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I read that the old Flesh Tearers had an inverted scheme for their Death Company, with the shoulders and helmet being red, while the rest of the body was black. My chapter, the Blood Suns, uses Flesh Tearer similar patterns, but they are normally Black shoulders, head, backpack, and leg greaves, like such. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8082/8399725341_a452956475_b.jpg The idea is the chapter uses the iconography of a sun/star. They see the Imperium without the Emperor and Sanguinus as being like a red giant star, that has expanded in size and gobbled up it's system, but is at the end of it's life and will soon lose it's heat and collapse on itself, therefore they are named the Blood Suns. Therefore, they see a Marine's life being like a sun that has gone supernova, or turned into a black hole - the Black Rage is a marine's desire to see the end of everything, and destroy it all. So to make it a look like a supernova and a black hole, I'm going for an inverted white and black scheme, but I want some feedback on how this looks, and if it would be striking compared to the above. I'll post some model pictures in the morning when people are awake and I can set some out. But what is everyone's thoughts on this? http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8229/8400814308_0bd0479300_b.jpg White color for the supernova imagery, and the black center for a Black supernova. The Red trim and Red chest eagle sort of keeping the basic Blood Sun third color, seen in the original. I love the alternative scheme for Death Company done in the book with the Angels Encarmine having white Sanguinary Guard as well, but I wondered if people think this would work on an actual model. Last consideration: I have a lot of those 3rd edition death company bodies that I'll be using for them models, and I have (with considerable effort) magnetized the backpacks to make sure they're flexible, so this is why I want to make sure I get the colors right. But if not, they'll strip easily being pewter/lead!

I've been a long time lurker on here (since 2007 I believe) and finally grew some stones and signed up properly. I'm using this thread to document my return to 40k after not touching anything for 17 years. What will follow is my slow progress on my own Astartes chapter; the Ardent Swords. First up will be the chapter master and honour. The chapter master is still waiting for some bits to arrive so he'll probably be postponed to January at this rate. Hope you all enjoy watching my journey back into the grim darkness. First up; the honour guard. These chaps are built on the reiver base with extra bits stuck on. First time doing hand transplants with these guys and was more fiddly than expected.

I go to the Texas Open this upcoming weekend, January 16-18, to play in the Warhammer 40,000 Narrative event. 4 games over 2x days. A buddy of mine is taking 120 kroot (and painted it in less than 2 months) and another is taking Orks. It's about 40 minutes away, so we'll be carpooling. My family (wife and kids) are leaving me home alone for 2.5 weeks as they go to visit some family overseas while I hold down the pets, chickens, and work-fort, so I will try to post some updates. I need to finish painting 5 assault terminators, touch up a librarian in terminator armor, and paint some cupola/pintle Multi-melta and stormbolter for the Land Raider I plan to deep strike this upcoming weekend. Here's a progress shot of 3 terminators as I work to finish them this week. More posts on the list, games, and such to follow. Encouragement requested! Picture of 3 Assault Terminators As I went 4+ years without updating the original topic, it has been archived. Link to that for easy reference for me. I typed all that lore about my chapter during Law School, and now that i have money to spend on the hobby as a result of then, I don't want to lose it! lol

Hello everyone! I thought I'd share my thoughts on this paint from Duncan's brand!! I ordered it as well as GSW's Persian Violet (which I have not yet received) to test out purples for my 30k Emperor's Children, and I tried it today!!! TL;DR: It's great!! Just a quick disclaimer: I'm by no means an accomplished or experienced painter: I have about 1k points of Necrons painted up, and that's about it!! But still wanted to give my opinion in case anyone else was considering this paint :))). So, to test it out, I used some unassembled parts I had lying around: these are the back and front bits of the Skorpekh Lord's body, I believe. I primed them with Abaddon Black (two thin coats of which, of course), then applied the paint as I would any other metallic (thinned down with some water): (Apologies for the picture quality) One somewhat thinned-down coat of Emperor's Purple basically covered all of it immediately, tho the big smooth "panels" on the back bit needed an additional coat (which seems pretty standard as far as metallic paints go, with a similar coverage to that of Leadbelcher, in my experience painting Necrons). Overall, very happy with the paint's coverage! It's such a pretty purple!!, and basically exactly what I wanted: a nice, metallic royal purple but with pink undertones, rather than blue. Of course, up close like this, you can kinda see the mica flakes, but irl it's a very smooth paint. Then, I wanted to see what it looked like shaded. On the front bit (in the above image, the bit that's to the right) I shaded with Reikland Fleshshade, and on the back bit (left) I used Nuln Oil. It's pretty hard to see on pictures, but the difference is *kinda* visible, so just in case, here's what I got!!: Shaded with Reikland Fleshshade ^ Shaded with Nuln Oil ^ The difference is really quite subtle, and even more so on the pictures, but you can still kinda see it: as expected, the Reikland Fleshshade made the tone a bit more redish, while the Nuln Oil darkened it slightly, and both do a reasonably-ish good job of highlighting recesses - tho perhaps I was didn't apply enough shade. The effect the Nuln Oil had is the most difficult to see on the pictures, but it really did darken it up, almost making the color a bit colder; and it feels like the Reikland Fleshshade matted the paint considerable more than its black counterpart, tho it's still visibly metallic and reflective. Definitely try this for yourself, as the difference isn't super apparent on camera, and is especially subtle with the amount of shade I used!! I think I will do more tests, applying more Nuln Oil but to just the recesses, as I love the bright color it has prior to the Nuln Oil treatment; if you want a darker metallic purple, try shading it completely!!! :D For more variation, I might see what applying a thin coat of Doomfire Magneta does, and could try Ardcoat to make it shinier/glossier!! But the purpose of this review is mainly to show the effect of the paint itself, which you can see in the first two pics!! I hope this was helpful to some!!!! Honestly, Emperor's Purple just feels like a purple Leadbelcher (as someone who uses that one a lot to paint my crons), which is definitely a compliment!! Great coverage, awesome color, what a great purple!! Definitely recommend!! :D

Hi all. I've been posting some pictures of my models here and there, but I think it's about time I made it into an actual project. I currently have a brief outline of the Forge World Torburnedes (Working title) and a small task force completed. I'll have a few completed models to post before I get into the unknown territory of work-in-progress posting but hopefully this will serve to make my army building more productive and could even be helpful somehow? Right, well the background for my Forge World is that it is a rather isolated Forge World that like many of their kind are blessed with huge stockpiles of radioactive materials. These are tremendously useful for manufacturing processes and fuel sources. Like many Forge Worlds they are rather shrewd with their radioactive and otherwise toxic waste products. These are turned into weapons such as the "Radium" class weapons wielded by their Skitarii. Torburnedes has taken this a step further and collects waste products from Imperial Navy and Departmento Munitorum bases to augment their Skitarii forces. They can also supply their factories and reactors with the green substance known as Vespasium that seemingly leeches minerals from the surrounding area. The Forge World has (an as yet unnamed) Knight houshold and a mutural protection pact with the Cremators Space Marine Chapter. Torburnedes has mining rights to the plentiful asteroid belts in the Cremators home system and both the Forge World and Marine Chapter hold training exercises in these unpredictable environments. Anyway, on with the show! Completed stuff! Here was one of my test models. I quickly decided that 1) working with models with a great deal of metallic parts with a white undercoat is not fun and 2) This paint scheme would have been too similar to either Ryza or Metalica depending on how I split up the colours on the Skitarii so it was ultimately dropped. Sadly I lost the opportunity to paint orange Lambda symbols everywhere after abandoning this theme. This was test model number 2. I decided that the deep green reminded me of Victorian-era heavy industrial machines like steam engines so I was happy with the theme. Here's my first Skitarii squad. My favourite trooper was the Arquebus sniper hauling his gun round to a new target. I decided to glue the gun rest onto the gun like a hinge because having it separate would make it far too difficult to use for a gun used by a "relentless" soldier to fire on the move. This squad looks horrifically expensive point-wise but I enjoyed painting them. I learned in the last picture that cameras do no like it when the face of a model is 90% gloss varnish and metallic paint. I will probably highlight that gold with Liberator gold to get more control over the paint in future. I was trying to paint the Forge World Thallax gold and Valdor gold but it was hard with such thin paints that are so eager to separate. I decided to avoid that when I got round to my Vehicles as you will soon see.

I've just completed my first White Scars Squadron and thought I'd share some pictures with you guys. These are some of my favourite GW models for a long time and they're an absolute joy to paint up. Rik

Greetings! I am planning out a paint scheme for a far-future project, I have chose a Artic Ice paint scheme for my Icey armour Orruk Warclan but I'm struggling to find paints for it. The colours I chose are... Celestial Blue/Hex: #4F9CC8/RGB: (79, 156, 200)/CMYK: 0.605, 0.22, 0, 0.215 Iceberg/Hex: #78ADCE/RGB: (120, 173, 206)/CMYK: 0.417, 0.160, 0, 0.192 Pale Cerulean/Hex: #9DBED4/RGB: (157, 190, 212)/CMYK: 0.259, 0.103, 0, 0.168 Anti-Flash White/Hex: #ECEFF8/RGB: (236, 239, 248)/CMYK: 0.048, 0.036, 0, 0.027 Light Silver/Hex: #D1D8E2/RGB: (209, 216, 226)/CMYK: 0.075, 0.044, 0, 0.113 Light Steel Blue/Hex: #B9C8D7/RGB: (185, 200, 215)/CMYK: 0.139, 0.069, 0, 0.156 I believe I am able to make light silver by mixing in other colours but I'm not sure about the rest, I would love some assistance. Thank you in advance.

Hi, Can anyone suggest any easily available (UK) paints that resemble the old citadel armour wash? This one: It’s very thin but very dark and grippy, and colours more of the surface than say Nuln oil, which is more watery and runs into the recesses more, leaving a lot more of the original colour on the raised areas. The armour wash is also ever so slightly metallic, giving the black a nice sheen. I used it to paint my Raven Guard infiltrators but I only have the one 25-year-old pot and am worried I won’t have enough for future projects. To give you an idea of what I need, here’s some of my marines: See the colour of the guns? That’s what the whole model looked like before I armour washed it. That’s the effect I want to create. Any suggestions welcome!

Uploaded Jun 11, 2009 It's time for the final episode of WCCD? Today's episode is an amalgamation of dozens of questions the series has spawned over the last three days regarding using them as glazes, using them over various base coats, thinning them with Contrast medium and using them as a time saver. Check out my Lord of Plauges painted using the new Contrast Wraithbone Primer and Glazes! I will be painting an AOS Chaos model each day starting on Saturday using the Contrasts. Check out the progress in the AoS Meeting Engagemeng Paint Challenge on Facebook! Watch the video and join the discussion with Guerrilla Miniature Games at the video's YouTube page.

Uploaded Jun 9, 2019 Another incredibly common question was how does Contrast Paint look over a zenithal Primer. I grab a classic Perry Mordheim miniature and give it a shot! Watch the video and join the discussion with Guerrilla Miniature Games at the video's YouTube page.

Uploaded Jun 9, 2019 The last viewer question for today was whether or not the Contrast Paints could be used to paint White Astartes Power Armour WITHOUT using Apothecary White. Today I use Space Wolf and Basilicanum Grey with some medium Watch the video and join the discussion with Guerrilla Miniature Games at the video's YouTube page.

Uploaded Jun 9, 2019 The next big question was about using Citadel Contrast to paint Metallic Power Armour (such as for Pre-Heresy Space Marines). I take a look at using the paints for this purpose for Alpha Legion, Salamangers, Thousand Sons and Blood Angels! Watch the video and join the discussion with Guerrilla Miniature Games at the video's YouTube page.

Uploaded Jun 8, 2019 One of the most persistent painting questions I get is about painting black armour (particularly Space Marine power armour) and this was instantly in the queue when I took a straw-poll on Facebook. Let's find out how this new Contrast Paint does! Watch the video and join the discussion with Guerrilla Miniature Games at the video's YouTube page.

Uploaded Jun 8, 2019 The final top question from my straw-poll was how the Contrast Paints would work on LARGE models. Models with big surfaces and lots of smooth areas. Who better to step into the test than Monsterpocalypse's KRAKENOCTUS? Watch the video and join the discussion with Guerrilla Miniature Games at the video's YouTube page.

Greetings, fellow programs. I've felt motivated to get my Necrons into a full army ready position, having left them to languish in a grey for far too long... thought some were under coated I swear! I'm going to add to this topic but I would be delighted to see what else other people are working on as well. Anyone else motivated by 10th? I'm no good at taking pics, with technology not being my strong suit (ironic huh) but here is what I've completed this week: I need better lighting and will see what I can do I painted their "carapace" parts a dark green, using Nuln Oil gloss over it to deepen things even darker. Edge highlights of lighter greens to ensure depth and make them prettier. Initially used the same lighter green on the contours of the skull shape for the head, but found the latter models looked better with an in-between shade of green (warpstone glow) on the face to make it pop without looking... awful. The early Warriors can stay like that, as they don't look awful. Some of the first Warriors were painted months ago but I finished them and their compatriots a day ago. ***** Next up... I might treat myself to a Skorpekh Lord or maybe the Nightbringer.

As the title says! Are you in the process of, or planning to get any new units ready for your Sons of Magnus for 10th edition? Getting them ready to use from the start, or waiting to see what th datacards look like? My 2023 goals include Magnus the Red, so I'm hoping the datacards do him justice, I'll be breaking that box open soon!

Last week, like many of the people here, I embarked on the Call to Arms forum event, (perhaps foolishly) vowing to paint the Tyranid half of the Leviathan box. This is 47 miniatures in 3 months...easy right? Let's see how I got on... The painting started on Saturday night as I drybrushed all the models with White Scar, this didn't take too long and I was set up to move to stage 2 of my process, the green flesh. I use Ork Flesh Contrast paint here: This was the first batch painted, and as the week progressed, more and more were done. So stage 2 is done...and I think I'm going to be focusing on squad level from here on out...as seen with these two: I used Leviathan purple contrast for the bone/armour and aethermatic blue for their brains, which worked out well. End of this week, I'm hoping to have these two ready for basing with the Neurotyrant on his way at the very least. Let's see if I make it that far! Till then, Keep on hobbying!

Greetings, brothers! I got into the hobby way just a few short months after 3rd edition came out, and I'd always like the looks of the Scars. It was always a pleasure to see the big display pics in White Dwarf of a Scars army, especially by the former editor, Paul "Fat Bloke" Sawyer. Painting white to my satisfaction had always been an issue and the main reason why I never started an army of them. Recently, I decided to get into a 30k army and decided it was finally time I do the V Legion. I always like to browse through art and models by other players to help with inspiration and here's some of the stuff I've found in my searches on the internet. I hope it's helpful and inspirational to some others as well. First up, some pictures and models of The Khan: http://i.imgur.com/KolAAdO.jpg?2 http://i.imgur.com/b4A7ghk.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/uBogUwG.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ZRzfLSP.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/AEEYjfn.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/YUvyWzr.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/l4QVgq2.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/eSGEudM.jpg?1 The old Index Astartes art: http://i.imgur.com/xPcSW45.jpg?1 White Scars art: http://i.imgur.com/lXYiywK.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/fONUVVT.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/OFIYgNv.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/mHwBaZT.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/yV3W9Vz.jpg?2 http://i.imgur.com/AfDa0it.png?1 http://i.imgur.com/Q0gwzXU.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/0oxnGwT.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/eeE4uCm.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/oG7rWeB.jpg http://i.imgur.com/TkhJZim.jpg http://i.imgur.com/gHlkjiN.jpg http://i.imgur.com/4VoIsPu.jpg Some models: http://i.imgur.com/eMEqmmo.jpg http://i.imgur.com/KkHz4qj.jpg http://i.imgur.com/FTKmxeJ.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/5OgIeA5.jpg http://i.imgur.com/pMUn3tR.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/9ninxMg.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/2Sd4KaI.jpg?1 Tutorials: How to Paint White Scars videos by awesomepaintjob.com, pts 1 and 2: How to Paint White Scars videos by TheApatheticFish, pts 1 and 2: Tutorial at fromthewarp.com: http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/12/white-scars-and-how-to-paint-white.html Feel free to add on to the thread with any art or cool models you find!

edit: now a proper project blog! edit 2: update to better reflect project scope (ever increasing it seems...) edit 3: now we're including Thousand Sons, guess the brackets were prophetic? edit 4: now the Thousand Sons can fulfil a detachment they get their own topic in the Thousand Sons section edit 5: Daemonettes have their own home too, also updated warband scheme at bottom of post After getting a taste for Kill Team my gaming circle got into some talk about collecting small kill teams from new armies as a fresh modelling opportunity. Whether or not this comes to fruition is another matter, but I thought this would be the chance to tick a few boxes of mine; namely to get my Slaanesh on and experiment and push my modelling and painting abilities. So here I am to scope it out before anything gets started! I'm familiar with Marines, but having not encountered Chaos for a while I'm a bit out of touch with the finer details of what's going on aside from the obvious. How does Slaanesh fair these days? What about daemon units? I'm not too fussed about the other gods at the moment, if I did end up using their stuff I might counts-as them as something Slaaneshi as a good excuse to hone my converting skills. This is all sort of unplanned so you'll have to forgive the rambling nature (or more rambling than normal?). I quite like the idea of whites, pinks/purples and maybe some black and gold but I gather this is fairly typical of Slaaneshi stuff? I'm not set on anything yet other than liking something bright, maybe with something in the pinky-purpley range - all my armies have green on so far, could that be good somewhere? As I said I really want to get outside of my comfort zone but I also want to do something I'd like. I crafted a quick CSM painter colour scheme up, behold it's probably generic glory: Well, everyone starts somewhere right? Painting a halved scheme would be something new too, I'm discounting quartered because I'm slow enough painting as it is While I'm sure that the army has a good chance of growing into a full one given time (isn't it always the way?) I'm only focusing on a Kill Team right now so I'd prefer to start with suggestions based on that first I've not given any thought to backgrounds, names etc yet either but I'll put some time to this if it ends up having legs. Thanks in advance Edit 5 new scheme image with more accurate colours and bits:

Greetings ! Recent convert to the Ravenspire here! Has anyone got any ideas on the painting scheme for the white used in GW RG models ? It has that blueish hue and I'm wondering whether they've explained how they do it at some point or another. I've come against an article saying its a celestra gray base followed by white washed by thunderhawk blue and then white again, but I kinda think it is a lighter blue than thunderhawk blue. Any ideas? Also, what about the shoulder pad rim colours? Do these depend on the company ? There's a pic in the kayuon book with colours for various companies, does this hold? The lexicanum mentions green for tacticals, red for assault and yellow for devs, but I don't like green at all! What's your take on this ? Cheers

Hi all So I started a WIP thread on my Mordians in the Forge section because it was being swamped by those over zealous pompous astartes. http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/317558-mordian-painting-project/ Someone suggested I post here too. To avoid double posting I thought I would focus more on the tourament I will be entering with it with just the occasion shout out when I've updated the original thread. Quick background started with Mordians back in 3rd before taking a long (15yr) break. Had about 30 odd mordians and some praetorians. Since then I have picked up another 30-40 odd. I've stripped off my 3rd ed paints and the paint from the models I bought and will be updating their scheme to fit with 7th ed. The tournament is only 750pt single allied detachment FOC (no formations). So I am using it as an excuse to get all my mordians done even though I wont use them all. The tournament will be 3 games and scoring consists of primary marker objectives, secondary [bRB] malestrom and tertiary points based on kill point differential as well as the usual 3 suspects from the main rule book. The list I have in mind is Lord Commissar w/ m. bombs Primaris Psyker ML2 1 PCS w/ heavy flamer 3x Infantry squad w/ lascannons and GL (1x sgt w/ m. bombs, 2x dedicated taruox) Vendetta Wyvren That puts me at 750pts on the nose. The tournament is meant to be somewhat friendly. The TO has already stated they will turn down any cheesy/OP lists (scatterbike spam, 2++/2++, 2+ FNP deathstars etc). My goal with the list was to try and exploit IGs ability to spam somewhat useful troops at low points, whilst still having some mobility. I'm hoping for a 4+ on the IG/AM WL trait list to either gain orders or relentless. Also of note as allied detachment was designed not to be a primary detachment you do not receive the ideal mission commander rule. I'm also hoping will ML2 I have a better chance of picking up that 4++ on the divination table. 30 relentless guardsmen w/ lascannons and 4++ sounds like fun :-) Ill most likely be blobbing the guard unless I can see a reason not to do that for any particular game. The taurox with their built in dozer blades and obsec will be running around grabbing objectives until they meet their demise (quite promptly I imagine). The pcs will chill in the vendetta to grab end of game objectives and the vendetta line breaker. I'm sure the wyvren needs no explanation ;-) The tournament is end of January so I have a couple more weeks to get my models painted. Hopefully I'll be able to get a couple of practice games in too before then.

Best set of tutorials I've seen out there. The Painting Buddha guys provide this for free on youtube where DVD of tutorials of only part of what these guys provide and not as nicely produced are $30-50 USD. Share and Enjoy these with anyone wanting to improve their painting game. Ultramarine Painting Tutorial Playlist - Armor, glazing, weathering, helmet, Object Source Lighting, True Metallic Metals, blending...they do a great job of teaching all of these things and more videos are being released. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0_grDypO1do9GpvxHcZ17SyXvVFL4fYC Please consider checking out their patreon site as well to keep them producing this type of tutorial! Painting Buddha Patreon

It has recently occurred to me that a lot of people have cool hobby blogs to keep track of their regiment, it's about time I did the same! Odd topics for vows and challenges is fine but I need a proper home for general models I'm working on. Given I started repainting my Guard a few years ago (almost finished...) it is fitting that I start with not only a repaint but one of the oldest of models. Check out this Russ, found lingering in my parent's storage and in need of some serious love and attention. Fortunately the commissariat is well known for having an abundance of love to share This model must be over 20 years old, so it is surely deserving of some special treatment! It's also the a perfect example of how everyone starts out rubbish Yes that is Goblin Green and Blood Red, I only had so many paints back then (and Chainmail instead of Boltgun Metal!) In between working on my Regiments vow I've been sorting the model out ready for stripping. Broken bits like the HK have been removed (wish my glue is that strong now...), barrels and exhaust drilled out along with cleaning join lines. Such a relic of the regiment demands the best so I'm going to give this model my all and try and push myself to greater heights of painting. I'll see if I can give it a fitting backstory and name too but any and all suggestions are most welcome

Here are the WIP pictures of my own attempts at a Thousand Sons force(and other projects). While awaiting parts for the actual troopers I started work on the other bits I had to hand, most of which were donated by folks. Not many pictures here but I do have a few more in my blog, but I couldn't ignore invaluable advice of the B&C army. I'll admit it I love Hellbrutes, mainly because they are basically Dreadnoughts and I always used those as well. http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1I852hC7jdA/VTiuxewBJxI/AAAAAAAABk8/JQBtP1GhLvg/s640/20150421_173902.jpg The blue is an old Ultramarines Blue from GW, pretty sure they don't make anything like it anymore. Really hope it lasts me another little while so. http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YXUsODlEsvM/VTiu1dGyOQI/AAAAAAAABlM/_kuJlHrkJLg/s640/20150422_171224.jpg I had to improvise for the bone colour here by painting it white and using a brown wash over it, I actually quite like the effect. http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xxKLqCwiLO4/VTiu3qUUMfI/AAAAAAAABlU/0iic5VTbUfo/s640/20150422_193902.jpg My first bits of skin on the demon prince, didn't go as well as planned but frankly it is hard to tell from these awful picture. I need a lamp to bring some colour to the darkness, also I need to learn how to high light things. http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/---akmNmxPXo/VT6ylLik-VI/AAAAAAAABlk/FnlAM514BVc/s640/20150427_225706.jpg I think you can all see I have more keen for the project than skill, but time will tell.

Edit ++ Novemebr 2024 Link to newest chapter. Right now I'm in the process of getting things going again. But maybe not playing First Legion. New Post on page 4 near the bottom. Pre ETL Hello! I painted a test model for the Dark Angels last week. This is what I've come up with. He was a gift from WLK last year that I have only just gotten around too. For a while I wasn't sure I'd ever paint this one. I ordered one BaC set, 3 tac squads and 1 Terminator Squad all from BaC as well as 9 Jet Bikes and some extra weapons to kitt out a few models. The BaC tac marines and set have arrives already, the rest will begin to arrive over the next weeks and into May. So far I've done the test model and textured all the bases for the models that have arrived. (68 bases in all not counting the test model above. It's a little difficult to get excited about so much black but I do think it looks reasonable. I'll be looking for little spots to add some extra colors and details. In total it will only be these 82 models in the first vow. I will put them all into the same group to save me time later. If I have the time and the funds I'd like to complete a second vow but we'll see. I'm also going to do a ETL supper post on my blog filled with most everything I post in this thread as well. I've already started that and plan to publish it at the end of ETL. Thanks for reading. More to come.