Blindhamsters Blood Angels & Blindhamster Jrs Tyranids

[Blindhamster]

3 hours ago, Rogue said:

I can't offer any tactical advice, but I do have a suggestion about approach - it's something that worked for us when I was introducing my wife to 40k.

 

Every time I won, we reduced my force by 50 points (from an initial 500); every time she won, I got 50 points back. For us, it created natural balancing points where the smaller force plus experience meant a good game against a beginner's 500 points.

That’s a great idea and I’ll suggest that to him!

 

2 hours ago, Xenith said:

Sounds like a great journey you're both going on! 

 

 

These resonate with me particularly. Nids are liberating, no edge highlights! Can I suggest a matte/satin varnish on them though if you're just using contrast? I've found that as they can go on thinly, they can rub off especially with coarse foam etc. Extremities used to be bare of paint until I got the W&N varnish on them. 

Thanks, it’s been fun so far and has helped reinvigorate my own marine work because I can mix things up and have better incentives to do my own things too. 
 

good advice on the varnish front, I had noticed similar on some of his models already so I’ll look into adding varnish to protect them

[Rusted Boltgun]

That battle report was great fun to read and is something my son and I are aiming for. 

 

I second varnishing contrasts having repainted the Snakebite Leather on my Orks a few times.

[Blindhamster]

So some progress:

 

Sternguard (now 10 man)

 

Intercessor Squads (first two squads are a little further along in painting than the others)

 

Judiciar

 

Intercessors with Jump Packs

 

Eradicators

 

Company heroes and captain

 

 

Few random close ups

[Spyros]

Great painting, I love it!

[Doghouse]

Amazing stuff mate, they are looking fantastic!

[ZeroWolf]

Great work on these 

[Blindhamster]

So, Blindhamster Jr and I had a little hiatus for the holiday season due to a lot of busy stuff.

 

however we were both blessed between christmas (and in my case birthday).

 

Jr got a tyranofex which he is about 50% through building, a unit of termagants (which he plans to use extra special guns on to add special guns to his existing termagant units) and a neurolictor (which he has built). No pictures of those yet.

 

But he has also made some progress on his Genestealers, his school has allowed him to do some painting in afterschool club on mondays which is pretty cool so he's been using the case he got from the battle honours scheme at our local games workshop. Anyway onto Genestealers:

 

 

He's got to add the agrax wash to the bases (except one) and plans to pick out some of the details with the same yellow/orange colour used for some of his guns, but I think they're looking pretty awesome honestly!

 

As for me, I aquired a captain with jump pack, 2 packs of jump assault intercessors (meaning I've got 3 packs total), a terminator chaplain and a box of terminators! So far I've built 5 more Jump Assault Intercessors to add to the 5 above:

 

 

I've made an effort to ensure poses look different despite sharing bodies, I did this by replacing the stock basing scenery on 5 of them, and mixing in both black templar and regular assault intercessor arms. Overall pretty happy with how they're looking so far. I've also dont the standard thing of replacing skulls on chestplates with blood drops on some as well as giving them chapter symbols on jump packs. Sergeant has a sanguinary guard sword I had lying around because I thought it would be cool.

Edited January 16 by Blindhamster

[Blindhamster]

Some better images of the new assault marines, quite happy with the bases, less so with the shoulder pads.

[Firedrake Cordova]

Sounds like both you and "mini-hamster" had a good haul over the holiday period, and are making good progress on them  

 

I think the assault intercessor squad looks good - it doesn't look "cloney" to me  (if you've got 15 of them, it sounds like "ride of the Valkyries" may be necessary )

[Blindhamster]

49 minutes ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

Sounds like both you and "mini-hamster" had a good haul over the holiday period, and are making good progress on them  

 

I think the assault intercessor squad looks good - it doesn't look "cloney" to me  (if you've got 15 of them, it sounds like "ride of the Valkyries" may be necessary )

kind of excited to try a game of just all jump troops, for the 4th ed blood angel vibes.

[Blindhamster]

Not the best images, but its late and i cant get my phone to take good ones.

 

Bases now done and heads added to those that lacked them before. Sorry about the rubbish photos, but pretty happy with how the unit is coming together now.

[Firedrake Cordova]

I guess the phone has a "bed time" too  

 

Looks like good progress, and a nice variety of poses  

[Blindhamster]

I've been fairly rough all weekend so no progress from me, but Jr finished building the tyrannofex he got for christmas and we made a base together for it.

 

pretty cool model, looks imposing! he has been telling me about how deadly it is since before christmas so hopefully when we get our next game in (was meant to be this weekend, but poorly as mentioned) he can show it off

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

The base looks good  It does look like GW needed to give him the next base size up, though! 

 

12 hours ago, Blindhamster said:

he has been telling me about how deadly it is since before christmas so hopefully when we get our next game in he can show it off

What a nitwit ... doesn't he know that he's just consigned it to an ignominious turn 1 death by saying that?!  

[Blindhamster]

been a bit quieter on the hobby front for me lately, Blindhamster Jr played a game against grey knights and won, was pretty hard fought and entertaining for me to watch (a friend of mine brought his grey knights over for the game).

Outside of that, I've done little bits of building and painting my side and my son has done a bit of painting. I've been focused on running a playtest for an RPG I've been writing so thats been a huge time sink.

Excited to see what the future brings for blood angels personally, but right now I've got a partially built jump captain and then I've still got 10 scouts, 5 terminators, 5 jump assault intercessors and 5 desolation marines to build. Plus side, once all those are done I'll actually have completed my hobby backlog from a building perspective, if I can get them based, basecoated in the correct red and bases painted to the basic level everything else is, it'll be a good position to then pick units to progress to completion.

[ZeroWolf]

Sounds like you've been keeping busy