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**leohart**

New info

In preparation of the upcoming 6th edition and the new Dark Angel book, I am building up my Angel of Absolution army. Everything is painted in Deathwing-like scheme except for the terminators (since they are Deathwing). There shall be lots of angels and sword reliefs. Lots of awesomeness to be found. I hope you will enjoy the adventure as much as I do.

Old info

Spoiler:

**Hmelrose**

Are you talking about the GW Tomball Crossing store? I have an image of the rules in my gallery:

Let me know if you want me to take the image down, Looks good so far!

**leohart**

Yup. That is the rule. Are you joining with your Imperial Guard's list.

**Hmelrose**

leohart wrote:Yup. That is the rule. Are you joining with your Imperial Guard's list.

I missed the deadline and I don't really have a list put together. Lots of stuff going on at home so I might not have time to participate.

**leohart**

I made a stupid mistake for trying to prime in the cold weather of Houston. Houston and cold weather? What kind of heresy is this?

Anyway, I botched a bunch of models since the primers come out all bunched up and blotchy. I will need to reprime them whenever the weather gets better. Or perhaps I should go the FLGS and get some help with indoor priming.

**leohart**

So the weather has picked up in temperature, but to be safe, I got my second priming layer for my Sternguards indoor. Those guys are coming along nicely. However, here is an update on the Razorback for them. I find that Razorback and Rhino each has its own place, so I decide to try painting a tactical symbol on it. In hindsight, perhaps I should have painted the Angel of Absolution symbol. Well, another time.

**Hmelrose**

More, I want to see more!

**Marine_With_Heart**

Good job so far

more please.

**Capitansolstice**

I like the bone color scheme!

**leohart**

I have some more time for my 2nd Razorback. Also give some love to the Land Speeder as it helped me wiped out a Razorback LasPlas and kill 3 guys inside.

**leohart**

And we temporarily pause the current program for this important public announcement:

I have come into possession of 16 space marine bikes (15 guys + 1 captain on bike), 1 attack bike and 1 chaplain on bike. Prepare for more awesome Angel of Absolution on bikes.

**Capitansolstice**

How did you get those?

**leohart**

I just wait until I get a good price on ebay. I still have 9 more coming in. This would make up my Ravenwing squad with extra to spare to create a command squad or other bike units.

**leohart**

The sternguards are coming along. I think I can still make it for next week deadline. NEED MOAR PAINTING.

I should not have side-tracked on those bikes, the extra Razorback and the Drop Pod. Oh well.

**leohart**

And so they are almost complete. Since I have some important business tasks at hand, I will need to submit these guys before the deadline of submission for the contest at my local store. I do love how the guy with the book turns out.

I will try to finish the bases soon so that I can put some final touches on the Razorback.

**leohart**

So I submit my entry today. Hopefully I won't be ranked so low

**Hmelrose**

Oh yes, very nice work. It was good to see these guys in person and give you Sh!t about some details as well as assist with ideas for the basing!

Good luck with the battle!

- H

**leohart**

Finally have more time to post my completed bikes so far. I have the apothecary, two sergents, a few normal bikes, two melta bikers, two plasma bikers. I have almost the entire command squad (4 plasma, 1 apo) and a normal bike squad (8 bikers + 1 attack bike). Currently I use one of the sergents as the captain on bike until I get the robed torso and legs to make my own captain on bike character.

I have some idea for techmarine on bike and librarian in bike as well.

I played two games with these bikes so far and they have been much more successful than my normal list. They do relieve a lot of heat that normally targets my devastator and my thunderfire cannon.

**Hmelrose**

Nice work on the bikes! I'm gonna steal some of these ideas.

**leohart**

Thanks. Sure, feel free to steal any ideas you want. Btw, if you want lots of bike for cheap and you don't mind pre-assembled models, Trevor (who goes to GW Tomball Crossing) is selling his 10+ bikes for less than 50% MSRP. All you need is some Simple Green and kit bashing.

**Hmelrose**

Thanks! I will look into contacting him.

**spudkins**

this is some lovley work. Im hopefully starting deathwing doubles list soon cant wait.
keep up the good work.
peace

**leohart**

@spudkins Thanks. I hope you will get a chance to start a dual wing list soon. Looking forward to your pix.

So, I got what I won from ebay today and look: a badly built land speeder :-(. Good thing is the lot include half of another land speeder on sprue. Time to rebuild the land speeder. The problem is that the built land speeder (see below) has pieces that suppose to go in first, but now left outside. Thus, it is NOT possible to just put it in. I had to cut out some pieces and then glue it back. Kindda like a surgeon.

**leohart**

More bikes are done last night. I am able to field 1 command squad and 1 9-bike squad with almost all the models painted. The scout bikes have been performing admirably whenever the enemy has armored units or transports. I think I should get started on them before starting my other bikes.

**leohart**

You probably remember that badly built land speeder (not the blue one, the one in the picture right above this post) that I got some time back. It has been doing admirably in its recent games (popping more transport and units than 3x its cost in points) so I rebuilt it.

**Capitansolstice**

sweet!

**Hmelrose**

Your pics don't do that Apothecary justice. Seeing it in person its a sweet model. Keep up the great work!

**leohart**

I need to set up my DSLR with a light box :(

**leohart**

Aside from the Land Speeder which has performed extremely well, my Scout Biker squad also has done a good job bobby trapping buildings and blowing up transport thanks to the sergent's combi-melta and melta-bomb.

I have yet to manage to take out something big like a Stormraven or a Land Raider on turn 1 though. A lot of monstrous creatures I have met lately.

**leohart**

The recent roll-call for my finished bike squad. I believe they are coming along nicely. On a darker terrain they look even more fantastic.