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Hello fellow Dakkanauts!

So, this is it then, my very own Dakka P&M blog! This little blog will feature my Blood Angels (yes, I know, even more Blood Angels ), Death Skulls Orks and some Forge World Astral Claws in the near (grimdark) future (the first squad is underway!). The BA army is now around the 2000+ points, while the ork army is still pretty small (10 ork boys, 10 gretchin, 5 stormboyz, 5 burnas and I have the ork half of the Stormclaw box laying around.). I use the Blood Angels as my main gaming army, because my orks are no way near competitive right now . As for the Astral Claws, I'm not gonna game with those guys, I think I'll just paint them for fun and give 'em a little extra i.e. paint em better than tabletop minis.

I started my BA army begin this year and its the first time I did anything with Warhammer 40k and its minis, so you might see some mold lines and undrilled guns on the older models, so please bear with me!

Alright, first up the BA tactical squad. These guys still need to be highlighted and some parts need to be basecoated etc. Nothing special here:










This guy is a test model, his armour is already highlighted.

The Sanguinary Guard (oooh shineh!)


Death Company Dreadnought:

His body is almost finished, still need to fix things here and there (I tried to write Baal on one of his seals and failed miserably!) Next up, arms and talons!




I thought that this model was pretty cool so I decided that this will be my captain! (I'm really digging that toilet cleaner/mohawk/plume thing!) He's nearly finished but I still need to decide what colours his banner is going to get. Perhaps you guys have some idea's/suggestions?

And now, for da (small) Orky part of this post:




A Gretchin test model! Trying out gretchin skin and blue cloth.

Welp, that's about it for this one. Thanks for viewing and see you guys in the next post!

C&C welcome!

That is some very nice looking work you've done there so far Them tactical marines remind me when I did my Chaos space marine counter part of them

can't wait to see that banner become engulfed with life and imagery

Thanks D.M! I'll do my best on the banner!

Looks like good stuff As crazy as it sounds orange is a really good highlight for red instead of a really bright red. Looking forward to more

Wish I knew that Nash lol Will remember that for when I eventually get my Blood letters of Khorne

But never seen a Blood Angel have orange highlight so that will be a sight to see if she does that

 Nashbashem wrote:
As crazy as it sounds orange is a really good highlight for red instead of a really bright red. Looking forward to more

Funny you should mention that! When I was painting the highlights on my test model (the beakie marine -its not really clear on the photo though-) I used Wild Rider Red (its a bit orange-red) but I was a bit too enthusiastic and the model turned out, well... Orange-ish so I had to go and fix that again with Mephiston Red. So orange is a pretty good highlight for red, but just don't overdo it otherwise your Blood Angels will not be blood red anymore

And thanks for the comment Nash, I'll hope to post some more updates soon!

ah yes the old over-enthusiasm A good red recipe I learnt is only 4 colours and leads to great results:

-Base of Mephiston Red
-Layer on Wazdakka Red
- Heavyish wash with Carroburg Crimson
-Edge highlight with Troll Slayer Orange

What's the recipe for your red?

That's a good recipe will try that for my Khorne daemons once ever get any more of them lol

 Nashbashem wrote:
ah yes the old over-enthusiasm A good red recipe I learnt is only 4 colours and leads to great results:

-Base of Mephiston Red
-Layer on Wazdakka Red
- Heavyish wash with Carroburg Crimson
-Edge highlight with Troll Slayer Orange

What's the recipe for your red?

Hmm that's an interesting recipe! I'll have to test that one out sometime

My recipe I use now:
- Base of Mephiston Red
- Overall wash with Carroburg Crimson
- Edge highlight with Evil Sunz Scarlet
- And a little edge highlighting with Wild Rider Red

Hey, thanks for the post in my thread!
Love the Death Company dread, I have three dreads that I am working on currently, feels like I get some inspiration to get them going again after seeing yours!

A note that I taught about, maybe add some highligts on the blue cloak for the SM? A light drybrush might just do it to make the ridges in the cloak pop?

elaps wrote:
Hey, thanks for the post in my thread!
Love the Death Company dread, I have three dreads that I am working on currently, feels like I get some inspiration to get them going again after seeing yours!

A note that I taught about, maybe add some highligts on the blue cloak for the SM? A light drybrush might just do it to make the ridges in the cloak pop?

You're welcome elaps! And good that you've got some inspiration for your dreads!

As for the highlights on the cloak, they are there, but you can't see them very well on the photograph. As soon as I'll work on the captain I'll post some better photos and perhaps give the cloak a little touch up while I'am at it. Thanks for the pointer!

I wonder if layering a tiny lighter tone of blue on just the raised area of the cloak would really bring it out? make it look if its really a cloak (as if the sun really was hitting it to create the brighter top / darker folded areas of the cloak) as did that with my Tzneetch sorcerer's base to make the energy seem more active.

W00h00! More Blood Angels!

Since we're all sharing, here's my recipe for my Blood Angels. I don't know all the new colours by hand so there might be some generalisations here and there.

-Basecoat +- 50/50 mechadentrite red & blood red, thinned for airbrush.
-wash of dark red ink, with a tiny bit of brown & black ink, thinned for airbrushing.
-Drybrush highlight with blood red
-Drybrush highlight with blood red & a flat orange
-Drybrush highlight with a flat orange
-Drybrush highlight with Vallejo's Ice yellow.
-wash of dark red ink, with a tiny bit of brown & black ink, thinned for airbrushing.
-glaze of (bright) red, thinned for airbrusing
-Gentle highlight touch-up with Ice Yellow

And then some part later a wash with thinned black oil paint to pick out the details on the entire model.



EDIT: I'm not 100% moldline-proof myself, but try to get rid of them before painting, especially on the helmets.

Gretchin looks great, I'd run with that.

Nice, smooth paint jobs all around.

DarkMistro wrote:I wonder if layering a tiny lighter tone of blue on just the raised area of the cloak would really bring it out? make it look if its really a cloak (as if the sun really was hitting it to create the brighter top / darker folded areas of the cloak) as did that with my Tzneetch sorcerer's base to make the energy seem more active.

Yeah, I don't think edge highlighting really works on cloth.... oh well, we'll see.

Meph wrote:W00h00! More Blood Angels!

Since we're all sharing, here's my recipe for my Blood Angels. I don't know all the new colours by hand so there might be some generalisations here and there.

-Basecoat +- 50/50 mechadentrite red & blood red, thinned for airbrush.
-wash of dark red ink, with a tiny bit of brown & black ink, thinned for airbrushing.
-Drybrush highlight with blood red
-Drybrush highlight with blood red & a flat orange
-Drybrush highlight with a flat orange
-Drybrush highlight with Vallejo's Ice yellow.
-wash of dark red ink, with a tiny bit of brown & black ink, thinned for airbrushing.
-glaze of (bright) red, thinned for airbrusing
-Gentle highlight touch-up with Ice Yellow

And then some part later a wash with thinned black oil paint to pick out the details on the entire model.

Thanks Meph for stopping by! Love your Blood Angels! And thanks for sharing your recipe, although I don't own a airbrush (yet) I can always try it out

Meph wrote:EDIT: I'm not 100% moldline-proof myself, but try to get rid of them before painting, especially on the helmets.

*Sigh* yeah.. when I first started 40k and bought these lads I didn't really care about the moldlines.... but when I see the photo's I find it quite horrid.... (oh former self you are TOO funny!) I'll pay more attention to my newer models before painting them!

SJM wrote:Gretchin looks great, I'd run with that.

Yay, my gretchin gets a little love! Thanks SJM! (and I find your orks fantastic btw!)

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Nice, smooth paint jobs all around.

Thanks!

Alright guys, I hope to post a proper update on wednesday, 'cuz tomorrow I'll be at Madurodam (moar miniz!)! My captain really needs to get finished now, so expect some updates on him

As for the non-update pic for today:


My scoins of Sanguinius have some new friends!

Oh god no not fast attack based! They will be a pain lol

Awesome should be cool

Alright guys, worked on el capitano today. I actually wanted to finish him, but alas, too much work and too little time.

Anyway, on to the pictures~!

On monday I decided to make 'em more Blood Angel-ish and sculpted a blood drop on his helm.


On to the progress of today (they're pretty dark here and there. But I had to take them inside):







Close-up of the sculpted and painted blood drop.


The banner. It still needs to be shaded and highlight.

Thanks for looking lads, stay tuned!

Very nice work there Must step up a bit it seems to keep my painting to standard lol

He looks great


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He looks great

Thanks guys!

So, the captain is finished! Still want to pimp his base though (add some grass and stuff) and fix the transfer, but overall I'm quite happy.

Pics:




Next up, perhaps some orks, cuz they need some love Ooooorrrr... I'll start with the Astral Claws who came in last thuesday:


So many choices, and now with the holiday at an end, I'll have less time! *sad ork*

Oh well, see you guys around! Thanks for looking!

That Captain looks very suiting and will look really unique from squads

Aha Forge World Based, Don't underestimate the plastic lol I did and nearly lost an eye when getting Decimator cut out lol

Thanks D.M!

Resin is really tricky stuff and is not something you just can assemble and paint! Lotsa work, but a nice little challenge. Good luck on your Decimator D.M!

Thanks Lev

Well that Decimator is in my room 100% done with base he's in my gallery, Blog & in Vlog link on the Blog if want to see sometime

Great stuff Lev. I see a great improvement on the captain. He looks really good. I like your red. Its Ruby like.

A friend of mine wrote a great and fast way to paint orks you should check it out
Bad Moons Speed Painting Guide

Cait wait to see more..esp. the Astral Claws?

I vote Orks. But that's just because ORKS

+++ORK UPDATE

Styrofoam04 wrote:Great stuff Lev. I see a great improvement on the captain. He looks really good. I like your red. Its Ruby like.

A friend of mine wrote a great and fast way to paint orks you should check it out
Bad Moons Speed Painting Guide

Cait wait to see more..esp. the Astral Claws?

Thanks for the comment and tutorial link! I'll definitely check it out. As for the Astral Claws, I've orderd some minis for my marauder sqaud, so I hope they have arrived and can show off some of my ideas for these guys in the weekend.

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:I vote Orks. But that's just because ORKS

Your wish has been granted!

Behold, Grukk Face-Rippa's squig!






Two of my colleagues where battling each other yesterday (Dark Angels vs Space Wolves with their new codex) while I was painting this little guy, and oh my, I had so much fun painting him!
The pictures don't really do him justice and want to change his pink tongue to purple for better contrast the red. But still pretty happy with the result so far!

It think I'm gonna him Charlie, so him enemy's will scream "Charlie bit me!" and then die a slow and painful death!

Cheers guys an gals!

Squig! get a termie in and swot it lol But it looks good wouldn't want to get bitten by that thing, already got my 1 year old dog and 6 year old dog biting me time to time lol

You ever consider for near high point army for your orks to get that huge skyscraper sized Squig?

Thanks!

Well, I looked at the Squiggoth of Forge World and while it's really awesome I find it kinda expensive. So that's a no go for now, but there's one big thing I really want, a Stompa!