Blood Angels Blog

[Jolemai]

Looking good! However, is there anything ready for the ETL?

[Blindhamster]

Another Rhino interior done...

[LutherMax]

Love those screens!

[Blindhamster]

Figured I havent shown a group photo for a while - but this is where things are at:

also, 30k praetor as he currently stands:

Heresy inspired Sanguinary Guard in the background (used the Invictus Suzerian heads on them)

[marine7312000]

Can we get a clearer shot of the 30k Sanguinary Guard? Or are you holding off for more to be done with them?

[Luna707]

I second that request! I would love to see your heresy stuff more clearly!

[Blindhamster]

small update, decided to refocus a bit on getting at least a basic 40k playable army (although it'd be usable in 30k too to be fair). There is also a unit of death company that a mate donated to me, so i didn't include them as he painted them.

progress in the last couple days consists of:

painting bases for the sternguard, contemptor, sanguinary guard, dante, corbulo and command squad.

doing first set of highlights on remaining tactical marines.

adding first lot of shading to sanguinary guard, blocking out some other colours on sanguinary guard too (I LOVE the forgeworld grey knight metal colour), undercoating their wings (not pictured)

Blocking in all the silver areas on rhino and predator, doing the shading on the rhino.

[LutherMax]

Good progress!

 

The only FW paint I have it the Castellax Bronze – which is an awesome replacement for the old Tin Bitz. I'll have to give the Grey Knights Steel a try too...

[Blindhamster]

Thanks :)

 

Grey Knight Steel is lovely, bright silver that has a blue sheen, i decided it'd be the base colour for power weapons in my army :)

plan is to use grey knight steel, highlight up to stormhost silver, probably use a mix of black and blue washes, then paint lightning like the official sanguinary guard pictures... we'll see if i ever get that far!

[Blindhamster]

Brothers,

I need some help...

I finally got around to getting the base colour onto the thunderhawk but have hit a snag... I don't know what to do with it!

Originally I'd thought I'd use white as an accent colour like this picture:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lWVd3Ryp_6U/TlDdlZ4gqtI/AAAAAAAAAB4/eXphYe_3tW8/s1600/Space_Marines_by_Radojavor.jpg

However, since then, the Heresy thousand sons and blood angels have had their colour schemes solidified somewhat and now blood angels seem to accented with black and some gold, where thousand sons are accented with white and gold.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I've done some looking about the internet and it appears that people that paint blood angels ones have tended to just stick with plain red... which is fine, but I sort of want to be a bit more visually interesting with such a large model.

If anyone has suggestions, or better yet fancies photoshopping ideas, please help a Frater out and provide some inspiration!

[lionofjudah]

Black bands with 1" painters tape as a mask. Maybe 2 or 3 in diagonal rings starting right behind front winglets to the heightened superstructure (using the rake there for your angle guide)

Than go super grimdark and throw some boss big ole blood drops on the wings;)... J/k about that

[Lord Commander Eidolon]

I wouldn't want to leave it all red, it'd just look even more like a flying brick....

 

I've seen a few Thunderhawks with a grey/cream lower area, that doesn't look too bad, however I'd go for diagonal black stripes, in place of the white ones in the picture. I do agree BA seem to be more red and black these days, but that isn't to say you can't use white if you wanted too!

 

I found this rather awesome Fire Raptor for you to be inspired by; if you can replicate the gold trim it'll look epic with black

 

http://i64.tinypic.com/33vgh1c.jpg

 

I'll be doing a pink version very soon!

[Custom Hero]

Some ideas in white I found online:

http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/k630/kalebrisner/Mobile%20Uploads/470F4461-A47D-4051-923C-72BE3F80146D_zpszexp3zds.jpg

 

 

http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/k630/kalebrisner/Mobile%20Uploads/1DFC923E-409B-4BF3-9D9D-8578E1050222_zpsqjecj3dr.jpg

[Soldier of Dorn]

I'm rubbish with Photoshop and that sort of thing, but perhaps a white and black checkered section somewhere on the model would look good? Just an idea, mind.

[Dosjetka]

I wholeheartedly support the idea of adding black and white checkers somewhere. :tu:

[sockwithaticket]

I think you could do with some more iconography on there too, whether it's transfers, freehand, brass etch or plastic (reliefs from the Baal kit). That's a lot of big blank panels even with some accent colours.

[thamier]

so much great work! very inspireing, and cant wait to get going, keep up the great work!

[LutherMax]

@ Blindhamster how about something like these for the Thunderhawk? Diagonal stripes like the one in the background of the reference pic, or a central vertical stripe. Any of them could have thin gold edging on the stripes, might look cool.

 

http://www.themightybrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Thunderhawk-01-Black.jpg

 

http://www.themightybrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Thunderhawk-01-White.jpg

 

http://www.themightybrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Thunderhawk-02-Black.jpg

 

[url=http://www.themightybrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Thunderhawk-02-White.jpg[/img]

 

http://www.themightybrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Thunderhawk-02-White.jpg

[LutherMax]

Or as Xenith suggested in BA Today...

 

http://www.themightybrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Thunderhawk-03-White-Black.jpg

[Blindhamster]

They're very cool :)

 

Any thoughts on how to take some inspiration from the heresy fire raptor (like the example above and the art it's based on)

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=heresy+blood+angel+fire+raptor&client=ms-android-samsung&source=lnms&prmd=isnv&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiH8Ybg1v_OAhXIKCwKHV3MCsAQ_AUIBygB&biw=360&bih=512#imgrc=5kEUymqFYeH47M%3A

[Blindhamster]

They're very cool :)

 

Any thoughts on how to take some inspiration from the heresy fire raptor (like the example above and the art it's based on)

 

[Quixus]

That Spartan!

[Blindhamster]

so after some thought, i'm going to combine this:

 

with

http://www.themightybrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Thunderhawk-01-Black.jpg

for placement of blacks. however instead of a red stripe in the black stripe, i'll try for a gold filigree type thing along the lines of the heresy fire raptor art. I'll also try and fine some similar spots to apply additional gold detailing as well...

 

 

 

[Lord Commander Eidolon]

Great idea - sadly I can't do photo shop, so I can't be totally specific with my suggestions!

 

I think the gold will work really well, especially with the black stripe. The Raptor seems to to have the gold around doors and guns, so perhaps around the inset panel on the nose by the heavy bolter sponson; that inset could also be black.  I might also see how a gold filigree band/pattern along that long side panel above the engine/the one that has the sculpted aquila on.

[Blindhamster]

okay, so black stripe has been started, i need to make it thicker on the top and then ensure it all joins up i think, but not too bad for my first ever attempt at masking tape on a miniature :)

and for giggles, some shots that shows some of the interior I painted... right at the start of this thread! I'm currently redoing the pilots, totally replaced the one on the left (bald one) and the one on the right had new torso and legs.