I am not seeing any blue either, but i agree with the bone colored bastions thats a real eye popper. Would go well with your force.

Thank you all. It has been a very long time since I last posted. I am working on my thesis which takes a great amount of time. So much work that I fell sick. :| I guess I won't make it for this semester. Anyway, to relax, I spend some time building the Imperial Strongpoint box with some other terrain pieces for the home table. Here are some pictures.

The box consists of 2 Imperial Bastion boxes and 3 Aegis Defense Line boxes. I also have an Imperial statue, an Imperial Aquila building and some Imperial aquila ground stuff. Everything was desprued, cleaned up and put together. The Rhino also got re-primed.

I didn't know that the Imperial Bastion only come with the icarus lascannon while the Aegis Defense Line only come with the quad-gun. To get a quad-gun on Imperial Bastion, you really need to get both. That is kindda stupid in my opinion.

I put Sicarius for scale comparison.

Leo have you done or thought of doing a tutorial on how you paint your deathwing?

Up butting one gun in either box is how they make their money. (GW I mean), I got the stongpoint set when it first came out, only have a bastion and the ageise lines done with the quad guns and lascanon, but normally just use the Fortreass of redemtion (which I got in the same year) and the defence lines...

@Lucazi: I don't think so although I have thought about it. I would want a write up with step by step pictures. I actually have some in the first step right now, maybe I should do that and put it on my painting group's blog.

@Hazzer: I wish I have the point and money for the Fortress too. I guess I will buy it one day given that it is such an iconic building for DA.

Thanks again for checking the thread guys.

Looks like you have a nice collection of terrain in the works. Fortress of Redemption is great and all but quite an investment for a building. Ill still probably buy one. Im just about out of DA stuff. By the way, kudos on the ancient Empire Greatswords. Mid 90's weren't they?

Yeah, those are my brother's. He doesn't use them so he is trying to get rid of them eventually. For now, they just stand around looking funny. Maybe I should paint them to be Death Cult Assassins

I am just going to leave these right here and go to bed. I haven't had a chance to paint for so long that I powered through these.

Some notable new things: many more non-helmet heads than normal so I have to force myself to improve on my head painting skill. All robes now have inner lining in golden yellow. I will need to revisit some earlier model to add that back. I do like this golden yellow and how they fit well with the black however.

Now that missiles have 3 possible options, I am painting these missile extra ammo mounts accordingly. Once the rule for flakk missiles are out, then I am set.

I am currently working on two other models that I think you guys will like. I have a chance to try out Vallejo Liquid Gold. And man, this thing is REALLY good. More to come.

Looking sharp, the gold inner lining rocks. Have you thought about swaps with IG heads? I see people using Catachan a lot.

@40FSU: I haven't thought of that, I need to go through quite a few heads that I have on my box. These two dudes just happen to have the same one :-). I should try some of the 3rd party head-swap bits.

I had a recent game in 6th edition. I brought lots of and lots of troops like how I like them . Here is a couple of pictures of the battle. You should notice the half-finished Wolf Guard in Terminator armours + Lysander count-as Arjac in there.

I have a bastion with quadgun, 3 Grey Hunter squads, 3 Long Fang squads with Razorbacks, 3 Wolfguard and Arjac. I also build out a Swift Claw bike squad lead by Wolf Priest and Wolf Lord on bikes.

It was a fun game. The most memorable thing was my Wolf Lord + Wolf Priest splits out and kill off some Orks. Then they took the charge from the Warboss + Nobs + a full-blown Deathwing Command Squad. The Wolf Priest took it and went down but my Wolf Lord stays in the challenge against a single thunder hammer and stormshield sergent. Nobody dies for 4 combat phases. :-) I won by objective however.

Those guys look really good together. I see you have more tanks and decided to paint the bastion bone? I wouldn't have thought of that. Looks interesting.

I love your painting, subscibed.

I spend more time with this model. He has been on the table for so long now. I finally finished him up. What do you guys think?

Fantastic choice of colors. The yellow and black are perfectly highlighted. Green rocks too. Battle damage on the helmet is great. You can really tell the extra time.

Lol, Hmmm a quartered scheme! :-) nicely done and the colours work well with the bone, kind of like 'warning, any closer and i'll brain you in the face with ma shield'

I love the subtle damage on the helmet it's just the right amount without going ott! well done dude!

Just found this thread, and caught myself up from page 1.

You're army is awesome, and it's been great to see how you have repainted a lot of models that you had previously. I am in the same boat, where I have a lot of models with various paint jobs and I know it's very frustrating to get them all painted in a uniform army. The progress you've made is quite an inspiration, and goes to show what you can accomplish by just getting down to business and doing it.

Also, your paint jobs rock.

@40kFSU: Thanks. I like that helmet bit of the command squad box a lot. It has lots of awesome bits.
@nerdfest09: I like the yellow on black color combination as well. It works well with the yellow hazard stripes I have on other models.
@racta: Thank you for checking. I went back from page 1 as well. It has been almost 9 months and I am almost done having a good 3000 points of painted stuff. But there is always more to paint.

I came into possession of another Stormraven. I am going to paint these up for my Blood Angel Death Company ally. I am thinking of 11 Death Company, 4 with Powerfist + boltgun, 5 with close combat and bolt pistol, 2 with close combat and infernus pistol. Lead by a Reclusiarch this 610 points of death bomb will bully most unis to death. Or so I hope.

Looking great leo, just like everyone else I really like the quartered scheme. How difficult was it for you?

Some really gold progress going on so far! I really love th devastatore and chapter champion very neat and consistant throughout the who army too! Btw would like to see a fortress of redemption painted up in da colors.....

Today I saw this and so I put this together in 10 minutes

I painted more of the kneeling captain. Still a bit more until finished but putting him next to my objective marker creates some instant narrative. :-)

Love it now do a medic

That's freaking sweet. Welcome back, and Dark Vengeance coming?

It's good to be back. I am getting a new job soon so I should have a little more constancy in my posting time. My Dark Vengeance box is open and just sit there :|. I have a couple of models I need to finish before I get my hands on them.

What do you guys think I should paint first in the DV box? The limited edition chaplain?

Do the Mad Monk

Chaplain, no contest.

The best conversions are the simple ones

I finished the kneeling captain finally.

And he looks great! loving the script on his pauldron, you've done a really sharp job on it! the pose came off well and is nice to see something a bit different eh! a fitting addition to an already stellar army!

I wish my marines looks half as good as yours.

Fantastic job.

The nice thing about painting space marine casualties for objective markers is I can play with an entirely different color palette. I have always love the Ultramarine as that was how I got into this game a year and 2 weeks ago. The Imperial Fist is a challenging task since yellow is difficult to execute correctly. But I love how it turns out. And of course, the beloved Salamander chapter.

Nice. I guess the red guy won.

I can't wait to see what you start doing with the new models coming out soon

loving the objective markes dude!!!

Lovin' it!

Someone mentioned some time back that I should take a group shot. Well, I kindda did but then I gave up after realizing that I need to put more back if I take more out. So here is approximately less than half of my collection.

Still looks good dude!!!

No. I am not dead yet. I have been busy honing my Dark Angel skill. There has been some wins and some loss in gaming recently. I still find Tyranid with their Biomancy spam to be something I need to watch out for. Aside from that, I recently acquired approximately 500 points of Imperial Guard, 500 points of Eldar. I am also starting a community Tau army with my brother. I got married too :| so free time to tougher to come by.

I did get my smoke speeder finished.

Looking awesome!

Lucarikx

Have you thought of drybrushing tin bitz on the exhaust ?

Leo! married? Oh dear there goes the hobby for our friend :-(

but on a happier note! :-) the Ibiza Speeder is looking good, particularly the metal areas, the matte finish is a nice look for your scheme, you've made a rather 'silly' model look pretty cool! (front gunner doesn't appear to have legs! but that's not your fault lol)

it's good to see you doing some painting again, and I look forward to seeing your new works! that army is turning out to be a massive bit of special right there!

This model was rebuilt from a kindda broken Rhino. You can see the build was not good from the front left plate. I am glad that it can finally be on the shelf (since Predator is useless in this edition).

Life caught on but I found some time to finish up my Ravenwing and its banner.

Which of the two blue tail fin pattern on the Ravenwing banner do you like more?

Side B for definate, far sharper and more crisp in the diagonals. Good job with everything else, keep up the good work

Young Logan

Looking really good. Still clean as ever. My angels are coming along as well, I'm actually planning on using the ravenwing banner on a tac squad for command company. Figure it would be very dynamic look

Any more updates???

Been painting stuff for the upcoming tournament here in Houston. I will update some time after the tournament completes. But here are the whirlwind that won't be seeing battles (unless I use the new FW whirlwind rules).

Thank you for the eye candy, good luck in your tourney!

Looks like my Ravenwing will be having some reinforcement in the upcoming tournament. What do we have here

Hell yeah man! the colours are damn smexy! and that glow..... Oh that glow :-)

Dude, this seriously makes me want to drive out to Houston from Austin just so I can see your miniatures in person... Beautiful stuff, man. Just read through all 12 pages, I'm seriously impressed.

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Dude, this seriously makes me want to drive out to Houston from Austin just so I can see your miniatures in person... Beautiful stuff, man. Just read through all 12 pages, I'm seriously impressed.

This

So I got back from Space City Con last weekend. I lost 3 games (badly), tie 1 and won 2. Ended up middle in the bottom bracket. But my Ravenwing + Eldar ally did win best painted. YAY. I few boxes of stuff so I will be painting up a few more eldar forces. I really can't wait to do some serious free-hand on these serpent hulls.

I want to believe that the judge picked me because of the Ravenwing command squad. I unfortunately don't have the pictures of them all finished. But I do have some almost finished pictures. I will take a pix of the entire ravenwing command squad soon enough.

Since my DA doesn't perform well alone, I also ventured into some catachan jungle fighters. I have 50 of them with 5 sargs with power axes and meltabombs. They killed their fair share of daemon princes, hive tyrants and tervigons. But I haven't finished them as I have found that the way to war is for the greater good. Dang, I need to stop branching out to to many xenos. :| What has happened to my faith in the emperor?

You can also probably tell that I have recently taken an interest in wet-blending power weapons and the like Line highlight + wet blending has awesome effects. I love it on the swords and stuff.

Hmm. Something is happening to me. I find myself painting more and more non marine despite the White Scar chapter giving my Ravenwing HUGE boost. :(

That LoC is great

Have you gotten a chance to try the new SM out yet? WS look brutal on paper.

Lucarikx

Yes. Yes I did. I did a WS+RW list and tabled my friend Tyranid whose I usually have a lot of trouble with at the TOP of the turn 1.