Helias Tancred's 3rd Company + Ravenwing & Deathwing support

[Helias_Tancred]

I recently had a nearly 4k collection of Chaos Space Marines (Black Legion) get dumped into my lap. Fact: Getting familiar with the Chaos Space Marines rules has clarified how badly the Dark Angels rules were done this edition. Unit rules ,detachment rules, etc. Just poor overall. 

 

 

Edited May 16 by Helias_Tancred

[crimsondave]

5 hours ago, Helias_Tancred said:

I recently had a nearly 4k collection of Chaos Space Marines (Black Legion) get dumped into my lap. Fact: Getting familiar with the Chaos Space Marines rules has clarified how badly the Dark Angels rules were done this edition. Unit rules ,detachment rules, etc. Just poor overall. 

 

 

Are they painted?  I love my Black Legion but they were pita to paint.  Hazard stripes on my Iron Warriors were NOTHING compared to all that gold trim.

[Helias_Tancred]

6 hours ago, crimsondave said:

Are they painted?  I love my Black Legion but they were pita to paint.  Hazard stripes on my Iron Warriors were NOTHING compared to all that gold trim.

 

Ummm no. lol. 2/3 of the collection was built. A couple vehicles and a 10 man raptor squad were all primed with GW Wraithbone, everything else was gray plastic. It belonged to one of my close friends, he had too many collections and  he pretty much gave up on. It is 4060 points. I've built most of the remaining things that were still NIB. I still have a forge fiend, the second venomcrawler, and 6 chaos bikers left to build. I have a thread over in the Heretic Astartes forum talking about it, including a list of everything in the collection. 

 

Edited May 17 by Helias_Tancred

[Helias_Tancred]

My Primaris Librarian, Epistolary Castiel of the Risen. I really like using him in my lists but he was just lacking something. 

 

 

 

 

So I came up with this. Now he looks right imo.  Gave him a very Librarian-esque open book atop his backpack powerpcack, and Dark Angels love their hood trims! I'm thinking I might do the same trim along the bottom of his inner robes?

 

Edited Sunday at 04:54 AM by Helias_Tancred

[Helias_Tancred]

I kit-bashed the book using bits from the old Company Veterans Kit. The Dark Angel chapter icon atop the book is from one of the belt bits where an orb and some iconography dangle from a rope. The pole that the book is mounted on came from one of the backpack icons in that kit that displays the chapter emblem. The great decal on the open pages of the book came from a decal sheet imo worth its weight in gold from Forgottenchapters.eu. I got it and another similar decal sheet off of Etsy a year or two back. 

Edited Sunday at 04:55 AM by Helias_Tancred

[Helias_Tancred]

Azrael (again). 

 

[Helias_Tancred]

Well ... I forgot his banner lol. I'll paint it tomorrow and reattach it!

 

I do think this Azrael looks better than the first one I painted on page 2 or 3 of this thread several years ago! That is a good feeling. 

[Helias_Tancred]

Also of note this time my dark green power armor recipe differed. Prior to this second collection I was using the tried and true GW DA method of Caliban Green, Warpstone Glow, and Moot Green. This time I started all of my company Dark Angels with a black primer, then a base coat of Caliban Green (can't give up the O.G.) but then my layers and edge highlights are Army Painter Fanatic greens. See pic. And you can see how each one is the successive step in their green offering at the lower right corner of the bottle. 

 

I wanted to use these colors this time around because I was intrigued by the narrow gap between each color, versus the vast gulf between Caliban Green and Warpstone Glow, and everything from Moot Green lol, for example.