in this force - I've got other forces to play with in 40k at the moment and I want to make sure I commit to getting things painted. I've got a rough idea of where a 2k list is heading, and with that in mind I'm aiming to get the following painted over the next few months. January - Primaris Lieutenant. February - 5 Intercessors. March - Repulsor. Although this is the first post, I'm already a fair way through the Lieutenant. Here's some pics WIP pics. I've converted the model slightly - changing the blade on the power sword to one from an Encarmine blade. I've also removed the left bag and added a new one a little bit more towards the front, leaving room for the helmet. Finally, I added a new icon to the backpack - something a little more fitting for a Lieutenant. The red I've unashamedly stolen from Blindhamster, who in turn got it from the guy at GW who painted the Blood Angels Intercessors. The image above shows the base coat airbrushed on, with the recess wash added. The full colour scheme is: 50/50 Mephiston Red / Evil Suns Scarlet 50/50 Khorne Red / Abbadon Black made into a wash and put in the recesses Thick edge highlight of Evils Suns Scarlet Thin edge highlight of Troll Slayer Orange Extreme edge highlight of Fire Dragon Bright Tau Light Ocre towards the corners. Final dots of 50/50 Tau Light Ocre / White Looks like a lot of steps but it didn't take too long to complete. I'm going for 3rd company, so a diagonal red stripe on a yellow background - this took much longer than I wanted because of the curve of the shoulder pad. Thank god Averland Sunset is a base paint! I'm also getting used to writing tiny script. I don't think I've done too bad a job with this one. I really enjoy painting faces. There's a lot of detail on the Lieutenant, and I'm really happy with how it's turned out. This is a decent picture of the completed armour. I've since redone the tabard, because I wasn't happy with the transitions. The icon was a transfer that I'd then painted over to give it a little more depth. The sword blade has also since been re-silvered, as I wasn't happy with the lightning effect I'd done. This still needs to be done again. And here's where we're currently at. The tabard transitions are much nicer - I might stick another white highlight on there before reapplying another transfer. That's all for the first post. Please leave some C&C, I'm always looking to improve on my painting.

Per our favourite Jeff Goldblum giffer, warp whispers saying marines in 11th ed launch box v Orks next summer will be in Blood Angels colours, thats right, Blood Angels taking over from Ultramarines on the box art. Marines in box will all be generic, just painted BA