Monthly Vow 12th Of May To The 12th Of June.

Yep target of 1 mini and I missed.

Well sort of. I did get most of the dreads sorted for the Blood Angels Dreadnought army, that I have, and the Heavy Intercessors finished.

Target. 

Paint The Lion Proxy!

I have made a start there. I did buy a Nephilim/ Black Talon kit off a mate last week so build and paint that and hopefully the missile marines for this month. I did get my hands on a Leviathan box so looking forward to getting that and will add the mortis Redemptor Dread to the Dread Filled Month, which could well be stretched out here, I'd like to get the new Terminators done as well and that Librarian would be nice to add the 1st Company. 

In Summary. 

Paint The Lion, which I've started, Nephilim Jet fighter finished, the Leviathan box mortis dread built at least, 6 of the Terminators and a stretch goal of the missile marines. 

In Review. 

I started with the bases. 

As well as getting some Dreads located for the 10th Edition Blood Angels Dreadnought army.

The first thing I did was start on the heavy Intercessors as I chickened out of doing The Lion.

This was sourced from ebay for the dread army just needs a clean. 

The order arrived with my Contemptors, which I put together. I do like those sculpted bodies but it needs some knee pads and shoulder decoration.

And Saturday afternoon I got around to getting The Lion built at last.

The current state of it. 

Trying to decide between a nuln oil or a Coelia Greenshade wash on the robe and great coat. 

4 Of 4

 

Got Contemptor number 3 built yesterday with moulded body and plastic kit. It would look better with at least 1 knee pad and 1 shoulder pad that was moulded. 

I've still not started The Lion 

3 Out Of 4 Built

Friday and Saturday was a day spent building the 2 different Contemptors for the Blood Angels Dreadnought army. Number 3 is planned to be primed around paying the gas bill on Monday. 

 The Brutalis Dreadnought is now only missing 2 claws and a single top plate for those storm bolters. I have a mind to add the Ultramarine dread to this army and add some boltguns on the arms. 

Blood Angel Dreadnought Army

 This is the core Dreadnought force of the 10th Edition Blood Angels army. So far I've got 1 Death Company dread, 1 Librarian dread, 1 basic Dreadnought and 2 Venerable Dreadnoughts, obviously the purple one needs to be stripped. The 2 Redemptors will be broken down into component parts and stripped.

This is of course going to be started with the June to July Vow.

I put the last Dreadnought Talon in their box today, as I had most the dread boxes out I grabbed a group photo of the last Talon that is going to fit in that box. That Leviathan Talon and future Deredo Talon will need a new box, handily I need some new trainers so I'll have one before it's needed.

Yes sun screen was required today.

If I'm not too drunk and focused on Eurovision I'll be starting The Lion later as I need to grab some cat food and something for me to eat, I've got a real craving for some spare ribs. 

Monthly Vow 12th Of May To The 12th Of Junes

 So no missile marines, no heavy Intercessors and a potential change of plan for the Brutalis Dreadnought, along side getting my First Company up to 99 strong makes up for some of that missed target, as well as actually getting my paws on The Lion and some gaining some focus on how I'm going to at least start the Dreadnought army with 3 Blood Angels Contemptors and probably the Brutalis I have as well as. Tomorrow{Saturday} I've got the house to myself and will be going through some boxes to find all the dreads I've already painted for the Blood Angels and see what I've got that could be used if the Casterferrium dread is getting shunted into Legends.

The Target. 

The Lion. 

Contemptor dread weapons. 

Bonus - Heavy Intercessors, missile marines. 

Review Time. 

Oh my goodness, 75 Terminators and 15 Blade Guard Veterans. I was surprised to find I have that many, and I quickly switched my plan to focus on the Blade Guard Veterans. 

I focused on what I thought was 6 Blade Guard and found it was only 5 so had to grab one off ebay to finish this squad and take me to 96. It took time as I wanted to get each shield looking unique and like a veteran has spent time personalising his war gear. 

And well when the first company is at 96 strong the only thing to do when I got my hands on The Lion was to get those Blade Guard out and make a start on them. 

I wanted this squad to be gun heavy rather than mixed. 

I had bought some beige primer from Halfords a while ago and used that on these thinking to wash over the primer. Then went ahead with a Zandari dust base coat, nuln oil wash, ushabati bone layer, screaming skull layer, red details on them. 

And with them finished and the Leviathan box set preview at Warhammer Fest I can see that target that has literally been a day dream and nothing even remotely serious became not only concrete but also attainable. Leviathan gives me 5 that I can use to replace the 5 scratch builds, which takes me to 104, but the later individual box will make it 109 and I'm hoping I can use the Deathwing Knights bits to turn that box into those. There is also the Indomitus pattern Terminators for the Heresy rumored to be coming and if the new boys are too much work, I'll just switch the ones that I make them out of to this box. I need to check that heresy road map. 

I used this dread as a test piece for The Lion, not sure if I'll use this technique beyond him either, just a few random marines that are greeny black. 

I did a good job on the body and I really like it, I just wish they'd included more bits, like the knee guards and shoulders, seeing as if you buy the body and the Contemptor box it's about the same price as the resin version was and it's only the body that's got the fancy body work. The  only way I'd not buy  another one though is if I found a site that sells the oop DA Contemptors. 

Dark Angels Contemptor Resin Body.

I know it doesn't look like it with the broken guns and grey elbows, but trust me here, the cannons are back together and the elbows have been painted. While the plasma cannon is still being worked on. 

Plan for tomorrow is to dig out the Dreadnought boxes and see how many I have already painted for the Blood Angels already, as my intention for the all Dreadnought army is still there and I would like to see how I stand already on that front. 

 

Lots Of Guns

 Got the majority of the cannons done for the latest DA Contemptor. I did completely miss the plasma cannon. The fists are for a future Blood Angel Dreadnought that I have planned for the future Blood Angels Dreadnought Army.

Dark Angel Bodied Contemptor

Damn it, the photos uploaded in the wrong order. 

Right the body looks better in the actual light as the blending has shown through. 

I did the robes in red, there are a few hints of gold and I need to touch up the sword

The whole thing was a nice build, the body on these are much better than the basic plastic version, but I do wish they included some shoulders in the blister pack. 

 The legs I think came out right and you can see the blending better in this photo, and this is how I'm planning to paint the Lion when I start this next week. 

Contemptor

I got the Contemptor body and legs assembled. Okay the body was preassembled Dark Angel's Forge World body, you just need to add the exhaust pack from the kit and add the angel on the front. 

The body will get used on the base of one of the Knights I'm planning to buy. 

More magnets are on order for the weapons and I'm looking at buying another one of these kits to double up the weapons. There's a nebulous plan to buy the Blood Angels body for that and use it for the planned Blood Angel Dreadnought army. 

 

This is the planned method of how I'm going to paint The Lion. I started with a 50/50 mix of abbadon black and dark angel green, then mixing in progressively more green until the last edges are dark angel green, with an adge highlight of leadbleacher. 

Monthly Vow 12th Of Feb To The 12th Of March.

 

Well looks like I smashed the target this month by 2 dreads!

Whats the goal for next month? 

I'm going halves on the Ark of Omens box with Dark Angels under Siege from the forces of Chaos, so there is a squad of Primaris, a squad of Terminators and a plastic Azrael, need to find the green wash for his robes, there's the strike force box with its brutalis redemptor fat Albert, the desolation marines and 5 heavy Intercessors and I have 5 Tartarus Terminators to repaint for my 1st Company. I'll be happy if I get half of that done and delighted if I can get all 35 marines and Azrael finished, I did promise the dread to a mate and I need to check if my mate in Japan wants the Lieutenant from the strike force box.

REVIEW TIME. 

I was left in a good place last month with lots assembled. 

Everything was sort of done all at once this month, the first ones finished were the Cataphractii Terminators. Never having done a resin squad I can't compare, but these are a nice, easy build. 

The plastic Contemptor dreads. Again nice to build, would have preferred the company had kept the elbows the same but I suppose they have to sell the plastic weapons as well. I like them and will be adding a third one when the resin DA body gets released.

The Scorpius Missile Tank. Its a Rhino with a fancy hat. The mk2 Rhino is an old kit anyway and it had been a long time since I last put one together, there were a couple of issues but I think that that was more me priming and base costing on the sprue. Not that you can notice. I do like the launcher. 

And before I put it away I got a photo of it with its squadron. 

Blue sky/feeling flush with cash part 1.

Had a message from one of my game group pointing out a squad of Cataphractii Terminators, a Spartan and 20 marines for sale cheap. I picked up the Cataphractii and the Spartan for 58 quid. It was already built when I got it which gave me a couple of problems with painting, but once done you only see them if you go looking. 

Blue sky/feeling flush with cash part 2.

Next up was the second Spartan, this one new on sprue, prime and base coated a good 6ish hours assembly time and I didn't time myself on painting and I have a squadron of these.

I am thinking of adding a Thypon heavy seige tank as well, just because I enjoyed the build, but I really love my squadron of Spartans. 

I repainted Tinderwolf, giving him an upgrade with the Word Barers mk4 dread. 

And lastly there's the Grey Knight dread which had been a Heresy era Ultramarines dread, the icons got changed and the Dark Angels shin armour was added but that was all that was done. I'm not 100% sure but I still think I need at least 1 more Dreadnought building, will have to check my list. 

Target achivied and beaten and a stretch goal reached as well in month 2!