"....guard it well." A ----- ------ patrol log.

[ZeroWolf]

Isn't it normally their name that gets written on there? 

[Tallarn Commander]

Looking great ! In honor of the latest Kingdom Come video game, how about "Fortune favors the bold" (Audaces fortuna iuvat." 

[hd3]

4 hours ago, ZeroWolf said:

Isn't it normally their name that gets written on there? 

 

Ah, I thought maybe that was it. Thanks!

3 hours ago, Tallarn Commander said:

Looking great ! In honor of the latest Kingdom Come video game, how about "Fortune favors the bold" (Audaces fortuna iuvat." 

 

That's good too. What do you think about "Ultima Ratio Deus Imperator" the last argument of the god emperor?

 

Though both are probably too long.

 

P.S

 Or Vae Victis!

Edited February 11 by hd3

[ZeroWolf]

Can't go wrong with Vae Victis! I've had that stuck in my head since playing Blood Omen 1 on the original PlayStation 

[hd3]

7 hours ago, ZeroWolf said:

Can't go wrong with Vae Victis! I've had that stuck in my head since playing Blood Omen 1 on the original PlayStation 

 

I'm still waiting for the full legacy of kain on GoG then I'm going to play the whole series start to finish at last.

 

I finished the Captain's body today. I couldn't find my glaze medium which I normally use to thin my metallic paints so I experimented with metal medium. It gave me a more pale gold which is what I wanted for this model but it is too far removed from the original colour for anything else. 

 

Following the same principle as the lieutenant, I used the yellow gold for backing on the knee pads and the halos and the paler metal medium old gold for the skulls and highlights on the knee pad. For the relics on the tabards, I put iron hands steel for the bright silver to contrast the retributor and old gold then washed everything with nuln for more definition.

Edited February 12 by hd3

[ZeroWolf]

6 hours ago, hd3 said:

 

I'm still waiting for the full legacy of kain on GoG then I'm going to play the whole series start to finish at last.

 

I finished the Captain's body today. I couldn't find my glaze medium which I normally use to thin my metallic paints so I experimented with metal medium. It gave me a more pale gold which is what I wanted for this model but it is too far removed from the original colour for anything else. 

 

Following the same principle as the lieutenant, I used the yellow gold for backing on the knee pads and the halos and the paler metal medium old gold for the skulls and highlights on the knee pad. For the relics on the tabards, I put iron hands steel for the bright silver to contrast the retributor and old gold then washed everything with nuln for more definition.

I'd love a re-release of Blood Omen. I'd been hoping that it was going to be part of the Soul Reaver collection as a bonus, but alas, it wasn't. Bit of a missed opportunity there.

 

Some fine detail work there, nice and crisp, he's going to be a good looking Lieutenant. 

[hd3]

So I've added the chapter badge and the campaign badge decals for the lieutenant and captain. The white is a bit too jarring to me so I'm going to steal a trick from my terrain set and apply a tiny drop of rattling grime over he badges to dull down the colour once the micro sol has dried. 

 

These were both separately gifted to these officers in recognition of a campaign the blood ravens fought along side the blood angels and dark angels in the taurus faecibus sector. Strangely neither of the angels chapters have any record of this.

Edited February 21 by hd3

[hd3]

So I had a pass at the base for the heavy intercessor. This is kind of a test case for some of the others. The pre-made bases are if course mostly grit with some snow, so I was attempting to duplicate that here to match the pre-made bases. I'm trying to keep things consistent.

[hd3]

I'm continuing gradually, having blocked in the burnt red base, black legion armour seals, black templar recessed details and some evil sunz highlights on the armour before adding some lead belcher and rhinox hide with agrax for the leather parts. 

 

Now the new stuff: I added a space marine scout warrior with boltgun to my combat patrol. I wasn't going to but I realized that while I don't want to go beyond a combat patrol for the blood ravens, there are 3 different astartes kill teams. Once I finish my angels of death Killteam, if I ever elect to revisit this, I can do them in blood ravens colours since I already have the paint and decals. Now I've already made a start on a scout team! Though I have tragically misplaced the 28mm base. I used this model of a scout from dawn of war 1 as a reference photo for the scout.

 

As for the space marine captain. I wanted to keep the fancy captain shoulder pauldron and I had a spare plasma pistol from the assault sergeant who got converted to regular intercessor sergeant. I wasn't confident I could balance out the wrist, so I just cut above the vambrace and tamiya's the wrist onto the inside of the arm instead. It doesn't look too terrible but the captain is clearly just mid way through unholstering his pistol.

 

I also tried out my new painting/spray painting station. This has been really helpful since the chests and inside of the arms and guns are unreachable once the models are assembled so I went with the sub-assemblies option. 

 

Finally, I'm trying to decide how to do the lieutenant's storm shield, I'd love to replicate the colour scheme on the box art . Though I have no clue how I'd get that shade of white if anyone has a suggestion. I also need to decide what to write on the banner too. Kronus maybe? Aurelia? Cyrene?

[Firedrake Cordova]

It looks like they're coming along nicely.  

 

The lieutenant conversion is an interesting idea, and looks to be turning out well

[hd3]

Ive started gluing models with the completed bodies at least onto the bases. I really like how the natural bases contrast with the industrial ruins of my alpha legion bases. I tried to position the running assault intercessor feet so the raised foot is usually touching a rock or something elevated to give it a second contact point and hopefully giving it more hold.

 

Next I'm moving onto the arms since bodies are done. 

 

One thing I'm curious about, does anyone have any tips for painting black leather? I want the scouts book to look distinct from the black I use on the guns and chainswords. Black leather would also work for fabius bile's gloves.

[Firedrake Cordova]

Looks like good progress

[hd3]

I stayed up all night and finally made some real progress. 

 

My space marine scout is almost finished, though tragically I misplaced his 28mm base thinking scouts were 25 mm bases. So he is just standing around. Or rather, he isn't. 

 

I used Vallejo neutral gray with black templar that I thinned down a lot with contrast medium to dirty up the trousers. For the boots I went with xv88 that I washed with agrax, though I might wash it with agrax again to make the colours transition less jarring. Now it's just the shoulder pads, side arm and head. 

 

Next was the primaris captain's arm. This is the arm I went to great lengths to keep. For the shoulder pad, I was inspired by captain davian thule's gear from the kronus campaign. So I went with gold trim on the shoulder, using retributor armour with reikland fleshshade. Then to contrast I used metal medium mixed with Vallejo old gold to make a pale gold to pick out the seraph and the sunrays on the shoulder. Then just zandri dust for the background to keep it consistent with the other blood ravens. Finally ulthuan gray and nuln oil to pick out the feathers and Kislev flesh for the banner. I haven't decided what to write on the banner. If I can find a head that looks enough like the force commander/captain aramus from DoW2, I might make him into Aramus. If I can find a primaris head/STL that matches the captain, (face from dawn of war included ) I'd love to do that. Meanwhile, I resurrected the plasma pistol scheme I painted over for the assault sergeant. I figured that as a captain, this guy would have a fancier looking gun.

 

Lastly, I started assembling my intercessors. These are kitbashed from assault intercessor bodies with arms and guns from regular intercessors so the poses are all a bit mid-run. These were not easy to assemble. Getting the wrist and both shoulders to glue and connect right took quite a while. But now my kill team gunner, intercessor sergeant and intercessor are mostly assembled. You may notice one of the bolt rifle's is clearly of black templar modification. The intercessor sergeant claims this was gifted by the Black Templars in a ceremonial exchange of arms during the grimskull war on graia, where both chapters fought Orks and a chaos warband named 'The chosen of nemeroth' alongside the Ultramarines. Again, the Black Templars archivists have no record of this.

[hd3]

 

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Tamiya extra thin'd on the shoulder pads and finished highlighting the bolt rifle's. I also added the power packs for the two officers. I tried to keep the metal colours consistent with the ranks. I particularly like how the lieutenant's iron halo came out. The darkness of the warplock bronze really contrasts well with brighter Balthazar gold of the sunrays. Next, it's zandri dust time and then decals. I'm just praying I have enough micro set to finish this combat patrol.

[hd3]

Finally made some real progress since my last entry!

 

Day 42: The primaris captain and lieutenant are now on their bases. I have added the first set of decals however they still need a second coat of micro set and then micro sol, not to mention the squad number decals on top of that. 

 

I went with a power fist I bought off a black templar player so the captain can be used in kill team. Like the bolt rifle on the sergeant, this was a gift from the two chapters exchange of arms on graia. Ibid no record in the templars archive. Weird.

 

 

I've also finally finished basing my intercessor and outrider. The intercessor had a custom base with a lot of detail which was pretty different from the base motif I had for the rest of the faction. So to try and keep a little consistency, I added snow on top of the rubble after I finished. 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 25 by hd3

[Grotsmasha]

They've turned out quite nicely

[Firedrake Cordova]

I like the plasma coils and glowy eyes

[hd3]

I played my second and third games of KillTeam today! The Blood Ravens were victorious in the first match with the Primaris Captain and Heavy Intercessor but we had too much trouble in the second game with the Intercessor Sergeant and the Eliminator sniper.

 

Edited March 23 by hd3

[hd3]

Last night I finally finished the storm shield on Lt. Amart and the side arm for the space marine scout. For the shield I used ushabti bone and nuln oil for the skulls while corax white with apothecary white makes up the base. I forgot the apothecary white is functionally grey honestly. Then retributor armour for the gold with reikland fleshshade for the trim. I may go back with a paler gold later and do some edge highlighting.