The Winged Swords project

[SlickSamos]

Welcome to my first attempt at actually logging my work, despite collecting and painting various GW stuff since 2004...

A bit of background about my hobby journey before we get stuck into my latest project...

I started off with a box of Lord of the Rings 'Warriors of the Last Alliance box' which I applied a basic paint job on, and went onto collect large amounts of Uruk-Hai and Riders of Rohan, over the course I can look back at my old models and see how much I improved.

Later on I got into Fantasy with Lizardmen and they are probably now my largest single-faction army across all of the ranges

Then it was 40k with Tau which were great fun :)

However around the 2010 I started collecting Dark Angels - however I then went to University and everything got put on hold... Until now!

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And thus the fun begins! First step being re-painted the Dark Vengeance bikes which you can see here.

Scheme is as follows:

Purple - Naggaroth Night, Xereus Purple, Druchii Violet, Xereus Purple

Metal - Leadbelcher, Chainmail, Nuln Oil, Chainmail

Feathers - Ice Blue, Skull White

Wing Frame - Skull White

Wheels - Chaos Black, dry-brushed greys and browns (various)

Leather - Dryad Bark, Bestial Brown (dry-brushed)

Skulls - Bestial Brown, Kommando Khaki, Bleached Bone

So some areas will be done using the old layering way, others the newfangled base-layer-wash-layer way

Feathers are tricky to get right, but once they are done they are really striking

Anyway, that is it for my first log...

Slick Samos

[SystemSyn]

Looking good so far Samos! What's the plan for the army? Is it the whole Dark Vengeance Space Marines set you've got?

[SlickSamos]

Hi SystemSyn,

 

I'm keeping the rest of the set as Dark Angels along with the Rhino I painted up. They will now have Purple Ravenwing to fight alongside. It may look a bit weird but we'll see when the purple bikes are done.

 

I have been planning the project on and off for about three years and I have accumulated a lot generic Space Marine sprues and Dark Angel Veteran / Ravenwing sprues over the past seven years so a large collection to draw on.

 

As for what is next, it'll either be a Tactical Squad or I'll bring the Biker Squad size up to 6 (the 4th Biker is in the image, in pieces alongside the other Bikers' bodies).

 

Happy New Year

 

Slick Samos

Edited December 31, 2017 by SlickSamos

[SlickSamos]

Tonight's work mainly consisted of Xereus Purple and a second coat of Ice Blue.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll tidy up the metal with a coat of Leadbelcher and then a wash of Durchii Violet should bring out the definition of the model.

After that I will be moving onto the tidying up phase with some careful brushwork along the edges before moving onto detailing...

Also I know the pictures aren't great - but once they are finished I'll do some proper pictures for y'all.

Best,

Slick Samos

[SlickSamos]

And nothing happened for over two weeks...  Oh well.

 

As of last night I began using a new small brush (quite stiff) and a new pot of Leadbleacher (as opposed to my fairly dead Boltgun Metal) - the combination of two new things at once was  a bit weird...  Leadbleacher needed a lot of thinning to get going but I found the bristles on the new small brush difficult to get used to...

 

Anyhow, that's my latest update - a bit more silver and the vast majority of Xereus Purple done :)

 

Slick Samos

[Pearson73]

The purple's looking good, as is the pale blue of the wings.