Sanguinary Guard Army Blog

[Dezartfox]

I'm really intrigued to see how this works mate, especially as I'm running a Dante/Guard list too.

 

However I'm not taking quite so many upgrades, and one less squad in favour of some Baal Predators and a small Death Company.\

 

A nice tactic I've found is taking a small unit of DC, which unlocks a DC Dreadnought, which you can then take in a Drop Pod with locator beacon. Causes some carnage on the way down, and provides an anchor for my non-Dante squad angels to descend upon in turn two.

 

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I like that idea. I don't want to take tanks as they dont fit with the theme.. however a Dreadnought might.

[Blood_Angel17]

i loving you idea of a pure gold army,

 

here is my list, it isnt as much gold as yours and it is different, but the same style, deep stike, in your face tpye of army...

 

 

Commander Dante = 225

 

Honour Guard = 235

- Company Banner

- Blood Champion

- Power Fist

- 1 Infernus Pistol

- Jump Packs

 

 

Sanguinary Guard 1 = 230

- Powerfist

- 1 infernus Pistol

- 1 Plasma Pistol

 

Sanguinary Guard 2 = 230

- Powerfist

- 1 infernus Pistol

- 1 Plasma Pistol

 

Terminator Squad = 230

- Assault Cannon

 

 

Sanguinary Priest 1 = 90

- Jump pack

- Power Weapon

 

Sanguinary Priest 2 = 90

- Jump pack

- Power Weapon

 

Furioso Dreadnought = 125

 

Drop Pod = 45

- locator Beacon

 

total of 1500

[Dezartfox]

How have you done those Priest?

 

Just the usual sang guard bits, the probey bit is the hilt of one of the small knives in the sang guard box :) the bit it joins to is just a random piece, anything thats suitable. Cable is metal cable from Dragon Forge. Heads are from various sources, vehicle sprue, apothecary etc

[banis]

If you plan to deepstrike everything, that dreadnought is going be awful alone when i lands on turn one :)

[Sviox]

Not sure if this is the perfect place for this post but since it has so much Sanguinary goodness around, I'll ask anyway.

 

How do you guys attach those wings? I though they would fit in neatly with the jump pack but having a jump pack and pair of wings on my hands here I must question if it's better to actually glue those wings to the torso of the mini instead?

 

And another thing - what do you think is the optimal Sanguinary Guard squad options? I'm thinking about chapter banner, Death Masks and MAYBE one Infernus pistol, nothing more.

 

A third thing about the rules, the codex specifically says the blades are two-handed, but does that give any bonus over one handed weapons or why is it mentioned? Does it just lack the bonus for two close combat weapons?

[Dezartfox]

Wings - I put a bit of glue on the ball joint on the torso and then also on the small thruster on the pack, as 90% of the time the wing touches it. That way it's glued in two places.

By the sounds of your post you didn't get the back part of the torso, that has the small ball on it for the wings to attach too,

 

In my list I have 3 variations, melta pistol squad with dante, a plasma squad for shooting, and then 2 normal squads with a fist and a melta pistol, haven't tested this out yet though.

 

Correct on the swords, tis more of a fluff thing than anything, but two handed means they cant hold anything else (hence the wrist mounted guns!)

[Chaplain Desmodus]

You've managed to build great models, the movement is really nice and even the legs that looks stumbly in GWs own pictures look good here. Much better posing than GW did on their models. Well done.

[Dezartfox]

Testing out the colours:

 

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg246/Dezartfox/models2/DSCF1777.jpg

 

Two washes of Gryphonne sepia over grey primer, highlight of bleached bone in my streaky stlye, then a tiny highlight of white. Then another wash of sepia to tie it together. Still needs a little shading with some Devlan :D

[ZiggyStardust]

Looks really nice! Great work on the gold, I love it! But what dude is that?

[igotsmeakabob!!]

That would be our good man Sanguinor.

[ancient god]

That's the Sanguinor, one of our new characters. ;)

 

And wow, great result for something that's essentially a washing technique! Do the white right and he'll look awesome on the board.

 

He really reminds me of that old Davidoff Cool Water commercial with the naked cliff jumper. :P

[Muzza]

Wow, that is amazing I can't believe you can get that gold\bronze from just a wash over a grey base coat. You learn something new everyday as I only use the black and dev mud washes just to darken\dirty up models.

 

The whole army done like this will be increadible, I was worried about an all gold army but now I see it will work perfectly. Well done.

 

Chris Murray.

[Glendor]

That looks amazing is it really that easy to make it look like that? I love it!!

[IronKobra]

great looking result so far from a really simple technique!

[Malachi n'Ral]

Awesome color scheme man, I'm gonna try it. Never did much like the shiny, this has me sold. Great job.

[Dezartfox]

Cheers everyone

I started on the whites, but unsure on them, I like to have a sort of "realistic" feel to my models, using the same colours to tie a model together, the whites shaded with blue stand out TOO much I think.

The bases are all going to be desert like, so was thinking of bringing the wings up from a similar colour.. to give an overall brown and gold feel to the model.

I'm actually gonna go buy a second Sanguinor and paint him like above, then either sell or give this model to GW :devil:

 

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg246/Dezartfox/models2/DSCF1778.jpg

[SpektreOz]

If you look at the White Dwarf when they are giving examples of their NMM technique, the SG with power fist has brown shade wings... looks much better in my opinion.

[Glendor]

Wow I think that is one of the best looking models I have ever seen. Is that what NMMs are? is this another way to paint gold, sorry I have no experience painting these.

[teeef]

Looking pretty good. Almost makes me want the model. Are you using Tamiya Fine Surface for your gray primer? Something else?

[sonofwaranddeath]

Wow I think that is one of the best looking models I have ever seen. Is that what NMMs are? is this another way to paint gold, sorry I have no experience painting these.

 

 

Yessir, this would be a fine example of NMM. Basically using colors like browns to emitate (spelling? lol) gold and greys to emitate silver.

 

BTW the Sanguinor looks ace! :D

[Grimm Blade]

REALLY nice job on the NMM!!!

And that has to be the simplest technique I have ever seen!

 

I am extreemly jeleous of your army! My pocket book just won't let it happen for me :D

I will have to live vicariously through you.

Were you able to equip all of the guard the way you wanted from the kits that you bought (Infurnus pistols etc...), or did you have to trade/custimize etc...?

 

I am really looking forward to watching this force progress. A couple of battle reports would be nice to :lol:

 

GB

[Chaplain Desmodus]

In the second picture Sang looks like he's got a flat tan, compared to the sparkly contrasts of the first picture. I liked the first version better. ;) Perhaps add some more highlights again?

 

Keep the white wings, they look great!

[ancient god]

Yeah, pretty much what Des said. B)

 

Definitely keep the cold white wings, you need that kind of contrast on the model.

[Backslide]

well I'm going to be intrested to hear how people find their Sanguinary Guard armys they look like an awsome modeling project

[Dezartfox]

If you look at the White Dwarf when they are giving examples of their NMM technique, the SG with power fist has brown shade wings... looks much better in my opinion.

 

 

Indeed it does, thanks for answering my Question!

Right, I'll buy another SANGUINATOR today, finish painting this one and then either let GW have it for their cabinet, or plonk it on ebay. :P

 

Cheers everyone!

 

Were you able to equip all of the guard the way you wanted from the kits that you bought (Infurnus pistols etc...), or did you have to trade/custimize etc...?

 

I am really looking forward to watching this force progress. A couple of battle reports would be nice to ;)

 

GB

From the army list above, I was able to equip everyone, I bought 5 boxes of Sang Guard and Dante, £110 :) If I'd have gotten it from Wayland or somewhere, would have been around £90.

 

Battlereports tonight! Have a game against Tau.

 

In the second picture Sang looks like he's got a flat tan, compared to the sparkly contrasts of the first picture. I liked the first version better. B) Perhaps add some more highlights again?

 

Keep the white wings, they look great!

Yeah my lighting sucks, and I regret putting a final wash over the highlights now, turned out too flat. Well.. thats what test models are for I guess! :)