Blood Angels Army Project (pic carpet bombing)

[Meph]

Thanks guys. Yup, those are bog-standard termies with FW shoulderpads. The heavy weapons guy is magnetized at the right arm and the top.

[Meph]

Almost done
I applied the decals, did some light sponge-weathering, sealed the models and gave them a wash with thinned black oil paint.
There are just some spots to clean up here and there, and then I can seal them, paint the lenzes, and base them.

Considering my usual painting rhythm, they're going pretty fast. Probably because it's only a 5-man squad.
The 20 troopers with jump packs will probably take a wee bit longer. ^_^

[Brakkart]

They turned out really nice. What with all of these new additions you've finished in the last few months Meph, any chance of a combined army shot of the whole force sometime soon?

[marcus]

Excellent work Meph

[Meph]

Cheers fellas! Hey, that's actually a good idea, Brakkart! I guess I need to clear a cabinet top during the weekend. Could be the perfect opportunity to base the rest of my infantry and give the Storm Raven the final few percentiles to being finished.

[bloodangel 83]

I agree we need a picture of your army. BA 83

[Meph]

Dun-dun-dunnnnnn!







Not all photos are fully stable. Sadly I don't have a large tripod available, the cupboard isn't deep enough to stably set my mini-tripod. :-/
Still they came out not tóo bad.

And for your enjoyment, I whipped up and imgur gallery with the full-res photos.

[URL="http://imgur.com/a/6ysJH"]http://imgur.com/a/6ysJH[/URL]

[Brakkart]

Wow, that is a truly beautiful army you have got there. Looking forward to what you're going to add to it next, pretty sure there was a Baal Predator and a Godhammer Land Raider a couple pages back all base coated ready.

[Darren Richardson]

that is indeed one fine army there that you have painted and modelled, I am indeed envious.

[Meph]

Cheers, guys! Well, there are a couple of things in the pipeline:

-Baal Predator, basecoated. I'm still trying to figure out what kind of marking to give it. I'd like to break up the red a bit and seeing as it's already sporting the FW Death Company extra plates there will already going to be a few black or copper crosses. Maybe just a broad stripe over the length of width of the vehicle., Perhaps a large chevron?

-Land Raider: I'm really blocked on this one. I have the urge to paint it in some kind of camouflage but I'm unsure as to which path to take. I did a quickie experiment during basecoating but I'm not happy with it. So I see several possibilities: -Screw the camo and go for red, perhaps with some large marking as on the rest of the vehicles. -Keep the abstract red/black camo alive and fix the pattern. Perhaps some pure clack camo bands (angular or rounded?), maybe even introduce a contrasting colour such an ochre, or maybe that khaki colour I use for the infantry cloth. -Go all-out with camo and give it a mud/rock/forest camo to stay in the style of the weathering mud I used on all vehicles. I could even do a 'washed-on' technique as they did with quick winter-camo in WW2 etc. Y'know with parts of the camouflage washed off and the original red coming through in places?


So I'd like to pick your brain on this. I feel the need to see a SM vehicle in camouflage, both as homage to the good ol' Rogue Trader days when Marines still used camouflage, and just because I think it would be interesting to see a Land Raider in some camouflage. So then there's the dilemma to go with a 'dazzle' camo with red, black, and a third calour to stay more into the sci-fi theme, or go with a realistic Cold War style forest camouflage. What are your thoughts on this?

-A normal assault squad, mostly FW MKIV marines.

-And then there's a Vanguard Squad, half of them are the failcast/finecrap ones, and the other 5 are kitbashed from the plastic vanguards and BA box.





And unpainted I still have a FW librarian to convert to Blood Angel, as I realized I do not have a HQ characted painted new (I do have quite a bit of choices of older, painted models but I want something new and in tune with these units). And I also have more than enough stuff to kitbash a kickass captain, but then I need to decide on a loadout. Any ideas on that? Also for the libby's equipment. I'm a bit out-of-tune with the two last editions of WH40 so I'm not sure on how to best equip them.

Oh, and there's a Storm Talon hiding in a box somewhere. Sometimes I like to freak it out by tapping a hacksaw on the box, or rattling some plasticard. He knows what's coming...