Scratchbuild-heavy Blood Angels Army Blog

[GlauG]

So, today I did washes and highlights on 30 Assault Marines, 3 Land Raiders, a Stormraven, 2 Dreadnoughts, and Mephiston... I'm kinda desperate to get a good selection of minis painted before I move to Japan, since I know I'll be able to get some gaming out there, but I doubt I'll be able to afford to pick up a good selection of paints.

 

So, here's most of that:

 

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As an aside, I hate painting yellow, and the yellow BA Assault Marine heads are starting to bug me. >_>; Kinda pleased with how they've come out though.

 

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Stormraven, with the first inklings of some weathering. :)

[GlauG]

Okay, I'm now convinced that water-soluble black oil paint is the greatest thing ever. I am so, so happy with how the Stormie is looking.

 

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No comments about the Fenris Grey though please. ;) It's a placeholder as I work my way up to some other kind of grey for NMM engine parts etc. Got plans for scorched metal thrusters and gun barrels...

 

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Dark pic of the Dread in the clamps.

 

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Mephiston, Lord of coming out too dark in photos.

 

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Also, I still hate painting Yellow. I also feel like a moron for trying to paint green eyes on yellow helmets... How the hell did I think that was going to end well? The yellow won't cover to touch up and my attempts to wipe it away smeared everything on a few helmets green. :tu: Though for all that, my live-in Imperial Fists player is aparrently jealous of how it turned out.

 

The bad news is that leaving them near an open window meant that the magnets shrank in the cold wind and broke off of the parts they were glued to... Argh. I don't have a drill big enough for my largest magnets to be mounted into something. I'll have to putty them back into place.

[GlauG]

In response to a query on another board, I thought I'd share these;

 

Mephiston's wings are just pinned above the backpack mount, though the backpack vents had to be cut off and the connecting piece removed inn order for it all to fit. Similarly, Dante's backpack mount wouldn't take the wings, so I just pinned them into the SG JP instead.

 

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The downside is, in daylight Dante looks like ass. Argh. Maybe I should give up on this NMM stuff and just strip them and spray them Alclad Chrome. :);

 

And since I had some good light for once;

 

You can probably see how I've just been lazy and used magnets...

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Those are speed blurs! 4+ cover save!

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Finally got a shot of Psycho Tycho not to come out blurred as all hell. Shame the sculpting looks really bad. >_<

http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/5931/p10006982951830.jpg

 

Finally, some decent shots of my Assault Grunts.

 

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The guys without helmets are an interesting story... Like all my Assault Marines, they're secondhand guys I gave a new lease on paint and life, but unlike most of them, these guys aren't from the eBay slop pile, they used to be a friend's UM Veteran squad. I thought it'd be fun to lump them in a JP-less Assault squad, with a headswap for the Sarge. ;)

[GlauG]

I hate painting burnt metal without using metallics, but I set myself the stupid challenge of not using metallics or SFX paints in this army. I then cheated and used some UV paints mixed with the highlights. Bleh.

 

 

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Trying to work out if I should try and blend some of the base colour up for highlights or just drybrush it. I'm inclined to side with the latter...

 

Happy with how the Stormy is looking though. Will be taking it dow to my local GW later...

 

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[GlauG]

Okay, moving house and other real-life stuff has gotten in the way of my modelling, but I was looking for something to show a friend and came across this;

 

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A really really old BA Razorback I toughed up with some weathering and sold on ebay a while ago... Weird to see how much my paint style's changed!

 

Second Stormraven's on the way as soon as I get time...