First up the second of the Blood Angel Dreadnoughts to arrive, an old metal Furioso which needs stripping obviously.
The photos are in the wrong order. The squad was a nice to paint
The painting was done in parts, body in 1 arms, head and weapon separate.
Nearly there, both in regard to my 1st Company and The Lion.
Got the 3 Blade Guard Veterans from the Lion's Guard box finished yesterday, and primed a Contemptor, this one I'm using the Forge World 1st legion body for.
My plan is to use this as a refinement of how I'm going to paint The Lion.
I went with a pistol squad for this one as I'd not done that before.
Next up is The Lion Guard box.
Having missed out on pre orders last week I was in Preston at 8.45 this morning, I was already too late by all accounts to get The Lion as they got 2 boxes to put on the shelves and 2 copies of the Ark of Omens book, I manged to get a copy of the book.
So fingers are crossed for next weekend and Warhammer Fest.
To ease the pain I started painting what's left of the squad of 6 Blade Guard Veterans, given them a base of Zandari Dust, will give them a nuln oil wash in the morning and can hopefully get up to detailing stage tomorrow or Monday.
Yes yesterday was the 12th but I spent so much time getting Azreal together and finished that it felt like a heavy load and I wanted it to be right.
I hadn't realised I'd not done any WIP phpts until I glued the robes together.
The tilt plate was very awkward to get on as you need the arm behind it to add some extra support..
The Last thing left to do was touch ups and the hair, the actual last thing I need to is see how this stacks up next to the one I converted from the Indomitus Crusade box Chaplain side by side.
After finding the photo of Azreal I did in 2020 and collage it with the actual Azrael I definitely got the banner right on my conversion.
I got the pack, the yellow paint and a stronger lense for the head set and did the flames.
Calling Azreal finished.
Only a couple of guns have been painted yet..
Plan A for Azrael will be trying the black templar contrast on the armour and then the Dark Angels green high light.
Yay! I've finally got something finished, for the first time since October 2022.
As the progress shows the squad was primed one day, built the next, I had an afternoon cooking so was just the morning, and painting was finished today.
I dug out one of the older outriders to use as a reference piece. Dabs of ushabati bone on the indicators and should trim as well as the bare head.
Touch of evil sun's Scarlet and brass Scorpion.
And everything done bar the base. Thought I'd be rustier than I was to be honest, yes I haven't green stuffed the gap, but that's mostly because I have no idea where the green stuff is or any astrogranit come to that.
Plan this morning was to paint these 2 sprues. When I got home from work I found that my primer and satin black had gone walkies. Back on with the coat, back out in the rain to Halfords for their plastic primer and some satin black and £21 lighter. While I'll stick with the plastic primer, I'm going to see of I can find a cheaper satin black somewhere else.
So a long day of prime, dry, flip the frame, prime, dry, black, dry, flip the frame, black, dry and by the time it was dry I was cooking tea and everyone was home, the sprues are in the kitchen, plan A is to assemble tomorrow, and try to get some paint on them. When this squad is done they'll definitely need a bigger box.
One annoying thing is happened this week, I found out issue 76 of Imperium has the Invader ATV and it's out of stock already. Plus side this gives me a start of a shopping list for April.
Hi all, not got around to starting much this year, I've got the 3 Primaris Out riders ready to be primed on Saturday, there's also a 6 man squad of Blade Guard Veterans to start.
The one thing I have done is check my 1st Company and 2nd Company box. The big take away is my Primaris second company needs a bigger box, the Talon Master needs some repairing and 3 more bikes is going to stretch the capacity of the current box.
The 2nd Company Primaris box.
I had to get the Primaris box out as well to get the Blade Guard Veterans into the first company box. A rather large to do from that was I need to get that box out when I have time and space to go through it and check what needs a repair and pull the 10th Company out and put them into their own separate box.
I finished off the Storm Speeder this morning when I get home by adding the green running lights on this side and some colour points on the dash, as I'd left the green at home.
Got the 4 arms ready to go, spent a fair part of the night just making the shoulders fit under the cowl.
The head comes from a Night Haunt kit. Will get some separate images of the arms before I green stuff them into place. I'm planning on doing the flame effect under the head plate, the other option is iron warrior metallic as the majority is going to be ceramic, the links on the cloak and joints will be iron warrior metallic and I've brought some blue, green and yellow to add some colours to the sword edges
My mate had bought the storm speeder for his Legion of the Damned army but changed his mind and I bought it off him. It sat in the to do pile for a while and going back on nights gave me a chance to get this one built, I'm bringing some paints in with me on my next set of nights to paint it.
The turret is nice, I am going to use some magnets so I can swop out the different weapons and not have the worry of breaking the plastic stubs the weapons sit on. If I wasn't so cheap I'd be happy to glue whichever one in place and leave it at that. The ball turrets and front weapons are nice interference fit.
As a build its one of the ones I wish I hadn't left so long as its a lovely kit.
And there are definitely design cues taken from the javalin varient land speeder
Once I get a game in with it I can decide if I want to go and buy some more of them.
Not sure how well I've done with targets, need to go and check.
Total different objectives achieved than what I had "originally" intended to do.
So next month as long as get more than 4 days off work like I've had since January the first, a mate dropped off one of the new land speeders, so I'll do that alongside the metal land speeder I have stripped, these will be for the Lion's Blades 2nd Company, I'm also going to use the Necron character that arrived with the Imperium series as the base for the 4 armed cyber warrior, for which I need to dig out the mechanicus warriors for the swords. Based on current outlook those 3 are plenty to aim for.
My game group is starting a Necromunder campaign, I'm getting the Palantine Enforces, this isn't something I'll aim for for March as my plan is to order the base box, book and Aeldari Codex together and there's no date for the Codex yet. Thinking the Corvus black and blues as highlights. And if the Ash waste expansion has vehicles they'll be the same force, depending on what the Enforcers get options on.
Review Time
I started January with a small challenge / test from an online mate of mine.
"You'll notice the maplewood finish I've given the tanks:
Reddy brown? I have a Dreadnought spare, no tanks though.
Oiled bronze armor
Brass Scorpion and nuln oil should be close enough
with spruce capes.
Dark angle green, or 4 or 5 washes with Coelia Greenshade.
Goldenrod highlights
Several shades of gold
. The Eldar
No spare Eldar...
puce
Pink horror
and seafoam cloaks,
Green Sea, blue sea or grey sea foam?
and yellowed ivory for highlights
That one is no problem at all
Their armor and ships carry forth the theme with a pearlescent cream color."
That one is going to need some researching
"Pine cones, needles, and cranberry cream candles provide an inviting yet intimate field upon which the armies meet."
And pleading infirm eyes to actually make candels and pine cones to scale.
@Poxy Proxy Predator, paint that!
Just need some Eldar and promised to pack up my paints till new year.
Probably be some repainted first born marines as well"
I bought a Farseer and some metal Rangers and the Ranger from Blackstone Fortress for this, I also picked up another Primaris Lieutenant to paint as well, and having no tanks spare I used a Dreadnought.
I did all the Aeldari in one batch with the pink horror armour and 2 different bases of grey on the cloaks, the Farseer had both lighter the inner robe and darker on the outer robe, weapons were all ushabati bone, seraphim sepia wash and screaming skull highlights. Belts are all agrax earthshade leather process.
The runes on the Farseer had a final highlight of Pallid Wytch Flesh.
The shield was pretty much a test piece for the Lieutenant and the Dreadnought with a balor brown base and reikland flesh wash, I got some suggestions for highlights from Preston Warhammer store, but that was more for the dread, the brass had the brass base and a brass layer and a highlight of Cynoptek alloy.
The armour had the same layers as the shield, I forgot it was supposed to be oiled brass and so used the Reikland flesh wash instead of the nuln oil. Not that I'm ever planning on building a Minatour Army but I'd be okay using this.
