Way to match different painting schemes to Blood Angels?

[Alys]

When I started, I made my own chapter up, the usual fluff, and decided I wanted a semi-chaos look. With this in mind I painted up my AoBR stuff using red gore/dwarven bronze/black as the scheme.

Deciding on Blood Angels, I started an assault squad, and following BoW's guide for their assault sergeant, painted them up using Army Painter Dragon Red UC, Illyian Darksun helmet, and Gryphon sepia all over.

Finally, I obtained a case of figures from a friend, which consists of the troops of a Blood Angel Army. He painted his up, he said, with white UC, Blood Red, then 'Magenta Ink'. As the figures all seem to be old, I'm thinking it's a Coat D'arms paint. I have put a sepia wash over the beaky tactical marines, to see if it dulls down the gloss, it does, but it runs off so much, that there's patches that need re-washing, or areas where it pooled too much.

As the majority of the figures now come from this case, I wonder what to do. Part of me rankles at using someone else's scheme... but it means stripping 90-ish figures, most of which are plastic, which is going to be a very laboured affair. I can't paint over it, because this ink he's used gives it a very glossy finish, and paint (or at least Blood Red) doesn't seem to take to it.

Here's an example...

That's his scheme (fist/bolt) and BoW guide scheme (fist/shield). The picture is misleading, as there's a light source centimetres away from them.

So, asking people with experience... what to do? I could try and strip the figures I own (AoBR set, 5 assault marines, 5 scouts, 1 Rhino), and find some alternative to this Magenta Ink to try and match the colour schemes... maybe neatening up the case figures as I go... or strip the whole case load and paint them the way I've started mine. Hell, maybe get rid of the lot and wait patiently, cash in hand, for the beautiful Dark Eldar. :)

[Hiro_Protagonist]

Matching up to someone else's scheme is usually just a pain in the butt. I'd try and rework the "case" models rather than your own stuff.

 

I don't know what kind of inks were used but I do know that blood red (especially on larger areas) doesn't like to take to anything and usually needs a couple of thinner coats in order to get a smooth cover.

 

If it was me (and I don't like to "fiddle" when I paint) I'd just give them a light dusting of black primer and start with a fresh paint job. If you have some magical dip that wil strip the paint easily go with that, but doing them one by one sounds tedious.

[Alys]

Suppose I could work through, 5 figures at a time. I have Fairy Power Spray at hand, which I'm using to strip Rogue Trader figures, not tried it with plastic other than an old backpack, so could give it a shot. This is the problem when you obtain figures from other people, either gifts/trade or auctions... you have to put up with other people's poses, their skill at gluing, painting and colour schemes.

[Hiro_Protagonist]

Suppose I could work through, 5 figures at a time. I have Fairy Power Spray at hand, which I'm using to strip Rogue Trader figures, not tried it with plastic other than an old backpack, so could give it a shot. This is the problem when you obtain figures from other people, either gifts/trade or auctions... you have to put up with other people's poses, their skill at gluing, painting and colour schemes.

 

The poses and gluing I find to be the worst.

 

One model I saw (Tau Battlesuit) had been assembled with a hot glue gun!

[Alys]

out of 24 firewarriors i got, 8 were thrown away. great melted fingerprints all over the details, some were nothing more than melted plastic with a gun. ugh. I need to be able to put stuff together myself now or it's not worth it.