Eggroll's Blood Angels

[Valkia the Bloody]

Again, these are absolutely stunning.

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Smashing stuff, as per ususal. That's a great rate of production too!

Thanks Pearson! Yeah happy with how many I've painted this month so far though looking back I find I usually have a good burst at the start of the year before petering off later on. 

 

Again, these are absolutely stunning.

Thanks Valkia!

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Finished off 2 5 man scout squads today. Eight of these are metal models with the 2 others from the plastic kit:

 

 

 

Also took the chance to take some pictures of 3 metal techmarines that I finished back in Jan. Had these name plates printed for awhile and thought they were fitting:

 

 

 

^on his phone tweeting and trolling people! 

 

Painted collection model count: 456

Painted collection points total: 34248 

Edited February 21, 2022 by eggroll

[Spyros]

Epic painting! Epic selection of names for the Techmarines!

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Epic painting! Epic selection of names for the Techmarines!

 

Ha thanks Spyros! I couldn't find many techmarine names for BA in the wiki so had to get a bit more creative :)

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Well after 3 years I've finally painted up one of my FW Sanguinius models. I ordered both the normal and special version with the diorama base back in Mar 29, 2019 and I spent the last 2 weeks painting up the regular version. My first FW primarch and I'm amazed at the amount of detail they've crammed into a resin model. Think I'll wait for another 3 years before doing the up other version with diorama base. 

 

Anyhow...onto the pictures:

 

 

I've also managed to order one of the solar powered rotating display bases from ebay and found it works quite nicely in my display case with the LEDs turned on. Managed to get a decent phone video of it here: https://youtu.be/2Hn9nUn4Vto

[Valkia the Bloody]

Wow.

Stunning.

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Wow.

Stunning.

Thanks Valkia!

[Majkhel]

Wow, THE Primarch!
Well done! Loving the vibrancy of the gold. At the same time I feel the brown of the 'lepoard' underhide is a bit too desaturated compared to the rest of the model. The fur itself is reaaaally well done though with spots not competing with the brilliance of the wings but complementing them 

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Wow, THE Primarch!

Well done! Loving the vibrancy of the gold. At the same time I feel the brown of the 'lepoard' underhide is a bit too desaturated compared to the rest of the model. The fur itself is reaaaally well done though with spots not competing with the brilliance of the wings but complementing them 

 

Thanks Majkhel! I actually used greenstuffworld's gold pigment for the armour and it blew away all of my expectations for it. Yes, agreed on the leopard hide - wasn't too sure how to go about doing the underhide and I think I should have added more tones and shading to it. Will keep that in mind for the next version :) 

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Still plugging away at my first born backlog and have been making some decent progress over the past month. A few more years and I'll finally be able to start on the Primaris! 

 

First up is one of the OG terminator librarians. I've got a few old school models with the banner pole but no banner sticker. I understand the older models came with stickers that you can put on them and they were pre-printed. I ended up just painting up the models without any banners for now until the day I can get some banner references sized and printed out. 

 

Next we have one of the last Terminator Librarians GW has produced that isn't a Primaris model now. I think he was meant to be an Adepticon special before COVID came along and cancelled all those plans. Got him as a MTO model from GW and happy with how he came out. I like to include at least one skull on all the bases of my HQ models and the great thing about him is he came with one pre-molded into the scenic base already!

 

Finally we have Captain Karlaen from the Deathstorm boxset who I finally painted up. Been so long that I'm no longer able to find named character rules for him so I suppose GW has put him as a regular terminator captain in the current edition. 

 

Last we have the Baal Predator. This one is one from maybe 4th or 5ed edition which was made around 2003. Has the metal assault cannon, side flamer sponsons and BA gunner head bits and pre-dates the current full plastic kit. Now if I can only track down a 2nd edition Baal Predator to paint up my Baal Predator collection will be complete!

Edited April 24, 2022 by eggroll

[Valkia the Bloody]

The librarian is a thing of beauty.

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The librarian is a thing of beauty.

Thanks Valkia! I think I have all the first born librarians at this point and will switch over to primaris ones soon.

[Dosjetka]

It's great to come back to this thread every so often and have magnificent models to gaze at (somewhat jealously :lol:). Varus and Karlaen in particular look fantastic. :tu:

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It's great to come back to this thread every so often and have magnificent models to gaze at (somewhat jealously ). Varus and Karlaen in particular look fantastic.

Thanks Dosjetka!

[Majkhel]

A pleasure to see your painting as always! :)

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A pleasure to see your painting as always!

Thanks Majkhel!

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Spent the last 2 weeks working on and off of the Space Marine Heroes Series 1. Imported these from Japan when they were first released (thanks to someone on a FB group) and had them shipped over. They were quite cool as it came in a cardboard rhino box and had 2 sets of all of the models so no need to try and do the blind box pulls. I also have the Captain model that came separately which I'll paint at a later date.  

 

First off, here is the group shot of all 12:

 

Tried to do more of a speed painting for these guys since they're just a tactical squad though I did end up putting a bit more time and effort on the smaller details given how unique they are in posing. These models were apparently the start of the "scaling up" of the regular Space Marines back in the day which eventually lead to the bigger deathwatch models and eventually the Primaris models. 

 

Normally I prefer to use helms on my tac models (no SM would want to get headshotted) but since theses were all named characters, I decided to go with the bare heads on the whole lot. Took more effort to paint so many bare faces but the end result was worth it. I also kept each model completely stock which meant I couldn't use the Blood Angel molded should pads and this was the first time in awhile working with so many shoulder decals but it worked out well in the end with a bit of selective cutting of the decal to help with setting on the round shoulder pauldrons and the use of MicroSol to during the application. Also of these models also got my custom modeled and resin printed base name plates using my standard schemes of silver for normal models and gold for captains/HQs.

 

Individual model shots:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Grotsmasha]

A like wasn't enough, these are outstanding.......

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A like wasn't enough, these are outstanding.......

Thanks Grotsmasha!

[strongbow]

Yeah these are truly stunning, what a collection!

[Spyros]

As always, flawless!

[Dantay VI]

Garus reminds me of Gareth Southgate.

Your painting is sublime, and I really like the bu-ish purple tomes in your silver to keep them interesting

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On 5/30/2022 at 11:17 PM, strongbow said:

Yeah these are truly stunning, what a collection!

Thanks strongbow!

On 6/1/2022 at 12:43 AM, Spyros said:

As always, flawless!

Thanks Spyros!

On 6/1/2022 at 10:09 AM, Dantay VI said:

Garus reminds me of Gareth Southgate.

Your painting is sublime, and I really like the bu-ish purple tomes in your silver to keep them interesting

Thanks Dantay!

 

Update for the month of June:

Many years ago, I had painted my FW Chaplain dreadnought not knowing it was support to be a chaplain so it was done up in regular blood red colours. After finding out he should have been black, I took some time a few weeks ago to repaint the red parts in black and add new decals. Here's how he turned out:

Work for this month was to finish off a 10 man squad of Terminators I had primed and ready for a while now. These will be added to the 20 other terminators I painted earlier this year:

and the Ancient in terminator armour:

Got an order in for Age of Darkness along with the new deimos rhino and kratos assault tank. Can't wait till those show up!

 

Update for month of July:

My Age of Darkness boxset finally arrived along with a demios rhino and the kratos battle tank. Spent the last few evenings assembling the Spartan, Demios and Kratos. Love the way the new kits come together and how easy plastic is to work with compared to FW resin. 

The Spartan tank kit seems to come with different sized doors - at least my FW land raider doors for the BA doesn't fit very well inside. Since the stock doors are quite bland and I don't want to utilize the iconography that's included with the kit, I decided to 3d design and print my own. Digitally kitbashed the doors along with a BA icon for the front door which came out very well:

Still need to do a design for the Demios Rhino side doors as I don't like the look of the FW version - that was the only FW BA door I didn't buy last time I was at Warhammer World as the design makes no sense to me...the icon literally prevents the doors from opening:

 

 

[Mostwanted]

Stunning work. Well done on your Terminators. You've done well combining the Space Hulk, Dark Angel and blood angel terminator kits to make them look like they all belong together.

I really like your Spartan doors and BA icon as well. I get what you mean about the Demios Rhino doors. But for these I see it as the central blood drop is only attached to one side of the door, so when it closes the Blood drop covers over the join.